Best museums

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2. Greenwich: boasts the National Maritime Museum and the Old Royal Observatory.

3. Kew: the Royal Botanic Gardens is a living museum of the world's plants and is also a Unesco World Heritage Site.

4. Oxford: the Ashmolean Museum contains casts of the Parthenon frieze and many other antiquities.

5. York: the National Railway Museum jostles for attention with the York Castle Museum, the Jorvick Viking Centre and the Yorkshire Museum.