What to see near Holborn: a guide to London by tube

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/jan/09/what-to-see-near-holborn-tube

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<strong>Nearby highlights </strong>You're in museum country now. Holborn is home to the amazing British Museum (Great Russell Street, britishmuseum.org), which somehow collects the whole world over all time under one beautifully contoured glass roof, but there are other odder museums nearby. First must be Sir John Soane's Museum (13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, soane.org) crammed with his sculptures, paintings and drawings. Try to get to one of the monthly candlelit evenings. At 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields is the Hunterian Museum (hunterianmuseum.org) in the Royal College of Surgeons, with fatal diseases, fossils and strange creatures in formaldehyde. Most bizarre of all must be the Museum of Freemasonry in the forbidding Freemasons' Hall (60 Great Queen Street, freemasonry.london.museum) with wax dummies and ritual paraphernalia.

<strong></strong><br /><strong>Did you know? </strong>If asked which of the tube's many stations was the most musical, you probably wouldn't guess Holborn, and it's fair to say there are other contenders: bigger stations surely have more buskers, and less safe stops are more likely to pump pacifying classical music into their ticket halls, but in terms of pop Holborn takes some beating. The station features prominently in the videos for Aqua's Turn Back Time, Suede's Saturday Night and Howard Jones' 1983 hit New Song.