Queen's House - Greenwich

The Queen's House has only recently opened after a long refurbishment. It's a really cool building in Greenwich Park and we were walking past one evening and noticed it was open, and free, so thought why not. I probably should have taken a photo from the outside, but I go past it nearly every day, and didn't even think about it. It was the first Classical building in Britain, and was built between 1616 and 1632. It's a weird building, in that a road used to go through it, so it's a bit strange to get from one side of the house to the other.

Sunset from the Queen's House

It looks really great now, since there are these colonnades and extra wings that were built later. But when it was first built there was an old red brick Tudor Palace next to it, so it must have looked really weird.

View towards Canary Wharf from the Queen's House

I'll have to plan a return visit, the ceiling of the main hall is painted with this sparkling gold, and is worth another look. There are a lot of paintings in there as well, a lot of them related to sailing, there are some interesting ones on new countries the British were visiting, like Australia and New Zealand.

When we visited it was really a lovely evening, so all my photos are of the grounds of the park, I really have to go back, if only to get some photos of the kangaroos and kiwis.