Bloomsbury is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions as well as great restaurants.
Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest museum in the United Kingdom, of University College London, of the New College of the Humanities, the University of Law, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the British Medical Association and many others.
Bloomsbury is an intellectual and literary hub for London, as home of world-known Bloomsbury Publishing, namesake of the Bloomsbury Set, a group of British intellectuals which included author Virginia Woolf, biographer Lytton Strachey, and economist John Maynard Keynes.