Millennium Bridge Tours and Tickets

There are plenty of ways to experience the Millennium Bridge. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

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The Millennium Bridge is free to visit. The Tate Modern museum on the south side of the pedestrian footpath is also free, which means you can spend a London afternoon on the cheap, checking out views of the city and the River Thames from the bridge and then browsing the Tate’s vast collection of modern art.

The Millennium Bridge opened in 2000—hence its name—and was the first pedestrian bridge to cross the River Thames in over a century. Connecting St. Paul’s Cathedral to the north with Shakespeare’s Globe and the Tate Modern to the south, you may recognize the ultramodern steel suspension bridge from movies including Guardians of the Galaxy and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

That depends on what kind of views you want to have. Go early in the morning to catch the sunrise and enjoy the bridge mostly to yourself, or linger after sunset to see how the bridge’s designers incorporated moving lights to create a “blade of light” across the Thames. Whenever you go, the bridge’s inconspicuous cable design means you’ll always have uninterrupted views of London landmarks.

The bridge measures just over 1,000 feet (304 meters) from north to south and takes about five minutes to cross without stopping. The bridge is great for sightseeing, as you can quickly walk between two of the city’s biggest attractions: Tate Modern and St. Paul’s Cathedral. The bridge also has a wheelchair lift and ramp.

The Millennium Bridge, groundbreaking in its suspension design, closed just two days after its original opening due to the unsettling swaying motion it made with foot traffic, earning its reputation as the “wobbly bridge.” Over two years of research and adjustments, the bridge reopened in 2002 with new dampers under the deck to stop the movement.