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| 1853 Gallery, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Houses pictures by
David Hockney. |
| 24 Hour Museum. A gateway to information about UK
museums. Includes an advanced museum locator, up-to-date museum and gallery news, links to educational
resources and a variety of other features. The world's first ever Government-recognised national museum
which only exists in cyberspace. |
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| Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria. Based in a
Georgian villa, with important collections 18th, 19th and 20th century art. The gallery also has an
innovative programme of educational activities, lectures and events. |
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland. Collections of
fine art, applied art, archaeology, maritime, numismatics, science, industry and technology.
[Responsible for: Aberdeen Art Gallery; Aberdeen Maritime Museum; Provost Skene's House; The Tolbooth ]
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| Allhallows Museum, Honiton, Devon. Local
museum including lace and pottery industry displays housed in the town's oldest building. |
| Althorp House, Northamptonshire. Ancestral home of
the Spencer family, resting place of Princess Diana. |
| American Museum in Britain, Bath, Somerset. Only museum in Europe devoted to American
furniture, decorative arts and quilts. |
| Apsley House, The Wellington Museum, London.
'Number One, London', 19th century home of the 1st Duke of Wellington. [Part of Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)] |
| Armagh Planetarium, Northern
Ireland. |
| Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Contemporary
arts. |
| Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, University
of Oxford. See the Cast Gallery and the Griffith Institute for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern
studies. |
| Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Chorley,
Lancashire. Local history museum, housed in a Tudor/Stuart house, with collections of fine art, ceramics
and social history. Also news of the Education Service. |
| Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove,
Worcestershire. Historic buildings covering seven centuries, rescued and rebuilt on an open-air
site |
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| Bass Museum, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. History
of the beer brewing industry - shire horses, web cams, and Shockwave interactive. |
| Bate Collection of Musical Instruments,
University of Oxford. |
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| Bede's World, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear. Anglo-Saxon
and medieval collections from the excavations of St Paul's Monastery. |
| Bedford Museum. Local archaeology, social history,
biology and geology. |
| Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, London. [Part
of Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)] |
Biggar Museum Trust, Moat Park, Biggar,
Lanarkshire, Scotland. See list of museums.
[Includes: Greenholl Covenanters' House, Moat Park Heritage Centre, Gladstone Court Museum, The Albion Archive,
Biggar Gasworks, and Brownsbank Cottage (home of Hugh MacDiarmid)] |
| The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema
and Popular Culture , University of Exeter, Devon. Displays on the history of cinema and its percursors
- zoetropes, magic lanterns, panoramas and shadow puppets. |
| Birmingham Schools Liaison Department,
West Midlands. A group of teachers who work within museums, teaching schoolchildren during planned
visits |
| Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West
Midlands. |
| Bletchley Park Trust, near Milton Keynes,
Buckinghamshire. "Britain's Best Kept Secret" where codes were broken during World War II. See also the
Academic Bletchley Park site what you can see and do including the German
Enigma Cipher machine, the Lorenz Cipher machine and the rebuild of Colossus (with
photographs). |
| Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. One
of the world's largest floating collection of traditional canal craft. |
| Böd of Gremista Museum, Lerwick, Shetland.
[Part of Shetland Museum Service] Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. See image catalogue of manuscripts, including a
Java version with scrolling
images, the shopping arcade and the Map Case of on-line historic maps in the
Map Room. |
Bolton Museum, Art Gallery and Aquarium,
Lancashire. Houses collections which cover Egyptian Antiquities, British Art from 18th - 20th Century,
zoology, botany, geology collections and an activity centre for school parties and children, as well as an
aquarium.
[Responsible for: Smithills Hall, and Hall i'th'Wood] |
Bradford Art Galleries and Museums,
West Yorkshire.
[Responsible for: Bolling Hall; Bracken Hall Countryside Centre; Bradford Heritage Recording Unit; Bradford
Industrial Museum and Horse at Work; Cartwright Hall Art Gallery; Cliffe Castle, Keighley; The Manor House Museum
and Art Gallery, Ilkley] Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria. The home of
the, 19th century, poet, artist and critic - John Ruskin. |
| Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk. Military museum. Preserved narrow-guage railway,
with traction engines, and a Victorian steam roundabout. |
| Bridewell Museum, Norwich.
[Part of: Norfolk Museums
Service] |
| Bristol Museums
Service. |
| British Golf Museum, St Andrews, Scotland.
Tells the story of British golf chronologically, exploring the events, personalities and equipment used
throughout the ages. |
| British Museum, London. |
| Brixham Heritage Museum, Devon. Local history
museum, with on-line photographs, and information about maritime history and archaeology. |
| Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. Transport museum. "The Birthplace of British
Motorsport & Aviation" - the first purpose built motor racing circuit in the world. |
| Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire. The
home of the early 19th century women novelists |
| Brunel Engine House,
London. Built between 1825 and 1843 by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel as part of the pioneering Thames Tunnel -
the first underwater thoroughfare in the World. |
Building of Bath Museum, Somerset.
Housed in the, 18th century, Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel. Tells the story of the creation of Georgian
Bath.
[Part of: Bath Preservation Trust]
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| Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire. Local history through collections of
artefacts, documents, maps and works of art. Has a large collection (considered to be of national
significance) of works, artefacts and ephemera relating to Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA and his famous School of
Art. |
| Butser Ancient Farm, near Petersfield, Hampshire. A replica of the sort of farm which would
have existed in the British Iron Age circa 300 BC. Also a large open air laboratory where research into the
Iron Age and Roman periods goes on using the methods and materials which were available at that
time. |
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| Carpenter Gallery oil painting and
watercolours |
| Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Covent Garden, London. A
museum of automata (mechanical sculpture). |
| Cadbury World, Bournville, Birmingham, West
Midlands. Includes the Cadbury Collection, an exhibition on the history of Cadbury's chocolate and the
village of Bournville. |
| Camborne School of Mines Museum & Art Gallery,
Redruth, Cornwall. |
| Cambridge Museum of Technology. Preserved
Victorian pumping station and working museum on the River Cam. |
| Carpetbagger Aviation
Museum, Harrington, Northamptonshire |
| Castle Museum, Norwich.
Collections of archaeology, natural history, art and social history[Part of: Norfolk Museums Service] Catalyst, Widnes, Cheshire. The only museum in Europe solely devoted to
the chemical industry. |
| Centre for the Study of Cartoons and
Caricature, University of Canterbury, Kent. A research centre and picture library, based upon a unique
archive of over 85,000 pieces of original cartoon artwork supported by a reference library of newspaper
cuttings, books, catalogues, and AV materials. Includes a searchable database and an Andy Capp
Exhibition. |
| Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff. The largest gallery in
Wales showing the very best of new and historical art from Wales and around the world. Also the home of
Fantasmic, one of the UK's only hands-on interactive galleries exploring the fun and fascinating
world of art and seeing. |
| Chertsey Museum, Surrey. Local history
and costume from the Runnymede area. |
| Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St
Giles, Buckinghamshire. Re-erected agricultural and other buildings. |
| Christ Church Picture Gallery,
Oxford. |
| City Art Centre , Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland's premier
temporary exhibition space, and an ideal home to the city of Edinburgh's fine art
Collection. |
| City of Norwich Aviation
Museum, Norfolk. Military aircraft collection. |
| Claymills Pumping Engines,
Stretton, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. A preserved Victorian pumping station. |
| Cole Museum of Zoology, University of
Reading, Berkshire. |
| Colour Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Explores the concept of colour, how it is perceived and how it is used. Also looks at the story of dyeing
and textile printing from ancient Egypt to the present day. |
Connections Discovery
Centre, Exeter, Devon. Educational resource centre for schools and groups. Hands-on fun, real objects
can be touch and try on, special displays and interpretive guides.
[Part of: Exeter City Museums]
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| Cotswolds Motor
Museum, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. |
| Cotswold Woollen Weavers, Filkins,
near Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Historic working weaving mill, museum/gallery and shop. |
| Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld
Gallery, London. |
| The Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney,
Buckinghamshire. Presents Olney's heritage. |
| Museums and Galleries Commision (MGC), providing
information on the 50 museums in England with Designated collections. Designation celebrates pre-eminent
museum collections outside the National museums. |
| Corporation of London Library and Art Gallery Electronic
(COLLAGE). A computerised information system providing access to some 20,000 images from the combined
collections of the Guildhall Library Print Room and the Guildhall Art Gallery. Reproductions can be
purchased on-line. |
| Crabble Corn Mill, Dover, Kent. A working
water mill, cafe and gallery. |
| Cricklade Museum, Wiltshire. Local history
museum. |
| Cromer Museum. Collections on
local history and landscape. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service] |
| Croft House Museum, Dunrossness,
Shetland. [Part of Shetland Museum Service]
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| Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick, Cumbria. A company
museum featuring the history of pencil making |
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| Dickens House Museum,
London. Includes a virtual
tour. |
| Dover Museum, Kent. Local history
museum. |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery,
London. |
| Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Ayrshire,
Scotland. Large collection of industrial machinery, historic buildings, an ironworker's cottage, and a
simulated coal mine |
| Durham University Oriental
Museum, Durham. Only museum in UK devoted to the art and archaeology of the 'Orient' - the
civilisations of Asia, the Near East, and the Islamic cultures of North Africa. |
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| The Earth Centre, Doncaster, South
Yorkshire. A Millenium Project provide people with the opportunity to understand, explore, identify with
and act on the idea of Sustainable Development. |
| Easdale Island Folk
Museum, Scotland. Local history, especially the slate quarring industry. |
East Lothian Council Museums,
Scotland.
[Responsible for: North Berwick Museum, Dunbar Town House Museum, Prestongrange Museum] |
| Edinburgh University Collection of
Historic Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music. |
| Egypt Centre (formerly the Wellcome Museum of
Antiquities), University of Wales, Swansea. Includes antiquities owned by Sir Henry
Wellcome. |
| Elmbridge Museum, Weybridge,
Surrey. Local history museum. |
| Elgar Birthplace, Lower Broadheath,
Worcestershire. Collections relate to the life and work of the composer Sir Edward Elgar |
| Elgin Museum, Moray. Pictish
stones, local fossils, archaeology, geology, natural history, social history and
ethnography. |
| Elizabethan House
Museum, Great Yarmouth. Late 16th century merchants's house, with period furnishings. [Part of:
Norfolk Museums
Service] |
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| Eturia Industrial Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. [Part of: Museums of the
Potteries]. |
| Eureka!, Halifax, West Yorkshire. The
Museum for Children. |
Exeter City
Museums, Devon.
[Responsible for: Royal Albert Memorial
Museum, St Nicholas Priory, Underground Passages, Connections Discovery Centre] |
| Exploratory Science Centre,
Bristol. |
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| Fan Museum, Greenwich, London. The only
museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making. |
| Faringdon and District
Museum, Oxfordshire. |
| The Fighter Collection, Duxford,
Cambridgeshire. Military aircraft collection. |
| Fire and Police Museum
(Sheffield), South Yorkshire. History of a local fire and police service. |
| Fitzwilliam Museum, University of
Cambridge. Permanent collections include antiquities, applied arts, coins and paintings. See on-line
shop. |
| Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset. Military museum. One of the world's largest
aviation collections with over 40 historic aircraft on display including Concorde 002 (the British
prototype). |
| Florence Nightingale Museum ,
London. Collections relating to the life and work of this 19th century pioneer of nursing and
healthcare. |
| Ford Green Hall,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 17th to 18th centuries farmhouse. [Part of: Museums of the Potteries]. |
| Fox Talbot Museum, Chippenham,
Wiltshire. Commemorates the life and work of William Henry Fox Talbot - known as The Father of Modern
Photography. |
| Freud Museum, London. The home of the
founder of psychoanalysis |
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| Galleries of Justice, Nottingham.
Set in Victorian courthouse, with attached gaol (featuring real warders!), and hands-on
exhibitions. |
| Gallery of Modern Art,
Glasgow. |
| Geffrye Museum, London. English
furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms. |
| Gladstone Pottery Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Working pottery. [Part of: Museums of the Potteries]. |
| Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.
Traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world, with connections to King Arthur and
the Holy Grail. |
| Godalming Museum,
Surrey. Local history, industry, geology, archeology. |
Gosport Museum,
Hampshire.
[Part of: Hampshire County Council Museums
Service] |
| Green's Mill, Nottingham. 19th
century tower windmill in Sneinton, once owned and operated by George Green (1793-1841), a mathematical
physicist and scientist. |
Guernsey Museums and Galleries.
[Responsible for: St Peter Port - Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, Castle Cornet; St Peter's - Fort
Grey] |
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| Hackney Museum, London.
Local history museum, with news of its education service, exhibitions, and behind the scenes. (house in
temporary premises, with be moving in September 2000). |
| Haig Colliery Mining Museum,
Whitehaven, Cumbria. A restored deep coal mine, with two huge steam winding engines. |
Hampshire County Council Museums Service. Includes
an on-line catalogue with searching
and browsing facilities, as well as a museums directory.
[Responsible for: Aldershot Military Museum; Allen Gallery, Alton; Andover Museum; Bursledon
Windmill; Curtis Museum, Alton; Eastleigh Museum; Flora Twort Gallery, Petersfield; Gosport Museum; Hampshire Farm Museum; Havant Museum; Museum of the
Iron Age; Red House Museum, Christchurch; Rockbourne Roman Villa, Fordingbridge, St Agatha's Church; St Barbe
Museum, Lymington; Treadgolds of Portsea; Westbury Manor Museum, Fareham; Willis Museum, Basingstoke; Whitchurch
Silk Mill] |
| Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Natural history museum. |
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| Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle. A
varied programme of contemporary and historical art exhibitions, and permanent displays of African
sculpture |
| Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London.
Modern art, special exhibitions. |
Henry Moore Foundation, Perry
Green, Hertfordshire. Aimed at advancing "the education of the public by the promotion of their
appreciation of the fine arts and in particular the works of Henry Moore". Includes exhibitions, research
facilities and guided tours.
[Responsible for: Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds, West Yorkshire] |
Henry Moore
Institute, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Devoted exclusively to sculpture in general, with a programme
comprising Exhibitions, Collections and Research.
[Part of: Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green,
Hertfordshire] |
Herschel Museum,
Bath, Somerset. The home the 18th century astronomer William Herschell and his sister Caroline. The planet
Uranus was discovered here in 1781.
[Part of: Bath Preservation
Trust] |
| Hill Toy Museum,
Stansted, Essex. The largest privately owned toy museum in Europe, with over 30,000 individual
items. |
Historic Royal Palaces.
[Information on: The Tower of London; Hampton Court Palace; The Banqueting House; Kew Palace; Kensington
Palace] |
| Hitchin Museum, Hertfordshire.
Local industries, domestic life, and historical costume. |
| Holbourne Museum and 20th Century
Crafts Study Centre, Bath, Somerset. Fine art and decorative art collection. |
| The Horniman Museum and Gardens,
Forest Hill, London. |
| Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery,
University of Glasgow. Anatomical and pathological specimens. Art, coins, books, manuscripts and
ethnography. See virtual and guided tours. |
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| Jane Austen's House, Chawton, Hampshire. Where the early 19th century novelist lived and
worked. |
Jersey Heritage Trust, Channel Islands.
Collections relating to local history, archaeology, art, and natural science.
[Responsible for: The Jersey Museum, Hamptonne Country Life Museum, La Houge Bie, Mont Orgueil Castle, Elizabeth
Castle, The Occupation Tapestry Gallery, The Maritime Museum, and the Jersey Archive] |
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| John Paul Jones Cottage Museum,
Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway. |
| Jodrell Bank Science Centre,
Macclesfield, Cheshire. Based at the Lovell Radio Telescope and the Jodrell Bank Observatory, the astronomy research centre of the University of
Manchester. Has exhibition galleries, a 150-seater Planetarium and the extensive grounds and collections of
the Arboretum. |
| Jorvik Viking Centre, York. See
also the World of the
Vikings. |
| Judge's Lodgings (Llety'r
Barnwr), Presteinge, Powys, Wales. Restored historic rooms, local history, and two interactives on
'King Offa' and 'Voices from the Past'. |
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| Lapworth
Museum, University of Birmingham, West Midlands. Geology and
fossils. |
| Leeds
University Gallery, University Library, Leeds, West Yorkshire. |
Leicester City
Museums, Leicestershire. Museums with collections of Egyptology; natural history
(including dinosaurs); fine art; paintings; sculpture; pre-historic, Roman and medieval
artefacts and costume
[Responsible for: New Walk Museum; Jewry Wall Museum; Newarke Houses Museum; The Guildhall;
Abbey Pumping Station; Belgrave Hall and Gardens; Wygston's House; The Great Hall of Leiceter
Castle; The Magazine] |
| Letchworth
Museum, Herfordshire. Natural history, art, archaeology. |
| The Lion Salt
Works, Marston, Northwich, Cheshire. |
| Liverpool
Scottish Museum Trust, Merseyside. Military Museum (no premises at
moment) |
| London Canal
Museum, King's Cross. Transport Museum |
| London Transport Museum,
Covent Garden. |
| London's Cockney Museum. The history of London's Cockneys, Pearly Kings
and Queens, and Eels Pie and Mash. (In process of being set up) |
| Lothbury
Gallery, London. Part of the NatWest Group art collection. |
| Lowewood Museum,
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Local history museum. |
| Lyme Regis Philpot
Museum, Dorset. Local history museum, housed in building on the site where Mary
Anning, the early 19th century fossil collector was born. |
| Lynn Museum, King's Lynn.
Collections on local history, natural science, art and industry. [Part of: Norfolk Museums
Service] |
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Macclesfield
Museums and Heritage Centre, Cheshire. Local history, and especially the silk
industry. Other collections include the work of well-known bird artist Charles
Tunnicliffe, Egyptian antiquities, costumes, textiles and a photographic archive.
[Responsible for: Silk Museum, Paradise Mill, West Park Museum, The Heritage Centre
] |
| Madame Tussauds, London.
Waxworks. |
| Manchester City
Art Galleries. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and furniture,
especially by 19th and 20th century artists, including the
Pre-Raphaelites. |
| The Manchester Museum.
Botany, Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and Egyptology galleries. |
| Manchester
United Museum and Tour Centre, Greater Manchester. Outlines the history of the
football club from 1878 to the present day |
| Manor House
Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Horology and art collections. |
| Marischal Museum,
University of Aberdeen |
| Maritime Museum for East
Anglia, Great Yarmouth. [Part of: Norfolk Museums
Service] |
| Mary Rose Maritime
Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Only 16th century warship on display in the world,
from the time of King Henry VIII. Includes a museum tour. |
| Midland Air Museum,
Coventry Airport, Warwickshire. |
| Montfitchet
Castle, Stansted, Essex. Recreation of a Norman castle on the original
site. |
Moray Council
Museums Service, Scotland.
[Responsible for: The Anson Gallery, Buckie; Burghead Museum; In Forres - The Falconer
Museum, and Nelson Tower; Tomintoul Museum; Tugnet Ice House, Spey Bay |
| Moyse's
Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Archaeology and local
history. |
| Museum
nan Eilean, Western Isles, Scotland. Local history museums in Stornoway, Isle of
Lewis, and Sgoil Lionacleit, Isle of Benbecula. |
| Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle
upon Tyne. Archaeology in north east England. Includes a Flints and Stones exhibition, with an
interactive hunter gatherer food
quiz and national curriculum
information for teachers. |
| Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. |
| Museum of Costume
and Assembly Rooms, Bath, Somerset |
| Museum of
East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk. |
| Museum of East Asian
Art, Bath, Somerset. |
| Museum of English Rural
Life , Reading, Berkshire. Part of the Rural
History Centre - "A national centre in England for the study of the history of
farming, food and the countryside". On-line catalogue, photograph collection and
archive. |
| Museum of Farnham, Willmer
House, Surrey. Georgian house. |
| Museum of Garden
History, St Mary-at-Lambeth Church, Lambeth Palace, London. |
| Museum of
Installation, London. An artist led organization dedicated to the research,
production and dissemination of installation art. |
| Museum of Modern Art
Oxford. Has established an international reputation for the high quality of its
pioneering exhibition programme, which covers twentieth century painting, sculpture,
photography, film, video, architecture, design and performance from all over the
world. |
| Museum of Science and Industry
in Manchester. Includes Shockwave Flash, VRML, QTVR, streaming video and CD quality
music. |
| Museum of the History of
Science, University of Oxford. See special exhibitions and an image library. Latest exhibition:
The Garden, the Ark, the Tower,
The Temple: Biblical metaphors of knowledge in early modern
Europe. |
| Museum of London.
The largest, most comprehensive city museum in the world, telling the fascinating story
of London from prehistoric times to the present day. |
| The Museum of Submarine
Telegraphy, Porthcurno, Cornwall. |
Museums of the Potteries,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
[Responsible for: The Potteries Museum and
Art Gallery; The Gladstone Pottery
Museum; Etruria Industrial Museum
and Ford Green
Hall]. |
Museums of The Royal College of
Surgeons, London.
[Responsible for : Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum, Wellcome Museum of Anatomy;
Wellcome Museum of Pathology]. |
| Museum of the
Welsh Woollen Industry, Dre-fach Felindre. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of
Wales]. |
| Museum of Transport,
Manchester. The biggest collection of restored vintage buses and coaches in the
United Kingdom, with associated objects and archives. |
| Museum of Welsh
Life, St Fagen's, Cardiff. Re-erected buildings and social history. [Part of
National Museums & Galleries of
Wales]. |
| Mythstories,
Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Museum of myth and fable. |
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| Narrow Gauge Railway
Museum, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. |
| National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne. Millennium Project - under
construction. |
| National Centre for Popular
Music, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. A unique interactive arts and education centre
that celebrates the diversity and influence of popular music. Uses Macromedia
Flash |
| National Coal Mining Museum for
England, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Industrial museum |
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Home to great national
collection of European painting, sculpture and graphic art from the Renaissance to the
present day.
[Responsible for: National Gallery of Scotland; Scottish National Portrait Gallery; Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art; Dean Gallery: Paolozzi Gift; Duff House, Banff; Paxton House,
nr Berwick-upon-Tweed] |
| The National
Gallery, London. Collection of Western European
paintings (1260-1900). |
| National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. On-line catalogues and other
resources, a digital library (including "The First Scottish Books"), and an exhibition -
Churchill: The Evidence |
| National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth. Includes on-line
exhibitions and searchable databases |
National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, London. Includes: Search Station an exciting
initiative to make the collections more accessible to the public, by allowing their
enjoyment and study through thematically arranged highlights.
[Responsible for: Royal Observatory,
Greenwich]] |
| National Motor
Museum, Beaulieu,
Hampshire. |
| National
Museum & Gallery, Cardiff. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales,
Cardiff]. |
National Museums &
Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool.
[Responsible for: The Conservation Centre; Liverpool Museum; Merseyside Maritime Museum;
Anything to Declare? (HM Customs & Excise National Museum); Museum of Liverpool Life;
Walker Art Gallery; Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight; Sudley House]. |
National Museums &
Galleries of Wales, Cardiff. (In English and Welsh).
[Responsible for: National Museum &
Gallery, Cardiff; Welsh Slate
Museum, Llanberis; Museum of Welsh
Life, St Fagen's, Cardiff; Segontium
Roman Museum, Caernafon; Roman Legionary
Museum, Caerleon; Museum of the Welsh
Woollen Industry, Dre-fach Felindre; Turner House Gallery, Penarth; Welsh Industrial & Maritime Collections,
Cardiff]. |
| National Museum of
Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire. [Part of the
National Museum of Science and
Industry]. |
National Museum of Science and
Industry.
[Responsible for: Science Museum, London;
National Railway Museum, York; and, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television,
Bradford.] |
National Museums of Scotland,
Edinburgh. "Presenting Scotland to the World and the World to Scotland"
[Responsible for: Royal Museum; Museum of Scotland; Museum of Flight, North
Berwick; Museum of Agricultural; Armed Forces Museum; Museum of Costume, New
Abbey] |
| National Portrait Gallery,
London. See information on the permanent
collection. |
| National Railway Museum,
York. [Part of the National Museum of Science and
Industry]. |
Natural History Museum, London. The first
UK museum with its own Web server. Includes Virtual Reality fossils using VRML. See also interactive exploration
using Science Casebook.
[Responsible for Walter Rothschild Zoological
Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire]. |
| National Tramway Museum,
Crich, Derbyshire. Includes a searchable database of 2,500 photographic
images |
| National Waterways Museum,
Gloucester. Tells the 200 year story of Britain's canals through the 'National
Collection' of historic waterway vessels. |
| Nature in Art,
Trigworth, Gloucestershire. The world's first museum exclusively to art inspired by
nature, set in a Georgian mansion |
| Newhaven Local and Maritime
Museum, East Sussex. Many thousands of photographs of local historical interest
together with artefacts recovered from the areas of local shipwrecks |
Norfolk Museums
Service.
[Responsible for: In Norwich - Castle Museum; Bridewell Museum; Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum;
St Peter Hungate Museum;
Stranger's Hall
Museum;
In Great Yarmouth - Elizabethan House Museum;
Maritime Museum;
Toll House Museum and
Brass Rubbing Centre;
In King's Lynn - Lynn
Museum; Town House Museum
of Lynn Life;
Norfolk Rural Life Museum and
Union Farm, Gressenhall; Cromer Museum; Thetford Ancient House
Museum] |
| Norfolk Rural Life Museum and
Union Farm, Gressenhall. Agricultural history museum and traditional working farm.
[Part of: Norfolk
Museums Service] |
| North Somerset
Museum Service, Weston-super-Mare. Over 70,000 items covering the human and natural
history of the District from pre-history to the present day. The collections are made
up of social history, local history, natural history & geology, and
archaeology. |
| North West Film Archive,
Manchester Metropolitan University. The Archive cares for over 24,000 items from the
pioneer days of film in the mid 1890s to video production of the present day. The work
of both the professional and the amateur is collected. The Site has a searchable
on-line catalogue |
| Northamptonshire Aviation
Museum, Harrington, Northamptonshire. |
| Nothe Fort and
Museum of Coast Defence, Weymouth, Dorset. |
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Royal Crescent Museum, Bath, Somerset. Restored 18th century house in the palladian
style.
[Part of: Bath Preservation
Trust] |
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| Old
Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology, Durham. |
| Old Operating
Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret , London. Displays the history of herbal medicine,
surgery, nursing at Old St. Thomas's (the original home of Florence Nightingale's
Nursing School) and Guy's and the Evelina Children's hospitals. |
| Ordsall Hall Museum,
Salford, Greater Manchester. Family home of the Radclyffes. |
| Oxford University
Museum of Natural History. Entomology, geology, mineralogy, zoology collections in a Victorian neo-Gothic
building. |
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| Papplewick
Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire. A preserved Victorian water pumping
station. |
| Past
Impressions On-line Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. On-line cultural exhibitions and
gallery space. |
| Path Head
Water Mill, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear. |
| Penlee House Gallery and
Museum, Penzance, Cornwall. Collections of archaeology, costumes and textiles,
decorative art, fine art, photography, social history, and local
history. |
| Peter
Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster. Temporary art exhibitions, and permanent
displays of fine arts, contemporary ceramics and Royal Lancastrian
Pottery. |
| Pitt Rivers
Museum, University of Oxford. Anthropology and
Ethnography. |
| The Potteries
Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The world's finest
collection of Staffordshire ceramics. [Part of: Museums of the
Potteries]. |
| Prickwillow
Drainage Engine Museum, Cambridgeshire. |
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| Ragged School
Museum, London. Re-created classroom of the Victorian period, and displays on local
history, industry and life in the East End of London. |
| Ramsey Rural Museum, Cambridgeshire. Holds a collection of artifacts
from the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire, particularly Ramsey and surrounding area.
Primarily agricultural, the museum also contains many items of interest which give a clear
picture of the history of the town. |
| Reading Museum,
Berkshire. Replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, history of Reading, Roman artifacts,
etc. |
| The Regency Town
House, Hove, East Sussex. Museum and Heritage Centre covering British life between
the 1780s and 1850s, especially the history of the Brighton area. |
Ripon Law and Order
Museums, North Yorkshire. Museums of the history of the local police force, and the
operation of the Victorian Poor Law (based in the former workhouse)
[Includes: Prison and Police Museum; Museum of the Yorkshire Poor Law] |
| River and Rowing Museum,
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Newly opened |
| Roman Baths Museum and
Pump House, Bath, Somerset. |
| Roman Legionary
Museum, Caerleon. [Part of National
Museums & Galleries of Wales]. |
Rotherham Museums and Arts
Service.
[Responsible for: Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham Art Gallery, York and Lancaster Regimental
Museum] |
| Royal Academy of
Arts, London. Permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions. |
| Royal Air Force
Museum, Hendon, London. |
Royal Albert Memorial
Museum, Exeter, Devon. Antiquities, ethnography, natural history, fine art,
decorative arts.
[Part of: Exeter City
Museums] |
| Royal Armouries, with
museums in: Leeds, West Yorkshire; Fort Nelson, Fareham, Hampshire; and the Tower of
London. |
| Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, London. |
| Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Information about the collections, and
searchable databases. |
| The Royal
Collection. A distributed collection, mainly in royal palaces, formed by the Royal family, including The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace and the Crown Jewels at the Tower of
London. |
| Royal Cornwall
Musem, Truro. The history of Cornwall from the Stone Age to the present day, as
well as the natural history of Cornwall, a world famous collection of minerals, a
pre-eminent collection of ceramics, and a changing display of fine and decorative
art. |
| Royal Naval
Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Military museum, with collections of manuscripts,
artefacts, photographs, oral history, sound recordings, paintings and prints relating
to the history of the Royal Navy. |
Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, London. Home of the Prime Meridian of the world. Exhibitions on: The Story of Time, John Harrison and the Longitude
Problem, and Halley and
the Paramour.
[Part of: National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich] |
| Royal Photographic Society,
Bath, Somerset. World-renowned collection of 19th century photographs, equipment, books
and journals |
| Royal Tennis Courts
and Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey |
| Rural Life
Centre Old Kiln Museum, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey. 150 years of
farming. |
| Russell
Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset. Housed in late 19th century
building, with especially strong collections of British and Japanese art. [being
refurbished - see site for 'Welcome Days'] |
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| Sainsbury
Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich,
Norfolk. |
| Sainsbury's
Virtual Museum. Contains a wealth of material, including photographic and
documentary sources on shopping for the period 1869 to 1900. It is designed to help
teachers use the internet to support the teaching of the following elements of the UK
History National Curriculum |
| St Barbe
Museum, Lymington, Hampshire. Local history and arts museum. |
| St.Helens Transport Museum, Merseyside. Transport museum with an
unrivalled collection of historic buses, coaches, trams, cars and
lorries |
| St Neots
Museum, Cambridgeshire. Local history museum. |
| St Peter Hungate Church
Museum, Norwich. Collections of religious art and craftmanship. [Part of:
Norfolk Museums
Service] |
| Sandtoft Transport Centre
Ltd, The Museum of the Trolleybus, Doncaster South Yorkshire. Transport
museum. |
| Science
Museum, London. See collections, exhibitions (including : Hands on Science and Exhiblets), and the
new Wellcome Wing (opening
this year). [Part of the National Museum of Science
and Industry]. |
| Scott Polar Research Institute Archives and Museum, University of
Cambridge. A collection of artifacts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and other material
associated with the exploration and scientific study of the Arctic and
Antarctic. |
| Seaford Local
History, East Sussex. Housed in a Napoleonic Martello tower. |
| Sedgwick Museum of
Geology, University of Cambridge. |
| Segontium Roman
Museum, Caernafon. [Part of National
Museums & Galleries of Wales]. |
| Shakespeare and the
Globe. An award-wining on-line exhibit from Renaissance Text Centre, and the
Department of English, University of Reading. Includes information on the original and
reconstructed theatre. |
| Shardlow
Heritage Centre, Derbyshire. Local history of an 18th century canal transhipment
port. |
Sheffield Industrial Museums
Trust , South Yorkshire. Operates three important museums dedicated to the
industrial and social history of Sheffield - "City of Steel".
[Responsible for: Kelham Island Museum, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, and Shepherd
Wheel] |
| Shefton Museum of
Greek Art and Archaeology, Department of Classics, University of Newcastle upon
Tyne. |
| Sherlock Holmes
Museum, London |
| Shetland
Museum, Lerwick. [Part of Shetland
Museum Service] |
Shrewsbury Museums
Service, Shropshire.
[Responsible for: Rowley's House, Shrewsbury Castle, Coleham Pumping Station and Clive
House] |
Shropshire
County Museum Service. Collection areas: agriculture, archaeology, biology,
environmental, ethnographic, fine & decorative art, geology, and social history.
Also has news on the education, conservation, and outreach services.
[Responsible for: Acton Scott Historic Working Farm, Ludlow Museum, and Much Wenlock
Museum] |
| Sir John Soane's Museum,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. House and museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect
(1753-1837). |
Southampton City Cultural
Services, Hampshire. Nationally important archaeology collections, and information
about RMS Titanic.
[Responsible for: Tudor House Musem, Southamption Maritime Museum, Museum of Archaeology, and
Southampton City Art Gallery] |
| Spode Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Oldest English pottery, ceramics, bone china,
earthenware. |
| Stained Glass
Museum, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Based in the cathedral, and dedicated to the
promotion, preservation and appreciation of stained glass in Britain |
| Stranger's Hall Museum,
Norwich. Social history collections. [Part of: Norfolk Museums
Service] |
| Swaledale Folk Museum, Reeth, near
Richmond, North Yorkshire. Stone walls, village life, lead mining, sheep and cattle
farming, etc. |
Swansea Museums and Art Galleries, Wales.
[Responsible for: Swansea Museum; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; Swansea Maritime and Industrial
Museum] |
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| The Tank Museum,
Bovington, Dorset. |
| Tate Gallery, with
galleries in London, Liverpool, Merseyside and St Ives, Cornwall. National collection of British
art and modern 20th century art. |
| Techniquest, Cardiff. An
hand-on science discovery centre with special programmes for schoolchildren link to
different stages of the National Curriculum |
| Theatre Museum,
Covent Garden, London. [Part of the Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A)]. |
| Thetford Ancient House
Museum. Early Tudor building with local history, industry and natural science
displays. [Part of: Norfolk Museums
Service] |
| Tiverton Museum, Devon. Local history museum |
| Toll House Museum and Brass
Rubbing Centre, Great Yarmouth. Medieval building, used as prison in 19th century.
Local history collections. [Part of: Norfolk Museums
Service] |
| Tom Brown's
School Museum, Uffington, Oxfordshire. Includes the White Horse and Sir John
Betjeman. |
| Town House Museum of Lynn
Life, King's Lynn. Furniture and domestic life from medieval period to 20th
century. [Part of: Norfolk Museums
Service] |
| Towneley Hall
Art Gallery and Museums, Burnley. A country house museum, set in parkland. Includes
a Natural History Centre and a Museum of Local Crafts. |
| Trowbridge Museum,
Wiltshire. Local history |
| Tunbridge
Wells Museum and Art Gallery, Kent. Displays of Tunbridge ware, local history,
dolls and toys, natural history, and frquently changing exhibitions of art and
craft. |
| Turner House
Gallery, Penarth. [Part of National
Museums & Galleries of Wales]. |
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| Waddesdon Manor,
Buckinghamshire. French Renaissance-style château was built at the end of the last
century for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild to display his vast collection of 18th
Century art treasure. |
| The Wallace
Collection, Hertford House, London. Paintings (especially French 18th century),
miniatures, decorative arts, arms and armour. |
| Wallingford
Museum, Oxfordshire. |
| Walter Rothschild
Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire. [Part of the Natural History Museum, London]. |
| The Wardrobe,
Salisbury, Wiltshire. Military museum, located in the Cathedral Close. Housing the
collections and archives of the Royal Berkshire, the Wiltshire and the Duke of
Edinburgh's Royal Regiments. |
| Wellington
Aviation Museum, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Military
museum. |
| Welsh
Industrial & Maritime Collections, Cardiff. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of
Wales]. |
| Westonzoyland Pumping
Station Museum, Somerset. Large collection of stationary steam engines and land
drainage items. |
| Wheal Martyn China Clay
Museum, near St Austell, Cornwall. Heritage centre. |
| Whitby Museum, North
Yorkshire, Local history and archaeology museum |
| Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London. Temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary
art. |
| Whitworth Art
Gallery, University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints,
wallpapers, modern art. Includes a collections
database. |
| Wigan
Pier, Lancashire. Local history presentations and Mill & Engine
House. |
| William Morris Gallery,
Waltham Forest, London. |
| Windermere Steamboat
Museum, Cumbria. |
| Wolverhampton Art
Gallery, West Midlands. See collections of contemporary, Pop, mid 20th century and
Victorian art. |
| The Wordsworth
Museum, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria. Maintained by the Wordsworth
Trust. |
| The World of Glass, St.Helens, Merseyside. Celebrates the past, present
and future of glass and the glass industry. (Opening Spring 2000). |
| Wycombe Museum,
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Local history, especially the furniture industry, with a
renowned collection of Windsor chairs. The grounds also house the British Regional
Furniture Study Centre. |
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