Museums in Britain Online
Museums Around The United Kingdom on the Web
This is a comprehensive list. Be sure to bookmark the URL for future use. It
is HERE.
Alphabetical Order
A, B, C, D,
E, F, G, H, I,
J, K, L, M, N,
O, P, Q, R, S,
T, U, V, W, X,
Y, Z
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1853 Gallery, Salts Mill,
Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Houses pictures by David Hockney.
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19 Princelet Street,
London. "An unrestored Huguenot master silk weaver's home, whose shabby
frontage conceals a rare synagogue built over its garden"
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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.
See also children's section Show Me.
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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.
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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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AccessArt. The aim of this site
is "Making art more accessible!" It is an evolving collection of
online workshops and arts educational activities aimed at all ages.
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Allhallows Museum,
Honiton, Devon. Local museum including lace and pottery industry displays
housed in the town's oldest building.
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Althorp House,
Northamptonshire. Ancestral home of the Spencer family, resting place of
Princess Diana.
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Amberley Museum, West Sussex.
Outdoor industrial museum based in chalk pits.
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American Museum in
Britain, Bath, Somerset. Only museum in Europe devoted to American
furniture, decorative arts and quilts.
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 ArtSway,
Sway, Hampshire. Contemporary visual arts venue in the New Forest.
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Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley,
Greater Manchester. Industrial museum looking at the history of coal mining
in Lancashire. Has the UK's largest collection of colliery locomotives.
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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.
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Avoncroft Museum of Historic
Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Historic buildings covering seven
centuries, rescued and rebuilt on an open-air site
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Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick,
Northumberland. Local history museum.
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Bakelite Museum, Williton,
Somerset. The largest collection of vintage plastics in Britain, especially
from the Art Deco period.
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Barley Hall,
York. A medieval oak-framed house, with all items of fixtures and fittings
are made using ancient materials and techniques.
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Bass
Museum, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. History of the beer brewing
industry - shire horses, web cams, and Shockwave interactive.
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Bath Postal Museum, Somerset.
Covers the history of the Post in the UK and introduce the key people that
shaped the postal system,
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Isle Museum, Pickering, North Yorkshire. Rural life museum with displays
reflecting the past 200 years. Site has a virtual tour, and the largest
on-line collection of photographs by Sidney Smith.
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Beckford
Tower and Museum, Bath, Somerset. 19th century retreat for William
Beckford. Contains collections illustrating his life.
[Part of: Bath
Preservation Trust]
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Bede's World, Jarrow, Tyne &
Wear. Anglo-Saxon and medieval collections from the excavations of St Paul's
Monastery.
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Bedford Museum. Display of human
history of the region from prehistoric times.
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Bell-Pettigrew Museum,
University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Evolutionary and taxonomic
relationships between animals.
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Bellingham Heritage Centre,
Northumberland. Preserves and displays the heritage of the North Tyne and
Redewater area. Covers all aspects of local history, including: The Border
Counties Railway; mining; photographs of W P Collier (rural life in
Northumberland between the two World Wars); and the Border Reivers.
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Bennie Museum, Bathgate,
West Lothian, Scotland. Local history museum
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Bethnal Green Museum of
Childhood, London. Houses the UK's national collection of toys and
games, children's costume, nursery furniture and baby equipment.
[Part of Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A)]
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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)]
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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.
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Birmingham
Museums and Art Gallery, West Midlands.
[Responsible for:Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Soho House,
Weoley Castle, and the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter]
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Birmingham Schools Liaison
Department, West Midlands. A group of teachers who work within museums,
teaching schoolchildren during planned visits
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Blackwell, Kendal, Cumbria. A
surviving house in the Arts and Crafts movement style, with most of the
original decorative interiors still intact.
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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, including: the German Enigma Cipher machine, the
Lorenz Cipher machine and the rebuild of Colossus (with photographs).
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Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port,
Cheshire. One of the world's largest floating collection of traditional
canal craft.
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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: Hall i'th'Wood]
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Bonington Gallery (The Future
Factory), Nottingham. Venue for contemporary art, hosting touring
exhibitions and local single artis shows. Emphasis on live performance and
installation art.
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Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham. Based in a "French
museum on British soil" with a collection of European fine art,
decorative art and ceramics, English furniture, and textiles, as well as
archaeological material and archives from County Durham and social history
from Teeside.
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Bramah's Museum of Tea and Coffee,
Southwark, London. World's first museum devoted entirely to the history of
tea and coffee.
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Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria. The
home of the, 19th century, poet, artist and critic - John Ruskin.
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Bressingham Steam
Museum, Diss, Norfolk. Military museum. Preserved narrow-guage railway,
with traction engines, and a Victorian steam roundabout.
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Bristol
Museums and Art Gallery. Collections of: applied art, archaeology,
eastern art, ethnography, fine art, geology, industrial and maritime,
natural history and social history.
[Responsible for: City Museum and Art Gallery ; Bristol
Industrial Museum; The Georgian House; The Red Lodge; Blaise Castle House;
Kings Weston Roman Villa]
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British Engineerium, Hove,
East Sussex. Museum of mechanical antiquities, based in a restored and
working Victorian pumping station.
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British Golf Museum, St
Andrews, Scotland. Tells the story of British golf chronologically,
exploring the events, personalities and equipment used throughout the ages.
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British Lawnmower Museum,
Southport, Merseyside. Garden machinery history.
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British
Schools Museum, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. "... a unique set of
buildings that tell the story of elementary education in Britain from 1810
until 1945".
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Brixham Heritage Museum,
Devon. Local history museum, with on-line photographs, and information about
maritime history and archaeology.
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Brooklands Museum, Weybridge,
Surrey. Transport museum. "The Birthplace of British Motorsport &
Aviation" - the first purpose built motor racing circuit in the world.
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Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West
Yorkshire. The home of the early 19th century women novelists.
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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.
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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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Bury
Art Gallery and Museum, Greater Manchester. Victorian paintings,
challenging contemporary art and scenes from Bury's past. Includes works by
Constable and Turner
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Bury St Edmunds Art
Gallery, Suffolk. Promotes fine arts and crafts through a programme of
changing exhibition and projects outside the Gallery, working in partnership
with other organisations.
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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.
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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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Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Covent
Garden, London. A museum of automata (mechanical sculpture).
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Cadbury World, Bournville,
Birmingham, West Midlands. Includes the Cadbury Collection, an exhibition on
the history of Cadbury's chocolate and the village of Bournville.
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Camborne
School of Mines Virtual Museum. A virtual museum of the Cornubian
Orefield, covering geology, mineralization, mining history, environmental
impact, virtual field trips, etc. of Devon and Cornwall.
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Cambridge and County Folk Museum.
Based timber-framed building, the museum displays the everyday life of
Cambridge people since 1700.
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Cambridge Museum of Technology.
Preserved Victorian pumping station and working museum on the River Cam.
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Canterbury
City Museums, Kent. Local history, archaeology, and military history. [Responsible
for: In Canterbury: Heritage Museum, West Gate Museum, Roman Museum, Royal
Museum and Art Gallery, Buffs Museum; In Herne Bay: Herne Bay Museum and
Gallery; In Whitstable: Whitstable
Museum and Gallery]
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Catalyst, Widnes, Cheshire. The
only museum in Europe solely devoted to the chemical industry.
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Centre for the History of Defence
Electronics (CHiDE), Bournemouth University, Dorset. Preserves and
disseminates information about the developements in electronics particularly
during the 1930s to 1950s.
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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.
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Ceredigion Museum Service,
Aberystwyth, Wales. Local history, archaeology, and folk life.
[Responsible for: In Aberystwyth - Ceredigion Museum, The
Old Cottage; In Lampeter - in the County Library; also branches at New Quay
Heritage Centre, Tregaron and at Llandysul]
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Cecil
Higgins Art Gallery and Museum, Bedford. Recreated Victorian mansion,
original home of Cecil Higgins, a local brewer. Adjoining Gallery with
important collection of ceramics, glass and watercolours.
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Charleston, nr Lewes, East
Sussex. The home and country meeting place for the writers, painters and
intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. The interior was painted by
Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, and houses their collection of
post-impressionist art
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Cheltenham Art
Gallery and Museum, Gloucestershire. Local history.
[Responsible for: Holst Birthplace Museum]
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Chertsey
Museum, Surrey. Thames valley archaeology. Runnymeade area social
history, horology, fine and decorative art and British fashionable dress.
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Chester
Museums, Cheshire. Based in the Grosvenor Museum, with collections of
archaeology, art and architecture, local history and natural history.
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Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St
Giles, Buckinghamshire. Re-erected agricultural and other buildings.
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City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries,
Scotland. A range of venues relfecting the history and art of the capital of
Scotland.
[Responsible for: City Art Centre; Writers' Museum;
Queensferry Museum; Newhaven Museum; Museum of Childhood; The Museum of
Edinburgh; The People's Story Museum; Lauriston Castle; Travelling Gallery]
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Claymills Pumping Engines,
Stretton, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. A preserved Victorian pumping
station.
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Cobham Bus Museum,
Surrey. Transport museum, with the world's largest collection of ex-London
Transport buses and coaches.
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Colchester Museums, Essex.
Collections of archaeology, natural history, clocks, etc.
[Responsible for: Colchester Castle Museum; Holytrees
Museum; Natural History Museum; Tymperleys Clock Museum]
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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.
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Computer Museum at Bletchley Park,
near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. A large collection of computing devices
ranging from Colossus (the first computer) to the present day.
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Congleton Museum,
Cheshire. Local history museum.
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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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Corinium Museum, Cirencester,
Gloucestershire. "Has arguably the finest and most extensive collection
of Romano-British material relating to a town and its hinterland in the
world." Roman, but also has displays onCotswold history from Prehistory
to the English Civil War. [Closed until Spring 2004]
[Part of: Cotswold Museum Service]
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Cotswold
Heritage Centre, Northleach, Gloucestershire. Permanent displays on
Cotswold rural life, housed in a restored 18th century prison. Also has a
range of temporary exhibitions and events, showing the work of contemporary
local artists and craftspeople.
[Part of: Cotswold Museum Service]
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Cotswold Woollen
Weavers, Filkins, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Historic working
weaving mill, museum/gallery and shop.
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Courtauld
Institute of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London. Collections of Old Master
and Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings, together with sculpture
and applied arts
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Cornucopia.
The on-line database of museum collections in the UK. Developed by Resource,
it provides detailed descriptions of the collections of over 550 UK museums,
with more being added over the coming year.
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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.
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Crabble Corn Mill, Dover,
Kent. A working water mill, cafe and gallery.
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Craigavon Museum
Services, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. A collection of research material
and objects which illustrate the history and local heritage of the area.
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Creetown Gem Rock Museum, Dumfries
and Galloway, Scotland. Displays of crystals, minerals, fossils and
gemstones.
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Creswell Crags Museum and
Education Centre, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. Tells the story of human and
animal survival in the harsh climate of the last Ice Age.
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Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick,
Cumbria. A company museum featuring the history of pencil making.
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Cumberland Toy and Model Museum ,
Cockermouth, Cumbria. A wide selection of mainly British toys from c1900 to
the present.
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Darwin
Country. An educational resource for lifelong learning. Explore the
natural and human history of part of the West Midlands of England and
adjacent parts of Wales (broadly centered on Shrewsbury, the County Town of
Shropshire) during the 18th and 19th Centuries.
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Design Museum, London.
"Concerned as much with the future as the past, a programme of highly
acclaimed exhibitions capture the excitement of design evolution, ingenuity
and inspiration through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"
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Dickens House Museum, London. One
of the homes of the 19th century author Charles Dickens. Includes a virtual
tour.
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Dinosaur Museum,
Dorchester, Dorset. Britain's only museum solely devoted to dinosaurs and
their fascinating world.
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Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness,
Cumbria. Local and industrial history museum with collection and displays
based on the history of the Furness area, as well as the local shipbuilding
and engineering works. A section is devoted to the Vickers
Photographic Archive.
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Dorset County
Museum, Dorchester. Local history museum with collections of:
archaeology; natural history; and geology. Displays on Dorset writers, with
Thomas Hardy's study, and one of the largest Thomas Hardy collections in the
world. Run by Dorset Natural
History and Archaeological Society.
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Dover Museum, Kent. Local
history museum.
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Dunaskin Open Air Museum,
Ayrshire, Scotland. Large collection of industrial machinery, historic
buildings, an ironworker's cottage, and a simulated coal mine
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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.
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Easdale
Island Folk Museum, Scotland. Local history, especially the slate
quarring industry.
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East Lothian Museums,
Scotland. With on-line exhibitions.
[Responsible for: North Berwick Museum, Dunbar Town House
Museum, Prestongrange Museum]
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East Surrey Museum,
Caterham, Surrey. Local history museum.
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Eden
Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire. World War II prisoner of war camp
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Eden Valley Museum, Edenbridge, Kent.
Local history museum.
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Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley,
Gloucestershire. Based in the former home of the pioneering, 18th century,
immunologist.
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Ellenroad Engine House, Rochdale,
Lancashire. The only surviving, complete working example of a genuine steam
cotton-mill engine together with its original steam-raising plant.
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Elmbridge Museum,
Weybridge, Surrey. Local history museum.
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Elgar Birthplace Museum, Lower
Broadheath, Worcestershire. Collections relate to the life and work of the
composer Sir Edward Elgar
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Elgin Museum, Moray.
Pictish stones, local fossils, archaeology, geology, natural history, social
history and ethnography.
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Embroiderers' Guild ,
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey. The Guild's museum has a collection of over
11,000 embroidered objects of national significance, gathered from around
the world, and take many forms including costume, furnishings, decorative
and non-functional textiles. A particular strength is the holding of
embroidery worked in Britain from the 16th century to the present day.
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Eureka!, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
The Museum for Children.
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Falconer Museum, Forrres,
Morray, Scotland. Local history museum.
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Fan Museum, Greenwich, London. The
only museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan
making.
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Farmland Museum and Denny
Abbey, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Agricultural museum, and remains of a
Norman abbey.
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Finchcocks Living Museum of Music,
Hammerwood Park house, near East Grinstead, Sussex. Collection of historical
keyboard instruments set in a fine Georgian manor house.
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The Fighter Collection,
Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Military aircraft collection.
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Fitzwilliam
Museum, University of Cambridge. Permanent collections include
antiquities, applied arts, coins and paintings. See on-line
shop.
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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).
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Florence Nightingale Museum
, London. Collections relating to the life and work of this 19th century
pioneer of nursing and healthcare.
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Fox Talbot Museum,
Chippenham, Wiltshire. Commemorates the life and work of William Henry Fox
Talbot - known as The Father of Modern Photography.
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Freud Museum, London. The home of the
founder of psychoanalysis
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Frome Museum, Somerset.
Collection of local artefacts and sources of information, ranging from
costumes from the Horner family to glass negatives from Singers Art Metal
works. It has a library, collection of historic maps and a range of local
information leaflets and books.
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Gainsborough's House, Sudbury,
Suffolk. Museum and art gallery at the birthplace of artist Thomas
Gainsborough (1727-1788), with examples of his work and an exhibition
programme
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Galleries of Justice,
Nottingham. Set in Victorian courthouse, with attached gaol (featuring real
warders!), and hands-on exhibitions.
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Geevor Tin Mine Heritage Centre,
Pendeen, Cornwall. Industrial museum with guides, an underground tour, and
displays of original machinery.
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Geffrye Museum, London.
English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period
rooms.
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Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.
Traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world, with
connections to King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
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Gloucester
City Museum and Art Gallery. Collections of: archaeological finds, fine
and decorative arts, and natural history.
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Gloucester
Folk Museum. Displays include local history, such as the Siege of
Gloucester (1643), the Port of Gloucester, Severn fishing, farming and
folklore; domestic life; crafts and industries.
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Godalming Museum, Surrey.
Local history, industry, geology, archeology.
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Government
Art Collection. Works of art from the Collection are displayed in
British Government buildings both in the United Kingdom and around the
world. Over 4000 works - about a third of the Collection - are now listed on
this site.
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Green's Mill, Nottingham. 19th
century tower windmill in Sneinton, once owned and operated by George Green
(1793-1841), a mathematical physicist and scientist.
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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.
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Haig Colliery Mining Museum,
Whitehaven, Cumbria. A restored deep coal mine, with two huge steam winding
engines.
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Hatton Gallery, University of
Newcastle. A varied programme of contemporary and historical art
exhibitions, and permanent displays of African sculpture
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Haynes
Motor Museum, Sparkford, Somerset. Transport museum.
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Hayward
Gallery, South Bank, London. Modern art, special exhibitions.
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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]
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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]
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Herbert Art Gallery and Museum,
Coventry, Warwickshire. Local history museum, with collections of
archaeology, natural history, social and industrial history and visual arts.
[Responsible for: Depot Studio; Lunt Roman Fort; St Mary's
Guildhall]
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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]
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Highland
Museum of Childhood, Strathpeffer, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland.
Telling the stroy of Hightland childhood with audio-visual presentations and
displays, and collections of dolls, toys and costume.
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Historic Royal Palaces.
[Information on: The Tower of London; Hampton Court Palace;
The Banqueting House; Kew Palace; Kensington Palace]
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Holbourne Museum and 20th
Century Crafts Study Centre, Bath, Somerset. Fine art and decorative art
collection.
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Holst Birthplace Museum,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Based in a Regency terrace house where the well
know music composer Gustav Holst was born in 1874.
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Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill, London. Collections on world
cultures (ethnography), natural history, and music.
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Hornsea Museum, East Yorkshire.
Folk museum sited in an 18th Century farmhouse, a local history that
"is not a relic but a living entity, changing with time, to reflect the
changing patterns of village life in North Holderness over the passing
centuries."
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House on the Hill Toy
Museum, Stansted, Essex. The largest privately owned toy museum in
Europe, with over 30,000 individual items.
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Hovercraft Museum Trust,
Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. Transport museum [visits by appointment only].
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Howell Harris Museum,
Coleg Trefeca, Brecon, Powys, Wales. "Shows aspects of the life of
Howell Harris, whose conversion (1735) led to the founding of Welsh
Methodism; also of the community, Teulu Trefeca, which he established here
in 1752".
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Hull Museums.
[Responsible for: Arctic Corsair (last of the Hull
'side-winder' fishing vessels); Ferens Art Gallery (collections and
programme of exhibitions and events); Hands on History (curriculum resource
centre); Hull and East Riding Museum (geology, archaeology and natural
history of the area); Maritime Museum (the story of Hull's rich and
colourful maritime history); Spurn Lightship; Streetlife Museum ('hands-on'
approach tracing 200 years of transport history); Wilberforce House Museum
(birthplace of the slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce, and social
history displays)]
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Hunterian
Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Anatomical and
pathological specimens. Art, coins, books, manuscripts, geology, zoology and
ethnography.
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Fire, Museum of Power, Tanygroes, Ceredigion, Wales. Industrial museum,
dedicated to the history of the internal combustion engine.
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Inverness
Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland. Local history museum. Collections
include social history and archaeology
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Ironbridge
Gorge Museum, Telford, Shropshire. Birthplace of the industrial
revolution. Including a virtual
tour, and the Ironbridge
Institute. UNESCO has designated the valley a World Heritage Site.
[Responsible for: The Iron Bridge & Tollhouse; Blists
Hill Victorian Town; Museum of Iron & Darby Furnace; The Darby Houses;
Museum of the Gorge; Coalport China Museum, Jackfield Tile Museum; Broseley
Pipeworks, Clay Tobacco Pipe Museum; The Teddy Bear Shop]
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Jane
Austen Centre in Bath, Somerset. Tells the story of the author's Bath
experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing.
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Jane Austen's
House, Chawton, Hampshire. Where the early 19th century novelist lived
and worked.
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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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The Jewish Museum, London. The
history and religious life of the Jewish community in Britain and beyond.
Based in two sites in Finchley and Camden.
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John Bunyan
Museum, Bedford. Aims to present the life, times and works of John
Bunyan (the author of The Pilgrim's Progress) in an accessible and
relevant manner.
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John Paul Jones Cottage Museum,
Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The re-created home of the
"Father of the American Navy".
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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.
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Judge's Lodgings (Llety'r Barnwr),
Presteinge, Powys, Wales. Restored historic rooms, local history, and
education section.
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Kendal Museum, Cumbria. One of
the country's oldest museums - founded in 1796. Its collections include
local archaeology, history, geology, and natural science from around the
world.
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Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.
Formerly the home of Jim Ede, a curator at the Tate Gallery. It houses his
collection of fine and decorative art, mostly of the first half of the
twentieth century, together with a temporary exhibition space.
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Kingston Museum,
Kingston upon Thames. Holds a large collection of photographs by Eadweard
Muybridge (1830-1904).
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Lancashire
Museums.
[Responsible for: The Museum of Lancashire, Preston;
Fleetwood Museum; Lodgings Lancaster, Helmshore Textile Museeums, Rossendale;
Queen Street Mill, Burnley; Gawthorpe Hall; Turton Tower, Bolton; Clitheroe
Castle Museum; Ribchester Roman Bath Museum; Museum Service to Schools]
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Lapworth Museum of
Geology, University of Birmingham, West Midlands. Geology and fossils.
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Leece Museum, Peel, Isle of Man.
Local history museum.
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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]
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Leighton House Museum,
London. The studio-home of the 19th century artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton.
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Leighton-Linslade Virtual
Museum. The creators "hope to preserve images relating to the
history" of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade, Bedfordshire
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Lichfield Heritage Centre,
Staffordshire. Local history, including: treasury, historic documents and
photographs.
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Life in a Lens, Matlock Bath,
Derbyshire. Dedicated to the history of popular photography, from its
invention in 1839 to the end of the previous century.
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Linley Sambourne House,
London. Late 19th century townhouse, home to the cartoonist Edward Linley
Sambourne.
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The
Lock Museum, Willenhall, West Midlands. Industrial museum, located in a
Victorian lockmakers house and workshops.
[Run by: Black Country
Living Museum, Dudley]
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London's Transport Museum, Covent
Garden. "Uncover the story of two hundred years of London and its
public transport, the oldest in the world"
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Lowewood Museum, Hoddesdon,
Hertfordshire. Local history museum.
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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.
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Lynn Museum,
King's Lynn. Collections on local history, natural science, art and
industry. [Part of: Norfolk
Museums Service]
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Macclesfield Silk Museums,
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 ]
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Magna
Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The UK's first Science Adventure Centre,
providing an exploration of Earth, Air, Fire and Water "a chance
for visitors to create their own adventure through hands-on interactive
challenges".
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Mallaig Heritage Centre,
Inverness-shire, Scotland. Local history museum looking at the history and
culture of the West Highlands of Scotland.
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Malton
Museum, North Yorkshire. Archaeology museum - Roman and medieval
collections.
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Manchester City Art Galleries.
Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and furniture, especially by
19th and 20th century artists, including the Pre-Raphaelites.
[Responsible for: Manchester City Art Gallery; Wythenshawe
Hall; Heaton Hall; Gallery of Costume]
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The
Manchester Museum. Botany, Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and
Egyptology galleries. See also Virtual
Kahun, giving the chance to explore the pyramid builders town in virtual
reality, 'handle' many of the artefacts excavated and to search the
collections.
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Manchester
United Museum and Tour, Greater Manchester. Outlines the history of the
football club from 1878 to the present day
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The
Manor House Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Collections of clocks and
watches (horology), costume and textiles from the seventeenth century to the
present day, and portrait paintings of national importance, housed in a
Georgian town house.
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Manx
National Heritage, Isle of Man. A multi-international award winning
heritage service unique in Europe, combining the management and promotion of
museums, monuments, natural sites and historic landscape.
[Includes: The Manx Museum; The House of Manannan; Peel
Castle, St. Patrick's Isle; Castle Rushen; The Old Grammar School; The
Nautical Museum; Rushen Abbey; Cregneash Folk Village; The Grove House &
Gardens; The Great Laxey Wheel & Mines Trail; The Old House of Keys; The
Camera Obscura]
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Marischal Museum,
University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Collections of Egyptian and Classical
antiquities, non-Western ethnography, Scottish prehistory and numismatics.
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Mary Rose
Maritime Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Only 16th century warship on
display in the world, from the time of King Henry VIII. Includes a Explore
the Mary Rose and The
Learning City educational resources.
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Memorial Gallery, Yale
College, Wrexham, Wales. Temporary and touring exhibitions, and events.
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Mill Meece Pumping
Station, Coates Heath, Staffordshire. Early 20th century steam-powered
water pumping station.
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Milton Keynes Museum,
Buckinghamshire. Local history museum with collections strong in agriculture
and industry and also those connected with domestic life and local commerce.
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Montfitchet Castle,
Stansted, Essex. Recreation of a Norman castle on the original site.
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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
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Motherwell Heritage
Centre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Presents an interactive journey
through the loacl history from Victorian to the present day.
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Moyse's
Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Archaeology and local history, in
a building originally built in the 12th century. Also houses the Suffolk
Regiment Museum Collection.
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Museum in Docklands,
London. Indutrial museum, based in a late Georgian warehouse. Looks at the
story of London's River, Port and people, from Roman settlement of the port,
through to the recent regeneration of London's former Docklands.
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Museum nan Eilean,
Western Isles, Scotland. Local history museums in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
and Sgoil Lionacleit, Isle of Benbecula.
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Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle
upon Tyne. Archaeology in north east England. Includes a Flints
and Stones exhibition, with an interactive hunter gatherer food
quiz.
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Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Fully searchable
catalogue of all the collection (750,00 objects, 100,00 photographs and
25,000 documentary archive).
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Museum of Costume and
Assembly Rooms, Bath, Somerset
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Museum of Costume, New Abbey,
Scotland. A Victorian country house containing costume from the 1850s to the
1950s displayed in period room settings.
[Part of: National Museums
of Scotland]
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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.
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Museum of
Farnham, Surrey. Local history museum situated in a Georgian town house
dating from 1718. Collections include: material on William Cobbett, Waverley
Abbey, photograph collection, newpapers. Also schools collection, special
exhibitions, library and shop.
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Museum of Flight, North Berwick,
Scotland. "Discover the story of man's ambition to take to the
skies".
[Part of: National Museums
of Scotland
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Museum of Garden History,
St Mary-at-Lambeth Church, Lambeth Palace, London.
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Museum of Hatting - The Hatworks,
Stockport, Greater Manchester. The UK's first and only museum dedicated to
the world of hats and hat making
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Museum of Installation, London.
An artist led organisation dedicated to the research, production and
dissemination of installation art.
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Museum of Islay Life,
Port Charlotte, Isle of Islay, Scotland. Local history museum.
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Museum of Lakeland Life ,
Kendal, Cumbria. Local history with collections on: the Arts and Crafts
movement; Swallows and Amazons, the book by Arthur Ransome; and the
social history of Lakeland Victorians.
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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.
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Museum of
Science and Industry in Manchester. Collections record and tell the
story of the industry, science and people of the Manchester area. includes:
aviation, computing, electricity and gas, engineering, photography,
printing, science, textiles, rail and road transport and Manchester's water
supply.
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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.
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Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The
history of Scotland from its geological beginnings to the twentieth century.
[Part of: National Museums
of Scotland
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Museums of The Royal
College of Surgeons, London.
[Responsible for: Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum,
Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology].
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Museum of Transport, Manchester. The
biggest collection of restored vintage buses and coaches in the United
Kingdom, with associated objects and archives.
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Museums of the Royal Regiment of Wales.
Military Museums
[Responsible for: South Wales Borderers Museum , Brecon;
Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff].
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Mythstories, Shrewsbury,
Shropshire. Museum of myth and fable.
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Nantwich
Museum, Cheshire. Local history museum, featuring salt making, leather
and clothing trade, and clockmaking.
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National Football Musuem,
Preston, Lancashire. Sports museum, covering a journey through football's
history, and a themed, hands-on exhibition, examining different facets
within the world of football.
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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]
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National
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Includes on-line exhibitions and
searchable databases
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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]]
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National Space Centre, Leicester. The
UK's largest attraction dedicated to space science and astronomy.
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National
Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire. Includes a searchable database of
2,500 photographic images
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National Waterways Museum, Gloucester.
Tells the 200 year story of Britain's canals through the 'National
Collection' of historic waterway vessels.
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Nature in Art, Trigworth,
Gloucestershire. The world's first museum exclusively to art inspired by
nature, set in a Georgian mansion
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New Art Gallery Walsall, West
Midlands.
[Part of: Walsall Museums Service]
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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.
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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
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Oakwell Hall, Batley, West
Yorkshire. A 16th century manor house and surrounding 110 acres of country
park.
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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.
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Ordsall Hall Museum, Salford,
Greater Manchester. Family home of the Radclyffes.
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Oxford
University Museum of Natural History. Collections
of: 3 million insects and several thousand spiders; over 500,000 fossil
specimens; c30,000 minerals and 50,000 rocks; 200,000 zoological specimens.
Housed in a Victorian neo-Gothic building.
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Pallant House Gallery,
Chichester, West Sussex. Modern art based in a Queen Anne house with
appropriate furnishings.
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Papplewick Pumping
Station, Nottinghamshire. A preserved Victorian water pumping station.
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Past
Impressions On-line Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. On-line cultural
exhibitions and gallery space.
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Penlee House Gallery and Museum,
Penzance, Cornwall. Collections of archaeology, costumes and textiles,
decorative art, fine art, photography, social history, and local history.
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People's History Museum,
Manchester. The national centre for the collection, conservation,
interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working
people in Britain.
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Peter Scott
Gallery, University of Lancaster. Temporary art exhibitions, and
permanent displays of fine arts, contemporary ceramics and Royal Lancastrian
Pottery.
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Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,
Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Collections of about
80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and
Sudanese archaeology in the world. Based around the collection of William
Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942)
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Pitt
Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Anthropology and Ethnography.
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The Police Museum,
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Virtual museum.
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Pollocks
Toy Museum, London. Pollock's are famous for Victorian toy theatres.
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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard at the
Historic Dockyard, Hampshire. Includes: Mary Rose (Tudor warship); HMS
Victory (Nelson's flagship); HMS Warrior (1860 ironclad warship); Royal
Naval Museum; and Dockyard Apprentice (hands-on exhibition about building a
warship).
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Prickwillow Drainage
Engine Museum, Cambridgeshire. "A unique collection of oil-burning
engines saved from destruction and restored to working order by a dedicated
band of enthusiasts."
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Public
Record Office, Kew, London. The repository of the national archives for
England, Wales and the United Kingdom. The records, beginning with Domesday
Book (1086), span an unbroken period from the 11th century to the present.
Site includes on-line catalogues, and a very large education section (with
source material for school students, and supporting the National Grid for
Learning).
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The Quaker Tapestry, Kendal,
Cumbria. On display in an historic Friends Meeting house.
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Quarry
Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire. A leading museum of the Industrial
Revolution and a working cotton mill set in the original buildings dating
back to 1784.
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RAF Signals Museum,
Henlow, Bedfordshire. Military museum.
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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.
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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.
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Reading Museum, Berkshire.
Replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, history of Reading, Roman artifacts, etc.
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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.
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REME Museum of Technology (Royal
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), Arborfield, near Reading, Berkshire.
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Renishaw Stables Museum and Art Gallery,
Derbyshire. Based on the life of the Sitwells, the famous 20th century
literary and artistic family. Also includes Performing Arts Gallery with
costumes, sketches and photographs from film and theatre productions.
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Ribchester Roman Museum,
Lancashire. Dedicated to the Romano-British history of Bremetenacum
Veteranorum.
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Richard III Museum, York.
Housed in the medieval Monk Bar gatehouse, offers a look at the Richard III
controversy. Its major exhibition is a reconstructed trial of King Richard.
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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]
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River and
Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Galleries devoted to the
River Thames, the international sport of rowing and the town of Henley.
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Rose Theatre, London. Uses the
latest digital technology to present the history this Elizabethan theatre.
See also the University of Reading
site.
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Royal
Academy of Arts, London. Permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
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Royal Academy of Music: York Gate
Collections, London. Displays of the many fine items from the Academy's
collections, including a large collection of Cremonese stringed instruments.
Other exhibits include musical memorabilia and original manuscripts.
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Royal
Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon. Antiquities, ethnography, natural
history, fine art, decorative arts.
[Part of: Exeter
City Museums]
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Royal
Armouries, with museums in: Leeds, West Yorkshire; Fort Nelson, Fareham,
Hampshire; and the Tower of London.
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Royal Cornwall Museum,
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.
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Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire
and Wiltshire (Salisbury) Museum, 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.
Includes search facilities to 13 World War I war diaries and an image
database of over 2,000 objects, including 1,200.
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Royal Gunpowder Mills,
Waltham Abbey, Essex. The evolution of explosives and the development of the
Mills through interactive and traditional exhibitions and displays.
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Royal Museum, Edinburgh. The
history of Scotland from its geological beginnings to the twentieth century.
[Part of: National Museums
of Scotland
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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.
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Royal Navy Submarine
Museum, Gosport, Hampshire. Military museum featuring the Submarine
Service, includes a real submarine
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Royal
Observatory, Greenwich, London. Home of the Prime Meridian of the world.
[Part of: National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich]
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Royal Photographic Society, Bath,
Somerset. World-renowned collection of 19th century photographs, equipment,
books and journals
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Royal Signals Museum,
Blandford Camp, Dorset. Military museum
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Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum,
Nottinghamshire. A unique complex of listed frameshops, cottages, and
outbuildings, together with a chapel. Shows the working and living
conditions of the framework knitters during the 19th century.
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Russell Cotes Art Gallery
and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset. Housed in late 19th century building,
with especially strong collections of British and Japanese art.
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Ryedale Folk Museum,
Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire. Open air museum with reconstructed historic
buildings and collections on agriculture, trades, and crafts.
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Ryhope
Engines Museum, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Industrial museum based in a
former water-pumping station.
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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
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St Albans Museums,
Hertfordshire. Local museum service with collections of archaeology
(particularly from the Roman and medieval town), social history, natural
science, the Salaman Collection of trade tools, and an image library.
[Responsible for: Museum of St Albans; Verulamium Museum]
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St Barbe Museum, Lymington,
Hampshire. Local history and arts museum.
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St Helens Transport
Museum, Merseyside. Transport museum with an unrivalled collection of
historic buses, coaches, trams, cars and lorries
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Satrosphere, Aberdeen, Scotland.
An interactive exhibition of science and technology, the first one in
Scotland.
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Savings Bank Museum,
Ruthwell, Dumfries, Scotland. Traces the life of Rev Henry Duncan who opened
the world's first savings bank based on business principles in 1810. Also
houses an important archive of nineteenth century banking, social and family
history.
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Scotland's Secret
Bunker, near St Andrews. "Scotland's best kept secret!" -
24,000 square feet, 100 feet underground complex, used as the government's
underground nuclear command bunker during Cold War.
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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.
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Seaford Museum and
Heritage Society, East Sussex. Housed in a Napoleonic Martello tower.
Local history with displays including: shops, tableaux and material from
pre-historic times to the present day.
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Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences,
University of Cambridge. Includes material from the collections of Charles
Darwin.
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Senhouse Roman Museum,
Maryport, Cumbria. "Contains the largest grouping of Roman military
altar stones and inscriptions from any site in Britain and unique examples
of Celtic religious sculpture".
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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.
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Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Aims to promote
appreciation of Shakespeare's works, with educational activities at all
levels. Maintains the five houses directly connected with the dramatist and
his family, and has a museum and library of books, manuscripts and records
of local historic interest.
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Shardlow Heritage
Centre, Derbyshire. Local history of an 18th century canal transhipment
port.
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Sheffield Bus Museum, South
Yorkshire. Local transport museum.
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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]
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Show
Me. The children's section of the 24
Hour Museum. Showcases all of the great interactive content being
created by UK museums and galleries for children. Although designed to
appeal to children the site has also been re-organised to display content by
theme - which means content can be searched for quickly and easily by
teachers.
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Shrewsbury Museums Service,
Shropshire.
[Responsible for: Rowley's House, Shrewsbury Castle, Coleham
Pumping Station and Clive House]
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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]
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Sir Henry Jones Museum,
Llangerrnyw, Wales. The childhood home of Sir Henry Jones (1852-1922) who,
from humble origins, became an eminent Professor of Moral Philosophy at
Glasgow University and a major influence on the education system in Wales.
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Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London. House and museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect
(1753-1837).
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Smithills Hall, Bolton, Lancashire.
Historical building dating back over 800 years.
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Somerset County Museums
Service. Local museum service with collections of geology, natural
history, archaeology, ceramics, textiles and social history.
[Responsible for: Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, East Quay
Bridgwater; Somerset County Museum, Taunton Castle; Somerset Rural Life
Museum, Glastonbury ]
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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]
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Southwold Museum, Suffolk.
Local history museum, based in 17th century cottages.
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Spode Museum, Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire. Oldest English pottery, ceramics, bone china, earthenware.
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Stained Glass Museum, Ely,
Cambridgeshire. Based in the cathedral, and dedicated to the promotion,
preservation and appreciation of stained glass in Britain
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Stanley Spencer Gallery,
Cookham, Berkshire. The only gallery in Britain devoted exclusively to an
artist in the village where he was born and spent most of his working life.
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Stevenage
Museum, Hertfordshire. Local history museum - "The story of the
people of Stevenage".
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Stockwood
Craft Museum, Luton, Bedfordshire. Displays of Bedfordshire rural life,
crafts and trades, with regular trade demonstrations. Also has the The
Mossman collection of horse-drawn vehicles.
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Storey Gallery, Lancaster.
Art gallery. The largest single exhibition space in the North West of
England.
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Sussex
Past. The website for the Sussex Archaeological Society. See also
educational site: Romans in
Sussex.
[Responsible for: Fishbourne Roman Palace and Museum,
Chichester; Lewis Castle and Barbican House Museum; Anne of Cleves House,
Lewes; Michelham Priory, Upper Dicker; Marlipins Museum, Shoreham-by-Sea;
The Priest House, West Hoathly ]
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Swaledale Folk
Museum, Reeth, near Richmond, North Yorkshire. Stone walls, village
life, lead mining, sheep and cattle farming, etc.
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Swansea Heritage Net, Wales. A
digitising project designed to aid access to the material evidence held in
trust by Swansea Museum Service.
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Swansea
Museums and Art Galleries, Wales.
[Responsible for: Swansea Museum; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery;
Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum]
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Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and
Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland. Local
history museum and art collections.
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Tangmere Military Aviation
Museum, Chichester, West Sussex. Exhibits depicting 70 years of military
aviation in Sussex, with special emphasis on the RAF at Tangmere and the air
war over southern England from 1939 to 1945.
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Tate -
Houses the national collection of British art from the sixteenth century to
the present day, including the Turner Bequest, and the national collection
of international modern art. Includes as searchable
database of 25,000 works and 12,000 images. Made up of :
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Tate Britain, London -
The national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day;
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Tate Modern, London - A
major new gallery of modern and contemporary art;
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Tate Liverpool,
Merseyside - The largest modern art gallery in the UK outside London;
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Tate St Ives, Cornwall -
modern British art in a spectacular coastal setting.
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Techniquest, Cardiff. An hand-on
science discovery centre with special programmes for schoolchildren link to
different stages of the National Curriculum.
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Tees
Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington, Teeside. Victorian waterworks, with
steam engines.
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Tenby Museum and Art
Gallery, Wales. Local history museum with collections of archaeology,
geology, the natural, maritime and social history. Art by Augustus John,
Gwen John, Nina Hamnet, E.J. Head and other local artists.
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Thackray
Medical Museum, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Based in a Union Workhouse of
1861, the collection has 30,000 items that span the whole history of
medicine.
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Theatre
Museum, Covent Garden, London. Britain's "National Museum of the
Performing Arts". In the heart of London's theatreland, with the
world's largest and most important collections relating to the British
stage.
[Part of the Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A)].
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Thinktank, Birmingham. Museum of
science and industry that "not only explores the impact of science and
technology in our daily lives but promotes the region's significant
scientific contribution and provides an opportunity for genuine dialogue
about science and the issues that affect us all".
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Thornbury Museum,
Gloucestershire. Local history museum.
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Towneley Hall Art Gallery and
Museums, Burnley, Lancashire. A country house museum, set in parkland.
Includes a Natural History Centre and a Museum of Local Crafts.
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Trowbridge Museum,
Wiltshire. Local history museum, including the story of the town's once
dominant woollen cloth industry, its people and businesses.
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Tullie
House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria. Collections of fine and
decorative art, human history and natural sciences.
[Responsible for: Guildhall Museum]
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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.
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Tutankhamun Exhibition,
Dorchester, Dorset. The Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankamun's tomb, treasures and
mummy are recreated in a permanent exhibition.
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Tyne
& Wear Museums, Newcastle. A major, regional museum and art gallery
service.
[Responsible for: Gateshead - Shipley Art Gallery; Newcastle
- Discovery Museum, Hancock Museum, Laing Art Gallery; North Tyneside -
Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum, Stephenson Railway Museum;South
Tyneside: Arbeia Roman Fort & Museum, South Shields Museum & Art
Gallery;Sunderland: Monkwearmouth Station Museum; Sunderland Museum &
Winter Gardens. ]
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Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh,
County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. An outdoor museum which tells the story of
emigration from Ulster to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes
an interactive map
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Ulster Folk and Transport Museum,
Holywood, Northern Ireland. Reconstructed buildings. Includes exhibition on Titanic
ocean liner.
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Ulster Museum, Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Collections ranging from local material to historic
collections of worldwide interest.
[Part of National Museums and Galleries of Northern
Ireland]
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University of Bristol
Theatre Collection. Dedicated to the study of British theatre history,
with collections of original documents, photographs and artefacts from
theatres, actors, designers.
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University Museum of Zoology
Cambridge. Part of the Department of Zoology, it houses an extensive
collection of scientifically important zoological material Designated as
being of outstanding national and international significance.
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Vestry
House Museum, Walthamstow, London. Local history museum, with galleries
on domestic life, industry, costume and leisure in the Waltham Forest area.
Housed in an early 18th century house.
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Vintage Carriages Trust,
Ingrow, Keighley, West Yorkshire. Transport museum with a collection
historic railway carriages, small steam locomotives, rail tank wagons,
railway posters and other railway relics. Includes database of over 3,800
railway carriages with over 3,00 images.
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Violette Szabo GC Museum,
Wormelow, Herefordshire. Tells the story of the World War II British secret
agent.
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Virtual
Museum of Computing. A completely virtual collection of exhibits on the
history of computers, etc.
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Virtual Museum of the
Iron Lung. A resource centre relating specifically to the iron lung and
generally to polio, post-polio and artificial ventilation.
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Virtual Valve Museum. An
on-line presentation of the personal collection of Jeremy Harmer. There are
over 900 exhibits.
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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.
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The
Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London. Paintings (especially French
18th century), miniatures, decorative arts, arms and armour.
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Walsall Museums Service,
West Midlands.
[Includes: Willenhall Museum; Birchills Canal Museum; Jerome
K. Jerome Birthplace Museum; Walsall Inside Out; Walsall Leather Museum; New
Art Gallery Walsall]
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Wandsworth Museum,
London. "The history of Wandsworth from prehistoric times to the
present day".
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Warrington
City Museum and Art Gallery, Cheshire. Local history museum, with
collections of: natural sciences; antiquities; social history; numismatics;
ethnology; fine and decorative arts. See also the Warrington
Digital Image Archive for collections of on-line images from the museum,
library and archives collections.
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Watts Gallery, Compton,
Surrey. The memorial gallery to George Frederic Watts, the Victorian artist
and sculptor.
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Weald and Downland Open Air Museum,
Chichester, West Sussex. A unique collection of over 40 domestice and
agricultural buildings dating from the 13th to the 19th century.
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Wellington Aviation Museum,
Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Military museum.
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Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum,
Somerset. Large collection of stationary steam engines and land drainage
items.
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Whipple Museum of the
History of Science, University of Cambridge. Collections include:
scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs,
books, and other material from the medieval period to the present day.
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Whitby Museum, North Yorkshire,
Local history, geology and archaeology museum
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
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Whitstable Museum and Gallery,
Kent. Local history museum. Themes on the coastal community and seafaring
traditions, with special features on oysters, diving and shipping.[Part
of Canterbury
City Museums]
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Whitworth
Art Gallery, University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles,
prints, wallpapers, modern art. Includes a collections
database.
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Wigan Pier
Experience, Lancashire. Local history presentations and Mill &
Engine House. Also houses Opie's
Museum of Memories which holds a large part of the Robert
Opie Collection - the world's largest collection of British advertising
imagery, with over 500,000 items.
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Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum,
London. "Offers a glimpse of how the gentle game of Lawn Tennis, once
all the rage on the lawns of Victorian England and with origins that go far
back to medieval Royal Tennis, has become a multi-million dollar
professional sport, played all over the world."
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Wimbledon
Windmill Museum, London. Agricultural industry museum, with models and
tools.
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Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West
Midlands. See collections of contemporary, Pop, mid 20th century and
Victorian art.
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The
Wordsworth Museum, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria. Maintained by the
Wordsworth Trust.
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The World of Glass,
St.Helens, Merseyside. Celebrates the past, present and future of glass and
the glass industry.
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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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York
Museums Trust.
[Responsible for: York Art Gallery, York St Mary's, York
Castle Museum, and Yorkshire Museum & Gardens]
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An Lanntair,
an art center of the Western Isles of Scotland.
MuseumNet,
listings of UK museums.
Victoria and Albert,
London. Specializes in decorative arts.
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