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Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal,
Cumbria. 18th,19th, 20th century collections.
Aberdeen Art Gallery &
Museums, Scotland. Fine art, applied art, archaeology,
maritime, numismatics, science, industry & technology.
Aerospace
Museum, Cosford, Shropshire.
Allhallows
Museum, Honiton, Devon. Lace and pottery industry
displays.
Almond Valley Heritage Trust,
Millfield, Scotland.
Althorp House,
Northamptonshire. Spencer family's ancestral home. Resting place of
Princess Diana.
Amberley
Museum in West Sussex. Outdoor industrial museum.
American
Museum in Britain Bath, Somerset. American furniture, decorative arts & quilts.
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, in Dunfermline, Scotland.
Apsley House, The
Wellington Museum, London. Home of 1st Duke of Wellington.
Armagh
Planetarium, Northern Ireland.
Armley Mills, Leeds Industrial Museum
Arnolfini Gallery,
Bristol. Contemporary arts.
Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology,
University of Oxford.
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings,
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
B
Bank of
England Museum & Archive, City of London.
Barometer World
and Museum, Merton, Devon.
Bass Museum, Burton-on-Trent,
Staffordshire. Beer brewing.
Bate
Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford.
Bath Preservation Trust, Somerset.
BBC Experience,
London. Interactive history of the BBC.
Beckford
Tower & Museum, Bath, Somerset. 1800s retreat for William Beckford.
Bede's World,
Jarrow, Tyne & Wear. Anglo-Saxon & medieval collections.
Beamish
Open Air Museum, County Durham. Recreating life in the north
of England (1800s & 1900s).
Bennie
Museum, Bathgate, Lothian. Local history.
Beth Shalom Holocaust
Centre, Nottingham.
Bethnal Green
Museum of Childhood, London.
Biggar Museum
Trust, Moat Park, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The Bill Douglas
Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture , University of Exeter,Devon.
Birmingham &
Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall, West Midlands.
Birmingham
Museums and Art Gallery, West Midlands.
Birmingham
Railway Museum, West Midlands. Steam locomotives.
Black Country Living Museum,
Dudley, West Midlands.
Bletchley Park Trust, near
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. WWII code breaking center. Academic Bletchley Park site -
Enigma Cipher machine
Boat Museum,
Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Canal craft.
Böd of
Gremista Museum, Lerwick, Shetland.
Bodleian Library, University of
Oxford.
Bolton Museum, Art Gallery &
Aquarium
Bradford
Art Galleries & Museums, West Yorkshire.
Brantwood,
Coniston, Cumbria. John Ruskin's home 1872 - 1900.
Bressingham
Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk.
Bridewell Museum,Norwich.
British Golf Museum, St
Andrews, Scotland.
British Lawnmower
Museum, Southport, Merseyside.
British Library, London. Magna Carta
British Museum,
London.
Cracking Codes - The
Rosetta Stone and Decipherment exhibition.
Brooklands
Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. British Motorsport & Aviation.
Bronté Parsonage
Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire.
Brunel
Engine House, London. Thames Tunnel.
Bath Preservation Trust, Somerset. Creation of Georgian Bath.
The
Burrell Collection, Glasgow.
Bushey
Museum & Art Gallery, Hertfordshire.
Butser Ancient
Farm, near Petersfield, Hampshire. A replica farm.
C
Cabaret Mechanical
Theatre, Kursaal, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Mechanical sculpture museum.
Cadbury World,
Bournville, Birmingham, West Midlands. Cadbury's chocolate.
Camborne School of Mines
Museum & Art Gallery, Redruth, Cornwall.
Cambridge Museum
of Technology. Victorian pumping station & working museum on the River Cam.
Castle Museum, Norwich. Archaeology, natural history, art & social history
Centre for the
History of Defence Electronics (CHiDE), Bournemouth University, Dorset.
Centre for the Study of Cartoons
and Caricature, University of Canterbury, Kent. Archive of over 85,000 pieces of original cartoon artwork. Searchable database, exhibition.
Centre for Visual Arts,
Cardiff.
Ceredigion Museum Service,
Aberystwyth, Wales. Local history, archaeology, and folk life.
Cheltenham Art
Gallery & Museum, Gloucestershire. Local history.
Chertsey
Museum, Surrey. Local history - Runnymede area.
Chiltern
Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. Re-erected 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. How color is perceived and used.
Connections
Discovery Centre, Exeter, Devon. Educational resource centre.
Cotswolds
Motor Museum, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.
Cotswold
Woollen Weavers, Filkins, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire.
Courtauld
Institute of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London.
The Cowper
and Newton Museum, Olney, Buckinghamshire. Heritage.
CORNUCOPIA. Discovering UK collections courtesy of the Museums and Galleries Commision (MGC). Presents museums with "designated collections." The site plans to have 1800 museums catalogued by 2000. Hours, exhibits, visitors facilities, directions, collections. Databases to explore. Catalogs museums that don't have an online presence.
Crabble Corn
Mill, Dover, Kent. A working water mill, cafe and gallery.
Cranbrook
and District Museum, Kent. Local history museum.
Cricklade Museum, Wiltshire.
Local history museum.
Cromer
Museum. Collections on local history and landscape.
Croft
House Museum, Dunrossness, Shetland.
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Dalí Universe, London, next to the London Eye at County Hall near Westminster Bridge.
De Havilland
Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum), Salisbury Hill, Hertfordshire.
Military aircraft collection.
Derby
Museum of Industry and History , Derby.
Design
Museum, London.
Dickens House
Museum, London.
Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester,
Dorset.
Dover Museum,
Kent. Local history museum.
Dulwich
Picture Gallery, London.
Dunaskin Open
Air Museum, Ayrshire, Scotland. Industrial machinery,
historic buildings, a simulated coal mine
Durham
University Oriental Museum, Durham. Art &
archaeology of the 'Orient'.
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Easdale Island
Folk Museum, Scotland. Local history... slate quarring.
East
Lothian Council Museums, Scotland.
Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire.
World War II prisoner of war camp
Edinburgh
University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music.
Egypt Centre, University of Wales, Swansea. Includes
antiquities from the collection of Sir Henry Wellcome.
Elmbridge
Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. Local history museum.
Elgar Birthplace,
Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire. Re the life & work of
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.
Essex
Secret Bunker, Mistley. Former Essex County nuclear war hq.
Eturia
Industrial Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Eureka!, Halifax,
West Yorkshire. The Museum for Children.
Exeter City
Museums, Devon.
Royal
Albert Memorial Museum, St Nicholas Priory, Underground Passages, Exeter
Connections
Discovery Centre
Exploratory Science Centre,
Bristol.
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FA Premier League
Hall of Fame, London. The history of football and the legends of the modern
game.
Fan Museum, Greenwich, London. Fans and fan making.
Faringdon
and District Museum, Oxfordshire.
Finchcocks
Living Museum of Music, Hammerwood Park house, Sussex.
Collection of historical keyboard instruments.
Fife Museums
Forum, Scotland. A group of local museums with shared site.
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. Antiquities, applied arts, coins & paintings.
Flagship
Portsmouth at the Historic Dockyard, Hampshire. Mary Rose (Tudor
warship); HMS Victory (Nelson's flagship); HMS Warrior (1860 ironclad warship);
Royal Naval Museum; and Dockyard Apprentice.
Fleet Air Arm
Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset. Military museum. Over 40 historic aircraft on display.
Florence Nightingale Museum
, London.
Ford
Green Hall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 17th to 18th centuries farmhouse.
Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, London. Britain's original home for abandoned children and London's first ever public art gallery.
Fox Talbot
Museum, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Commemorates William
Henry Fox Talbot - 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.
Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset.
King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
Godalming
Museum, Surrey. Local history, industry, geology, archeology.
Gordon
Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland. Military museum
Gosport
Museum, Hampshire.
Grantown
Museum and Heritage Trust, Scotland. Brief news of a local museum.
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
& Galleries.- St Peter Port - Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, Castle Cornet; St Peter's - Fort Grey
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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 and museums directory
Hancock Museum,
Newcastle upon Tyne. Natural history museum.
Haslemere
Educational Museum, Surrey. Natural science and human history.
Hatton Gallery,
University of Newcastle. Contemporary & historical art
exhibitions, African sculpture<
Hayward Gallery, South Bank,
London. Modern art, special exhibitions.
Helicopter
Museum, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Henry Moore Foundation,
Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Exhibitions, research facilities and guided
tours.
Henry Moore
Institute, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Exhibitions, Collections and Research.
Herschel
Museum, Bath, Somerset. The home the 18th century astronomer William
Herschell.
Hill
Toy Museum, Stansted, Essex. Over 30,000 items.<
Historic Royal
Palaces.- The Tower of London; Hampton
Court Palace; The Banqueting House; Kew Palace; Kensington Palace
Hitchin
Museum, Hertfordshire. Local life & historical
costume.
Holbourne Museum
and 20th Century Crafts Study Centre, Bath, Somerset.
The Horniman Museum and Gardens,
Forest Hill, London.
Hunterian Museum,
The oldest public museum in Scotland
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Imperial War Museum,
London. Also includes the
Cabinet War Rooms,
HMS Belfast and RAF
Duxford (including the
American Air Museum in Britain).
Ipswich
Transport Museum, Suffolk.
Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Telford,
Shropshire. Birthplace of the industrial revolution.
Isle of Skye Toy Museum, Scotland.
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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
The Jewish Museum,
London.
John Paul Jones
Cottage Museum, Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway.
Jorvik
Viking Centre, York.
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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Kendal Museum, Cumbria. One of
the UK's oldest.
Kew Bridge
Steam Museum, Brentford, Middlesex.
Kew Transport Museum, London.
Kilmartin House Museum,
Argyll. Centre for archaeology and landscape
interpretation.
Kingston
Museum, Kingston upon Thames. Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photo collection.
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Lancashire
Museums
Lapworth
Museum, University of Birmingham, West Midlands. Geology and fossils.
Leeds
University Gallery, University Library, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Leicester City Museums,
Leicestershire. Egyptology; natural history,
fine art; paintings; sculpture; pre-historic, Roman and
medieval artefacts and costume
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. Home of London's Guild of Pearly Kings and Queens,
and London's Eels Pie and Mash Club.
Lothbury
Gallery, London. Part of the NatWest Group art collection.
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Madame Tussaud's London - London. Includes news, tour, the story behind the wax and links to info on the works in Amsterdam, Las Vegas, New York. A slow loader...
Manchester
City Art Galleries. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and
furniture, especially by 19th and 20th century artists, including the
Pre-Raphaelites.
Manchester
Jewish Museum.
The Manchester Museum. Botany,
Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and Egyptology galleries.
Manchester United Museum
and Tour Centre, Greater Manchester. Football club history 1878 -2000.
Manor
House Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Horology and art collections.
Marischal Museum,
University of Aberdeen
Maritime Museum
for East Anglia, Great Yarmouth.
Mary Rose Maritime Museum, Portsmouth,
Hampshire. 16th century warship from the time of
King Henry VIII on display.
Midland Air Museum,
Coventry Airport, Warwickshire.
Montfitchet
Castle, Stansted, Essex. Recreation of a Norman castle on the original site.
Moray
Council Museums Service, Scotland
Moyse's
Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Archaeology and local history.
Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon
Tyne. Archaeology in north east England.
Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Museum of Army Transport, Beverley, East Yorkshire. Military museum.
Museum of
Berkshire Aviation, Woodley, near Reading.
Museum of British Road Transport,
Coventry, Warwickshire.
Museum of
Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Includes a cast collection.
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, Rural
History Centre, University of Reading, Berkshire.
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 organisation dedicated to the research, production and
dissemination of installation art.
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.
Museum of the Moving
Image (MOMI), British Film Institute,
South Bank, London. History of film and television.
Museums of the Potteries,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.:
The Potteries Museum and Art
Gallery; The Gladstone
Pottery Museum; Etruria
Industrial Museum and Ford
Green Hall
Museum of St. Albans, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Museum of
the Welsh Woollen Industry, Dre-fach Felindre.
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.
Museums of the Royal Regiment of Wales.
South Wales Borderers
Museum , Brecon; Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff
Mythstories,
Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Museum of myth and fable.
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Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales.
National
Army Museum, Chelsea, London.
National
Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne.
National Centre for Popular Music,
Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
National Coal Mining Museum
for England, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
National Galleries of
Scotland, Edinburgh. National collection of European painting, sculpture and graphic art from the Renaissance to the present day
The National Gallery, London.
National Library of Scotland,
Edinburgh.
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
London.
National Motor Museum,
Beaulieu, Hampshire.
National Museums & Galleries of
Wales, Cardiff
National Museums & Galleries on
Merseyside, Liverpool.
National Museum &
Gallery, Cardiff
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
National Museum of Science and Industry.
Science Museum, London
National Railway Museum, York
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Portrait Gallery, London
National Railway Museum
Natural History Museum, London
National Tramway Museum
National Waterways Museum
Nature in Art,Trigworth, Gloucestershire
Newhaven Local
and Maritime Museum, East Sussex.
Norfolk Museums
North Somerset
Museum , Weston-super-Mare.
North West Film Archive,
Manchester Metropolitan University. 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.
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Old
Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology, Durham.
Old
Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret , London. History of
herbal medicine, surgery, nursing at Old St. Thomas's (the original home of
Florence Nightingale's Nursing School.
Open Museum,
Glasgow. (Unofficial.) Community led outreach service.
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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Past
Impressions On-line Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Path Head
Water Mill, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear.
Pendon
Museum of Miniature Landscape & Transport, Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.
Penlee House Gallery
& Museum, Penzance, Cornwall. Archaeology, costumes,
textiles, decorative art, fine art... local
history.
People's History Museum, Bridge Street, Manchester. The national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain
Peter
Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster. Fine arts, contemporary ceramics & Royal Lancastrian Pottery.
Pitt Rivers Museum,
University of Oxford.
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno, Cornwall.
Potteries Museum & Art
Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Staffordshire ceramics collection.
Prickwillow
Drainage Engine Museum, Cambridgeshire.
Public Record Office, Kew,
London. Domesday Book (1086)... records from the 11th century to the present. Online catalogues.
Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast.
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Quarry Bank Mill,
Styal, Cheshire. Industrial Revolution museum with a working
cotton mill.
The
Queen's Gallery at Buckingham
Palace, London. See also
Windsor Castle and
the rest of the Royal
Collection.
R
Ragged School
Museum, London. Re-created Victorian classroom,local history, and life in the East End.
Ramsey
Rural Museum, Cambridgeshire. Artifacts from the
Fenland area.
Reading Museum,
Berkshire. Bayeux Tapestry replica , Roman artifacts,
etc.
The Regency
Town House, Hove, East Sussex. History of the Brighton area.
REME
Museum of Technology (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers),
Arborfield, near Reading, Berkshire.
Ripon Law and Order
Museums, North Yorkshire.
River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire.
Roman Baths Museum
and Pump House, Bath, Somerset.
Roman
Legionary Museum, Caerleon.
Rotherham Museums and Arts
Service.
Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon,
London.
Royal Albert
Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon.
Royal Armouries: Leeds, West Yorkshire; Fort Nelson, Fareham, Hampshire; and the Tower of
London.
Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, London.
Royal Botanic
Garden, Edinburgh
The Royal Collection Art, photos, jewels...
Royal
College of Surgeions Museum (Hunterian Museum), London.
Royal
Cornwall Museum, Truro.
Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth,
Hampshire.
Royal Navy
Submarine Museum, Gosport, Hampshire.
Royal
Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norwich.
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London.
Royal Photographic Society,
Bath, Somerset.
Royal
Signals Museum, Blandford Camp, Dorset.
Royal Tennis
Courts and Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)
Virtual Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Rural Life
Centre Old Kiln Museum, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey.
Russell Cotes Art Gallery
and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset.
Ryhope Engines Museum,
Ryhope Pumping Station, near Sunderland.
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Sainsbury
Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk.
Sainsbury's Virtual Museum.Photographs & documentary sources on
shopping (1869 to 1900).
Salts Mill, Saltaire, Shipley,
West Yorkshire. Pictures by David Hockney.
St. Barbe
Museum, Lymington, Hampshire.
St. Helens
Transport Museum, Merseyside. Historic buses, coaches, trams...
St Neots
Museum, Cambridgeshire.
St. Peter Hungate
Church Museum, Norwich.
The Museum of the Trolleybus, Doncaster South Yorkshire.
Science Museum, London.
Scotland's
Secret Bunker, near St Andrews. Cold War's nuclear command bunker.
Scott
Polar Research Institute Archives 7 Museum, University of Cambridge.
Scottish Football
Museum, Glasgow.
Seaford Local
History, East Sussex.
Sedgwick Museum
of Geology, University of Cambridge.
Segontium
Roman Museum, Caernafon.
Shakespeare and the Globe Renaissance Text Centre, University of Reading. Original and
reconstructed theatre info.
Shardlow
Heritage Centre, Derbyshire.
Shefton Museum
of Greek Art and Archaeology, Department of Classics, University of
Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sherlock Holmes
Museum, London
Shetland
Museum, Lerwick.
Shropshire County Museum
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Sir John Soane's Museum,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Sir John Soane, R.A.,
architect (1753-1837).
Southampton
City Cultural Services, Hampshire. Important archaeology
collections, RMS Titanic info..
Spode Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. English pottery, ceramics, bone china,
earthenware.
Stained Glass Museum, Ely,
Cambridgeshire.
Stranger's Hall
Museum, Norwich.
Swaledale
Folk Museum, Reeth, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Swansea
Museums and Art Galleries, Wales.
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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset.
Tate Galleries, London,
Liverpool, Merseyside and
St Ives, Cornwall.
Techniquest, Cardiff.
Hands-on science discovery centre.
Theatre Museum,
Covent Garden, London.
Thetford Ancient
House Museum.
Tiverton Museum,
Devon.
Toll House Museum
and Brass Rubbing Centre, Great Yarmouth.
Tom
Brown's School Museum, Uffington, Oxfordshire. Includes the
White Horse
and Sir John
Betjeman.
Torre
Abbey Historic House & Gallery, Torquay, Devon.
Town House Museum
of Lynn Life, King's Lynn. Furniture and domestic life from medieval period
to 20th century.
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 & Art Gallery, Kent.
Turner House
Gallery, Penarth. Part of
National Museums & Galleries of
Wales
U
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
Ulster Folk and
Transport Museum, Holywood, Northern Ireland. Reconstructed buildings.
Includes exhibition on
Titanic ocean liner.
Ure Museum of
Greek Archaeology, University of Reading, Berkshire.
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Vale and Downland
Museum, Wantage, Oxfordshire.
Verulamium
Museum, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A),
London. What's on exhibit, collections, features and news, education, research.
Virtual Museum of Computing. On the WWW, about the WWW. Includes galleries, exhibits, corporate histories from Amdahl and Apple to Unisys and Lilinx. Microsoft history too. Links to Internet Society, history of the internet and more. Computer related museums...fascinating stuff.
Virtual Museum
of the Iron Lung.
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Waddesdon Manor,
Buckinghamshire. Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's
collection of 18th Century art treasure.
The Wallace Collection,
Hertford House, London. One of the greatest private art collections given to the nation by Sir Richard Wallace. Site includes visitors info, collection history, painting reviews, minitures, armour..
Wallingford Museum,
Oxfordshire.
Walter
Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire.
The Wardrobe, Salisbury,
Wiltshire. Collections & archives of the Royal Berkshire, the Wiltshire and the Duke of
Edinburgh's Royal Regiments.
Weald and Downland Open
Air Museum, Chichester, West Sussex. 40
domestic & agricultural buildings dating from the 13th -19th century.
Welsh
Industrial & Maritime Collections, Cardiff.
Welsh Slate
Museum, Llanberis. Industrial Museum.
Westonzoyland
Pumping Station Museum, Somerset. Stationary steam
engines and land drainage equipment.
Wheal Martyn China
Clay Museum, near St Austell, Cornwall. Heritage centre.
Whitby Museum,
North Yorkshire, Local history & archaeology.
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Modern & contemporary art.
Whitworth Art Gallery, University
of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints, wallpapers, modern art.
Wigan
Pier, Lancashire. Local history presentations and Mill & Engine House.
William Morris Gallery,
Waltham Forest, London.
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis
Museum, London.
Windermere Steamboat
Museum, Cumbria.
Wolverhampton Art
Gallery, West Midlands. 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.
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 City
Museums: York Castle Museum, The
Yorkshire Museum, The York Story, and York City Art Gallery,
The York Dungeon,
York. Museum of horror.
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