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Museums & Galleries in Cheltenham
From local history to serious collections, here\'s what\'s worth your time around Cheltenham — think The Wilson, Holst Victorian House and Jet Age Museum — with distances and visitor reviews to choose by.
Museums & Galleries
0.3 mi from Cheltenham
The Wilson
The Wilson is an art gallery and museum on Clarence Street in Cheltenham, currently hosting an exhibition called The Art of Looking, spanning Dutch Masters to Modern Britain, runni...
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0.3 mi from Cheltenham
Holst Victorian House
Holst Victorian House is the Cheltenham birthplace of composer Gustav Holst, set out as an authentic Victorian home showing middle-class life in the 1870s. You can wander through p...
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4.4 mi from Cheltenham
Jet Age Museum
Jet Age Museum, in Churchdown near Tewkesbury, tells the story of Gloucestershire's aviation history, from early flight through the birth of the Jet Age to today's aerospace indust...
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5.9 mi from Cheltenham
Winchcombe Museum
Winchcombe Museum, housed in the town's former Victorian Town Hall, brings the story of Winchcombe to life through a volunteer-led collection that includes fragments of the UK's mo...
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7.4 mi from Cheltenham
John Moore Countryside Museum
The John Moore Museum sits among historic timber-framed buildings near Tewkesbury Abbey, and was established in 1980 in memory of writer and naturalist John Moore. You can explore...
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7.4 mi from Cheltenham
Tewkesbury Museum
Tewkesbury Museum occupies an unspoiled seventeenth-century building on Barton Street and tells the story of the town from Roman times through to wartime austerity. Inside you'll f...
7.8 mi from Cheltenham
Museum of Gloucester
The Museum of Gloucester sits in a fine Victorian building on Brunswick Road and tells the story of Gloucester from its Roman origins through the Dark Ages and medieval period, wit...
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7.8 mi from Cheltenham
Hailes Abbey
Hailes Abbey was once one of medieval England's most celebrated pilgrimage sites, drawn to fame in 1270 when it received a relic said to be a phial of Christ's blood; pilgrims' don...
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8 mi from Cheltenham
The Folk of Gloucester
The Folk of Gloucester is a historic Tudor merchant's house in the city's Cathedral Quarter, once home to Gloucester Folk Museum and now run by Gloucester Civic Trust as a communit...
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8.2 mi from Cheltenham
Gloucester Waterways Museum
Gloucester Waterways Museum is housed in a Victorian warehouse at Gloucester Docks in the city of Gloucester, England. It is located along the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal and Ri... — Wikipedia
12.2 mi from Cheltenham
The Museum in the Park
The Museum in the Park sits in the grounds of a Grade II Listed wool merchant's mansion in Stratford Park, Stroud, and is free to enter with donations welcomed. Inside you'll find...
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12.9 mi from Cheltenham
Arcade Archive
Arcade Archive is a museum in Chalford, near Stroud, dedicated to the golden age of video arcade history. You can explore replica early coin-op machines like Computer Space and Spa...
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12.9 mi from Cheltenham
RMC: The Cave
RMC: The Cave is a hands-on museum of video gaming history in Chalford, Stroud, letting you play consoles, home computers and arcade cabinets from the 1970s to the early 2000s. You...
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13 mi from Cheltenham
The Tudor House Museum
Set in Upton-upon-Severn in the Malvern Hills, the Tudor House Museum is a 17th-century half-timbered building with a timber frame, wattle and daub walls and a steeply pitched roof...
13 mi from Cheltenham
Upton Heritage Centre
Upton Heritage Centre is set within the oldest surviving building in the riverside town of Upton-upon-Severn, in the Malvern Hills area. Inside, displays trace the town's growth an...
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