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Museums & Galleries in the UK

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Museums & Galleries in the UK

Free entry at many, world-class collections at some, and a guaranteed save on a rainy holiday afternoon — museums and galleries are the smart planner's secret weapon.

Aberdeenshire

  • Zoology Museum

    The Zoology Museum, part of the University of Aberdeen's collections, displays specimens f...

  • Whisky Museum

    The Whisky Museum in Dufftown, Aberdeenshire, lets you discover the secrets of traditional...

  • Tolbooth Museum

    The Tolbooth in Aberdeen, Scotland is a 17th-century former jail which is now operated as...

  • Tolbooth Museum

    The Tolbooth Museum sits in the oldest building in Stonehaven, right on the harbour front,...

  • Museum of Scottish Lighthouses

    The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses sits in the fishing port of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire,...

  • Museum of Scottish Lighthouses

    The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses sits in the fishing port of Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshir...

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Aberystwyth

Aldeburgh

  • Woodbridge Tide Mill

    Woodbridge Tide Mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England is a rare example of a tide mill whos...

  • Woodbridge Museum

    Woodbridge Museum sits in the historic Whisstocks area of the waterfront and tells the sto...

  • Parham Airfield Museum

    UK museum in East Suffolk, Suffolk, England

  • Bentwaters Cold War Museum

    This museum occupies a former USAF hardened command post on the old Bentwaters airfield, w...

  • Suffolk Punch Trust

    The Suffolk Punch Trust is a charity-run stud in Hollesley, Suffolk, dedicated to preservi...

  • Long Shop Museum

    The Long Shop Museum tells 200 years of industrial and social history and is run as an ind...

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Alnwick

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Ambleside

Anglesey

  • Natural History Musem

    This small university museum, housed in Bangor University's Brambell Building, displays pa...

  • Thomas Telford Centre

    The Thomas Telford Centre is a community-run, accredited museum in Menai Bridge, Anglesey,...

  • Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum

    The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum sits within two towers of Caernarfon Castle in Gwynedd, W...

  • Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

    The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum was a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at...

  • Storiel

    Storiel is a museum in Bangor, Gwynedd, bringing together social history collections from...

  • Penrhyn Castle

    Penrhyn Castle is a country house in Llandygai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, constructed...

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Argyll and Bute

  • Strachur Smiddy

    Strachur Smiddy is a historic 18th-century blacksmith's workshop in Argyll and Bute, datin...

  • Auchindrain

    Museum near Inveraray, Scotland, United Kingdom

  • Bute Museum

    Museum in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom

  • Kilmartin House Museum

    Museum in Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom

  • Inveraray Jail

    Inveraray Jail is a historic attraction in Argyll and Bute where you can explore a Scottis...

  • Bonawe Iron Furnace

    Bonawe Historic Iron Furnace sits at the head of Loch Etive near Taynuilt in Argyll, close...

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Aviemore

  • Scalan Seminary

    The Scalan was a Scottish Catholic seminary and one of the few places in Scotland where th...

  • Falconer Museum

    The Falconer Museum is a Victorian museum in the heart of Forres, Moray, named after local...

  • Grantown Museum

    Museum in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, United Kingdom

  • Elgin Cathedral Museum

    Museum in Elgin, Scotland, UK

  • Elgin Motor Museum

    Museum in Elgin, Scotland, UK

  • Elgin Museum

    Elgin Museum sits in the heart of Elgin, in Moray on the Scottish Highlands, and currently...

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Ayrshire

  • West Kilbride Museum

    West Kilbride Museum is a small, volunteer-run local museum in West Kilbride, North Ayrshi...

  • Wellwood Burns Centre and Museum

    Wellwood Burns Centre and Museum is the home of Irvine Burns Club, offering a museum exper...

  • Arran Heritage Museum

    The Isle of Arran Heritage Museum sits at Rosaburn, just north of Brodick, in a group of f...

  • Dick Institute

    The Dick Institute is Ayrshire's largest museum and gallery space, combining heritage, art...

  • Coast Discovery Center

    The COAST Discovery Centre is Scotland's first Marine Protected Area visitor centre, and t...

  • Big Idea

    The Big Idea was a science centre located in the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland....

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Bakewell

  • Old House Museum

    Old House Museum in Bakewell is a five-hundred-year-old building, originally built as a ti...

  • Eyam Museum

    Eyam Museum tells the story of this famous Derbyshire Dales village, including its experie...

  • Elsecar Heritage Centre

    Elsecar Heritage Centre is a museum and heritage site in Barnsley, described as an Earls V...

Bamburgh

Barmouth

Bath

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Bedfordshire

  • Woburn Heritage Museum

    Woburn Heritage Museum is a small, free-entry museum set inside the beautiful Old St Mary'...

  • Thurleigh Museum

    Thurleigh Museum is a memorial dedicated to the personnel of the 306th Bomb Group, who fle...

  • Military Intelligence Museum

    This Bedfordshire museum is the only one in the UK dedicated entirely to the history of mi...

  • Panacea Museum

    The Panacea Museum tells the extraordinary story of the Panacea Society, a religious commu...

  • John Bunyan museum

    The John Bunyan Museum in Bedford tells the story of the town's famous preacher and writer...

  • The Higgins

    The Higgins Bedford brings together a former brewer's house, brewery buildings and a Grade...

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Belfast

  • W5

    W5 is an interactive discovery centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with over 250 hands-on...

  • Ulster Museum

    The Ulster Museum forms part of National Museums NI, which looks after four museums and a...

  • Northern Ireland War Memorial

    The Northern Ireland War Memorial is an accredited museum in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter t...

  • Museum of Orange Heritage

    The Museum of Orange Heritage consists of two Interpretive Centres in Belfast, Northern Ir...

  • Police Museum

    Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Royal Ulster Rifles Museum

    Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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Berkshire

  • West Berkshire Museum

    West Berkshire Museum sits in Newbury, housed in the historic Cloth Hall and old Granary b...

  • Wallingford Museum

    Wallingford Museum is a colourful, family-friendly local history museum set on two floors...

  • Willis Museum

    The Willis Museum sits in Basingstoke's historic Market Place, in a former Town Hall that...

  • The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology

    The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology is a museum of ancient Mediterranean archaeology, prim...

  • The Pest House

    The Pest House is a small, historic isolation hospital built around 1622, used to house lo...

  • Museum of Farnham

    The Museum of Farnham occupies a Grade I listed Georgian townhouse, currently part-way thr...

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

  • Jim Clark Motorsport Museum

    This museum in the Scottish Borders tells the story of racing driver Jim Clark, winner of...

  • Berwick Barracks

    Museum, formerly barracks, in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, United Kingdom

  • Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

    Museum in Berwick-upon-Tweed

  • Lady Waterford Hall

    Lady Waterford Hall is a Victorian schoolroom home to an astonishing series of Pre-Raphael...

  • Heatherslaw Mill

    Heatherslaw Mill is a water mill situated on the Ford and Etal Estate, 7 miles north of th...

  • Eyemouth Museum

    Eyemouth Museum sits in the centre of the town and tells the story of its fishing and soci...

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Betws-y-Coed

Birmingham

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Blackpool

  • The Dock Museum

    The Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness is a family-friendly museum with changing exhibitions...

  • Lytham Hall

    Lytham Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian house near Lytham, in the Fylde area of Lancashir...

  • Hangar 42 - Spitfire Visitor Centre

    Hangar 42 is a WW2-themed aviation museum at Blackpool Airport in Saint Anne's on the Sea,...

  • Fleetwood Museum

    Fleetwood Museum tells the story of Fleetwood's development as a seaside town, its maritim...

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Bournemouth

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Bourton-on-the-Water

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Bradford

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Bridlington

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Brighton

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Bristol

  • We The Curious

    We The Curious is a hands-on science museum on Bristol's Harbourside, spread across two fl...

  • Blaise Castle House Museum

    UK historic house museum

  • Palestine Museum & Cultural Centre

    This small, volunteer-run museum in Bristol presents a permanent exhibition on Palestinian...

  • Muller House

    This small museum tells the story of George Müller and the thousands of orphaned children...

  • KSC

    The Stradling Collection is a Bristol charitable trust holding over 2,000 objects of mid-c...

  • Georgian House Museum

    The Georgian House is a historic house museum at 7 Great George Street in Bristol, England...

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Broadstairs

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Buckinghamshire

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Bude

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Cambridge

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Cambridgeshire

  • Wisbech & Fenland Museum

    Wisbech & Fenland Museum is an independent, charity-run museum in Wisbech, preserved as a...

  • Whittlesey Museum

    Whittlesey Museum is a small independent museum in the heart of Whittlesey, telling the st...

  • Thorney Museum

    Thorney Museum, run by the Thorney Society, is a small community museum in the Bedford Hal...

  • The Stained Glass Museum

    The Stained Glass Museum sits in the triforium of Ely Cathedral and is the only UK museum...

  • Norris Museum

    The Norris Museum in St Ives tells the story of Huntingdonshire from 160 million years ago...

  • The Cromwell Museum

    The Cromwell Museum sits in the heart of Huntingdon town centre, just off the historic tow...

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Canterbury

  • Railway Museum

    This railway museum and countryside centre sits in the Elham Valley near Canterbury, Kent,...

  • Kent Battle of Britain Museum

    This museum near Hawkinge in Kent holds the world's largest Battle of Britain memorabilia...

  • The Wing

    The Wing is the visitor centre at the Battle of Britain Memorial in Capel-le-Ferne, near F...

  • Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway

    The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a working light railway in New Romney, Folkestone...

  • Kent Museum of Freemasonry

    The Kent Museum of Freemasonry, is a museum in St Peters Place, Canterbury, Kent with a ra...

  • The Marlowe Kit

    The Canterbury Heritage Museum was a museum in Stour Street, Canterbury, South East Englan...

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Cardiff

  • Vulcan Hotel

    You'll find The Vulcan Hotel rebuilt at St Fagans, part of Museum Wales's collection of hi...

  • Brynmawr and District Museum

    Welsh local museum, United Kingdom

  • Tredegar Museum

    Tredegar Museum, based at Tredegar Library in the heart of Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, tells...

  • Tredegar House Museum

    Tredegar House is a 17th-century red brick mansion set within 90 acres of gardens and park...

  • Birthplace of Joseph Parry

    This is a preserved 19th Century ironworker's cottage, built in 1825 for Cyfarthfa Ironwor...

  • Tollhouse

    The Tollhouse at St Fagans, Cardiff, was "originally built in Penparcau, Aberystwyth, in 1...

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Carmarthenshire

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Ceredigion

Cheltenham

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Cheshire

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Chester

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Chichester

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Cleethorpes

  • Wilderspin National School

    The Wilderspin National School is a former national school and Grade II listed building in...

  • The Ropery

    The Ropery, part of The Ropewalk arts centre in Barton, North Lincolnshire, tells the stor...

  • Fishing Heritage Centre

    The Fishing Heritage Centre tells the story of Grimsby's fishing industry, letting you cli...

  • RAF Holmpton Bunker

    Royal Air Force Holmpton or more simply RAF Holmpton is a former Royal Air Force Cold War...

  • Withernsea Lighthouse Museum

    Museum in Withernsea, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

  • Louth Museum

    Louth Museum sits in the historic market town of Louth, at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wo...

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Conwy

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Cornwall

Cotswolds

County Antrim

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County Down

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County Durham

  • Washington Old Hall

    Washington Old Hall is a historic manor house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England. It li...

  • Green Howards Museum

    This regimental museum in Richmond's Market Place tells 300 years of military history thro...

  • Durham Museum Pop-Up Shop

    This pop-up shop brings the story of the City of Durham to a temporary home at Prince Bish...

  • Watch House Museum

    The Watch House Museum in Tynemouth tells the story of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigad...

  • Oriental Museum

    The Oriental Museum, formerly the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, is a...

  • Mining Institute

    The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (NEIMME), commonly known...

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County Fermanagh

Cromer

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Cumbria

  • A World In Miniature

    UK museum in Carlisle, Cumbria, England

  • Tullie House

    Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, officially known as Tullie since July 2024, is a muse...

  • Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum

    Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum sits in a working quarry near Keswick in the Lake Distric...

  • Guildhall Museum

    The Guildhall Museum occupies a striking timber-framed building believed to date from the...

  • Solway Aviation Museum

    Solway Aviation Museum, at Carlisle Airport in Irthington, Cumberland, is a volunteer-run...

  • Penrith & Eden Musuem

    Penrith and Eden Museum tells the story of the local area through art, artefacts, history...

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Dawlish

Derbyshire

Devon

  • Museum Of Dartmoor Life

    The Museum of Dartmoor Life (MDL) is a local museum in Okehampton, Devon, southwest Englan...

  • The Arthur Westlake Museum

    The Arthur Westlake Museum occupies two rooms at the end of Platform 2 at Okehampton stati...

  • St. Lawrence Chapel

    St Lawrence Chapel is a historic 14th-century former chapel in Ashburton, now run as a com...

  • South Molton Museum

    South Molton Museum sits on the ground floor of the town's historic Guildhall, built in 17...

  • Ashburton Museum

    Museum in Devon, United Kingdom

  • Kelly Mine

    Kelly Mine is a disused metalliferous mine situated on the eastern flank of Dartmoor near...

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Dorset

  • Tyneham

    Tyneham is a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in the parish of...

  • Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum

    The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum tells the story of the Martyrs' arrest, trial and punishment,...

  • The Tank Museum

    The Tank Museum, in the Museums & Galleries category, brings the story of tanks and their...

  • The Tank Museum

    The Tank Museum is a large indoor attraction in Bovington, Dorset, telling the story of ta...

  • Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre

    Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre is a small volunteer-run museum on Oborne Road, Sherbo...

  • Tyneham School

    School building in Tyneham, Dorset, England, UK

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Dumfries and Galloway

  • Robert Burns Centre

    Visitor's centre with an exhibition about Robert Burns in Dumfries, Scotland

  • Tolbooth Art Centre

    Tolbooth in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK

  • Stewartry Museum

    The Stewartry Museum is a local museum in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which covers the histor...

  • Old Bridge House Museum

    The Old Bridge House Museum sits in Dumfries' oldest house, built into the sandstone of th...

  • National Museum of Costume

    The National Museum of Costume was located at Shambellie House, in New Abbey, Dumfries and...

  • Museum of Lead Mining

    The Museum of Lead Mining in Wanlockhead tells the story of Scotland's only underground le...

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Dundee

  • Verdant Works

    Verdant Works Museum, set in a beautifully refurbished Mill building in Dundee City, tells...

  • V&A Dundee

    V&A Dundee is Scotland's design museum, set beside the waterfront and dedicated to inspiri...

  • The McManus

    The McManus is Dundee's art gallery and museum, set within a striking Gothic Revival build...

  • D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum

    The D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum is a museum of zoology at the University of Dundee in S...

  • Discovery Point

    RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland, for Antarc...

  • HMS Unicorn

    HMS Unicorn is Dundee's oldest ship, launched in 1824 and recognised as the sixth oldest s...

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East Sussex

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Eastbourne

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Edinburgh

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Enniskillen

Essex

  • Warner Textile Archive

    Warner Textile Archive is a research facility dedicated to the history of the luxury texti...

  • Thurrock Museum

    Thurrock Museum sits on the first floor of the Thameside Complex in Grays, Essex, and tell...

  • Upminster Tithe Barn

    The Upminster Tithe Barn is a historic building and scheduled monument located in Upminste...

  • The Museum of Power

    The Museum of Power is housed in a former water pumping station, with a collection ranging...

  • Chelmsford Museum

    The Museum of Chelmsford, set in Oaklands House in Oaklands Park, takes you through the ci...

  • East Anglian Railway Museum

    The East Anglian Railway Museum is a railway heritage attraction in Wakes Colne, Colcheste...

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Exmouth

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Falmouth

  • Poldark Mine

    Tin mine in Cornwall worked sometime between 1720 and 1780

  • National Maritime Museum Cornwall

    The National Maritime Museum, Cornwall (NMMC) is located in a harbourside building at Falm...

  • Redruth Old Cornwall Society Museum

    Run by the Redruth Old Cornwall Society, founded in 1922, this small museum sits within To...

  • Royal Cornwall Museum

    Royal Cornwall Museum sits in the heart of Truro, just off the main high street, and bring...

  • Penryn Museum

    Penryn Museum sits on the ground floor of the town hall, right in the centre of this histo...

  • Marconi Centre

    Museum of Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraphy and centre for the local amateur radio g...

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Fife

  • Wemyss Cave Museum & Visitor Centre

    Wemyss Cave Museum & Visitor Centre, in the village of East Wemyss in Fife, tells the stor...

  • Museum of Abernethy

    The Museum of Abernethy tells the story of this historic Perthshire village, from Pictish...

  • Black Watch Museum

    The Black Watch Museum sits within Balhousie Castle in the heart of Perth, telling the sto...

  • Stanley Mills

    Stanley Mills is a historic textile mill complex on the River Tay, built in the 1780s and...

  • Perth Museum

    Perth Museum is a free, world-class heritage attraction set in a former Edwardian city hal...

  • Laing Museum

    Museum in Newburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Filey

Fort William

Glasgow

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Gloucestershire

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Great Yarmouth

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Gwynedd

  • Yr Ysgwrn

    Museum in Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, United Kingdom

  • Llechwedd Slate Caverns

    Llechwedd Slate Caverns, in Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, is a former slate quarry turned adventure...

  • Yr Ysgwrn

    Farmhouse of the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn

Hampshire

  • Whitchurch Silk Mill

    Whitchurch Silk Mill is an industrial heritage museum in Hampshire that has been weaving s...

  • Tudor House Museum

    Tudor House is Southampton's oldest museum, set in a timber-framed building dating from th...

  • Medieval Merchants House

    Tucked away near Southampton's busy city centre is the Medieval Merchant's House, one of t...

  • City Mill

    The Winchester City Mill is a restored water mill situated on the River Itchen in the cent...

  • Royal Victoria Hospital Museum

    The Royal Victoria Hospital or Netley Hospital was a large military hospital in Netley, ne...

  • Royal Logistic Corps Museum

    The Royal Logistic Corps Museum in Worthy Down, near Winchester, tells the story of milita...

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Harrogate

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Hastings

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Herefordshire

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Hertfordshire

  • Watford Museum

    Watford Museum is a local museum in Watford, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It is o...

  • Ware Museum

    Ware Museum tells the story of life in Ware from prehistoric times to the present day, wit...

  • Wardown Park Museum

    Wardown House Museum and Gallery, formerly Wardown Park Museum and, before that, the Luton...

  • Verulamium Museum

    Verulamium Museum sits on the site of one of Britain's largest Roman cities, and inside yo...

  • Garden City Collection Study Centre

    UK archive and museum resource centre in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

  • De Havilland Aircraft Museum

    This aviation museum at Salisbury Hall tells the story of the de Havilland company, home t...

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Hull

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Hunstanton

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Ilfracombe

  • Lynton and Exmoor Museum

    The Lyn and Exmoor Museum is a small museum in Lynton, Devon, England, housed in the town...

  • St Anne's Chapel

    St Anne's Chapel is Barnstaple's last surviving Chantry Chapel, thought to date mainly to...

  • Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon

    Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon is a local museum covering the history and culture of...

  • Lynmouth Flood Memorial Hall

    Lynmouth Lifeboat Station was the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) sear...

  • Ilfracombe Museum

    Ilfracombe Museum is an independent charity museum housed in the former laundry of the old...

  • Hele Cornmill

    Hele Cornmill is a 16th century working water mill in North Devon, where entry to the mill...

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Inverness

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Isle of Skye

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Isle of Wight

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Kendal

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Kent

  • Woodchurch Museum

    Woodchurch Village Life Museum sits in the Kent countryside near Woodchurch, housed in an...

  • Morgan Museum

    This is a small motoring museum in Kent, home to the unique collection of Morgan 3 wheel c...

  • The South East Romany Museum

    The South East Romany Museum is run by the Brazil family, who have lived in Marden with th...

  • Royal Engineers Museum

    The Royal Engineers Museum is the UK's largest military engineering museum, home to a nati...

  • Romney Marsh Wartime Collection

    The Romney Marsh Wartime Collection is a museum in Kent covering History, Gallery and Vide...

  • Museum of Carriages

    The Museum of Carriages, on Mill Street in central Maidstone, holds one of the UK's most s...

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Keswick

  • The Rum Story

    The Rum Story is a museum in Whitehaven, Cumbria, set within the original 1785 shop, cella...

  • The Retro Zone

    The Retro Zone is a small, independently run museum in Keswick showcasing a personal colle...

  • Helena Thompson Museum

    The Helena Thompson Museum is a Grade II listed Georgian house in Keswick, Cumbria, run as...

  • The Devil's Porridge Museum

    The Devil's Porridge Museum tells the remarkable story of HM Factory Gretna, the vast Worl...

  • Derwent Pencil Museum

    The Derwent Pencil Museum is a museum dedicated to the manufacturing and history of pencil...

  • The Beacon Museum

    The Beacon Museum in Whitehaven is a museum and gallery space exploring the area's past, p...

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Lake District

  • The Ruskin Museum

    The Ruskin Museum sits in the heart of Coniston village and tells the 'Story of Coniston',...

  • Ravenglass Railway Museum

    Ravenglass Railway Museum tells the story of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, known local...

  • Millom Heritage and Arts Centre

    Housed in Millom's restored railway station, this accredited museum tells the town's story...

  • Furness Abbey Visitor Centre

    Furness Abbey Visitor Centre sits within the ruins of England's second richest Cistercian...

  • Eskdale Mill

    Eskdale Mill is a Grade II* listed watermill in the village of Boot, and it's the last rem...

  • Brantwood

    Brantwood is the historic lakeside home of John Ruskin, now a museum set across a 250-acre...

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Lancashire

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Leeds

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Leicestershire

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Lincolnshire

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Liverpool

  • World Museum Liverpool

    World Museum is a large museum in Liverpool, England which has extensive collections cover...

  • Transport Museum

    Wirral Transport Museum was a museum situated at Woodside, Birkenhead, England.

  • Wirral Archives

    Wirral Archives is a research facility where you can visit the Search Room to look through...

  • Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

    Williamson Art Gallery & Museum has been part of Wirral's cultural life since 1928, set in...

  • Western Approaches

    The Western Approaches Museum in Liverpool, England, is a museum chronicling the work of W...

  • Museum of Liverpool

    The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, tells the story of Liverpool and its people...

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Llandudno

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Loch Lomond and The Trossachs

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London

  • Young V&A

    Young V&A is a museum in Bethnal Green designed for children, young people and families to...

  • Topolski Century

    You'll find Topolski Century, an arts educational organisation, in its headquarters locate...

  • Wimbledon Windmill Museum

    Wimbledon Windmill Museum is a small heritage museum housed inside a working windmill, wit...

  • William Morris Gallery

    William Morris Gallery is home to the world's most significant collection of William Morri...

  • Whitewebbs Museum of Transport

    Whitewebbs Museum of Transport is a museum in Enfield, housed in a Victorian water pumping...

  • Wellcome Collection

    Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library in central London exploring health and hu...

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Looe

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Lyme Regis

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Margate

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Matlock

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Merseyside

  • Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre

    Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre offers a glimpse into the extraordinary underground wor...

  • North West Museum of Road Transport

    This is a museum housed in a former horse-drawn tram depot dating from 1881, later used fo...

  • World of Glass

    The World of Glass tells the story of how St Helens became a world leader in glass making,...

  • Victoria Gallery & Museum

    The Victoria Gallery & Museum is housed in the University of Liverpool's iconic redbrick V...

  • Sudley House

    Sudley House is a historic house in Aigburth, Liverpool, England. Built in 1824 and much m...

  • Strawberry Field

    Strawberry Field is a Liverpool visitor attraction built around the site that inspired Joh...

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Minehead

  • Gauge Museum Blue Anchor

    The Gauge Museum Blue Anchor sits on the Down Platform at Blue Anchor Station, run by the...

  • Porthcawl Museum

    Porthcawl Museum is a small, volunteer-run local history museum housed in the Old Police S...

  • Watchet Boat Museum

    Maritime museum in Watchet, England

  • Watchet Museum

    Local museum in Watchet, Somerset, United Kingdom

  • Nash Point Fog Horn

    Grade II listed building in St Donats. In open ground between the Lower (West), and the Up...

  • Dovery Manor Museum

    Dovery Manor Museum occupies a Grade II* listed 15th-century manor house at the heart of P...

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Monmouthshire

  • Usk Museum of Rural Life

    Usk Rural Life Museum sits in the heart of the historic riverside town of Usk, Monmouthshi...

  • Torfaen Museum

    Torfaen Museum tells the story of the local area through the people who have lived there,...

  • Tintern Old Station

    Tintern Old Station is a heritage visitor centre in Monmouthshire, Wales, set in restored...

  • Tintern Old Station Car Park

    Tintern Old Station Car Park sits beside the River Wye at a former railway station turned...

  • Dean Forest Railway Museum

    This small museum at Norchard, part of the Dean Forest Railway, is dedicated to preserving...

  • National Roman Legion Museum

    This museum sits within the remains of a Roman fortress built at Caerleon in AD 75, one of...

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Morecambe

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Newcastle

  • Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum

    The Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum is a small military history museum in Armagh, housed in t...

  • No 5 Vicars' Hill

    No 5 Vicars' Hill is a short walk from Armagh Robinson Library, opposite St Patrick's Cath...

  • Newry and Mourne Museum

    Newry and Mourne Museum is housed in the restored Bagenal's Castle, rediscovered in 1996 a...

  • Milford House Museum

    Milford House is a historic former family home near Armagh, once famed as the first house...

  • Armagh County Museum

    Armagh County Museum sits on the Georgian, tree-lined Mall near the centre of Armagh, a ca...

  • Brownlow House

    19th-century Elizabethan-style house; military HQ in WWI & WWII; now a museum and event ve...

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Newquay

Norfolk

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Northamptonshire

  • Towcester Museum

    Towcester Museum sits in White Horse Yard just off Watling Street, in the heart of Towcest...

  • Museum of Leathercraft

    The Leathercraft Collection at Northampton Museums and Art Gallery brings together around...

  • Cowper and Newton Museum

    The Cowper & Newton Museum occupies the house in Olney's Market Place where poet William C...

  • The Canal Museum

    The Canal Museum, formerly known as the National Waterways Museum at Stoke Bruerne and The...

  • Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust

    The Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust preserves the heritage of local military units r...

  • Sywell Aviation Museum

    Sywell Aviation Museum is based at Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire, England. It is si...

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Northumberland

  • Vindolanda Museum

    Vindolanda Museum sits at the Roman fort of Vindolanda near Bardon Mill, Northumberland, o...

  • Roman Army Museum

    The Roman Army Museum sits at Carvoran, part of the Vindolanda Trust's work along Hadrian'...

  • Hexham Old Gaol

    The Old Gaol, also known as the Manor Office, is a custodial building in Hallgate in Hexha...

  • Museum of Classic Sci-Fi

    The Museum of Classic Sci-Fi is a meticulously curated, small museum in Allendale, Northum...

  • Nenthead Mines

    Nenthead Mines is a historic mining site in a remote Pennine valley near Alston, run by an...

  • Corstopitum Visitor's Centre

    Museum in Corbridge, England, UK

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Norwich

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Nottinghamshire

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Oban

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Orkney

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Outer Hebrides

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Oxford

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Oxfordshire

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Padstow

Paignton

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Peak District

  • Wortley Top Forge

    Wortley Top Forge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and industrial museum in the Peak Distri...

  • Worsbrough Mill Museum

    Worsbrough Mill is a working watermill and country park in Barnsley, where you can explore...

  • Warley Museum

    Warley Museum is a converted red telephone box in the centre of Warley village, transforme...

  • Touchstones

    Touchstones is a museum, gallery and arts centre in a Grade II building in Rochdale town c...

  • Duke of Wellington's Regiment Museum

    This free museum sits within Bankfield Museum in Halifax, telling the story of the Duke of...

  • Tolson Museum

    The Tolson Memorial Museum, also known as Tolson Museum, is housed in Ravensknowle Hall, a...

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Pembrokeshire

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Penzance

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Perthshire

Pitlochry

Poole

  • Wareham Town Museum

    Wareham Town Museum tells the story of the Wareham area of Dorset in southern England from...

  • Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum

    The Purbeck Mining Museum tells the story of Purbeck Ball Clay mining and its narrow gauge...

  • Museum of East Dorset

    The Museum of East Dorset is a historic house museum in the heart of Wimborne, found oppos...

  • Blue Pool

    The Blue Pool is a nature reserve and tearooms set within the 300-acre Furzebrook Estate n...

  • Royal Signals Museum

    Regimental museum in Tarrant Monkton, Dorset, United Kingdom

  • Poole Museum

    Poole Museum is a maritime museum, gallery and cultural centre, situated on the Lower High...

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Porthmadog

  • Lloyd George Museum

    This museum in Llanystumdwy tells the story of former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, u...

  • Welsh Slate Museum

    The National Slate Museum tells the story of the Welsh slate industry, a trade once centra...

  • Porthmadog Maritime Museum

    Porthmadog Maritime Museum sits in the last remaining slate shed on Porthmadog's historic...

  • Plas yn Rhiw

    Plas yn Rhiw is an early 17th-century manor house in Y Rhiw, Gwynedd in northwestern Wales...

  • Old Quarry Hospital

    Museum in Llanberis

  • Lasynys Fawr

    Located at the NE boundary of the community, set back some 250m from the road and sited ag...

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Portree

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Portrush

  • The Museum of Islay Life

    You'll find the Museum of Islay Life in Port Charlotte, housed in the former Kilchoman Fre...

  • Tower Museum

    The Tower Museum is a museum on local history in Derry, Northern Ireland.

  • Museum of Free Derry

    The Museum of Free Derry tells the people's story of government oppression, the struggle f...

  • Ballymoney Museum

    Museum in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Green Lane Museum

    Museum in Limavady, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Garvagh Museum

    Museum in Garvagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Portsmouth

  • Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum

    This modest house in Portsmouth is where Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812, and...

  • Royal Naval Museum

    The Royal Naval Museums; Portsmouth, formerly known as the National Museum of the Royal Na...

  • Mary Rose Museum

    The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, Hampshire, tells the story of Henry VIII's favourite s...

  • D-Day Museum

    The D-Day Story tells the personal accounts of those who took part in D-Day and the Battle...

  • Southsea Castle

    Southsea Castle is a Tudor fortification built in 1544 for Henry VIII, and today it's a fr...

  • Cumberland House Natural History Museum

    Portsmouth Natural History Museum is a family-friendly favourite where you can take a walk...

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Powys

  • Royal Welsh Regiment Museum

    plus extra Summer opening from Easter until end September, Saturdays and Bank Holidays, 10...

  • The Thomas Shop

    The Thomas Shop is a small museum in Penybont, Powys, set in a former grocery and drapery...

  • The Old Bell Museum

    The Old Bell Museum is a former 16th-century inn, converted into a museum and run by volun...

  • National Cycle Museum

    The National Cycle Museum in Llandrindod Wells is an independent charitable trust telling...

  • Talgarth Mill

    Talgarth Mill is a restored 18th-century watermill in the heart of Bannau Brycheiniog Nati...

  • Radnorshire Museum

    Radnorshire Museum, on Temple Street in Llandrindod Wells, collects, preserves and interpr...

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Rutland

  • Rocks by Rail

    Rocks by Rail is a living ironstone quarry museum in Rutland, set in 19 acres of reclaimed...

  • Oundle Museum

    Oundle Museum occupies the former Courthouse in the heart of this stone-built market town,...

  • Rutland County Museum

    Museum in United Kingdom

  • Baldocks Mill

    Mill in Bourne, South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, UK

  • Melton Carnegie Museum

    Melton Carnegie Museum is housed in the town's former Carnegie Library, telling the social...

  • Grantham Museum

    Grantham Museum is located at St Peter's Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, housed in...

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Salcombe

Scarborough

Scotland

Scottish Borders

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Scottish Highlands

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Sheffield

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Shetland Islands

  • Old Haa Museum

    The Old Haa is a museum, garden and tearoom on the island of Yell in the Shetland Islands,...

  • Shetland Textile Museum

    Shetland Textile Museum is a small community museum located at the Böd of Gremista, just o...

  • Shetland Museum and Archives

    Shetland Museum and Archives sits in the heart of Lerwick, Shetland's capital, and is run...

  • Quendale Mill

    Quendale Mill is a historic water mill in the Shetland Islands. The Mill was commissioned...

  • Norse Stofa

    Norse Stofa is a partially rebuilt Norse meeting hall on the island of Papa Stour, reconst...

  • Bressay Heritage Centre

    Museum in Shetland, Scotland, UK

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Shropshire

  • Wroxeter Roman Site Museum

    Wroxeter Roman City is the site of what was once the fourth largest city in Roman Britain,...

  • Town Hall (museum)

    This small museum sits right in the centre of Clun, in the Square, making it an easy stop...

  • Tar Tunnel

    The Tar Tunnel is an abandoned tunnel located on the north bank of the River Severn in the...

  • Museum of the Gorge

    The Museum of the Gorge occupies the former Severn Warehouse, once used to send goods made...

  • Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron

    The Museum of Iron tells the story of iron and the Industrial Revolution, with the origina...

  • Land of Lost Content

    The Land of Lost Content was a museum in Craven Arms, Shropshire, that collected everyday...

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Sidmouth

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Skegness

Somerset

  • Nether Stowey Library

    The Thomas Poole Library in Nether Stowey is a welcoming, volunteer-run community library...

  • Somerset Military Museum

    The Somerset Military Museum is part of the Museum of Somerset located in the 12th century...

  • Fleet Air Arm Museum

    The Royal Navy Museum, Naval Aviation, formerly known as the Fleet Air Arm Museum of the N...

  • Museum of Somerset

    The Museum of Somerset, run by the South West Heritage Trust, holds a wide-ranging collect...

  • The Mill House

    The Mill House is a restored watermill and rural life museum in Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset...

  • The Admiral Blake Museum

    The Blake Museum is in Bridgwater, Somerset, England at what is believed to be the birthpl...

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Southport

  • British Lawnmower Museum

    The British Lawnmower Museum in Southport is a quirky, character-filled collection celebra...

  • The Atkinson

    The Atkinson is Southport's home for music, theatre, art, literature and history, set with...

  • Southport Eco Centre

    Southport Eco Centre is an education-focused venue that has spent over 20 years delivering...

  • Lytham Windmill

    Lytham Windmill is situated on Lytham Green in the coastal town of Lytham St Annes, Lancas...

Southwold

  • Sailors' Reading Room

    The Sailors' Reading Room is a museum in Southwold, East Suffolk, with a small range of me...

  • Alfred Cory Museum

    The Alfred Corry Lifeboat Museum in Southwold tells the story of the 1893 Southwold No.1 l...

  • Southwold Railway Trust

    Southwold Railway Trust tells the story of a historic 3-foot narrow gauge railway that onc...

  • Southwold Museum

    Southwold Museum is a small cottage museum in the heart of the town, run by the Southwold...

  • Halesworth Museum

    Museum in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

  • Beccles and District Museum

    Housed in the flint-fronted, Grade 1 listed 16th century Leman House in Ballygate, Beccles...

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St Andrews

  • Wardlaw Museum

    The Wardlaw Museum is associated with the University of St Andrews. The museum houses a se...

  • St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum

    The St Andrews Preservation Trust runs the St Andrews Heritage Museum and Garden at 12 Nor...

  • St Andrews Museum

    The St Andrews Museum is a museum focusing on the history of the town of St Andrews in St...

  • Signal Tower Museum

    The Signal Tower is a museum in the coastal town of Arbroath, Angus, Scotland.

  • Scottish Seabird Centre

    The Scottish Seabird Centre is a marine conservation and education charity, that is suppor...

  • Scottish Fisheries Museum

    The Scottish Fisheries Museum is a museum in Anstruther, Fife, that records the history of...

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St Austell

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St Davids

Staffordshire

  • Wolverhampton City Archives

    Wolverhampton City Archives, based in the Molineux Hotel Building, is the place to dig int...

  • Wolverhampton Art Gallery

    Wolverhampton Art Gallery is a free city-centre gallery in Wolverhampton, home to the larg...

  • The Leather Museum

    Walsall Leather Museum is located in Walsall, in the West Midlands in England, and was ope...

  • Raven Mason Collection

    University museum in the West Midlands, United Kingdom

  • RAF Museum Midlands

    The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, located at RAF Cosford in Shropshire, is a free museu...

  • The Oak House Museum

    The Oak House is a timber framed building dating from the early sixteenth century that is...

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Stirling

  • Smith Art Gallery & Museum

    The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum is a free-to-enter museum and gallery in Stirling,...

  • Lanark Museum

    The Royal Burgh of Lanark Museum is home to a collection of items illustrating the ancient...

  • National Museum of Rural Life

    The National Museum of Rural Life sits on the site of Wester Kittochside Farm, once owned...

  • Museum of Scottish Railways

    The Museum of Scottish Railways describes itself as Scotland's largest railway museum, hom...

  • Low Parks Museum

    The Low Parks Museum is located in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and traces the lo...

  • Hamilton Toy Museum

    The Hamilton Toy Museum & Collectors Shop is one of the largest privately owned toy collec...

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Stoke-on-Trent

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Stratford-upon-Avon

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Suffolk

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Surrey

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Swanage

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Swansea and Gower

  • Afan Forest Mining museum

    The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce i...

  • National Waterfront Museum

    The National Waterfront Museum sits on the Waterfront in Swansea, Wales, and tells the sto...

  • Egypt Centre

    The Egypt Centre sits within Swansea University in Sketty and holds the largest collection...

  • Dylan Thomas Centre

    The Dylan Thomas Centre is an arts centre located in the Maritime Quarter in Swansea, Wale...

  • Swansea Museum

    Swansea Museum sits on the Waterfront in Swansea and is the oldest museum in Wales, bringi...

  • Swansea Museum Collections Centre

    Swansea Museum Collections Centre is the museum's store, housed in a historically importan...

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Tenby

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Torquay

  • Torquay Museum

    Torquay Museum tells the story of 400 million years of Torbay's heritage through hands-on,...

  • Dinosaur World

    Dinosaur World is an indoor exhibition in Torquay harbour where you can walk among life-si...

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Warwickshire

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West Sussex

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Weston-super-Mare

  • Paper Making Museum

    The Paper Making Museum sits within the historic Wookey Hole Mill, once the biggest paper...

  • Lambretta Museum

    The Lambretta Scooter Museum is in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. It houses a total...

  • The Helicopter Museum

    The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England, is a museum featuring...

  • The Helicopter Museum

    The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England, is a museum featuring...

  • Sandford Station Railway Heritage Centre

    Sandford Station Railway Heritage Centre is a volunteer-run museum on the old Cheddar Vall...

  • Oakham Treasures

    Oakham Treasures is a large privately owned museum of retail and farming history in Portbu...

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Weymouth

  • Weymouth Museum

    Weymouth Museum tells the story of the town through a varied collection, from a Tudor carv...

  • The Tutankhamun Exhibition

    This exhibition in the centre of Dorchester recreates Tutankhamun's tomb and treasures, in...

  • Tudor House

    The Tudor House Museum, often simply known as Tudor House, is an early 17th-century buildi...

  • The Keep Military Museum

    The Keep Military Museum sits in Dorchester, Dorset, in a striking Victorian former barrac...

  • The Teddy Bear Museum

    The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum is a teddy bear museum in Dorchester, Dorset, south west Engl...

  • Dinosaur Museum

    The Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester is Britain's original museum devoted entirely to dinosau...

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Whitby

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Whitstable

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Wiltshire

  • Royal Wottoon Bassett Museum

    This small museum occupies Royal Wootton Bassett's historic Town Hall, a building dating f...

  • The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum

    The Rifles Berkshire and Wiltshire Museum is housed in The Wardrobe, a historic building i...

  • The Rifles Museum

    The Rifles Berkshire & Wiltshire Museum is housed within The Wardrobe, a historic 58 The C...

  • REME Museum

    The REME Museum tells the story of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, formed i...

  • Museum of Computing

    The Museum of Computing sits in the centre of Swindon at Theatre Square, and is devoted to...

  • Fox Talbot Museum

    The Fox Talbot Museum sits within Lacock Abbey's grounds and explores the history of photo...

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Windermere

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Woolacombe

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Worcestershire

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Wroxham

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York

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Yorkshire

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