List of museums in England

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• Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford
• Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden

• Cole Museum of Zoology, University of Reading
• Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley
• Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
• Museum of Reading, Reading
• Slough Museum, Slough
• Thames Valley Police Museum, Sulhamstead
• Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading
• West Berkshire Museum, Newbury

• Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
• Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum

• Amersham Museum, Amersham
• Bletchley Park Museum (Enigma machine), Bletchley
• Blue Max Museum of Film Flying, High Wycombe
• Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury
• Buckinghamshire Railway Museum, Quainton
• Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles
• Roald Dahl Museum, Aylesbury
• Walter Rothschild Museum, Tring

• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• Imperial War Museum, Duxford
• St Neots Museum, St Neots
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science

• Cheshire Military Museum, Chester
• Congleton Museum, Congleton

• National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth
• Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, Cornwall
• Penlee House, Penzance, Cornwall
• Museum of Submarine Telegraphy, Cornwall
• Tate St Ives
• King Edward Mining Museum, Camborne

• Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
• Beatrix Potter Gallery, Hawkshead
• Cars of the Stars Motor Museum, Keswick
• Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick
• Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
• Kendal Museum, Kendal
• Lakeland Motor Museum, Holker Hall, Grange-over-Sands
• Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal
• The Beacon, Whitehaven
• The Rum Story, Whitehaven
• Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
• Windermere Steamboat Museum, Windermere

• Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
• Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery
• Derby Industrial Museum
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery
• Derbyshire Mining Museum
• Erewash Museum, Ilkeston
• Eyam Museum
• Midland Railway Centre, Butterley
• National Tramway Museum
• National Trust Museum of Childhood
• Peak District Mining Museum
• Pickford's House Museum
• Working Textile Museum, Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site

• Axminster Museum, Axminster
• Brixham Heritage Museum, Brixham
• Exmouth Museum, Exmouth
• Fairlynch Museum, Budleigh Salterton
• Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth
• Plymouth Dome, Plymouth
• Royal Albert Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter
• Sidmouth Museum, Sidmouth
• Torquay Museum, Torquay
• Totnes Costume Museum, Totnes
• Totnes Museum, Totnes

• Bovington Tank Museum, Bovington
• County Museum, Dorchester
• Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester
• Dinosaurland, Lyme Regis
• Dorchester Museum, Dorchester
• Keep Military Museum, Dorchester
• Philpot Museum, Lyme Regis
• Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth
• Teddy Bear House Exhibition, Dorchester
• Tutankhamun Exhibition, Dorchester

• Beamish museum, Stanley
• Preston Hall, Stockton-on-Tees
• Shildon Locomotion Museum

• Museum of Army Transport, Beverley
• Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
• Town Docks Museum, Hull
• 'Street Life' Hull Museum of Transport, Hull
• Yorkshire Water Museum, Hull
• Bayle Gate Museum, Bridlington
• Hornsea Museum, Hornsea
• Spurn Lightship, Hull
• Harbour Museum and Aquarium, Bridlington
• Wilberforce House, Hull
• Old Grammar School, Hull
• Withernsea Lighthouse Trust, Withernsea

• Battle Museum
• Bexhill Museum
• Bexhill Museum of costume & social history
• Brighton fishing Museum
• Ditchling Museum
• Eastbourne Heritage Centre
• Fishermen's Museum, Hastings
• Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
• "How We Lived Then", Eastbourne
• Mechanical Memories Amusement Museum, Brighton
• Newhaven Local and Maritime Museum
• The Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne
• The Regency Town House
• Rye Art Gallery
• Rye Castle Museum
• Seaford Museum of Local History
• Stanmer Rural Museum
• Sussex Farm Museum and Nature trails, Heathfield
• Towner Art Gallery and Local Museum, Eastbourne
• Winchelsea Museum
• Yesterday's World

• Barleylands Farm Museum
• Braintree District Museum
• Brightlingsea Museum
• Burnham-on-Crouch Museum
• Chelmsford Museum
• Coggeshall Museum & Heritage Centre
• East Anglia Railway Museum
• Epping Forest District Museum
• Essex Police Museum
• Essex Regiment Museum
• Feering and Kelvedon Local History Museum
• Finchingfield Heritage Centre
• Fry Art Gallery
• Great Bardfield Cottage Museum
• Halstead and District Local History Society
• Maldon and District Agricultural and Domestic Museum
• Mangapps Railway Museum
• Manningtree Museum
• Mersea Museum
• Museum of Power
• Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge
• Saffron Walden Museum
• Southend Central Museum
• The Harwich Society
• The Museum of Harlow
• Thurrock Museum
• Walton Maritime Museum
• Witham Heritage Centre

• Corinium Museum, Cirencester
• National Waterways Museum

This is a partial list. See also: List of London museums.

• British Museum
• Cabinet War Rooms
• Courtauld Gallery
• Cutty Sark
• Design Museum
• Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Greenwich Hospital
• Handel House Museum
• Hampton Court
• HMS Belfast
• Imperial War Museum -- see also Manchester
• London's Transport Museum
• Museum in Docklands
• Museum of Childhood
• Museum of London
• National Army Museum
• National Gallery
• National Maritime Museum
• National Portrait Gallery
• Natural History Museum
• Royal Academy of Arts
• Royal Air Force Museum
• Science Museum
• Sir John Soane's Museum
• Tate Britain
• Tate Modern
• Tower Bridge
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Wallace Collection

• Bury Art Gallery and Museum
• Lancashire Fusiliers Museum

• Chetham's School of Music
• Cornerhouse
• Fletcher Moss Art Gallery
• Gallery of Costume
• Greater Manchester Police Museum
• Heaton Hall
• Manchester Art Gallery
• Manchester Jewish Museum
• Manchester Museum
• Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
• The Pankhurst Centre, a memorial to the suffragette movement
• People's History Museum - at the Pumphouse
• Urbis - Museum of Urban Life
• Whitworth Art Gallery
• Wythenshawe Hall

• Imperial War Museum North
• The Lowry
• Ordsall Hall
• Salford Museum and Art Gallery

• Museum of the Manchester Regiment, Portland Basin Museum

• Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot
• The Bear Museum
• Curtis Museum
• D-Day museum
• Fort Nelson, Portsmouth
• [Jane Austen Museum]
• Milestones Museum
• Museum of Army Flying
• National Motor Museum
• Royal Green Jackets Museum
• Southsea Museum
• The Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
• Allen Gallery and Museum, Alton

• Butcher's Row Museum, Ledbury
• Churchill House Museum. Hereford
• Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Hereford
• Kington Museum, Kington
• Leominster Folk Museum, Leominster
• Violette Szabo GC Museum, Wormelow
• Waterworks Museum, Hereford
• Weobley Museum, Weobley

• [Classical Guitar Museum]
• De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, also known as Mosquito Aircraft Museum
• [St Albans Museum], St Albans
• Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring
• [Verulamium Museum], St Albans
• [Watford Museum], Watford

• Carisbrooke Castle Museum, Newport
• Classic Boat Museum, Newport
• Cowes Maritime Museum, Cowes
• Dimbola Lodge Museum, Freshwater Bay
• Museum of Island History, Newport
• Osbourne House, East Cowes
• Ventnor Heritage Museum, Ventnor

• Agricultural Museum, Brook
• Ashford Museum
• Belmont House
• Buffs Regimental Museum
• Charles Dickens Centre, Rochester
• Chartwell
• Chatham Historic Dockyard
• Colonel Stephens Railway Museum
• Court Hall Museum
• Crabble Corn Mill
• Cranbrook Museum
• Dartford Borough Museum
• Deal Maritime & Local History Museum
• Dog Collar Museum, Leeds Castle
• Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum
• Dover Castle
• Dover Museum
• Dover Transport Museum
• Down House
• East Kent Maritime Museum
• Eden Valley Line Trust
• Elham Valley Line Trust
• Fleur de Lis Heritage Centre
• Folkestone Museum
• Grand Shaft Staircase
• Gravesham Museum
• Guildhall Museum, Rochester
• Herne Bay Museum
• Hythe Local History Room
• Ightham Mote
• Kent & Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum
• Kent Battle of Britain Museum
• Kent County Constabulary Museum
• Kent Fire Brigade Museum
• Kent Masonic Library & Museum
• Knole
• Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery
• Margate Old Town Hall Local History Museum
• Museum of Canterbury
• Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree
• Old Town Goal
• Owletts
• Powell-Cotton Museum
• PWRR & Queens Regimental Museum
• Quebec House
• Ramsgate Museum
• Roman Museum
• Royal Engineers Museum
• Royal Museum & Art Gallery
• Sandwich Guildhall Museum
• Sevenoaks Museum
• Shoreham Aircraft Museum
• Sissinghurst Castle Garden
• Sittingbourne Heritage Museum
• Smallhythe Place
• Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Building
• St Margaret's Museum
• Tenterden & District Museum
• Timeball Tower
• Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery
• Tyrwhitt-Drake Museum of Carriages
• Walmer Castle
• West Gate Museum
• White Mill Folk Museum
• Whitstable Museum & Gallery
• Woodchurch Village Life Museum

• Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley
• British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland
• Harris Museum, Preston
• Lancashire Queens Regiment Museum, Preston
• Museum of Lancashire, Preston
• The National Football Museum, Preston

• Bosworth Battlefield
• National Space Centre
• New Walk Museum
• John Taylor Bellfounders

• Alford Manor House & Museum
• Anderby Drainage Museum
• Baysgarth House Museum, Barton upon Humber
• Boston Guildhall Museum
• Bourne Heritage Centre
• Burgh le Marsh Museum
• Cranwell Aviation Heritage Centre
• Cranwell Bubble Car Museum
• Dorrington North Ings Farm Museum
• East Kirkby Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
• Epworth The Haywain Farm Museum
• Epworth The Old Rectory
• Fort Paull Visitors Centre Museum & Armouries
• Grantham Museum
• Grimsby Time Trap Museum
• Grimsby Town Hall/Gaol/Archives
• Heckington Village Trust Railway Museum
• Hemswell Cliff Bomber County Aviation Museum
• Immingham Museum
• Lincoln Museum of Lincolnshire Life
• The Collection (Lincolnshire) (formerly, the Usher Gallery and the City and County Museum)
• Lincoln The Lawn in Lincoln
• Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum
• Litcham Village Museum
• Louth Architectural Heritage Foundation
• Louth Museum
• Mablethorpe Ye Olde Curiosity Museum
• Mawthorpe Museum
• Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre
• Navenby Mrs Smiths Cottage
• Normanby Hall Country Park & Farming Museum
• Oakham Castle
• Owston Ferry The Old Smithy and Heritage Centre
• Pinchbeck Engine
• Pinchbeck Land Drainage Museum
• Pinchbeck The Burtey Fen Collection
• RAF Digby Ops Museum
• Ravenshead Longdale Craft Centre, Museum and Restaurant
• Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire Museum
• Skegness Church Farm Museum
• Sleaford Virtual Museum
• Spalding Bulb Museum & Birchgrove Garden Centre
• Spalding Gordon Boswell Romany Museum
• Stamford Brownes Hospital
• Stamford Melbourn Bros. All Saints Brewery & Restaurant
• Stamford Museum
• Stickford Allied Forces Military Museum
• The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft
• Tumby Moorside High House Museum
• Wainfleet Magdalen Museum
• Wollaton Hall Natural History Museum
• Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum

• The Beatles Story
• Historic Warships, Birkenhead
• HM Customs & Excise National Museum
• Lady Lever Art Gallery
• Liverpool Museum
• Merseyside Maritime Museum
• Museum of Liverpool Life
• Tate Liverpool
• Walker Art Gallery

• Bressingham Steam Museum
• City of Norwich Aviation Museum
• Muckleburgh Collection
• Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum
• Toad Hole Museum, How Hill

• Earls Barton Museum of Village Life
• Northampton Central Museum & Art Gallery
• Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

• Baliffgate Museum, Alnwick
• Grace Darling Museum, Bamburgh
• House of Hardy Museum - fishing tackle - Alnwick
• Northumberland Fusiliers Museum in Alnwick Castle

• Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life, Pickering
• Bronte Museum, Haworth
• Castle Museum, York
• Jórvík, York
• National Railway Museum, York
• Richard III Museum, York
• Yorkshire Museum of Farming, York
• Yorkshire Museum & Gardens, York

• The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham
• Green’s Mill & Science Museum, Sneinton
• Industrial Museum, Nottingham
• Millgate Museum of Folk Life, Newark-on-Trent
• Newark Museum
• Newark Air Museum, Newark-on-Trent
• Nottingham Castle Museum
• Ruddington Frame Work Knitter's Museum
• Ruddington Village Museum
• Wollaton Hall Natural History Museum, Nottingham

• Abingdon Museum, Abingdon
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Banbury Museum, Banbury
• Charlbury Museum, Charlbury
• Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney
• Didcot Railway Centre, Didcot
• Dorchester Abbey Museum, Dorchester
• Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
• Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
• Museum of Oxford, Oxford
• Oxfordshire County Musuem, Woodstock
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford
• Pendon Museum, Long Wittenham
• Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
• River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
• Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage
• Wallingford Museum, Wallingford
• Witney and District Museum, Witney

• Normanton Church Museum
• Rutland County Museum
• Rutland Railway Museum

• RAF Museum Cosford, also known as The Aerospace Museum, Cosford
• Coleham Pumping Station, Shrewsbury
• Ironbridge - This area has many museums relating to the Industrial revolution and Industrial archaeology.

• Admiral Blake Museum, Bridgwater
• American Museum in Britain, Bath
• Building of Bath Museum, Bath
• Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton
• Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford
• King John's Hunting Lodge, Axbridge
• Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, Bridgwater
• Somerset County Museum, Taunton
• Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury
• Wellington Museum, Wellington

• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
• Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley
• Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum, Cawthorne, Barnsley
• Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham
• Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
• Doncaster Museum, Doncaster
• Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
• Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
• Magna Centre, Templeborough, Rotherham
• Maurice Dobson Museum and Heritage Centre, Darfield, Barnsley
• Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
• Museum of South Yorkshire Life, Cusworth Hall, Doncaster
• Sheffield Bus Museum, Sheffield
• Sheffield Fire and Police Museum, Sheffield
• Shepherd Wheel, Sheffield
• Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
• Worsborough Mill Museum, Barnsley

• Brindley Water Museum, Leek, Staffordshire
• Izaak Walton Cottage Museum
• Newcastle-Under-Lyme Museum
• Apedale Heritage Musuem

• Amber Museum, Southwold
• Ancient House Museum, Clare
• Beccles Museum
• East Anglia Transport Museum Lowestoft
• Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
• Ipswich Museum
• Ipswich Transport Museum
• Lavenham Guildhall Museum, Lavenham
• Little Hall, Lavenham
• Long Shop Steam Museum, Leiston
• Mechanical Music Museum & Bygones, Cotton
• Moot Hall Museum, Aldeburgh
• Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket
• National Horseracing Museum, Newmarket
• Parham Airfield Museu, Parham
• Rougham Control Tower Museum, Bury St Edmunds
• Sue Ryder Foundation Museum, Cavendish
• Suffolk Punch Heavy Horse Museum, Woodbridge
• William Clowes Printing Museum, Beccles

• Army Medical Services Museum
• Guildford Museum
• Royal Logistic Corps Museum

• Sunderland Museum and winter gardens
• Monkwearmouth Railway Museum
• The Discovery Museum
• The Hancock Museum
• Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum
• Segedunum Roman Fort and Baths Museum
• South Shields Museum and Art Gallery

• Warrington Museum

• Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon

• Aston Hall (Birmingham)
• Aston Manor Transport Museum (Birmingham)
• Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Trust (Birmingham)
• Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
• Birmingham Railway Museum
• Bishop Asbury Cottage (Sandwell)
• Black Country Living Museum
• Blakesley Hall (Birmingham)
• Thinktank at Millennium Point (Birmingham)
• Kenilworth Geology Museum (Birmingham)
• Museum of the Jewellery Quarter (Birmingham)
• a planned Natural History Museum (Birmingham)
• Pen Room (Birmingham)
• Sarehole Mill (Birmingham)
• Soho House (Birmingham)
• Walsall Leather Museum
• Weoley Castle (Birmingham)
• Willenhall Lock Musuem

• Amberley Working Museum, Arundel
• Arundel Museum
• Bognor Regis Local History Society Museum
• Bognor Regis Wireless Museum
• Chichester District Museum
• Cuckfield Museum, Cuckfield
• East Grinstead Town Museum
• Fishbourne Roman Palace
• Henfield Museum
• Marlipins Museum Shoreham
• Mechanical Music and Dolls House Museum, Chichester
• Steyning Museum
• Storrington and District Museum
• Worthing Museum and Art Gallery

• Heptonstall Museum, Heptonstall
• Museum of Rail Travel, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford
• Royal Armouries, Leeds
• Thackray Museum, Leeds
• West Yorkshire Folk Museum
• Eureka!, the museum for children, Halifax.

• Bradford on Avon Museum, Bradford on Avon
• Dewey Museum, Warminster
• Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock
• Kennet & Avon Canal Museum, Devizes
• The Medieval Hall, Salisbury
• Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury
• Trowbridge Museum, Trowbridge
• The Redcoats in the Wardrobe Military Museum, Salisbury
• Wilton Carpet Factory, Wilton

• Avoncroft Museum, Droitwich Spa

See also

• List of museums
• Museums in Scotland
• Museums in Wales
• Museums in Northern Ireland
• Museums in the Republic of Ireland
• List of British railway museums

External links

• [A guide to British museums]
• [Visitor figures for Department of Culture, Media and Sport sponsored museums in England]