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1853 Gallery,
Salts Mill, Saltaire,
Shipley, West Yorkshire. Houses
pictures by David
Hockney. |
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24 Hour Museum. A gateway
to information about UK
museums. Includes an advanced
museum locator, up-to-date
museum and gallery news, links
to educational resources and a
variety of other features. The
world's first ever
Government-recognised national
museum which only exists in
cyberspace. |
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| Abbot
Hall Art Gallery,
Kendal, Cumbria. Based in
a Georgian villa, with
important collections
18th, 19th and 20th
century art. The gallery
also has an innovative
programme of educational
activities, lectures and
events. |
Aberdeen
Art Gallery and
Museums, Scotland.
Collections of fine art,
applied art, archaeology,
maritime, numismatics,
science, industry and
technology.
[Responsible for: Aberdeen Art
Gallery; Aberdeen Maritime
Museum; Provost Skene's House;
The Tolbooth ]
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Allhallows Museum, Honiton,
Devon. Local museum including
lace and pottery industry
displays housed in the town's
oldest building. |
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Althorp House,
Northamptonshire. Ancestral
home of the Spencer family,
resting place of Princess
Diana. |
| American
Museum in Britain, Bath,
Somerset. Only museum in
Europe devoted to American
furniture, decorative arts
and
quilts. |
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Apsley House, The Wellington
Museum, London. 'Number
One, London', 19th century home
of the 1st Duke of Wellington.
[Part of Victoria
and Albert Museum
(V&A)]
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Armagh Planetarium,
Northern
Ireland. |
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Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
Contemporary
arts. |
| Ashmolean
Museum of Art &
Archaeology,
University of Oxford. See
the Cast
Gallery and the
Griffith Institute for
Egyptology and Ancient Near
Eastern
studies. |
| Astley
Hall Museum and Art
Gallery, Chorley,
Lancashire. Local history
museum, housed in a
Tudor/Stuart house, with
collections of fine art,
ceramics and social
history. Also news of the
Education
Service. |
| Avoncroft
Museum of Historic
Buildings,
Bromsgrove,
Worcestershire. Historic
buildings covering seven
centuries, rescued and
rebuilt on an open-air
site |
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| Bass
Museum,
Burton-on-Trent,
Staffordshire. History of
the beer brewing industry
- shire horses, web cams,
and Shockwave
interactive. |
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Bate Collection of Musical
Instruments, University of
Oxford. |
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| Bede's
World, Jarrow, Tyne
& Wear. Anglo-Saxon
and medieval collections
from the excavations of
St Paul's
Monastery. |
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Bedford Museum. Local
archaeology, social history,
biology and
geology. |
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Bethnal Green Museum of
Childhood, London. [Part
of Victoria
and Albert Museum
(V&A)]
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Biggar Museum Trust, Moat
Park, Biggar, Lanarkshire,
Scotland. See list of
museums.
[Includes: Greenholl
Covenanters' House, Moat Park
Heritage Centre, Gladstone
Court Museum, The Albion
Archive, Biggar Gasworks, and
Brownsbank Cottage (home of
Hugh MacDiarmid)]
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The Bill Douglas Centre for the
History of Cinema and Popular
Culture , University of
Exeter, Devon. Displays on the
history of cinema and its
percursors - zoetropes, magic
lanterns, panoramas and shadow
puppets. |
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Birmingham Schools Liaison
Department, West Midlands.
A group of teachers who work
within museums, teaching
schoolchildren during planned
visits |
| Black
Country Living
Museum, Dudley, West
Midlands. |
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Bletchley Park Trust, near
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
"Britain's Best Kept Secret"
where codes were broken during
World War II. See also the
Academic Bletchley Park
site
what you can see and do
including the German Enigma
Cipher machine, the Lorenz
Cipher machine and the rebuild
of Colossus (with
photographs). |
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Boat Museum, Ellesmere
Port, Cheshire. One of the
world's largest floating
collection of traditional canal
craft. |
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Böd of Gremista Museum,
Lerwick, Shetland. [Part of
Shetland Museum
Service] Bodleian
Library, University of
Oxford. See
image catalogue of
manuscripts, including a
Java version with scrolling
images, the
shopping arcade and the
Map Case of on-line
historic maps in the
Map Room. |
Bolton Museum, Art Gallery and
Aquarium, Lancashire.
Houses collections which cover
Egyptian Antiquities, British
Art from 18th - 20th Century,
zoology, botany, geology
collections and an activity
centre for school parties and
children, as well as an
aquarium.
[Responsible for: Smithills
Hall, and Hall i'th'Wood]
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Bradford Art Galleries and
Museums, West
Yorkshire.
[Responsible for: Bolling Hall;
Bracken Hall Countryside
Centre; Bradford Heritage
Recording Unit; Bradford
Industrial Museum and Horse at
Work; Cartwright Hall Art
Gallery; Cliffe Castle,
Keighley; The Manor House
Museum and Art Gallery, Ilkley]
Brantwood,
Coniston, Cumbria. The home of
the, 19th century, poet, artist
and critic - John
Ruskin. |
| Bressingham
Steam Museum, Diss,
Norfolk. Military museum.
Preserved narrow-guage
railway, with traction
engines, and a Victorian
steam
roundabout. |
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Bridewell Museum, Norwich.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums
Service]
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Bristol Museums
Service. |
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British Golf Museum, St
Andrews, Scotland. Tells the
story of British golf
chronologically, exploring the
events, personalities and
equipment used throughout the
ages. |
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British Museum,
London. |
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Brixham Heritage Museum,
Devon. Local history museum,
with on-line photographs, and
information about maritime
history and
archaeology. |
| Brooklands
Museum, Weybridge,
Surrey. Transport museum.
"The Birthplace of British
Motorsport & Aviation" -
the first purpose built
motor racing circuit in the
world. |
| Brontë
Parsonage Museum,
Haworth, West Yorkshire.
The home of the early
19th century women
novelists |
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Brunel Engine House,
London. Built between 1825 and
1843 by Sir Marc Isambard
Brunel as part of the
pioneering Thames Tunnel - the
first underwater thoroughfare
in the World. |
Building of Bath Museum,
Somerset. Housed in the, 18th
century, Countess of
Huntingdon's Chapel. Tells the
story of the creation of
Georgian Bath.
[Part of:
Bath Preservation
Trust]
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| Bushey Museum
and Art Gallery,
Hertfordshire. Local history
through collections of
artefacts, documents, maps
and works of art. Has a
large collection (considered
to be of national
significance) of works,
artefacts and ephemera
relating to Sir Hubert von
Herkomer RA and his famous
School of
Art. |
| Butser Ancient
Farm, near Petersfield,
Hampshire. A replica of the
sort of farm which would
have existed in the British
Iron Age circa 300 BC. Also
a large open air laboratory
where research into the Iron
Age and Roman periods goes
on using the methods and
materials which were
available at that
time. |
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Gallery oil painting
and
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Mechanical Theatre,
Covent Garden, London. A
museum of automata
(mechanical
sculpture). |
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Cadbury World, Bournville,
Birmingham, West Midlands.
Includes the Cadbury
Collection, an exhibition on
the history of Cadbury's
chocolate and the village of
Bournville. |
| Camborne
School of Mines Museum
& Art Gallery,
Redruth,
Cornwall. |
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Cambridge Museum of
Technology. Preserved
Victorian pumping station and
working museum on the River
Cam. |
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Carpetbagger Aviation
Museum, Harrington,
Northamptonshire |
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Castle Museum, Norwich.
Collections of archaeology,
natural history, art and social
history[Part of:
Norfolk Museums
Service] Catalyst,
Widnes, Cheshire. The only
museum in Europe solely devoted
to the chemical
industry. |
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Centre for the Study of
Cartoons and Caricature,
University of Canterbury, Kent.
A research centre and picture
library, based upon a unique
archive of over 85,000 pieces
of original cartoon artwork
supported by a reference
library of newspaper cuttings,
books, catalogues, and AV
materials. Includes a
searchable database and an Andy
Capp
Exhibition. |
| Centre
for Visual Arts,
Cardiff. The largest
gallery in Wales showing
the very best of new and
historical art from Wales
and around the world.
Also the home of
Fantasmic, one of
the UK's only hands-on
interactive galleries
exploring the fun and
fascinating world of art
and
seeing. |
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Chertsey Museum, Surrey.
Local history and costume from
the Runnymede
area. |
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Chiltern Open Air Museum,
Chalfont St Giles,
Buckinghamshire. Re-erected
agricultural and other
buildings. |
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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. |
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City of Norwich Aviation
Museum, Norfolk. Military
aircraft
collection. |
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Claymills Pumping Engines,
Stretton, Burton on Trent,
Staffordshire. A preserved
Victorian pumping
station. |
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Cole Museum of Zoology,
University of Reading,
Berkshire. |
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Colour Museum, Bradford,
West Yorkshire. Explores the
concept of colour, how it is
perceived and how it is used.
Also looks at the story of
dyeing and textile printing
from ancient Egypt to the
present day. |
Connections Discovery
Centre, Exeter, Devon.
Educational resource centre for
schools and groups. Hands-on
fun, real objects can be touch
and try on, special displays
and interpretive guides.
[Part of:
Exeter City Museums]
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Cotswolds Motor Museum,
Bourton-on-the-Water,
Gloucestershire. |
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Cotswold Woollen Weavers,
Filkins, near Lechlade,
Gloucestershire. Historic
working weaving mill,
museum/gallery and
shop. |
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Courtauld Institute of Art,
Courtauld Gallery,
London. |
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The Cowper and Newton
Museum, Olney,
Buckinghamshire. Presents
Olney's
heritage. |
| Museums
and Galleries Commision
(MGC), providing
information on the 50
museums in England with
Designated collections.
Designation celebrates
pre-eminent museum
collections outside the
National
museums. |
| Corporation
of London Library and
Art Gallery Electronic
(COLLAGE). A computerised
information system
providing access to some
20,000 images from the
combined collections of
the Guildhall Library
Print Room and the
Guildhall Art Gallery.
Reproductions can be
purchased
on-line. |
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Crabble Corn Mill, Dover,
Kent. A working water mill,
cafe and
gallery. |
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Cricklade Museum,
Wiltshire. Local history
museum. |
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Cromer Museum. Collections
on local history and landscape.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums
Service]
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Croft House Museum,
Dunrossness, Shetland. [Part
of
Shetland Museum
Service]
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| Cumberland
Pencil Museum,
Keswick, Cumbria. A
company museum featuring
the history of pencil
making |
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Dickens House Museum,
London. Includes a
virtual
tour. |
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Dover Museum, Kent. Local
history
museum. |
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Dulwich Picture Gallery,
London. |
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Dunaskin Open Air Museum,
Ayrshire, Scotland. Large
collection of industrial
machinery, historic buildings,
an ironworker's cottage, and a
simulated coal
mine |
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Durham University Oriental
Museum, Durham. Only museum
in UK devoted to the art and
archaeology of the 'Orient' -
the civilisations of Asia, the
Near East, and the Islamic
cultures of North
Africa. |
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The Earth Centre,
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. A
Millenium Project provide
people with the opportunity to
understand, explore, identify
with and act on the idea of
Sustainable
Development. |
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Easdale Island Folk Museum,
Scotland. Local history,
especially the slate quarring
industry. |
East Lothian Council
Museums, Scotland.
[Responsible for: North Berwick
Museum, Dunbar Town House
Museum, Prestongrange
Museum] |
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Edinburgh University Collection
of Historic Musical
Instruments, Faculty of
Music. |
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Egypt
Centre (formerly the
Wellcome Museum of
Antiquities),
University of Wales,
Swansea. Includes
antiquities owned by Sir
Henry
Wellcome. |
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Elmbridge Museum,
Weybridge, Surrey. Local
history
museum. |
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Elgar Birthplace, Lower
Broadheath, Worcestershire.
Collections relate to the life
and work of the composer Sir
Edward Elgar |
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Elgin Museum, Moray.
Pictish stones, local fossils,
archaeology, geology, natural
history, social history and
ethnography. |
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Elizabethan House Museum,
Great Yarmouth. Late 16th
century merchants's house, with
period furnishings. [Part
of:
Norfolk Museums
Service] |
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Eturia Industrial Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
[Part of:
Museums of the
Potteries]. |
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Eureka!,
Halifax, West Yorkshire.
The Museum for
Children. |
Exeter City Museums,
Devon.
[Responsible for:
Royal Albert Memorial
Museum, St Nicholas Priory,
Underground Passages,
Connections Discovery
Centre] |
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Exploratory Science Centre,
Bristol. |
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Fan
Museum, Greenwich,
London. The only museum
in the world devoted
entirely to every aspect
of fans and fan
making. |
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Faringdon and District
Museum,
Oxfordshire. |
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The
Fighter Collection,
Duxford, Cambridgeshire.
Military aircraft
collection. |
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Fire and Police Museum
(Sheffield), South
Yorkshire. History of a local
fire and police
service. |
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Fitzwilliam Museum,
University of Cambridge.
Permanent collections include
antiquities, applied arts,
coins and paintings. See
on-line
shop. |
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Fleet Air Arm
Museum, Yeovilton,
Somerset. Military museum.
One of the world's largest
aviation collections with
over 40 historic aircraft on
display including Concorde
002 (the British
prototype). |
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Florence Nightingale Museum
, London. Collections relating
to the life and work of this
19th century pioneer of nursing
and
healthcare. |
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Ford Green Hall,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
17th to 18th centuries
farmhouse. [Part of:
Museums of the
Potteries]. |
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Fox Talbot Museum,
Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Commemorates the life and work
of William Henry Fox Talbot -
known as The Father of Modern
Photography. |
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Freud
Museum, London. The
home of the founder of
psychoanalysis |
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Galleries of Justice,
Nottingham. Set in Victorian
courthouse, with attached gaol
(featuring real warders!), and
hands-on
exhibitions. |
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Gallery of Modern Art,
Glasgow. |
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Geffrye Museum, London.
English furniture and
decorative arts in a
chronological series of period
rooms. |
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Gladstone Pottery Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Working pottery. [Part of:
Museums of the
Potteries]. |
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Glastonbury Abbey,
Somerset. Traditionally the
oldest above-ground Christian
church in the world, with
connections to King Arthur and
the Holy
Grail. |
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Godalming Museum, Surrey.
Local history, industry,
geology,
archeology. |
Gosport Museum,
Hampshire.
[Part of:
Hampshire County Council
Museums
Service] |
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Green's Mill, Nottingham.
19th century tower windmill in
Sneinton, once owned and
operated by George Green
(1793-1841), a mathematical
physicist and
scientist. |
Guernsey Museums and
Galleries.
[Responsible for: St Peter Port
- Guernsey Museum and Art
Gallery, Castle Cornet; St
Peter's - Fort
Grey] |
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Hackney Museum, London.
Local history museum, with news
of its education service,
exhibitions, and behind the
scenes. (house in temporary
premises, with be moving in
September
2000). |
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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 with
searching and
browsing facilities, as
well as a
museums directory.
[Responsible for: Aldershot
Military Museum; Allen Gallery,
Alton; Andover Museum;
Bursledon Windmill; Curtis
Museum, Alton; Eastleigh
Museum; Flora Twort Gallery,
Petersfield;
Gosport Museum; Hampshire
Farm Museum; Havant Museum;
Museum of the Iron Age; Red
House Museum, Christchurch;
Rockbourne Roman Villa,
Fordingbridge, St Agatha's
Church; St Barbe Museum,
Lymington; Treadgolds of
Portsea; Westbury Manor Museum,
Fareham; Willis Museum,
Basingstoke; Whitchurch Silk
Mill] |
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Hancock Museum, Newcastle
upon Tyne. Natural history
museum. |
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Hatton
Gallery, University
of Newcastle. A varied
programme of contemporary
and historical art
exhibitions, and
permanent displays of
African
sculpture |
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Hayward Gallery, South
Bank, London. Modern art,
special
exhibitions. |
Henry Moore Foundation,
Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
Aimed at advancing "the
education of the public by the
promotion of their appreciation
of the fine arts and in
particular the works of Henry
Moore". Includes exhibitions,
research facilities and guided
tours.
[Responsible for:
Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds, West
Yorkshire] |
Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds, West Yorkshire. Devoted
exclusively to sculpture in
general, with a programme
comprising Exhibitions,
Collections and Research.
[Part of:
Henry Moore Foundation,
Perry Green,
Hertfordshire] |
Herschel Museum, Bath,
Somerset. The home the 18th
century astronomer William
Herschell and his sister
Caroline. The planet Uranus was
discovered here in 1781.
[Part of:
Bath Preservation
Trust] |
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Hill Toy Museum, Stansted,
Essex. The largest privately
owned toy museum in Europe,
with over 30,000 individual
items. |
Historic Royal
Palaces.
[Information on: The Tower of
London; Hampton Court Palace;
The Banqueting House; Kew
Palace; Kensington
Palace] |
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Hitchin Museum,
Hertfordshire. Local
industries, domestic life, and
historical
costume. |
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Holbourne Museum and 20th
Century Crafts Study Centre,
Bath, Somerset. Fine art and
decorative art
collection. |
|
The Horniman Museum and
Gardens, Forest Hill,
London. |
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Hunterian
Museum and Art
Gallery, University
of Glasgow. Anatomical
and pathological
specimens. Art, coins,
books, manuscripts and
ethnography. See
virtual and guided
tours. |
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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.
[Responsible for: The Jersey
Museum, Hamptonne Country Life
Museum, La Houge Bie, Mont
Orgueil Castle, Elizabeth
Castle, The Occupation Tapestry
Gallery, The Maritime Museum,
and the Jersey
Archive] |
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John Paul Jones Cottage
Museum, Kirkbean, Dumfries
and
Galloway. |
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Jodrell Bank Science
Centre, Macclesfield,
Cheshire. Based at the Lovell
Radio Telescope and the
Jodrell Bank Observatory,
the astronomy research centre
of the University of
Manchester. Has exhibition
galleries, a 150-seater
Planetarium and the extensive
grounds and collections of the
Arboretum. |
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Jorvik Viking Centre, York.
See also the
World of the
Vikings. |
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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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Lapworth
Museum,
University
of
Birmingham,
West
Midlands.
Geology and
fossils. |
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Leeds
University
Gallery,
University
Library,
Leeds, West
Yorkshire. |
Leicester
City
Museums,
Leicestershire.
Museums
with
collections
of
Egyptology;
natural
history
(including
dinosaurs);
fine art;
paintings;
sculpture;
pre-historic,
Roman and
medieval
artefacts
and
costume
[Responsible
for: New
Walk
Museum;
Jewry Wall
Museum;
Newarke
Houses
Museum; The
Guildhall;
Abbey
Pumping
Station;
Belgrave
Hall and
Gardens;
Wygston's
House; The
Great Hall
of Leiceter
Castle; The
Magazine] |
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Letchworth
Museum,
Herfordshire.
Natural
history,
art,
archaeology. |
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The Lion
Salt
Works,
Marston,
Northwich,
Cheshire. |
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Liverpool
Scottish
Museum
Trust,
Merseyside.
Military
Museum (no
premises at
moment) |
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London
Canal
Museum,
King's
Cross.
Transport
Museum |
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London
Transport
Museum,
Covent
Garden. |
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London's
Cockney
Museum.
The
history
of
London's
Cockneys,
Pearly
Kings
and
Queens,
and Eels
Pie and
Mash.
(In
process
of being
set
up) |
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Lothbury
Gallery,
London.
Part of the
NatWest
Group art
collection. |
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Lowewood
Museum,
Hoddesdon,
Hertfordshire.
Local
history
museum. |
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Lyme Regis
Philpot
Museum,
Dorset.
Local
history
museum,
housed in
building on
the site
where Mary
Anning, the
early 19th
century
fossil
collector
was
born. |
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Lynn
Museum,
King's
Lynn.
Collections
on local
history,
natural
science,
art and
industry.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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Macclesfield
Museums and
Heritage
Centre,
Cheshire.
Local
history,
and
especially
the silk
industry.
Other
collections
include the
work of
well-known
bird artist
Charles
Tunnicliffe,
Egyptian
antiquities,
costumes,
textiles
and a
photographic
archive.
[Responsible
for: Silk
Museum,
Paradise
Mill, West
Park
Museum, The
Heritage
Centre
] |
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Madame
Tussauds,
London.
Waxworks. |
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Manchester
City Art
Galleries.
Paintings,
sculpture,
ceramics,
silver,
glass and
furniture,
especially
by 19th and
20th
century
artists,
including
the
Pre-Raphaelites. |
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The
Manchester
Museum.
Botany,
Mediterranean,
ethnology,
mammal and
Egyptology
galleries. |
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Manchester
United
Museum and
Tour
Centre,
Greater
Manchester.
Outlines
the history
of the
football
club from
1878 to the
present
day |
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Manor House
Museum,
Bury St
Edmunds,
Suffolk.
Horology
and art
collections. |
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Marischal
Museum,
University
of
Aberdeen |
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Maritime
Museum for
East
Anglia,
Great
Yarmouth.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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Mary Rose
Maritime
Museum,
Portsmouth,
Hampshire.
Only 16th
century
warship on
display in
the world,
from the
time of
King Henry
VIII.
Includes a
museum
tour. |
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Midland Air
Museum,
Coventry
Airport,
Warwickshire. |
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Montfitchet
Castle,
Stansted,
Essex.
Recreation
of a Norman
castle on
the
original
site. |
Moray
Council
Museums
Service,
Scotland.
[Responsible
for: The
Anson
Gallery,
Buckie;
Burghead
Museum; In
Forres -
The
Falconer
Museum, and
Nelson
Tower;
Tomintoul
Museum;
Tugnet Ice
House, Spey
Bay |
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Moyse's
Hall
Museum,
Bury St
Edmunds,
Suffolk.
Archaeology
and local
history. |
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Museum nan
Eilean,
Western
Isles,
Scotland.
Local
history
museums in
Stornoway,
Isle of
Lewis, and
Sgoil
Lionacleit,
Isle of
Benbecula. |
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Museum of
Antiquities,
Newcastle
upon Tyne.
Archaeology
in north
east
England.
Includes a
Flints and
Stones
exhibition,
with an
interactive
hunter
gatherer
food
quiz
and
national
curriculum
information
for
teachers. |
|
Museum of
Archaeology
and
Anthropology,
University
of
Cambridge. |
|
Museum of
Costume
and
Assembly
Rooms,
Bath,
Somerset |
|
Museum of
East
Anglian
Life,
Stowmarket,
Suffolk. |
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Museum of
East Asian
Art,
Bath,
Somerset. |
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Museum of
English
Rural
Life ,
Reading,
Berkshire.
Part of the
Rural
History
Centre
- "A
national
centre in
England for
the study
of the
history of
farming,
food and
the
countryside".
On-line
catalogue,
photograph
collection
and
archive. |
|
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
organization
dedicated
to the
research,
production
and
dissemination
of
installation
art. |
|
Museum of
Modern Art
Oxford.
Has
established
an
international
reputation
for the
high
quality of
its
pioneering
exhibition
programme,
which
covers
twentieth
century
painting,
sculpture,
photography,
film,
video,
architecture,
design and
performance
from all
over the
world. |
|
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. |
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The Museum
of
Submarine
Telegraphy,
Porthcurno,
Cornwall. |
Museums of
the
Potteries,
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire.
[Responsible
for:
The
Potteries
Museum and
Art
Gallery;
The
Gladstone
Pottery
Museum;
Etruria
Industrial
Museum
and
Ford Green
Hall]. |
Museums of
The Royal
College of
Surgeons,
London.
[Responsible
for :
Hunterian
Museum;
Odontological
Museum,
Wellcome
Museum of
Anatomy;
Wellcome
Museum of
Pathology]. |
|
Museum of
the Welsh
Woollen
Industry,
Dre-fach
Felindre.
[Part of
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales]. |
|
Museum of
Transport,
Manchester.
The biggest
collection
of restored
vintage
buses and
coaches in
the United
Kingdom,
with
associated
objects and
archives. |
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Museum of
Welsh
Life,
St Fagen's,
Cardiff.
Re-erected
buildings
and social
history.
[Part of
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales]. |
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Mythstories,
Shrewsbury,
Shropshire.
Museum of
myth and
fable. |
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Narrow
Gauge
Railway
Museum,
Tywyn,
Gwynedd,
Wales. |
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National
Botanic
Garden
of
Wales,
Llanarthne.
Millennium
Project
- under
construction. |
|
National
Centre for
Popular
Music,
Sheffield,
South
Yorkshire.
A unique
interactive
arts and
education
centre that
celebrates
the
diversity
and
influence
of popular
music. Uses
Macromedia
Flash |
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National
Coal Mining
Museum for
England,
Wakefield,
West
Yorkshire.
Industrial
museum |
National
Galleries
of
Scotland,
Edinburgh.
Home to
great
national
collection
of
European
painting,
sculpture
and
graphic
art from
the
Renaissance
to the
present
day.
[Responsible
for:
National
Gallery of
Scotland;
Scottish
National
Portrait
Gallery;
Scottish
National
Gallery of
Modern Art;
Dean
Gallery:
Paolozzi
Gift; Duff
House,
Banff;
Paxton
House, nr
Berwick-upon-Tweed] |
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The
National
Gallery,
London.
Collection
of Western
European
paintings
(1260-1900). |
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National
Library
of
Scotland,
Edinburgh.
On-line
catalogues
and
other
resources,
a
digital
library
(including
"The
First
Scottish
Books"),
and an
exhibition
-
Churchill:
The
Evidence |
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National
Library of
Wales,
Aberystwyth.
Includes
on-line
exhibitions
and
searchable
databases |
National
Maritime
Museum,
Greenwich,
London.
Includes:
Search
Station
an exciting
initiative
to make the
collections
more
accessible
to the
public, by
allowing
their
enjoyment
and study
through
thematically
arranged
highlights.
[Responsible
for:
Royal
Observatory,
Greenwich]] |
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National
Motor
Museum,
Beaulieu,
Hampshire. |
|
National
Museum
&
Gallery,
Cardiff.
[Part of
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales,
Cardiff]. |
National
Museums
&
Galleries
on
Merseyside,
Liverpool.
[Responsible
for: The
Conservation
Centre;
Liverpool
Museum;
Merseyside
Maritime
Museum;
Anything to
Declare?
(HM Customs
&
Excise
National
Museum);
Museum of
Liverpool
Life;
Walker Art
Gallery;
Lady Lever
Art
Gallery,
Port
Sunlight;
Sudley
House]. |
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales,
Cardiff.
(In English
and
Welsh).
[Responsible
for:
National
Museum
&
Gallery,
Cardiff;
Welsh Slate
Museum,
Llanberis;
Museum of
Welsh
Life,
St Fagen's,
Cardiff;
Segontium
Roman
Museum,
Caernafon;
Roman
Legionary
Museum,
Caerleon;
Museum of
the Welsh
Woollen
Industry,
Dre-fach
Felindre;
Turner
House
Gallery,
Penarth;
Welsh
Industrial
&
Maritime
Collections,
Cardiff]. |
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National
Museum of
Photography,
Film &
Television,
Bradford,
West
Yorkshire.
[Part of
the
National
Museum of
Science and
Industry]. |
National
Museum of
Science and
Industry.
[Responsible
for:
Science
Museum,
London;
National
Railway
Museum,
York; and,
National
Museum of
Photography,
Film &
Television,
Bradford.] |
National
Museums of
Scotland,
Edinburgh.
"Presenting
Scotland to
the World
and the
World to
Scotland"
[Responsible
for: Royal
Museum;
Museum of
Scotland;
Museum of
Flight,
North
Berwick;
Museum of
Agricultural;
Armed
Forces
Museum;
Museum of
Costume,
New
Abbey] |
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National
Portrait
Gallery,
London. See
information
on the
permanent
collection. |
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National
Railway
Museum,
York.
[Part of
the
National
Museum of
Science and
Industry]. |
Natural
History
Museum,
London. The
first UK
museum with
its own Web
server.
Includes
Virtual
Reality
fossils
using
VRML.
See also
interactive
exploration
using
Science
Casebook.
[Responsible
for
Walter
Rothschild
Zoological
Museum,
Tring,
Hertfordshire]. |
|
National
Tramway
Museum,
Crich,
Derbyshire.
Includes a
searchable
database of
2,500
photographic
images |
|
National
Waterways
Museum,
Gloucester.
Tells the
200 year
story of
Britain's
canals
through the
'National
Collection'
of historic
waterway
vessels. |
|
Nature in
Art,
Trigworth,
Gloucestershire.
The world's
first
museum
exclusively
to art
inspired by
nature, set
in a
Georgian
mansion |
|
Newhaven
Local and
Maritime
Museum,
East
Sussex.
Many
thousands
of
photographs
of local
historical
interest
together
with
artefacts
recovered
from the
areas of
local
shipwrecks |
Norfolk
Museums
Service.
[Responsible
for: In
Norwich -
Castle
Museum;
Bridewell
Museum;
Royal
Norfolk
Regimental
Museum;
St Peter
Hungate
Museum;
Stranger's
Hall
Museum;
In Great
Yarmouth -
Elizabethan
House
Museum;
Maritime
Museum;
Toll House
Museum and
Brass
Rubbing
Centre;
In King's
Lynn -
Lynn
Museum;
Town House
Museum of
Lynn
Life;
Norfolk
Rural Life
Museum and
Union
Farm,
Gressenhall;
Cromer
Museum;
Thetford
Ancient
House
Museum] |
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Norfolk
Rural Life
Museum and
Union
Farm,
Gressenhall.
Agricultural
history
museum and
traditional
working
farm.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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North
Somerset
Museum
Service,
Weston-super-Mare.
Over 70,000
items
covering
the human
and natural
history of
the
District
from
pre-history
to the
present
day. The
collections
are made up
of social
history,
local
history,
natural
history
&
geology,
and
archaeology. |
|
North West
Film
Archive,
Manchester
Metropolitan
University.
The Archive
cares for
over 24,000
items from
the pioneer
days of
film in the
mid 1890s
to video
production
of the
present
day. The
work of
both the
professional
and the
amateur is
collected.
The Site
has a
searchable
on-line
catalogue |
|
Northamptonshire
Aviation
Museum,
Harrington,
Northamptonshire. |
|
Nothe Fort
and Museum
of Coast
Defence,
Weymouth,
Dorset. |
No1 Royal
Crescent
Museum,
Bath,
Somerset.
Restored
18th
century
house in
the
palladian
style.
[Part
of:
Bath
Preservation
Trust] |
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Old Fulling
Mill Museum
of
Archaeology,
Durham. |
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Old
Operating
Theatre,
Museum and
Herb
Garret
, London.
Displays
the history
of herbal
medicine,
surgery,
nursing at
Old St.
Thomas's
(the
original
home of
Florence
Nightingale's
Nursing
School) and
Guy's and
the Evelina
Children's
hospitals. |
|
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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Papplewick
Pumping
Station,
Nottinghamshire.
A preserved
Victorian
water
pumping
station. |
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Past
Impressions
On-line
Museum,
Portsmouth,
Hampshire.
On-line
cultural
exhibitions
and gallery
space. |
|
Path Head
Water
Mill,
Blaydon,
Tyne and
Wear. |
|
Penlee
House
Gallery and
Museum,
Penzance,
Cornwall.
Collections
of
archaeology,
costumes
and
textiles,
decorative
art, fine
art,
photography,
social
history,
and local
history. |
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Peter Scott
Gallery,
University
of
Lancaster.
Temporary
art
exhibitions,
and
permanent
displays of
fine arts,
contemporary
ceramics
and Royal
Lancastrian
Pottery. |
|
Pitt Rivers
Museum,
University
of Oxford.
Anthropology
and
Ethnography. |
|
The
Potteries
Museum and
Art
Gallery,
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire.
The world's
finest
collection
of
Staffordshire
ceramics.
[Part
of:
Museums of
the
Potteries]. |
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Prickwillow
Drainage
Engine
Museum,
Cambridgeshire. |
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Ragged
School
Museum,
London.
Re-created
classroom
of the
Victorian
period, and
displays on
local
history,
industry
and life in
the East
End of
London. |
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Ramsey
Rural
Museum,
Cambridgeshire.
Holds a
collection
of
artifacts
from the
Fenland
area of
Cambridgeshire,
particularly
Ramsey
and
surrounding
area.
Primarily
agricultural,
the
museum
also
contains
many
items of
interest
which
give a
clear
picture
of the
history
of the
town. |
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Reading
Museum,
Berkshire.
Replica of
the Bayeux
Tapestry,
history of
Reading,
Roman
artifacts,
etc. |
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The Regency
Town
House,
Hove, East
Sussex.
Museum and
Heritage
Centre
covering
British
life
between the
1780s and
1850s,
especially
the history
of the
Brighton
area. |
Ripon Law
and Order
Museums,
North
Yorkshire.
Museums of
the history
of the
local
police
force, and
the
operation
of the
Victorian
Poor Law
(based in
the former
workhouse)
[Includes:
Prison and
Police
Museum;
Museum of
the
Yorkshire
Poor
Law] |
|
River and
Rowing
Museum,
Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire.
Newly
opened |
|
Roman Baths
Museum
and Pump
House,
Bath,
Somerset. |
|
Roman
Legionary
Museum,
Caerleon.
[Part of
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales]. |
Rotherham
Museums and
Arts
Service.
[Responsible
for:
Clifton
Park
Museum,
Rotherham
Art
Gallery,
York and
Lancaster
Regimental
Museum] |
|
Royal
Academy of
Arts,
London.
Permanent
galleries
and
temporary
exhibitions. |
|
Royal Air
Force
Museum,
Hendon,
London. |
Royal
Albert
Memorial
Museum,
Exeter,
Devon.
Antiquities,
ethnography,
natural
history,
fine art,
decorative
arts.
[Part
of:
Exeter City
Museums] |
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Royal
Armouries,
with
museums in:
Leeds, West
Yorkshire;
Fort
Nelson,
Fareham,
Hampshire;
and the
Tower of
London. |
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Royal
Botanic
Gardens,
Kew,
London. |
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Royal
Botanic
Garden,
Edinburgh.
Information
about
the
collections,
and
searchable
databases. |
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The Royal
Collection.
A
distributed
collection,
mainly in
royal
palaces,
formed by
the
Royal
family,
including
The Queen's
Gallery
at
Buckingham
Palace
and the
Crown
Jewels
at the
Tower of
London. |
|
Royal
Cornwall
Musem,
Truro. The
history of
Cornwall
from the
Stone Age
to the
present
day, as
well as the
natural
history of
Cornwall, a
world
famous
collection
of
minerals, a
pre-eminent
collection
of
ceramics,
and a
changing
display of
fine and
decorative
art. |
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Royal Naval
Museum,
Portsmouth,
Hampshire.
Military
museum,
with
collections
of
manuscripts,
artefacts,
photographs,
oral
history,
sound
recordings,
paintings
and prints
relating to
the history
of the
Royal
Navy. |
Royal
Observatory,
Greenwich,
London.
Home of the
Prime
Meridian of
the world.
Exhibitions
on:
The Story
of
Time,
John
Harrison
and the
Longitude
Problem,
and
Halley and
the
Paramour.
[Part of:
National
Maritime
Museum,
Greenwich] |
|
Royal
Photographic
Society,
Bath,
Somerset.
World-renowned
collection
of 19th
century
photographs,
equipment,
books and
journals |
|
Royal
Tennis
Courts and
Hampton
Court
Palace,
East
Molesey,
Surrey |
|
Rural Life
Centre Old
Kiln
Museum,
Tilford,
Farnham,
Surrey. 150
years of
farming. |
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Russell
Cotes Art
Gallery and
Museum,
Bournemouth,
Dorset.
Housed in
late 19th
century
building,
with
especially
strong
collections
of British
and
Japanese
art.
[being
refurbished
- see site
for
'Welcome
Days'] |
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Sainsbury
Centre for
Visual
Arts,
University
of East
Anglia,
Norwich,
Norfolk. |
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Sainsbury's
Virtual
Museum.
Contains a
wealth of
material,
including
photographic
and
documentary
sources on
shopping
for the
period 1869
to 1900. It
is designed
to help
teachers
use the
internet to
support the
teaching of
the
following
elements of
the UK
History
National
Curriculum |
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St Barbe
Museum,
Lymington,
Hampshire.
Local
history and
arts
museum. |
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St.Helens
Transport
Museum,
Merseyside.
Transport
museum
with an
unrivalled
collection
of
historic
buses,
coaches,
trams,
cars and
lorries |
|
St Neots
Museum,
Cambridgeshire.
Local
history
museum. |
|
St Peter
Hungate
Church
Museum,
Norwich.
Collections
of
religious
art and
craftmanship.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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Sandtoft
Transport
Centre Ltd,
The Museum
of the
Trolleybus,
Doncaster
South
Yorkshire.
Transport
museum. |
|
Science
Museum,
London. See
collections,
exhibitions
(including
:
Hands on
Science
and
Exhiblets),
and the new
Wellcome
Wing
(opening
this year).
[Part of
the
National
Museum of
Science and
Industry]. |
|
Scott
Polar
Research
Institute
Archives
and
Museum,
University
of
Cambridge.
A
collection
of
artifacts,
paintings,
drawings,
photographs,
and
other
material
associated
with the
exploration
and
scientific
study of
the
Arctic
and
Antarctic. |
|
Seaford
Local
History,
East
Sussex.
Housed in a
Napoleonic
Martello
tower. |
|
Sedgwick
Museum of
Geology,
University
of
Cambridge. |
|
Segontium
Roman
Museum,
Caernafon.
[Part of
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales]. |
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Shakespeare
and the
Globe.
An
award-wining
on-line
exhibit
from
Renaissance
Text
Centre, and
the
Department
of English,
University
of Reading.
Includes
information
on the
original
and
reconstructed
theatre. |
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Shardlow
Heritage
Centre,
Derbyshire.
Local
history of
an 18th
century
canal
transhipment
port. |
Sheffield
Industrial
Museums
Trust ,
South
Yorkshire.
Operates
three
important
museums
dedicated
to the
industrial
and social
history of
Sheffield -
"City of
Steel".
[Responsible
for: Kelham
Island
Museum,
Abbeydale
Industrial
Hamlet, and
Shepherd
Wheel] |
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Shefton
Museum of
Greek Art
and
Archaeology,
Department
of
Classics,
University
of
Newcastle
upon
Tyne. |
|
Sherlock
Holmes
Museum,
London |
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Shetland
Museum,
Lerwick.
[Part of
Shetland
Museum
Service] |
Shrewsbury
Museums
Service,
Shropshire.
[Responsible
for:
Rowley's
House,
Shrewsbury
Castle,
Coleham
Pumping
Station and
Clive
House] |
Shropshire
County
Museum
Service.
Collection
areas:
agriculture,
archaeology,
biology,
environmental,
ethnographic,
fine &
decorative
art,
geology,
and social
history.
Also has
news on the
education,
conservation,
and
outreach
services.
[Responsible
for: Acton
Scott
Historic
Working
Farm,
Ludlow
Museum, and
Much
Wenlock
Museum] |
|
Sir John
Soane's
Museum,
Lincoln's
Inn Fields,
London.
House and
museum of
Sir John
Soane,
R.A.,
architect
(1753-1837). |
Southampton
City
Cultural
Services,
Hampshire.
Nationally
important
archaeology
collections,
and
information
about RMS
Titanic.
[Responsible
for: Tudor
House
Musem,
Southamption
Maritime
Museum,
Museum of
Archaeology,
and
Southampton
City Art
Gallery] |
|
Spode
Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire.
Oldest
English
pottery,
ceramics,
bone china,
earthenware. |
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Stained
Glass
Museum,
Ely,
Cambridgeshire.
Based in
the
cathedral,
and
dedicated
to the
promotion,
preservation
and
appreciation
of stained
glass in
Britain |
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Stranger's
Hall
Museum,
Norwich.
Social
history
collections.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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Swaledale
Folk
Museum,
Reeth, near
Richmond,
North
Yorkshire.
Stone
walls,
village
life, lead
mining,
sheep and
cattle
farming,
etc. |
Swansea
Museums
and Art
Galleries,
Wales.
[Responsible
for:
Swansea
Museum;
Glynn
Vivian Art
Gallery;
Swansea
Maritime
and
Industrial
Museum] |
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The Tank
Museum,
Bovington,
Dorset. |
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Tate
Gallery,
with
galleries
in
London,
Liverpool,
Merseyside
and
St
Ives,
Cornwall.
National
collection
of British
art and
modern 20th
century
art. |
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Techniquest,
Cardiff. An
hand-on
science
discovery
centre with
special
programmes
for
schoolchildren
link to
different
stages of
the
National
Curriculum |
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Theatre
Museum,
Covent
Garden,
London.
[Part of
the
Victoria
and Albert
Museum
(V&A)]. |
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Thetford
Ancient
House
Museum.
Early Tudor
building
with local
history,
industry
and natural
science
displays.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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Tiverton
Museum,
Devon.
Local
history
museum |
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Toll House
Museum and
Brass
Rubbing
Centre,
Great
Yarmouth.
Medieval
building,
used as
prison in
19th
century.
Local
history
collections.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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Tom Brown's
School
Museum,
Uffington,
Oxfordshire.
Includes
the
White
Horse
and
Sir John
Betjeman. |
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Town House
Museum of
Lynn
Life,
King's
Lynn.
Furniture
and
domestic
life from
medieval
period to
20th
century.
[Part
of:
Norfolk
Museums
Service] |
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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. |
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Trowbridge
Museum,
Wiltshire.
Local
history |
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Tunbridge
Wells
Museum and
Art
Gallery,
Kent.
Displays of
Tunbridge
ware, local
history,
dolls and
toys,
natural
history,
and
frquently
changing
exhibitions
of art and
craft. |
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Turner
House
Gallery,
Penarth.
[Part of
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales]. |
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Waddesdon
Manor,
Buckinghamshire.
French
Renaissance-style
château was
built at
the end of
the last
century for
Baron
Ferdinand
de
Rothschild
to display
his vast
collection
of 18th
Century art
treasure. |
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The Wallace
Collection,
Hertford
House,
London.
Paintings
(especially
French 18th
century),
miniatures,
decorative
arts, arms
and
armour. |
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Wallingford
Museum,
Oxfordshire. |
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Walter
Rothschild
Zoological
Museum,
Tring,
Hertfordshire.
[Part of
the
Natural
History
Museum,
London]. |
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The
Wardrobe,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire.
Military
museum,
located in
the
Cathedral
Close.
Housing the
collections
and
archives of
the Royal
Berkshire,
the
Wiltshire
and the
Duke of
Edinburgh's
Royal
Regiments. |
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Wellington
Aviation
Museum,
Moreton-in-Marsh,
Gloucestershire.
Military
museum. |
|
Welsh
Industrial
&
Maritime
Collections,
Cardiff.
[Part of
National
Museums
&
Galleries
of
Wales]. |
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Westonzoyland
Pumping
Station
Museum,
Somerset.
Large
collection
of
stationary
steam
engines and
land
drainage
items. |
|
Wheal
Martyn
China Clay
Museum,
near St
Austell,
Cornwall.
Heritage
centre. |
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Whitby
Museum,
North
Yorkshire,
Local
history and
archaeology
museum |
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Whitechapel
Art
Gallery,
London.
Temporary
exhibitions
of modern
and
contemporary
art. |
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Whitworth
Art
Gallery,
University
of
Manchester.
Watercolours,
drawings,
textiles,
prints,
wallpapers,
modern art.
Includes a
collections
database. |
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Wigan
Pier,
Lancashire.
Local
history
presentations
and Mill
&
Engine
House. |
|
William
Morris
Gallery,
Waltham
Forest,
London. |
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Windermere
Steamboat
Museum,
Cumbria. |
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Wolverhampton
Art
Gallery,
West
Midlands.
See
collections
of
contemporary,
Pop, mid
20th
century and
Victorian
art. |
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The
Wordsworth
Museum,
Dove
Cottage,
Grasmere,
Cumbria.
Maintained
by the
Wordsworth
Trust. |
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The
World of
Glass,
St.Helens,
Merseyside.
Celebrates
the
past,
present
and
future
of glass
and the
glass
industry.
(Opening
Spring
2000). |
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Wycombe
Museum,
High
Wycombe,
Buckinghamshire.
Local
history,
especially
the
furniture
industry,
with a
renowned
collection
of Windsor
chairs. The
grounds
also house
the British
Regional
Furniture
Study
Centre. |
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