Museums in England - Definition

Museums in England is a link page for any museum in England.

See: List of museums, Museums in Scotland, Museums in Wales, Museums in Northern Ireland, Museums in the Republic of Ireland, List of British railway museums

Berkshire

• Reading Museum (Replica of the Bayeux Tapestry)

Buckinghamshire

• Bletchley Park Museum (Enigma machine), Bletchley
• Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury
• Buckinghamshire Railway Museum, Quainton
• Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles
• Roald Dahl Museum, Aylesbury

Cambridgeshire

• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• St Neots Museum, St Neots

Cornwall

• Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, Cornwall
• Penlee House, Penzance, Cornwall
• Museum of Submarine Telegraphy, Cornwall
• Tate St Ives

Cumbria

• Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
• Beatrix Potter Gallery, Hawkshead
• Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick
• Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
• Kendal Museum
• Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal
• Tullie House Museum, Carlisle

Derbyshire

• Derby Industrial Museum
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery
• National Trust Museum of Childhood
• Working Textile Museum, Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site

County Durham

• Beamish museum, Stanley
• Preston Hall, Stockton-on-Tees

Gloucestershire

• Corinium Museum, Cirencester

Greater London

• Apsley House
• Banqueting House
• Bank of England Museum
• Bexley Museum
• British Library
• British Museum
• Bromley Museum
• Cabinet War Rooms
• Carlyle's House
• Chiswick House
• Courtauld Institute
• Cutty Sark
• Dali Universe
• De Morgan Foundation
• Design Museum
• Dickens House
• Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Fan Museum
• Fenton House
• Forty Hall Museum
• Freud Museum
• Geffrye Museum
• Greenwich Hospital
• Gunnersbury Park
• Ham House
• Hampstead Museum
• Hampton Court
• Hayward Gallery
• HMS Belfast
• Hogarth's House
• Horniman Museum
• Imperial War Museum -- see also Manchester
• Jewish Museum - Camden Town
• Jewish Museum - Finchley
• Keat's House
• Kenwood
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum
• Leighton House
• Linley Sambourne Museum
• Livesey Museum for Children
• The London Institute
• London Transport Museum
• Madame Tussaud's
• Marble Hill House
• MCC Museum
• Museum in Docklands
• Museum of Childhood
• Museum of Garden History
• Museum of London
• Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) now closed, apparently permanently
• Museum of the Order of St John
• National Army Museum
• National Gallery
• National Maritime Museum
• National Portrait Gallery
• Natural History Museum
• North Woolwich Old Station Museum
• Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
• Orleans House Gallery
• Osterley Park
• Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
• Pitshanger Manor
• Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge
• Ranger's House
• Royal Academy of Arts
• Royal Airforce Museum
• Science Museum
• Sherlock Holmes Museum
• Sir John Soane's Museum
• Spencer House
• Tate Gallery: Tate Britain and Tate Modern
• Theatre Museum
• Tower Bridge
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Wallace Collection
• Wesley's Chapel
• William Morris Gallery
• Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
• Wimbledon Windmill Museum

Greater Manchester

Bury

• Bury Art Gallery and Museum
• Lancashire Fusiliers Museum

Manchester City

• 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

Salford

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

Tameside

• Museum of the Manchester Regiment, Portland Basin Museum

Hampshire

• Curtis Museum
• Jane Austen Museum (http://www.janeaustenmuseum.org.uk/The)
• National Motor Museum
• Southsea Museum

Hertfordshire

• De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, also known as Mosquito Aircraft Museum
• Verulamium Museum
• Classical Guitar Museum (http://www.granary-guitars.com)

Kent

• Charles Dickens Centre, Rochester
• Dog Collar Museum, Leeds Castle
• Down House

Lancashire

• Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley
• British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland
• The National Football Museum, Preston

Merseyside

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

Norfolk

• Bressingham Steam Museum
• East Anglia Railway Museum
• Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum
• Toad Hole Museum, How Hill
• Working Textile Museum, Derwent Valley Mills

Northamptonshire

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

Northumberland

• Grace Darling Museum, Bamburgh
• Northumberland Fusiliers Museum in Alnwick Castle

North Yorkshire

• Bronte Museum, Haworth
• Castle Museum, York
• National Railway Museum, York
• Yorkshire Museum of Farming, York

Oxfordshire

• Ashmolean Museum
• Pitt Rivers Museum
• River and Rowing Museum (http://www.rrm.co.uk/)

Shropshire

• Coleham Pumping Station Shrewsbury
• Ironbridge - This area has many museums relating to the Industrial revolution and Industrial archaeology.

Somerset

• Admiral Blake Museum Bridgwater
• Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton
• King John's Hunting Lodge Axbridge
• Somerset Brick and Tile Museum Bridgwater
• Somerset County Museum Taunton
• Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury
• Wellington Museum Wellington

South Yorkshire

• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
• Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley
• Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham
• Cooper Gallery, Barnsley
• Doncaster Museum, Doncaster
• Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
• Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
• Magna, 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
• Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
• Worsborough Mill Museum, Barnsley

Staffordshire

• Brindley Water Museum, Leek, Staffordshire
• Izaak Walton Cottage Museum

Suffolk

• Amber Museum, Southwold
• Beccles Museum
• Ipswich Museum
• Sue Ryder Foundation Museum, Cavendish
• William Clowes Printing Museum, Beccles

Surrey

• Guildford Museum

West Sussex

• Amberley Working Museum, Arundel
• Fishbourne Roman Palace

West Midlands

• 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 County Living Museum
• Blakesley Hall (Birmingham)
• Thinktank at Millennium Point (Birmingham)
• Kenilworth Geology Musuem (Birmingham)
• Museum of the Jewellery Quarter (Birmingham)
• a planned Natural History Museum (Birmingham)
• Pen Room (Birmingham)
• Soho House (Birmingham)
• Walsall Leather Museum
• Weoley Castle (Birmingham)
• Willenhall Lock Musuem

West Yorkshire

• Museum of Rail Travel, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford
• Royal Armouries, Leeds
• West Yorkshire Folk Museum
• Heptonstall Museum, Heptonstall

External links

• A guide to British museums (http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/)