List of museums in England: Difference between revisions

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'''Museums in England''' is a link page for any [[museum]] in [[England]] by [[ceremonial counties of England|ceremonial county]]. In 2011 there were around 1,600 museums in England.<ref>{{cite web|title=A review of research and literature on museums and libraries|url=http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/pdf/a_review_of_research.pdf|work=Sept 2011|publisher=Arts Council|accessdate=24 February 2013}}</ref> The [[Museums, Libraries and Archives Council]] is the national development agency for museums in England, and is a sponsored body of the [[Department for Culture, Media and Sport]].

*[[The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum]], [[Bedford]]

*[[John Bunyan Museum]], Bedford

*[[Luton Museum]], [[Luton]]

*[[Mossman Collection]], Luton

*[[Panacea Society#Panacea Museum|Panacea Museum]], Bedford

*[[Shuttleworth Collection]], [[Old Warden]]

*[[Stockwood Craft Museum]], Luton

*[[Cole Museum of Zoology]], [[University of Reading]]

*[[Maidenhead Heritage Centre]], [[Maidenhead]]

*[[Museum of Berkshire Aviation]], [[Woodley, Berkshire|Woodley]]

*[[Museum of English Rural Life]], [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]]

*[[Museum of Reading]], [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]]

*[[REME Museum of Technology]], [[Arborfield Garrison]]

*[[Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock]], [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]]

*[[Slough Museum]], [[Slough]]

*[[Stanley Spencer Gallery]], [[Cookham]]

*[[Thames Valley Police Museum]], [[Sulhamstead]]

*[[Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology]], [[University of Reading]]

*[[West Berkshire Museum]], [[Newbury, Berkshire|Newbury]]

*[[Windsor and Royal Borough Museum]], [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]]

*[[At-Bristol]]

*[[Blaise Castle]]

*[[Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery]]

*[[Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum]]

*[[British Empire and Commonwealth Museum]]

*[[Glenside Museum]]

*[[SS Great Britain]]

*[[Amersham Museum]], [[Amersham]]

*[[Bletchley Park|Bletchley Park Museum]] ([[Enigma machine]]), [[Bletchley (Milton Keynes)|Bletchley]]

*[[Buckingham Old Gaol]] Museum (including the [[Flora Thompson]] collection), [[Buckingham]]

*[[Buckinghamshire County Museum]], [[Aylesbury]]

*[[Buckinghamshire Railway Museum]], [[Quainton]]

*[[Chesham Museum]], [[Chesham]]

*[[Chiltern Open Air Museum]], [[Chalfont St Giles]]

*[[Cowper & Newton Museum]], [[Olney, Buckinghamshire|Olney]]

*[[Haddenham Museum]], [[Haddenham, Buckinghamshire|Haddenham]]

*[[Milton's Cottage]], Chalfont St Giles

*[[Milton Keynes Museum]], (of Industry and Rural Life: "The Stacey Hill Collection"), [[Wolverton (Milton Keynes)|Wolverton]]

*[[Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre]], [[Great Missenden]]

*[[Trenchard Museum]], [[Halton, Buckinghamshire|Halton]]

*[[Wycombe Local History and Chair Museum]], [[High Wycombe]]

*[[Cambridge Museum of Technology]], [[Cambridge]]

*[[Fitzwilliam Museum]], [[Cambridge]]

*[[Imperial War Museum Duxford]], [[Duxford]]

*[[Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge|Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]], Cambridge

*[[Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery]], [[Peterborough]]

*[[St Neots Museum]], [[St Neots]]

*[[Whipple Museum of the History of Science]], Cambridge

*[[Anson Engine Museum]], [[Poynton]]

*[[Catalyst (museum)|Catalyst Science Museum]], [[Widnes]]

*[[Cheshire Military Museum]], [[Chester]]

*[[Chester Toy and Doll Museum]], Chester

*[[Congleton Museum]], [[Congleton]]

*[[Crewe Heritage Centre]], [[Crewe]]

*[[Cuckooland Museum]], [[Tabley]]{{disambiguation needed|date=June 2013}}

*[[Cycle Museum]], [[Walton, Warrington]], [[Warrington]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Cycle Museum | url = http://www.getoutguide.co.uk/museums/museums/cycle_museum.htm | publisher = GetOutGuide | accessdate = 2009-05-07}}</ref>

*[[Dewa Roman Experience]], Chester<ref>{{cite web | title = Dewa Roman Experience | url = http://www.touruk.co.uk/attraction-details.htm?attraction=1740 | work = tourUK | publisher = Just Tour Limited | accessdate = 2009-05-07}}</ref>

*[[Grosvenor Museum]], Chester

*[[Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker]]

*[[Lion Salt Works|Lion Saltworks Trust]], [[Northwich]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lionsaltworkstrust.co.uk/ | title = Welcome To The Lion Salt Works | publisher = The Lion Salt Works Trust | accessdate = 2009-05-07}}</ref>

*[[Macclesfield Silk Museum]], [[Macclesfield]]

*[[Motor Museum, Mouldsworth|Motor Museum]], [[Mouldsworth]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.mouldsworthmotormuseum.com/ | title = Mouldsworth Motor Museum | publisher = Mouldsworth Motor Museum | accessdate = 2009-05-07}}</ref> Closed in 2013.<ref>{{Citation | publication-date = 12 March 2013| title = Classic cars at Mouldsworth Motor Museum go under the hammer| periodical = Cheshire Life| url = http://www.cheshirelife.co.uk/home/classic_cars_at_mouldsworth_motor_museum_go_under_the_hammer_1_2006515| archiveurl = | archivedate = | issn = | pmid = | pmc = | doi = | oclc = | accessdate =6 August 2013}}</ref>

*[[Museum of Policing in Cheshire]], [[Warrington]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Museum of Policing in Cheshire | url = http://museumofpolicingincheshire.org.uk/ | publisher = Museum of Policing in Cheshire | accessdate = 2009-05-07}}</ref>

*[[Museum of Primitive Methodism]], [[Englesea Brook]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum | url = http://www.engleseabrook-museum.org.uk/ | publisher = Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum | accessdate = 2009-05-07}}</ref>

*[[Nantwich Museum]], [[Nantwich]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nantwichmuseum.org.uk/ | title = Nantwich Museum | publisher = Nantwich Museum | accessdate = 2009-05-07}}</ref>

*[[National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port|National Waterways Museum]], [[Ellesmere Port]]

*[[Norton Priory|Norton Priory Museum]], [[Runcorn]]

*[[Quarry Bank Mill]], [[Wilmslow]]

* Salt Museum, Northwich ''see below'', Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse

*[[Warrington Museum]], [[Warrington]]

*[[Salt Museum, Northwich|Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse]], [[Northwich]] (formerly The Salt Museum)

*[[West Park Museum]], Macclesfield

*[[Barbara Hepworth Museum]], [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]]

*[[Slaughterbridge|British Cycling Museum]], [[Camelford]]

*[[Cornish Mines & Engines]], [[Pool, Cornwall|Pool]]

*[[Falmouth Art Gallery]]

*[[Geevor Tin Mine]], [[Pendeen]]

*[[Helston Folk Museum]], Helston

*[[Jamaica Inn]], [[Bolventor]] museum of smuggling and Daphne du Maurier

*[[King Edward Mine|King Edward Mining Museum]], [[Camborne]]

*[[Lawrence House, Cornwall|Lawrence House]], [[Launceston, Cornwall|Launceston]]

*[[Leach Pottery]], [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]]

*[[Mount Edgcumbe House]], [[Cremyll]]

*[[Museum of Submarine Telegraphy, Cornwall|Museum of Submarine Telegraphy]], [[Porthcurno]]

*[[Museum of Witchcraft]], [[Boscastle]]

*[[National Maritime Museum Cornwall]], [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]]

*[[North Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery]], [[Camelford]]

*[[Penlee House, Penzance, Cornwall|Penlee House, Penzance]]

*[[Poldark Mine]], [[Wendron]]

*[[Royal Cornwall Museum]], [[Truro]]

*[[The Wayside Folk Museum]], [[Zennor]]

*[[Abbot Hall Art Gallery]], [[Kendal]]

*[[Beatrix Potter Gallery]], [[Hawkshead]]

*[[Cars of the Stars Motor Museum]], [[Keswick, Cumbria|Keswick]]

*[[Cumberland Pencil Museum]], [[Keswick, Cumbria|Keswick]]<ref>[http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/ Cumberland Pencil Museum] Independent Museum. Retrieved 2009-05-27</ref>

*[[Dock Museum]], [[Barrow-in-Furness]]

*[[Kendal Museum]], [[Kendal]]

*[[Keswick Museum and Art Gallery]], [[Keswick, Cumbria|Keswick]]

*[[Hawkshead Grammar School Museum]], [[Hawkshead]]

*[[Lakeland Motor Museum]], [[Backbarrow]]

*[[Museum of Lakeland Life]], [[Kendal]]

*[[The Beacon, Whitehaven|The Beacon]], [[Whitehaven]]

*[[The Rum Story]], [[Whitehaven]]

*[[Ruskin Museum]], [[Coniston, Cumbria|Coniston]]

*[[Tullie House Museum]], [[Carlisle, Cumbria|Carlisle]]

*[[Windermere Steamboat Museum]], [[Windermere, Cumbria|Windermere]]

*[http://www.mla.gov.uk/ Museum, Libraries and Archives Council]

*[http://www.culture.gov.uk/museums_and_galleries/monthly_museum_visitor_figures/default.htm Visitor figures for Department of Culture, Media and Sport sponsored museums in England]

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