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Museums in England is a link page for any museuminEnglandbyceremonial county. In 2011 there were around 1,600 museums in England.^[1] 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.

Bedfordshire

• The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum, Bedford
• John Bunyan Museum, Bedford
• Luton Museum, Luton
• Mossman Collection, Luton
• Panacea Museum, Bedford
• Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
• Stockwood Craft Museum, Luton

Berkshire

• Cole Museum of Zoology, University of Reading
• Maidenhead Heritage Centre, Maidenhead
• Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley
• Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
• Museum of Reading, Reading
• REME Museum of Technology, Arborfield Garrison
• Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock, 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
• Windsor and Royal Borough Museum, Windsor

City of Bristol

• 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

Buckinghamshire

• Amersham Museum, Amersham
• Bletchley Park Museum (Enigma machine), 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
• Haddenham Museum, Haddenham
• Milton's Cottage, Chalfont St Giles
• Milton Keynes Museum, (of Industry and Rural Life: "The Stacey Hill Collection"), Wolverton
• Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, Great Missenden
• Trenchard Museum, Halton
• Wycombe Local History and Chair Museum, High Wycombe

Cambridgeshire

• Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cambridge
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• Imperial War Museum Duxford, Duxford
• 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

Cheshire

• Anson Engine Museum, Poynton
• 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]}
• Cycle Museum, Walton, Warrington, Warrington^[2]
• Dewa Roman Experience, Chester^[3]
• Grosvenor Museum, Chester
• Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
• Lion Saltworks Trust, Northwich^[4]
• Macclesfield Silk Museum, Macclesfield
• Motor Museum, Mouldsworth^[5] Closed in 2013.^[6]
• Museum of Policing in Cheshire, Warrington^[7]
• Museum of Primitive Methodism, Englesea Brook^[8]
• Nantwich Museum, Nantwich^[9]
• National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
• Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn
• Quarry Bank Mill, Wilmslow
• Salt Museum, Northwich see below, Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse
• Warrington Museum, Warrington
• Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse, Northwich (formerly The Salt Museum)
• West Park Museum, Macclesfield

Cornwall

• Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives
• British Cycling Museum, Camelford
• Cornish Mines & Engines, Pool
• Falmouth Art Gallery
• Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen
• Helston Folk Museum, Helston
• Jamaica Inn, Bolventor museum of smuggling and Daphne du Maurier
• King Edward Mining Museum, Camborne
• Lawrence House, Launceston
• Leach Pottery, St Ives
• Mount Edgcumbe House, Cremyll
• Museum of Submarine Telegraphy, Porthcurno
• Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle
• National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth
• North Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, Camelford
• Penlee House, Penzance
• Poldark Mine, Wendron
• Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
• The Wayside Folk Museum, Zennor

Cumbria

• Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
• Beatrix Potter Gallery, Hawkshead
• Cars of the Stars Motor Museum, Keswick
• Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick^[10]
• Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
• Kendal Museum, Kendal
• Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, Keswick
• Hawkshead Grammar School Museum, Hawkshead
• Lakeland Motor Museum, Backbarrow
• Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal
• The Beacon, Whitehaven
• The Rum Story, Whitehaven
• Ruskin Museum, Coniston
• Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
• Windermere Steamboat Museum, Windermere

Derbyshire

• Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Buxton
• Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery, Chesterfield
• Derby Industrial Museum, Derby
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
• Erewash Museum, Ilkeston
• Eyam Museum, Eyam^[11]
• Midland Railway - Butterley, Butterley
• National Tramway Museum, Crich
• National Trust Museum of Childhood, Sudbury
• Peak District Mining Museum, Matlock Bath
• Pickford's House Museum, Derby
• Revolution House, Old Whittington
• Working Textile Museum, Masson Mill, Matlock Bath^[12]

Devon

• Arlington Carriage Museum
• Axminster Museum, Axminster
• Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, Exeter
• Bishopsteignton Museum of Rural Life
• Brixham Heritage Museum, Brixham
• Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford
• Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum, Uffculme
• Dartmouth Museum, Dartmouth^[13]
• Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, Lifton (Formerly known as Dingles Steam Village)
• Exmouth Museum, Exmouth
• Fairlynch Museum, Budleigh Salterton
• Museum of Dartmoor Life, Okehampton
• Newton Abbot Town and GWR Museum, Newton Abbot
• North Devon Maritime Museum, Appledore
• Overbeck's, Salcombe
• Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth
• Plymouth Naval Base Museum
• Royal Albert Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter
• Sidmouth Museum, Sidmouth
• Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life
• Topsham Museum, Topsham
• Torquay Museum, Torquay
• Torre Abbey Historic House and Gallery, Torquay
• Torrington Heritage Museum
• Totnes Costume Museum, Totnes
• Totnes Museum, Totnes
• West Country Historic Omnibus & Transport Trust
• West of England Transport Collection

Dorset

• Bournemouth Aviation Museum, Hurn Airport, Christchurch
• Bovington Tank Museum, Bovington
• Brewers Quay, Weymouth
• The Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester
• Dinosaurland Fossil Museum, Lyme Regis
• Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
• Dorset Teddy Bear Museum, Dorchester
• The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester
• Lyme Regis Museum (formerly The Philpot Museum), Lyme Regis
• Nothe Fort, Weymouth
• Poole Museum, Poole
• Portland Museum, Portland
• Royal National Lifeboat Institution HQ & Museum, Poole
• Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Forum
• Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth
• Swanage Railway, Swanage
• Tutankhamun Exhibition, Dorchester

County Durham

• Beamish museum, Stanley
• Darlington Railway Centre and Museum
• Hartlepool Art Gallery
• Hartlepool's Maritime Experience
• Museum of Hartlepool
• Preston Hall, Stockton-on-Tees
• Shildon Locomotion Museum
• Durham University Oriental Museum
• Killhope Wheel, Lead Mine

East Riding of Yorkshire

• Bayle Gate Museum, Bridlington
• Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
• Fort Paull, Paull
• Harbour Museum and Aquarium, Bridlington
• Hornsea Museum, Hornsea
• Hull and East Riding Museum, Hull
• Maritime Museum, Hull
• Museum of Army Transport, Beverley (now closed)
• Museum of East Riding Rural Life, Skidby
• Museum of East Yorkshire, Sewerby
• Old Grammar School, Hull
• Spurn Lightship, Hull
• Street Life - Hull Museum of Transport, Hull
• Town Docks Museum, Hull
• Wilberforce House, Hull
• Withernsea Lighthouse Museum, Withernsea
• Yorkshire Water Museum, Hull

East Sussex

• Bartley mill, Frant
• Bateman's and Park mill, Burwash
• Battle Museum
• Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum
• Bexhill Museum
• Bexhill Museum of costume & social history
• Bodiam Castle
• Brighton Fishing Museum
• Brighton Toy and Model Museum
• Bluebell Railway
• Ditchling Museum
• Eastbourne Redoubt
• Fishermen's Museum, Hastings
• Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
• How We Lived Then, Eastbourne
• Jill windmill, Clayton
• Kent and East Sussex Railway, Bodiam
• Lavender Line, Isfield
• Mechanical Memories Amusement Museum, Brighton
• Newhaven Local & Maritime Museum
• Nutley Windmill
• Oldland Windmill, Keymer
• Polegate Windmill
• The Redoubt Fortress, Eastbourne
• The Regency Town House
• Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove
• 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
• Volks Electric Railway, Brighton
• Winchelsea Museum
• Yesterday's World

Essex

• Aythorpe Roding Windmill
• Barleylands Farm Museum
• Braintree District Museum
• Brightlingsea Museum
• Burnham-on-Crouch Museum
• Chelmsford Museum
• Coggeshall Museum & Heritage Centre
• East Anglian 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
• Rayleigh Windmill
• Saffron Walden Museum
• Southend Central Museum
• Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill
• The Harwich Society
• The Museum of Harlow
• Thurrock Museum
• Tymperleys Clock Museum (Colchester)
• Walton Maritime Museum
• Witham Heritage Centre

Gloucestershire

• Corinium Museum, Cirencester
• National Waterways Museum

Greater London

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

• Apsley House
• British Museum
• Cabinet War Rooms
• Chiswick House
• Courtauld Gallery
• Cuming Museum
• Cutty Sark
• Design Museum
• Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Foundling Museum
• Freud Museum
• Gilbert Collection
• Geffrye Museum
• Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy UCL
• Greenwich Hospital
• Handel House Museum
• Ham House
• Hampton Court
• Hogarth's House
• Horniman Museum
• HMS Belfast
• Imperial War Museum
• Jewish Museum (Camden)
• Kenwood House
• London Aquarium
• London Transport Museum
• The London Bridge Experience
• Museum in Docklands
• Museum of Croydon
• Museum of Childhood
• National Army Museum
• National Gallery
• National Maritime Museum
• National Portrait Gallery
• Natural History Museum
• Osterley Park
• Queen's Gallery
• Royal Academy of Arts
• Royal Air Force Museum
• Science Museum
• Saatchi Gallery
• Sir John Soane's Museum
• Sternberg Centre
• Spencer House
• Tate Britain
• Tate Modern
• Tower Bridge
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• Wallace Collection

Greater Manchester

• Bolton Museum, Bolton
• Bolton Steam Museum, Bolton
• Bury Art Museum, Bury
• Chetham's School of Music, Manchester
• Cornerhouse, Manchester
• Fletcher Moss Art Gallery, Manchester
• Gallery of Costume, Fallowfield, Manchester
• Gallery Oldham, Oldham
• Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum, Rochdale^[14]
• Greater Manchester Police Museum, Manchester
• Heaton Hall, Heaton Park, Manchester
• Imperial War Museum North, Trafford Park
• Lancashire Fusiliers Museum, Bury
• The Lowry, Salford Quays
• Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
• Manchester Jewish Museum, Cheetham Hill, Manchester
• Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Manchester
• Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
• Museum of Transport, Cheetham Hill, Manchester
• Museum of the Manchester Regiment, Ashton-under-Lyne^[15]
• National Football Museum, Manchester^[16]
• Pankhurst Centre, Manchester
• Ordsall Hall, Ordsall, Salford
• People's History Museum, Manchester
• Portland Basin Museum, Ashton-under-Lyne
• Urbis, Manchester
• Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery, Saddleworth
• Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford
• Whitworth Art Gallery, Whitworth Park, Manchester
• Wythenshawe Hall, Wythenshawe, Manchester

Hampshire

• Aldershot Military Museum
• Allen Gallery and Museum, Alton
• Army Medical Services Museum, Aldershot
• The Bear Museum
• Beaulieu Abbey
• Bursledon Windmill
• Butser Ancient Farm
• Chawton House
• Curtis Museum
• D-Day Museum
• Eastney Beam Engine House
• Eling Tide Mill
• Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower
• Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
• Flora Twort Gallery
• Fort Nelson, Portsmouth
• Hollycombe Steam Collection
• Hovercraft Museum
• INTECH
• Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton
• John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
• King's House, Winchester
• Little Woodham
• Medieval Merchant's House, Southampton
• Milestones Museum
• Museum of Army Flying
• National Motor Museum, Beaulieu
• Petersfield Museum
• Portchester Castle
• HMNB Portsmouth ("Portsmouth Historic Dockyard"):
  • Royal Naval Museum
  • HMS Victory
  • HMS Warrior (1860)
  • Mary Rose Museum
• Rockbourne Roman Villa
• Royal Green Jackets Museum
• Royal Marines Museum, Southsea
• Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport
• Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum, New Milton
• Solent Sky, Southampton
• Southampton City Art Gallery
• Southampton Maritime Museum
• Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere
• Southsea Castle
• Southsea Museum
• Southwick House
• Stratfield Saye House
• Westbury Manor Museum
• Whitchurch Silk Mill
• Winchester City Mill

Herefordshire

See also Category:Museums in Herefordshire.

Hertfordshire

See also Category:Museums in Hertfordshire.

Isle of Wight

See also Category:Museums on the Isle of Wight.

Kent

See also Category:Museums in Kent.

Lancashire

See also Category:Museums in Lancashire.

Leicestershire

See also Category:Museums in Leicestershire.

Lincolnshire

See also Category:Museums in Lincolnshire.

Merseyside

See also Category:Museums in Merseyside.

Norfolk

See also Category:Museums in Norfolk.

Northamptonshire

See also Category:Museums in Northamptonshire.

Northumberland

See also Category:Museums in Northumberland.

North Yorkshire

See also Category:Museums in North Yorkshire.

Nottinghamshire

See also Category:Museums in Nottinghamshire.

Oxfordshire

See also Category:Museums in Oxfordshire.

Rutland

See also Category:Museums in Rutland.

Shropshire

See also Category:Museums in Shropshire.

Somerset

See also Category:Museums in Somerset.

South Yorkshire

See also Category:Museums in South Yorkshire.

Staffordshire

See also Category:Museums in Staffordshire.

Suffolk

See also Category:Museums in Suffolk.

Surrey

See also Category:Museums in Surrey.

Tyne and Wear

See also Category:Museums in Tyne and Wear.

Warwickshire

See also Category:Museums in Warwickshire.

West Midlands

See also Category:Museums in the West Midlands (county).

West Sussex

See also Category:Museums in West Sussex.

West Yorkshire

See also Category:Museums in West Yorkshire.

Wiltshire

See also Category:Museums in Wiltshire.

Worcestershire

See also Category:Museums in Worcestershire.

See also

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

References

External links

• Culture 24 — A Guide to British museums
• The Museums Association - Organisation for Museum Professionals
• Museum, Libraries and Archives Council
• Visitor figures for Department of Culture, Media and Sport sponsored museums in England

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)