Alien Nation
Museum www.alien-nation.co.uk
Birmingham
and Midland www.solnet.co.uk/bammot
Bolton
www.boltonmuseums.org.uk
Bygones
Victorian www.bygones.co.uk
Cabaret
Mechanical Theatre www.cabaret.co.uk
Devon
www.devonmuseums.net
Dover
www.doveruk.com/museum
Exhibitions
Net www.exhibitionsnet.com
Haig
Colliery Mining www.haigpit.com
HMS
Warrior www.hmswarrior.org
Hull
www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums
Hunterian
www.gla.ac.uk/museum
Imperial
War www.iwm.org.uk
Ironbridge
Gorge www.ironbridge.org.uk
Lancaster
Recovery Group www.lrg.org.uk
London
Canal www.canalmuseum.org.uk
Merseyside
www.nmgm.org.uk
Museum
Documentation Assoc www.open.gov.uk/mdocassn
Museum
of Army Flying www.flying-museum.org.uk
Museum
of British Road Transport www.mbrt.co.uk
Museum
of Costume www.museumofcostume.co.uk
Museum
of History of Science www.mhs.oxac.uk
Museum
of London www.museum-london.org.uk
Museum
of Science and Industry www.msim.org.uk
National
Maritime www.nmmm.ac.uk
National
Museum of Photography, Film & TV www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft
National
Railway www.nmsi.ac.uk/nrm
North
Weald Airfield http://fly.to/northweald
The
Philpot www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk
Reading
www.readingmuseum.org
River
and Rowing www.rrm.co.uk
Royal
Armouries www.armouries.org.uk
Royal
Navy Submarine www.rnsubmus.co.uk
Spitfire
and Hurricane www.spitfire-museum.com
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Bedfordshire
- Bedford -
Bedford Museum. Local
archaeology, social history, biology and geology.
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
C halfont St Giles - Chiltern
Open Air Museum. Re-erected agricultural and other buildings.
High Wycombe -
Wycombe Museum. Local
history, especially the furniture industry, with a renowned collection of
Windsor chairs. The grounds also house the British Regional Furniture Study
Centre.
Milton Keynes -
Bletchley Park Trust.
"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).
Olney - The Cowper and
Newton Museum. Presents Olney's heritage.
Waddesdon -
Waddesdon Manor. 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.
Cambridgeshire
Cambridge -
-
Cambridge Museum of Technology.
Preserved Victorian pumping station and working museum on the River Cam.
-
Fitzwilliam Museum,
University of Cambridge. Permanent collections include antiquities, applied
arts, coins and paintings. See on-line
shop.
-
Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
-
Museum of Classical
Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Includes a cast collection.
-
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.
-
Sedgwick
Museum of Geology, University of Cambridge.
- Duxford -
The Fighter Collection. Military
aircraft collection.
- Ely -
Stained Glass Museum. Based
in the cathedral, and dedicated to the promotion, preservation and
appreciation of stained glass in Britain
- Prickwillow -
Prickwillow
Drainage Engine Museum.
- Ramsey -
Ramsey Rural Museum.
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.
- St Neots -
St Neots Museum,
Cambridgeshire, Local history museum
Channel Islands
- Guernsey -
Guernsey Museums and Galleries.
[Responsible for: St Peter Port - Guernsey Museum and Art
Gallery, Castle Cornet; St Peter's - Fort Grey]
- Jersey -
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]
Cheshire
- Ellesmere Port -
Boat Museum. One of
the world's largest floating collection of traditional canal craft.
- Marston, Northwich -
The Lion Salt Works.
- Styal -
Quarry Bank Mill.
A leading museum of the Industrial Revolution and a working cotton mill set
in the original buildings dating back to 1784.
- Widnes -
Catalyst. The only museum in
Europe solely devoted to the chemical insudtry.
Cornwall
Cumbria
- Coniston -
Brantwood. The home of the, 19th
century, poet, artist and critic - John Ruskin.
- Grasmere -
The Wordsworth Museum (Dove
Cottage). Maintained by the Wordsworth Trust.
- Kendal -
-
Abbot Hall Art Gallery.
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.
-
Kendal Museum. One of the
country's oldest museums - founded in 1796. Its collections include local
archaeology, history, geology, and natural science from around the world.
- Keswick -
Cars of the Stars Museum.
Vehicles used in films and television, including a James Bond collection,
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Batmobile, and a Back to the Future Delorean
- Ulverston -
Ulverston Heritage Centre.
Local history museum.
- Whitehaven -
Haig Colliery Mining Museum.
A restored deep coal mine, with two huge steam winding engines.
- Windermere -
Windermere Steamboat Museum.
Derbyshire
Devon
-
Exeter -
-
The Bill Douglas Centre for the
History of Cinema and Popular Culture , University of Exeter. Displays
on the history of cinema and its percursors - zoetropes, magic lanterns,
panoramas and shadow puppets.
-
Connections
Discovery Centre. Educational resource centre for schools and groups.
Hands-on fun, real objects that can be touch and try on, special displays
and interpretive guides.
[Part of: Exeter
City Museums]
-
Exeter City
Museums.
[Responsible for: Royal
Albert Memorial Museum, St Nicholas Priory, Underground Passages, Connections
Discovery Centre]
-
Royal
Albert Memorial Museum. Antiquities, ethnography, natural history, fine
art, decorative arts.
[Part of: Exeter
City Museums]
-
Honiton - Allhallows Museum.
Local museum including lace and pottery industry displays housed in the
town's oldest building.
-
Merton - Barometer World and
Museum.
- Tiverton -
Tiverton
Museum. Local history museum.
-
Torquay - Torre Abbey
Historic House & Gallery.
- Tiverton -
Tiverton
Museum. Local history museum.
Dorset
Durham
- Durham -
- Beamish -
Beamish Open Air Museum.
300 acres recreating the life of the north of England in the early 1800s and
1900s.
East Sussex
- Hove -
The Regency Town House.
Museum and Heritage Centre covering British life between the 1780s and
1850s, especially the history of the Brighton area.
-
Newhaven - Newhaven
Local and Maritime Museum. Many thousands of photographs of local
historical interest together with artefacts recovered from the areas of
local shipwrecks
-
Seaford - Seaford Local History.
Housed in a Napoleonic Martello tower.
East Yorkshire
Essex
- Mistley -
Essex Secret Bunker.
The former Essex County nuclear war headquarters.
- Stansted -
-
Hill Toy Museum.
The largest privately owned toy museum in Europe, with over 30,000
individual items.
-
Montfitchet Castle.
Recreation of a Norman castle on the original site.
Gloucestershire
Greater Manchester
- Manchester -
-
Manchester City Art
Galleries. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and furniture,
especially by 19th and 20th century artists, including the Pre-Raphaelites.
-
Manchester Jewish Museum.
-
The Manchester Museum. Botany,
Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and Egyptology galleries.
-
Manchester United Museum
and Tour Centre. Outlines the history of the football club from 1878 to
the present day
-
Museum of Science and Industry in
Manchester. Includes Shockwave Flash, VRML, QTVR, streaming video and CD
quality music.
-
Museum of Transport, Manchester. The
biggest collection of restored vintage buses and coaches in the United
Kingdom, with associated objects and archives.
-
National Museum of Labour History. The
national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study
of material relating to the history of working people in Britain.
[Responsible for: Pump House: People's History Museum]
-
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
-
Whitworth Art Gallery,
University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints,
wallpapers, modern art. Includes a collections
database.
-
Salford - Ordsall Hall Museum.
Family home of the Radclyffes.
- Stockport -
Hatting
Museum. Under construction, due to open 2000. History of the hatmaking
industry
Hampshire
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]
- Beaulieu -
National Motor Museum.
- Chawton -
Jane Austen's
House. Where the early 19th century novelist lived and worked.
- Fareham -
Royal Armouries - Fort Nelson.
Military life in the mid-19th century, and artillery. Other museums at:
Leeds, West Yorkshire; and in the Tower of London
- Gosport -
Royal Navy Submarine
Museum. Military museum featuring the Submarine Service, includes a real
submarine
- Petersfield (near) -
Butser
Ancient Farm. 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.
-
Portsmouth -
-
Flagship
Portsmouth at the Historic Dockyard, Hampshire. Includes: Mary Rose
(Tudor warship); HMS Victory (Nelson's flagship); HMS Warrior (1860 ironclad
warship); Royal Naval Museum; and Dockyard Apprentice (hands-on exhibition
about building a warship).
-
Mary Rose Maritime Museum. Only 16th
century warship on display in the world, from the time of King Henry VIII.
Includes a museum tour.
-
Past
Impressions On-line Museum. On-line cultural exhibitions and gallery
space.
-
Royal Naval Museum. Military
museum, with collections of manuscripts, artefacts, photographs, oral
history, sound recordings, paintings and prints relating to the history of
the Royal Navy.
- Southampton -
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]
- Lymington -
St Barbe Museum. Local
history and arts museum.
Hertfordshire
Kent
- Canterbury -
Centre for the Study of
Cartoons and Caricature, University of Canterbury. 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.
- Cranbrook -
Cranbrook
and District Museum. Local history museum.
- Dover -
- Tunbridge Wells -
Tunbridge Wells Museum
and Art Gallery. Displays of Tunbridge ware, local history, dolls and
toys, natural history, and frquently changing exhibitions of art and craft.
Lancashire
-
Lancashire Museums.
[Responsible for: The Museum of Lancashire, Preston;
Fleetwood Museum; Lodgings Lancaster, Helmshore Textile Museeums, Rossendale;
Queen Street Mill, Burnley; Gawthorpe Hall; Turton Tower, Bolton; Clitheroe
Castle Museum; Ribchester Roman Bath Museum; Museum Service to Schools]
- Bolton -
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]
- Lancaster -
Peter Scott
Gallery, University of Lancaster. Temporary art exhibitions, and
permanent displays of fine arts, contemporary ceramics and Royal Lancastrian
Pottery.
- Wigan -
Wigan
Pier. Local history presentations and Mill & Engine House.
Leicestershire
- Leicester -
Leicester City Museums.
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]
- Loughborough -
Carillon (49
Bells) War Memorial and Military Museum.
London
-
Apsley House, The Wellington
Museum. 'Number One, London', 19th century home of the 1st Duke of
Wellington. [Part of Victoria
and Albert Museum (V&A)]
-
Bank of England Museum
& Archive.
-
BBC Experience.
Interactive exhibition on the history and work of the BBC. Includes
RealAudio clips and news of education support.
-
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood.
[Part of Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A)]
-
British Library. See collections,
digital library exhibitions
and the Treasures Digitisation
Project, which includes the Magna
Carta, viewable at various magnifications.
-
British Museum,
London. See collection
highlights and new Cracking
Codes - The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment exhibition.
-
Brunel Engine
House. Built between 1825 and 1843 by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel as part
of the pioneering Thames Tunnel - the first underwater thoroughfare in the
World.
-
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Covent
Garden. A museum of automata (mechanical sculpture).
-
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.
-
Courtauld
Institute of Art, Courtauld Gallery
-
Design
Museum.
-
Dickens House
Museum. Includes a virtual
tour.
-
Fan Museum, Greenwich. The only
museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making.
-
Florence Nightingale Museum
. Collections relating to the life and work of this 19th century pioneer
of nursing and healthcare.
-
Freud Museum. The home of the founder
of psychoanalysis.
-
Dulwich
Picture Gallery.
-
FA Premier League Hall of Fame.
The history of football and the legends of the modern game.
-
Firepower! The Museum of Royal
Regiment of Artillery, Woolwich. Military museum (opening 2001)
-
Geffrye Museum. English
furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms.
-
Hayward Gallery, South
Bank. Modern art, special exhibitions.
-
Historic Royal Palaces.
[Information on: The Tower of London; Hampton Court Palace;
The Banqueting House; Kew Palace; Kensington Palace]
-
The Horniman Museum and Gardens,
Forest Hill.
-
Imperial War Museum, London.
Also includes the Cabinet
War Rooms, HMS
Belfast and RAF Duxford
(including the American Air
Museum in Britain).
-
The Jewish Museum.
-
Kew Transport Museum
-
Kew Bridge Steam Museum,
Brentford, Middlesex.
-
Kingston Museum,
Kingston upon Thames. Holds a large collection of photographs by Eadweard
Muybridge (1830-1904).
-
London Canal Museum, King's
Cross. Transport Museum
-
London Transport Museum, Covent
Garden.
-
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)
-
Lothbury Gallery. Part of
the NatWest Group art collection.
-
Madame Tussauds,
London. Waxworks.
-
Museum of Garden History,
St Mary-at-Lambeth Church, Lambeth Palace.
-
Museum of Installation. An artist
led organisation dedicated to the research, production and dissemination of
installation art.
-
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.
-
Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI),
British Film Institute, South Bank.
History of film and television.
-
Museums of The
Royal College of Surgeons.
[Responsible for : Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum,
Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology]..
-
National Army Museum,
Chelsea.
-
The National Gallery. Collection
of Western European paintings (1260-1900). See site
map.
See also
The Micro Gallery
(off-line).
-
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
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]]
-
National Museum of Science and Industry.
[Responsible for: Science
Museum, London; National Railway Museum,
York; and, National Museum of
Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.]
-
National Portrait Gallery. See
information on the permanent
collection.
Natural History Museum. The first UK
museum with its own Web server.
Includes Virtual
Reality fossils using VRML
- see a
Trilobite
and Bryozoan,
for example.
See also interactive exploration using Science
Casebook.
[Responsible for Walter
Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire].
-
Ragged School Museum.
Re-created classroom of the Victorian period, and displays on local history,
industry and life in the East End of London.
-
Old Operating Theatre,
Museum and Herb Garret . 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.
-
Public Record Office,
Kew. The repository of the national archives for England, Wales and the
United Kingdom. The records, beginning with Domesday Book (1086), span an
unbroken period from the 11th century to the present. Site includes on-line
catalogues, and a very large education section (with source material for
school students, and supporting the National Grid for Learning).
-
The Queen's Gallery
at Buckingham Palace.
See also Windsor
Castle and the rest of the Royal
Collection.
-
Royal Armouries - Tower of London.
Includes displays on the history of the Armouries, and royal suits of armour. Other museums in: Leeds, West Yorkshire; and Fort Nelson,
Fareham,
Hampshire; and the Tower of London.
-
Royal Academy of Arts.
Permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
-
Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon,
London.
-
Royal Armouries museums,
Leeds, Fort
Nelson and London.
A major new national museum at Leeds, opened in April 1996, houses a
collection of arms and armour originally held at the Tower of London.
-
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
-
Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 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]
-
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.
-
Science Museum. 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].
-
Sherlock Holmes Museum.
-
Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn
Fields. House and museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect (1753-1837).
-
Tate Gallery,
London. Part of a national collection of British art and modern 20th
century art.
-
Theatre Museum, Covent Garden.
[Part of the Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A)].
-
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).
The largest museum of the decorative arts in the world.
[Responsible for the Bethnal
Green Museum of Childhood, the Theatre
Museum, and Apsley House, The
Wellington Museum. See also the
National Art Library].
-
The Wallace Collection,
Hertford House. Paintings (especially French 18th century), miniatures,
decorative arts, arms and armour.
-
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
-
William Morris Gallery, Waltham
Forest.
-
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.
Merseyside
-
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].
- Liverpool -
- St.Helens -
-
St.Helens
Transport Museum, Merseyside. Transport museum with an unrivalled
collection of historic buses, coaches, trams, cars and lorries
-
The World of Glass,
St.Helens, Merseyside. Celebrates the past, present and future of glass and
the glass industry. (Opening Spring 2000).
-
Southport -
Norfolk
North Yorkshire
-
Malton -
Eden Camp. World War II prisoner of
war camp
- Reeth -
Swaledale Folk
Museum. Stone walls, village life, lead mining, sheep and cattle
farming, etc.
- Ripon -
Ripon Law and Order Museums.
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]
-
Whitby - Whitby Museum. Local
history and archaeology museum
- York -
Northamptonshire
-
Althorp - Althorp House,
Northamptonshire. Ancestral home of the Spencer family, resting place of
Princess Diana.
- Harrington -
Northern Ireland
Nottinghamshire
- Nottingham -
-
Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre.
-
Green's Mill. 19th
century tower windmill in Sneinton, once owned and operated by George Green
(1793-1841), a mathematical physicist and scientist.
-
Galleries of Justice.
Set in Victorian courthouse, with attached gaol (featuring real warders!),
and hands-on exhibitions.
Oxfordshire
- Faringdon -
Faringdon and
District Museum.
-
Henley-on-Thames -
River and Rowing Museum. Newly Opened
- Long Wittenden -
Pendon Museum of Miniature
Landscape and Transport.
- Oxford -
-
Ashmolean Museum of Art &
Archaeology, University of Oxford. See the Cast
Gallery and the
Griffith Institute
for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
-
Bate Collection of
Musical Instruments, University of Oxford.
-
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.
-
Christ Church Picture
Gallery.
-
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.
-
Oxford University Museum of
Natural History. Entomology, geology, mineralogy, zoology collections
in a Victorian
neo-Gothic building.
-
Pitt Rivers Museum,
University of Oxford. Anthropology and Ethnography (Closed until year 2000).
-
Uffington - Tom Brown's
School Museum. Includes the White
Horse and Sir
John Betjeman.
- Wallingford -
Wallingford Museum.
-
Wantage - Vale and Downland Museum.
Scotland
-
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]
-
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
-
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]
- Aberdeen -
-
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums.
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 ]
-
Gordon Highlanders
Museum. Military museum
-
Bathgate, Lothian -
- Biggar, Lanarkshire -
-
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)]
- Dunaskin -
Dunaskin Open Air Museum,
Ayrshire. Large collection of industrial machinery, historic buildings, an
ironworker's cottage, and a simulated coal mine
-
Dunfermline - Andrew Carnegie
Birthplace Museum, Fife. Based in the cottage where the steel
millionaire and benefactor was born in 1835. Tells his family's story prior
to their emigration to the United States.
- Dunrossness, Shetland -
Croft House Museum.
[Part of Shetland
Museum Service]
-
East Lothian Council
Museums.
[Responsible for: North Berwick Museum, Dunbar Town House
Museum, Prestongrange Museum]
- Easdale Island -
Easdale
Island Folk Museum. Local history, especially the slate quarring
industry.
-
Edinburgh -
- Elgin, Moray -
Elgin Museum. Pictish
stones, local fossils, archaeology, geology, natural history, social history
and ethnography.
-
Fife - Fife Museums Forum.
A group of local museums with shared site.
[Includes: Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther; Buckhaven
Museum; Burntisland Edwardian Fair Museum; Fife Folk Museum, Ceres; Crail
Museum; Fife Council Museums East, Cupar; In Dunfermline - Andrew Carnegie
Birthplace Museum, West Fife Museums and Small Gallery, Pittencrief House
Museum; McDouall Stuart Museum, Dysart; East Wemyss Environmental Education
Centre; The Friary, Inverkeithing; Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery; Laing
Museum, Newburgh; In St Andrews - Bell Pettigrew Museum, Crawford Arts
Centre, St Andrews Museum, St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum].
- Glasgow -
- Isle of Skye -
Isle of Skye Toy Museum.
- Kilmartin, Argyll -
Kilmartin House Museum.
Centre for archaeology and landscape
interpretation.
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Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway - John
Paul Jones Cottage Museum.
- Lerwick, Shetland -
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Moray Council Museums
Service.
[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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Millfield, West Lothian - Almond
Valley Heritage Trust. Includes a museum of Scottish shale oil industry,
Livingston Mill Farm, and the Almond Valley Light Railway.
- St Andrews, Fife -
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Bell-Pettigrew
Museum, University of St Andrews. Evolutionary and taxonomic
relationships between animals.
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British Golf Museum. Tells
the story of British golf chronologically, exploring the events,
personalities and equipment used throughout the ages.
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Scotland's Secret
Bunker, (near St Andrews). "Scotland's best kept secret!" -
24,000 square feet, 100 feet underground complex, used as the government's
underground nuclear command bunker during Cold War.
Shropshire
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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]
- Cosford -
Aerospace Museum.
- Telford -
Ironbridge Gorge Museum.
Birthplace of the industrial revolution. Including a virtual
tour, and the Ironbridge
Institute. UNESCO has designated the valley a World Heritage Site.
[Responsible for: The Iron Bridge & Tollhouse; Blists
Hill Victorian Town; Museum of Iron & Darby Furnace; The Darby Houses;
Museum of the Gorge; Coalport China Museum, Jackfield Tile Museum; Broseley
Pipeworks, Clay Tobacco Pipe Museum; The Teddy Bear Shop]
- Shrewsbury -
Mythstories. Museum of myth and
fable.
Somerset
- Bath -
- Bristol -
- Glastonbury -
Glastonbury Abbey.
Traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world, with
connections to King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
- Weston-super-Mare -
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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.
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Westonzoyland -Westonzoyland
Pumping Station Museum. Large collection of stationary steam engines and
land drainage items.
- Yeovilton -
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).
South Yorkshire
- Doncaster -
- Rotherham -
Rotherham Museums and Arts Service.
[Responsible for: Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham Art
Gallery, York and Lancaster Regimental Museum]
- Sheffield -
Staffordshire
-
Stretton - Claymills
Pumping Engines. A preserved Victorian pumping station.
- Burton-on-Trent -
Bass Museum. History of the beer
brewing industry - shire horses, web cams, and Shockwave interactive.
- Stoke-on-Trent -
Suffolk
Surrey
Tyne and Wear
Wales
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Museums of the Royal Regiment of Wales.
Military Museums
[Responsible for: South Wales Borderers Museum , Brecon;
Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff].
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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].
- Aberystwyth -
-
National Library of Wales. Includes on-line
exhibitions and searchable databases
- Caerleon -
Roman Legionary Museum.
[Part of National
Museums & Galleries of Wales].
-
Caernafon - Segontium Roman
Museum. [Part of National
Museums & Galleries of Wales].
- Cardiff -
- Dre-fach Felindre -
Museum of the Welsh
Woollen Industry. [Part of National
Museums & Galleries of Wales].
-
Llanarthne - National
Botanic Garden of Wales. Millennium Project - under construction.
- Llanberis -
Welsh Slate Museum.
Industrial Museum. [Part of National
Museums & Galleries of Wales].
- Penarth -
Turner House Gallery. [Part
of National Museums & Galleries of
Wales].
-
Presteinge - Judge's
Lodgings (Llety'r Barnwr). Restored historic rooms, local history, and
two interactives on 'King Offa' and 'Voices from the Past'.
- Swansea -
- Tywyn -
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum.
Warwickshire
West Midlands
West Sussex
-
Amberley - Amberley
Museum. Outdoor industrial museum based in chalk pits.
-
Chichester - Weald and Downland Open
Air Museum, Chichester, West Sussex. A unique collection of over 40
domestice and agricultural buildings dating from the 13th to the 19th
century.
- East Grinstead -
Finchcocks Living Museum of
Music, Hammerwood Park house. Collection of historical keyboard
instruments set in a fine Georgian manor house.
West Yorkshire
-
Bradford -
.
[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]
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Haworth - Brontë Parsonage Museum.
The home of the early 19th century women novelists
- Halifax -
Eureka!. The Museum for Children.
- Leeds -
- Saltaire -
1853 Gallery, Salts
Mill. Houses pictures by David Hockney.
- Wakefield -
National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Industrial museum
Wiltshire
- Chippenham -
Fox Talbot Museum.
Commemorates the life and work of William Henry Fox Talbot - known as The
Father of Modern Photography.
- Cricklade -
Cricklade Museum, Wiltshire.
Local history museum.
- Salisbury -
The Wardrobe. 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.
- Trowbridge -
Trowbridge Museum.
Local history
Worcestershire
Virtual Museums and Sites
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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.
-
Cornucopia. A pilot website,
from the 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.
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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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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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Simply
Switch On!. A virtual museum of small electrical appliances.
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Virtual Museum of Computing.
A completely virtual collection of exhibits on the history of computers,
etc.
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Virtual Museum of the Iron Lung.
A resource centre relating specifically to the iron lung and generally to
polio, post-polio and artificial ventilation.
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