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Bedfordshire

• Bedford -
  • Bedford Museum. Display of human history of the region from prehistoric times.
  • Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Museum. Recreated Victorian mansion, original home of Cecil Higgins, a local brewer. Adjoining Gallery with important collection of ceramics, glass and watercolours.
  • John Bunyan Museum. Aims to present the life, times and works of John Bunyan (the author of The Pilgrim's Progress) in an accessible and relevant manner.
• Henlow - RAF Signals Museum. Military museum.
• Luton - Stockwood Park Museum. Displays of Bedfordshire rural life, crafts and trades, with regular trade demonstrations. Also has the The Mossman collection of horse-drawn vehicles.

Berkshire

• Arborfield - REME Museum of Technology (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers). Military museum
• Cookham - Stanley Spencer Gallery. The only gallery in Britain devoted exclusively to an artist in the village where he was born and spent most of his working life.
• Reading -
  • Cole Museum of Zoology, University of Reading.
  • Museum of English Rural Life . 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.
  • Reading Museum. Replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, history of Reading, Roman artifacts, etc.
  • Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading.
• Slough - Slough Museum. Local history museum, with temporary exhibitions.
• Woodley, near Reading. Museum of Berkshire Aviation.

Buckinghamshire

• Amersham - Amersham Museum. Local history museum, based in a 15th century half-timbered house.
• Aylesbury - Buckinghamshire County Museum. Includes the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery and on-line databases of 5,000 objects and over 12,000 photographs.
• Chalfont St Giles - Chiltern Open Air Museum. Re-erected agricultural and other buildings.
• Great Missenden - Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. Tells the story of the life of the famous childrens' author, cares for his archive and promotes creative writing.
• 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, including: the German Enigma Cipher machine, the Lorenz Cipher machine and the rebuild of Colossus (with photographs).
  • Computer Museum at Bletchley Park. A large collection of computing devices ranging from Colossus (the first computer) to the present day.
  • Milton Keynes Museum. Local history museum with collections strong in agriculture and industry and also those connected with domestic life and local commerce.
• Olney - Cowper and Newton Museum. Presents Olney's heritage.
• Quainton - Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Transport museum.
• 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 and County Folk Museum. Based timber-framed building, the museum displays the everyday life of Cambridge people since 1700.
  • 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.
  • Kettle's Yard. Formerly the home of Jim Ede, a curator at the Tate Gallery. It houses his collection of fine and decorative art, mostly of the first half of the twentieth century, together with a temporary exhibition space.
  • Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Fully searchable catalogue of all the collection (750,00 objects, 100,00 photographs and 25,000 documentary archive).
  • 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 Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Includes material from the collections of Charles Darwin.
  • Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge. Collections include: scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books, and other material from the medieval period to the present day.
  • University Museum of Zoology Cambridge. Part of the Department of Zoology, it houses an extensive collection of scientifically important zoological material Designated as being of outstanding national and international significance.
• 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
• Peterborough - Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre. Archaeological park, with museum, conservation centre and recontructed buildings and landscape.
• Prickwillow - Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum. "A unique collection of oil-burning engines saved from destruction and restored to working order by a dedicated band of enthusiasts."
• 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.
• Waterbeach - Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey. Agricultural museum, and remains of a Norman abbey.

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

• Chester - Chester Museums. Based in the Grosvenor Museum, with collections of archaeology, art and architecture, local history and natural history.
• Congleton - Congleton Museum. Local history museum.
• Ellesmere Port - Boat Museum. One of the world's largest floating collection of traditional canal craft.
• Macclesfield -
  • Jodrell Bank Science Centre. 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.
  • Macclesfield Museums. 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 ]
• Marston, Northwich - The Lion Salt Works.
• Nantwich - Nantwich Museum. Local history museum, featuring salt making, leather and clothing trade, and clockmaking.
• Poynton - Anson Engine Museum. An industrial museum - "Dedicated to the history of the Internal Combustion engine".
• 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.
• Warrington - Warrington Museum and Art Gallery. Local history museum, with collections of: natural sciences; antiquities; social history; numismatics; ethnology; fine and decorative arts.
• Widnes - Catalyst. The only museum in Europe solely devoted to the chemical insudtry.

Cornwall

• Pendeen - Geevor Tin Mine Heritage Centre. Industrial museum with guides, an underground tour, and displays of original machinery.
• Penzance - Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
• Porthcurno - Porthcurno Telegraph Museum.
• Redruth - Camborne School of Mines Museum & Art Gallery. The collection comprises of rocks and minerals with many specimens from Cornwall, as well as non-British mining districts and some mining artefacts.
• St Austell - Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum. Heritage centre.
• St Ives - Tate St Ives. Modern British art in a spectacular coastal setting.
• Truro - Royal Cornwall Museum. 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.

Cumbria

• Barrow-in-Furness - Dock Museum. Local and industrial history museum with collection and displays based on the history of the Furness area, as well as the local shipbuilding and engineering works. A section is devoted to the Vickers Photographic Archive.
• Coniston - Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery. Collections of fine and decorative art, human history and natural sciences.
  [Responsible for: Guildhall Museum]
• 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.
• Hawkshead - Hawkshead Grammar School Museum. Education museum in a 16th century Grammar School with original desks; the school library in Latin and Greek; the charter from Elizabeth I and the original silver seal.
• 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.
  • Blackwell. A surviving house in the Arts and Crafts movement style, with most of the original decorative interiors still intact.
  • 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.
  • Museum of Lakeland Life . Local history with collections on: the Arts and Crafts movement; Swallows and Amazons, the book by Arthur Ransome; and the social history of Lakeland Victorians.
  • The Quaker Tapestry. On display in an historic Friends Meeting house.
• 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
  • Cumberland Pencil Museum. A company museum featuring the history of pencil making.
• Maryport - Senhouse Roman Museum. "Contains the largest grouping of Roman military altar stones and inscriptions from any site in Britain and unique examples of Celtic religious sculpture".
• 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

• Crich - National Tramway Museum. Includes a searchable database of 2,500 photographic images.
• Matlock Bath - Life in a Lens. Dedicated to the history of popular photography, from its invention in 1839 to the end of the previous century.
• Renishaw - Renishaw Stables Museum and Art Gallery. Based on the life of the Sitwells, the famous 20th century literary and artistic family. Also includes Performing Arts Gallery with costumes, sketches and photographs from film and theatre productions.
• Shardlow - Shardlow Heritage Centre. Local history of an 18th century canal transhipment port.

Devon

• Brixham - Brixham Heritage Museum. Local history museum, with on-line photographs, and information about maritime history and archaeology.
• 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.
  • Exeter City Museums.
    [Responsible for: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, St Nicholas Priory]
  • Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Antiquities, ethnography, natural history, fine art, decorative arts.
    [Part of: Exeter City Museums]
  • St Nicholas Priory. 900 year old guest wing of a former Benedictine Priory.
    [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.
• Tiverton - Tiverton Museum. Local history museum.

Dorset

• Blandford Camp -Royal Signals Museum. Military museum
• Bournemouth - Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum. Housed in late 19th century building, with especially strong collections of British and Japanese art.
• Bovington - The Tank Museum.
• Dorchester -
  • Dinosaur Museum. Britain's only museum solely devoted to dinosaurs and their fascinating world.
  • Dorset County Museum. Local history museum with collections of: archaeology; natural history; and geology. Displays on Dorset writers, with Thomas Hardy's study, and one of the largest Thomas Hardy collections in the world. Run by Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society.
  • Military Museum of Devon and Dorset. Regimental Museum
  • Tutankhamun Exhibition. The Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankamun's tomb, treasures and mummy are recreated in a permanent exhibition.
• Lyme Regis - Lyme Regis Philpot Museum. Local history museum, housed in building on the site where Mary Anning, the early 19th century fossil collector was born.
• Weymouth - Nothe Fort and Museum of Coast Defence. Military museum.

Durham

• Barnard Castle - The Bowes Museum. Based in a "French museum on British soil" with a collection of European fine art, decorative art and ceramics, English furniture, and textiles, as well as archaeological material and archives from County Durham and social history from Teeside.
• Durham - Darlington Railway Centre and Museum. Transport museum. Devoted to the area formerly served by the North Eastern Railway, with particular reference to the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and the railway industry of Darlington. [Reopens March 2008].
• Durham -
  • Durham University Oriental Museum. 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.
  • Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology.

East Sussex

• Sussex Past. The website for the Sussex Archaeological Society.
  [Responsible for: Fishbourne Roman Palace and Museum, Chichester; Lewis Castle and Barbican House Museum; Anne of Cleves House, Lewes; Michelham Priory, Upper Dicker; Marlipins Museum, Shoreham-by-Sea; The Priest House, West Hoathly ]
• Bexhill-on-Sea - Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History.
• Hastings - Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. Local history museum. Collections of ceramics, drawings and paintings, natural history, including dinosaurs. Also has exhibits on John Logie Baird, the pioneer of television.
• Herstmonceux - The Observatory Science Centre.
• Hove -
  • British Engineerium. Museum of mechanical antiquities, based in a restored and working Victorian pumping station.
  • The Regency Town House. Museum and Heritage Centre covering British life between the 1780s and 1850s, especially the history of the Brighton area.
• nr Lewes - Charleston. The home and country meeting place for the writers, painters and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. The interior was painted by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, and houses their collection of post-impressionist art
• Seaford - Seaford Museum and Heritage Society. Housed in a Napoleonic Martello tower. Local history with displays including: shops, tableaux and material from pre-historic times to the present day.

East Yorkshire

• Hornsea - Hornsea Museum. Folk museum sited in an 18th Century farmhouse, a local history that "is not a relic but a living entity, changing with time, to reflect the changing patterns of village life in North Holderness over the passing centuries."
• Hull - Hull Museums.
  [Responsible for: Arctic Corsair (last of the Hull 'side-winder' fishing vessels); Ferens Art Gallery (collections and programme of exhibitions and events); Hands on History (curriculum resource centre); Hull and East Riding Museum (geology, archaeology and natural history of the area); Maritime Museum (the story of Hull's rich and colourful maritime history); Spurn Lightship; Streetlife Museum ('hands-on' approach tracing 200 years of transport history); Wilberforce House Museum (birthplace of the slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce, and social history displays)]

Essex

• Chelmsford - Chelmsford Museums. Collections of archaeology, local history, natural history, industrial history, costume, art and military history.
  [Responsible for: Chelmsford Museum; Essex Regiment Museum; Sandford Mill.]
• Colchester -
  • Colchester Museums. Local history museums. Collections of archaeology, natural history, clocks, etc.
    [Responsible for: Colchester Castle Museum; Holytrees Museum; Natural History Museum; Tymperleys Clock Museum]
  • University of Essex, Collection of Latin American Art. "The only specialist public collection of modern Latin American art in Europe."
• Stansted -
  • House on the 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.
• Waltham Abbey - Royal Gunpowder Mills. The evolution of explosives and the development of the Mills through interactive and traditional exhibitions and displays.
• West Mersea - Mersea Island Museum. Local history museum, with collections on fishing, oystering, wild fowling and boat building

Gloucestershire

• Berkley - Edward Jenner Museum. Based in the former home of the pioneering, 18th century, immunologist.
• Bourton on the Water - Cotswold Motor Museum. Transport museum, with a permanent collection of classic vehicles and motoring memorabilia.
• Cheltenham -
  • Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. Local history museum.
    [Responsible for: Holst Birthplace Museum]
  • Holst Birthplace Museum. Based in a Regency terrace house where the well know music composer Gustav Holst was born in 1874.
• Cirencester - Corinium Museum. "Has arguably the finest and most extensive collection of Romano-British material relating to a town and its hinterland in the world." Roman, but also has displays on Cotswold history from Prehistory to the English Civil War.
  [Part of: Cotswold Museum Service]
• Filkins, (near Lechlade) - Cotswold Woollen Weavers. Historic working weaving mill, museum/gallery and shop.
• Forest of Dean - Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail. Art in a forest setting.
• Gloucester -
  • Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery. Collections of: archaeological finds, fine and decorative arts, and natural history.
  • Gloucester Folk Museum. Displays include local history, such as the Siege of Gloucester (1643), the Port of Gloucester, Severn fishing, farming and folklore; domestic life; crafts and industries.
  • National Waterways Museum. Tells the 200 year story of Britain's canals through the 'National Collection' of historic waterway vessels.
  • Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum. Military museum for the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.
• Moreton-in-Marsh - Wellington Aviation Museum. Military museum.
• Thornbury - Thornbury Museum. Local history museum.
• Trigworth - Nature in Art. The world's first museum exclusively to art inspired by nature, set in a Georgian mansion

Greater Manchester

• Bury - Bury Art Gallery and Museum. Victorian paintings, challenging contemporary art and scenes from Bury's past. Includes works by Constable and Turner.
• Manchester -
  • Manchester City Galleries. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and furniture, especially by 19th and 20th century artists, including the Pre-Raphaelites.
    [Responsible for: Manchester Art Gallery; Wythenshawe Hall; Heaton Hall; Gallery of Costume]
  • Manchester Jewish Museum.
  • The Manchester Museum. Botany, Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and Egyptology galleries. See also Virtual Kahun, giving the chance to explore the pyramid builders town in virtual reality, 'handle' many of the artefacts excavated and to search the collections.
  • Manchester United Museum and Tour. Outlines the history of the football club from 1878 to the present day
  • Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Collections record and tell the story of the industry, science and people of the Manchester area. includes: aviation, computing, electricity and gas, engineering, photography, printing, science, textiles, rail and road transport and Manchester's water supply.
  • 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
  • People's History Museum. The national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain.
  • Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints, wallpapers, modern art. Includes a collections search and exhibitions section.
• Salford - Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Local history museum.
  [Responsible for: Ordsall Hall Museum; Working Class Movement Library]
• Stockport - Museum of Hatting - The Hatworks. The UK's first and only museum dedicated to the world of hats and hat making
• Tyldesley - Astley Green Colliery Museum. Industrial museum looking at the history of coal mining in Lancashire. Has the UK's largest collection of colliery locomotives.

Hampshire

• Hampshire Museums Service. Includes an on-line catalogue with searching, as well as a museums directory.
  [Responsible for: Aldershot Military Museum; Allen Gallery, Alton; Andover Museum; Basing House, Basingstoke; Curtis Museum, Alton; Eastleigh Museum; Flora Twort Gallery, Petersfield; Gosport Museum; Havant Museum; Museum of the Iron Age, Andover; SEARCH, Gosport; Red House Museum and Gardens, Christchurch; Treadgolds of Portsea; Westbury Manor Museum, Fareham; Willis Museum, Basingstoke; Bursledon Windmill; St Barbe's Museum, Lymington]
• 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; the Tower of London; and Louisville, Kentuky (USA).
• Gosport - Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Military museum featuring the Submarine Service, includes a real submarine
• Lee-on-the-Solent - Hovercraft Museum Trust. Transport museum [visits by appointment only].
• Lymington - St Barbe Museum. Local history and arts museum.
• 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 -
  • City of Portsmouth Preserved Transport Depot, Hampshire. Collection of restored buses.
  • Mary Rose Maritime Museum. Only 16th century warship on display in the world, from the time of King Henry VIII. Includes a Explore the Mary Rose and The Learning City educational resources.
  • Portsmouth Historic Dockyard 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).
  • 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 Council Arts and Heritage. 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]
• Sway - ArtSway. Contemporary visual arts venue in the New Forest.

Herefordshire

• Wormelow - Violette Szabo GC Museum. Tells the story of the World War II British secret agent.

Hertfordshire

• Bushey - Bushey Museum and Art Gallery. 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.
• Hertford - Hertford Museum. Local history museum.
• Hitchin - British Schools Museum. "... a unique set of buildings that tell the story of elementary education in Britain from 1810 until 1945".
• Hoddesdon - Lowewood Museum. Local history museum.
• Perry Green - Henry Moore Foundation. 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]
• Tring - Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum.
  [Part of the Natural History Museum, London].
• Salisbury Hill - De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum). Military aircraft collection.
• St Albans - St Albans Museums. Local museum service with collections of archaeology (particularly from the Roman and medieval town), social history, natural science, the Salaman Collection of trade tools, and an image library.
  [Responsible for: Museum of St Albans; Verulamium Museum]
• Stevenage - Stevenage Museum. Local history museum - "The story of the people of Stevenage".

Isle of Man

• Manx National Heritage. A multi-international award winning heritage service unique in Europe, combining the management and promotion of museums, monuments, natural sites and historic landscape.
  [Includes: The Manx Museum; The House of Manannan; Peel Castle, St. Patrick's Isle; Castle Rushen; The OldGrammar School; The Nautical Museum; Rushen Abbey; Cregneash Folk Village; The Grove House & Gardens; The Great Laxey Wheel & Mines Trail; The Old House of Keys; The Camera Obscura]
• Peel - Leece Museum. Local history museum.

Kent

• Canterbury -
  • Canterbury City Museums. Local history, archaeology, and military history.
    [Responsible for: In Canterbury: Heritage Museum, West Gate Museum, Roman Museum, Royal Museum and Art Gallery, Buffs Museum; In Herne Bay: Herne Bay Museum and Gallery; In Whitstable: Whitstable Museum and Gallery]
  • British Cartoon Archive, 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 Museum. Local history museum.
• Dover -
  • Crabble Corn Mill. A working water mill, cafe and gallery.
  • Dover Museum. Local history museum.
• Edenbridge - Eden Valley Museum. Local history museum.
• Folkestone - Metropole Galleries. Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.
• Maidstone - Maidstone Museum. Local history museum
• Manston - Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Museum. Military aircraft museum.
• Ramsgate - East Kent Maritime Trust. Local history museum.
  [Responsible for: Margate Seaside Museum; Ramsgate Maritime Museum]
• 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.
• Whitstable - Whitstable Museum and Gallery. Local history museum. Themes on the coastal community and seafaring traditions, with special features on oysters, diving and shipping.
  [Part of Canterbury City Museums]

Lancashire

• Lancashire Museums.
  [Responsible for: The Museum of Lancashire, Preston; Fleetwood Museum; Judges' Lodgings Lancaster, Helmshore Mills Textile Museums, Rossendale Museum; Queen Street Mill, Burnley; Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham; Turton Tower, Bolton; Clitheroe Castle Museum; Ribchester Roman Bath Museum; Museum Service to Schools]
• Blackburn - Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire. Best known for the Hart bequest, a unique collection of coins, manuscripts and books, by the local notable Robert Edward Hart (1876-1946). Displays on: the history of Blackburn; the Egyptian Mummy, South Asian culture, fine and decorative art; and the Bowdler collection of world beetles.
• Bolton - Bolton Museum and Archive Service. 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: Hall i'th'Wood]
• Burnley - Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museums. A country house museum, set in parkland. Includes a Natural History Centre and a Museum of Local Crafts.
• Earby - Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum. Industrial museum.
• Lancaster -
  • Peter Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster. Temporary art exhibitions, and permanent displays of fine arts, contemporary ceramics and Royal Lancastrian Pottery.
  • Storey Gallery. Art gallery. The largest single exhibition space in the North West of England.
• Leyland - British Commercial Vehicle Museum. Transport museum.
• Preston -
  • Harris Museum and Art Gallery. Collections of: fine and decorative art, costume and textiles, local history, and photography.
  • National Football Musuem. Sports museum, covering a journey through football's history, and a themed, hands-on exhibition, examining different facets within the world of football.
• Ribchester - Ribchester Roman Museum. Dedicated to the Romano-British history of Bremetenacum Veteranorum.
• Rochdale - Ellenroad Engine House. The only surviving, complete working example of a genuine steam cotton-mill engine together with its original steam-raising plant.
• Wigan - Wigan Pier Experience. Local history presentations and Mill & Engine House.

Leicestershire

• Foxton - Foxton Canal Museum and Inclined Plane Trust. Industrial museum.
• 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 Leicester Castle; The Magazine]
  • National Space Centre. The UK's largest attraction dedicated to space science and astronomy.

Lincolnshire

• Lincoln - Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum. Local transport museum.
• Sleaford - Sleaford Museum, Lincolnshire. No permanent home for the collection but virtual museum site offers the ability to browse the collection.

London

• 19 Princelet Street. "An unrestored Huguenot master silk weaver's home, whose shabby frontage conceals a rare synagogue built over its garden"
• Anaesthesia Heritage Centre, London. Medical archives, library and museum - "The collections work together to help date, explain and illustrate each other and are therefore a unique resource for research into the history of anaesthesia".
• Bank of England Museum & Archive.
• Barnet Museum. Local history museum, with schools' programme
• Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. Houses the UK's national collection of toys and games, children's costume, nursery furniture and baby equipment.
  [Part of Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)]
• Bramah's Museum of Tea and Coffee, Southwark. World's first museum devoted entirely to the history of tea and coffee.
• British Library. See Collections, Exhibitions and the Treasures, which includes the Magna Carta, viewable at various magnifications.
• British Museum. See: World Cultures, Compass on-line database and Children's Compass, Current Exhibitions and Education Department.
• British Postal Museum and Archive. "Works to make this human story of communication, industry, and innovation accessible to everyone."
• 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).
• Church Farmhouse Museum, Hendon. 19th century recreated rooms in a Listed building. Outreach programme for local schools.
• 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. Collections of Old Master and Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings, together with sculpture and applied arts
• Design Museum. "Concerned as much with the future as the past, a programme of highly acclaimed exhibitions capture the excitement of design evolution, ingenuity and inspiration through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"
• Dickens House Museum. One of the homes of the 19th century author Charles Dickens.
• Fan Museum, Greenwich. The only museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making.
• Fashion and Textile Museum. Collections of contemporary fashions and textiles.
• Florence Nightingale Museum . Collections relating to the life and work of this 19th century pioneer of nursing and healthcare.
• The Foundling Museum. Tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, London's first home for abandoned children.
• Freud Museum. The home of the founder of psychoanalysis.
• Dulwich Picture Gallery.
• Firepower! The Museum of Royal Regiment of Artillery, Woolwich. Military museum.
• Geffrye Museum. English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms.
• Guildhall Art Gallery. Displays 250 works of art, owned by the Corporation of London, at a time, together with temporary exhibitions. Artists represented include: Millais, Landseer, Constable and Singleton Copley. The Gallery also contains the remains of London's Roman ampitheatre.
• Hackney Museum. Local history museum, with news of its education service, exhibitions, and behind the scenes.
• Handel House Museum. Music museum. Displays and exhibitions in the restored home of the 18th century composer, George Frideric Handel.
• 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. Collections of world cultures (ethnography), natural history, and music.
• Imperial War Museum, London. Also includes the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms, HMS Belfast and Imperial War Museum Duxford (including the American Air Museum in Britain).
• The Jewish Museum. The history and religious life of the Jewish community in Britain and beyond. Based in two sites in Finchley and Camden.
• Kew Transport Museum
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford, Middlesex. Industrial museum.
• Kingston Museum, Kingston upon Thames. Holds a large collection of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).
• Leighton House Museum. The studio-home of the 19th century artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton.
• Linley Sambourne House. Late 19th century townhouse, home to the cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne.
• Livesey Museum for Children, Peckham. A hands-on museum for children aged under 12, showing a new interactive exhibition every year.
• London Canal Museum, King's Cross. Transport Museum
• London Fire Brigade Museum, Southwark. Depicts the history of firefighting in London from the Great Fire of 1666 to the present day.
• London Motorcycle Museum, Greenford Middlesex. Transport museum.
• London's Transport Museum, Covent Garden. "Uncover the story of two hundred years of London and its public transport, the oldest in the world"
• Madame Tussauds. Waxworks.
• Museum in Docklands. Indutrial museum, based in a late Georgian warehouse. Looks at the story of London's River, Port and people, from Roman settlement of the port, through to the recent regeneration of London's former Docklands.
• 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 Rugby, Twickenham, Middlesex. Sport museum.
• Museums of The Royal College of Surgeons.
  [Responsible for: Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum, Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology]..
• The National Archives, Kew, London. 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).
• National Army Museum, Chelsea.
• The National Gallery. Collection of Western European paintings (1260-1900). See also Exhibitions and The Micro Gallery (off-line).
• 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]
• National Museum of Science and Industry.
  [Responsible for: Science Museum, London; National Railway Museum, York; and, National Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television), Bradford.]
• National Portrait Gallery.
• Natural History Museum. The first UK museum with its own Web server. Includes: Natural History Portal, Museum Science, Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Picture Library Online, Interactive Online Exhibitions, QUEST II and Earth lab datasite.
  [Responsible for Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire].
• Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Collections of about 80,000 objects, all on-line with photographs, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. Based around the collection of William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942). Also contains Digital Egypt for Universities a 3,000 page learning and teaching resource based on the collection.
• Ragged School Museum. Re-created classroom of the Victorian period, and displays on local history, industry and life in the East End of London.
• Pollock's Toy Museum. Pollock's are famous for Victorian toy theatres.
• 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.
• 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; the Tower of London; and Louisville, Kentuky (USA).
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Sections on: science and horticulture, collections, conservation and wildlife, and education.
• Rose Theatre. Remains of an Elizabethan theatre.
• Royal Academy of Arts. Permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
• Royal Academy of Music: York Gate Collections. Displays of the many fine items from the Academy's collections, including a large collection of Cremonese stringed instruments. Other exhibits include musical memorabilia and original manuscripts.
• Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon.
• Royal Armouries, with museums in: Leeds, West Yorkshire; Fort Nelson, Fareham, Hampshire; the Tower of London; and Louisville, Kentuky (USA). Home of the the UK's national collection of arms and armour.
• The Royal Collection. A distributed collection, mainly in royal palaces, formed by the Royal family, including Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. See also: The Queen's Gallery, Balmoral Castle, Sandringham House, the Historic Royal Palaces and the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.
• Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Home of the Prime Meridian of the world.
  [Part of: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]
• Royal Society of British Sculptors (RBS) Gallery. Includes on-line gallery or members works.
• Saatchi Gallery. Exhibitions of contemporary art by young artists or international artists rarely, or never, shown in the UK.
• Science Museum. See collections, exhibitions, and the Wellcome Wing.
  [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 - Houses the national collection of British art from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the Turner Bequest, and the national collection of international modern art. Includes as searchable database of 25,000 works and 12,000 images. Made up of :
  • Tate Britain, London - The national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day;
  • Tate Modern, London - A major new gallery of modern and contemporary art;
  • Tate Liverpool, Merseyside - The largest modern art gallery in the UK outside London;
  • Tate St Ives, Cornwall - modern British art in a spectacular coastal setting.
• Theatre Museum, Covent Garden. Britain's "National Museum of the Performing Arts". In the heart of London's theatreland, with the world's largest and most important collections relating to the British stage.
  [Part of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)].
• Twickenham Museum, Middlesex. Local history museum.
• University College London Collections. The portal site for UCL's various collections: Science; Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy; Institute of Archaeology; Geological Sciences; Art; Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
• Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow. Local history museum, with galleries on domestic life, industry, costume and leisure in the Waltham Forest area. Housed in an early 18th century house.
• 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.
• Wandsworth Museum. "The history of Wandsworth from prehistoric times to the present day".
• Whitechapel Art Gallery. Temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
• William Morris Gallery, Waltham Forest.
• Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum. "Offers a glimpse of how the gentle game of Lawn Tennis, once all the rage on the lawns of Victorian England and with origins that go far back to medieval Royal Tennis, has become a multi-million dollar professional sport, played all over the world."
• Wimbledon Windmill Museum. Agricultural industry museum, with models and tools.
• The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University. Has the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK. Over 60,000 books and pamphlets, 2,500 periodical titles, 400 archive collections and 5,000 museum objects. Covers issues such as: health, sexuality, popular culture, politics, history and human rights.

Merseyside

• World Museum Liverpool, Merseyside.
  [Responsible for: The Conservation Centre; Merseyside Maritime Museum; HM Customs & Excise National Museum; Museum of Liverpool Life; Walker Art Gallery; Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight; Sudley House].
• Liverpool -
  • Liverpool Scottish Museum Trust. Military museum [limited access].
  • Tate Liverpool. The largest modern art gallery in the UK outside London.
• St Helens -
  • North West Museum of Road Transport. 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.
• Southport -
  • British Lawnmower Museum. Garden machinery history.

Norfolk

• Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service.
  [Responsible for: In Norwich - Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery; Norwich Castle Study Centre; Bridewell Museum; Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum; Stranger's Hall Museum; Costume and Textile Study Centre, Carrow House;
  In Great Yarmouth - Elizabethan House Museum; Time and Tide; Tollhouse Museum;
  In King's Lynn - Lynn Museum; Town House Museum;
  Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse; Cromer Museum; Thetford Ancient House Museum]
• Cromer - Cromer Museum. Collections on local history and landscape.
  [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
• Diss - Bressingham Steam Museum. Military museum. Preserved narrow-guage railway, with traction engines, and a Victorian steam roundabout.
• Great Yarmouth -
  • Elizabethan House Museum. Late 16th century merchants's house, with period furnishings.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Norfolk Nelson Museum. Naval history museum.
  • Time and Tide.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Tollhouse Museum. Medieval building, used as prison in 19th century. Local history collections.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
• Gressenhall - Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse. Agricultural history museum and traditional working farm.
  [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
• King's Lynn -
  • Lynn Museum. Collections on local history, natural science, art and industry.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Town House Museum. Furniture and domestic life from medieval period to 20th century.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
• Norwich -
  • Bridewell Museum.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Castle Study Centre, Shirehall.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Costume and Textile Study Centre, Carrow House.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Inspire Discovery Centre. Science centre. Based in a medieval church, its aim is: "To promote and encourage the discovery and enjoyment of science by all members of the community using hands-on exhibits and related activities."
  • Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery. Collections of archaeology, natural history, art and social history.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Norwich Castle Study Centre.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • City of Norwich Aviation Museum. Military aircraft collection.
  • Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum. Military museum.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
  • Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia.
  • Stranger's Hall Museum. Social history collections.
    [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
• Thetford - Thetford Ancient House Museum. Early Tudor building with local history, industry and natural science displays.
  [Part of: Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]

North Yorkshire

• Hutton-le-Hole - Ryedale Folk Museum. Open air museum with reconstructed historic buildings and collections on agriculture, trades, and crafts.
• Malton -
  • Eden Camp. World War II prisoner of war camp.
  • Malton Museum. Archaeology museum - Roman and medieval collections.
• Pickering - Beck Isle Museum. Rural life museum with displays reflecting the past 200 years. Site has a virtual tour, and the largest on-line collection of photographs by Sidney Smith.
• Reeth - Swaledale Museum. Stone walls, village life, lead mining, sheep and cattle farming, etc.
• Richmond - Green Howards Regimental Museum. Military museum.
• Ripon - Yorkshire Law and Order Museums at Ripon. Museums of the history of the local police force, and the operation of the Victorian Poor Law (based in the former workhouse)
  [Includes: House of Correction, The Workhouse, The Courthouse]
• Whitby - Whitby Museum. Local history, geology and archaeology museum
• York -
  • Barley Hall. A medieval oak-framed house, with all items of fixtures and fittings are made using ancient materials and techniques.
  • Jorvik Viking Centre. "Get face-to-face with the Vikings on the very site where archaeologists discovered the remains of the place they once called home."
  • National Railway Museum.
    [Part of the National Museum of Science and Industry].
  • Richard III Museum. Housed in the medieval Monk Bar gatehouse, offers a look at the Richard III controversy. Its major exhibition is a reconstructed trial of King Richard.
  • York Museums Trust.
    [Responsible for: York Art Gallery, York St Mary's, York Castle Museum, and Yorkshire Museum & Gardens]

Northamptonshire

• Althorp - Althorp House. Ancestral home of the Spencer family, resting place of Princess Diana.
• Harrington -
  • Carpetbagger Aviation Museum.

Northumberland

• Alnwick - Bailiffgate Museum. Local history museum.
• Ashington - Woodhorn Northumberland Museum and Archives. Exhibitions on local history and the mining industry set in a country park. Also contains the county archives.
• Bellingham - Bellingham Heritage Centre. Preserves and displays the heritage of the North Tyne and Redewater area. Covers all aspects of local history, including: The Border Counties Railway; mining; photographs of W P Collier (rural life in Northumberland between the two World Wars); and the Border Reivers.

Northern Ireland

• Armagh - Armagh Planetarium.
• Belfast -
  • Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). The official place of deposit for public records in Northern Ireland.
  • The Police Museum. Virtual museum.
  • Royal Ulster Rifles Regimental Museum. Military museum.
  • Ulster Museum. Collections ranging from local material to historic collections of worldwide interest.
    [Part of National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland]
• Craigavon - Craigavon Museum Services. A collection of research material and objects which illustrate the history and local heritage of the area.
• Holywood - Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Reconstructed buildings.
• Omagh - Ulster-American Folk Park. An outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes an interactive map

Nottinghamshire

• Nottingham -
  • Bonington Gallery (The Future Factory). Venue for contemporary art, hosting touring exhibitions and local single artis shows. Emphasis on live performance and installation art.
  • 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.
• Papplewick - Papplewick Pumping Station. A preserved Victorian water pumping station.
• Welbeck - Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre. Tells the story of human and animal survival in the harsh climate of the last Ice Age.

Oxfordshire

• Bloxham - Bloxham Village Museum. Local history museum.
• Faringdon - Faringdon and District Museum.
• Henley-on-Thames - River and Rowing Museum. Galleries devoted to the River Thames, the international sport of rowing and the town of Henley.
• Long Wittenden - Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport.
• Oxford -
  • Ashmolean Museum of Art and 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 Shop and the Map Case of on-line historic maps in the Map Room.
  • Christ Church Picture Gallery.
  • Modern Art Oxford. A "leading centre for modern and contemporary art with a national and international reputation".
  • Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. See online exhibits and an image library.
  • Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Collections of: 3 million insects and several thousand spiders; over 500,000 fossil specimens; c30,000 minerals and 50,000 rocks; 200,000 zoological specimens. Housed in a Victorian neo-Gothic building.
  • Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Anthropology and Ethnography.
• Uffington - Tom Brown's School Museum.
• Wallingford - Wallingford Museum.
• Wantage - Vale and Downland Museum.

Rutland

• Oakham - Catmose Gallery. Temporary exhibitions and art events.

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).
• 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 Scottish Country Life, East Kilbride; National War Museum of Scotland; Museum of Costume, New Abbey]
• Aberdeen -
  • Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums. Collections of fine art, applied art, archaeology, maritime, numismatics, science, industry and technology. See also Aberdeen Quest, interactive website for children using the collections with virtual tours, discover pages, games and learning resources.
    [Responsible for: Aberdeen Art Gallery; Aberdeen Maritime Museum; Provost Skene's House; The Tolbooth ]
  • Gordon Highlanders Museum. Military museum
  • Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen. Collections of Egyptian and Classical antiquities, non-Western ethnography, Scottish prehistory and numismatics.
  • Satrosphere. An interactive exhibition of science and technology, the first one in Scotland.
• Bathgate, West Lothian - Bennie Museum. Local history museum
• Bettyhill, Caithness - Strathnaver Museum. Local history museum.
• Bo'ness, West Lothian - Scottish Railway Preservation Society. Transport museum with the largest collection of railway locomotives, carriages, wagons, equipment and artefacts outside the National Railway Museum.
• Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway - Creetown Gem Rock Museum. Displays of crystals, minerals, fossils and gemstones.
• Dunaskin, Ayrshire - Dunaskin Open Air Museum. Large collection of industrial machinery, historic buildings, an ironworker's cottage, and a simulated coal mine
• Dunrossness, Shetland - Croft House Museum.
  [Part of Shetland Museum Service]
• East Lothian - East Lothian Museums.With on-line exhibitions.
  [Responsible for: North Berwick Museum, Dunbar Town House Museum, Prestongrange Museum]
• Easdale Island - Easdale Island Folk Museum. Local history, especially the slate quarring industry.
• East Kilbride - Museum of Scottish Country Life. "The story of how Scots have worked the land through the ages".
  [Part of: National Museums of Scotland
• Edinburgh -
  • City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries. A range of venues relfecting the history and art of the capital of Scotland.
    [Responsible for: City Art Centre; Writers' Museum; Queensferry Museum; Newhaven Museum; Museum of Childhood; The Museum of Edinburgh; The People's Story Museum; Lauriston Castle; Travelling Gallery]
  • Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music.
  • Museum of Scotland. The history of Scotland from its geological beginnings to the twentieth century.
    [Part of: National Museums of Scotland
  • National War Museum of Scotland. Miltary museum - "Scotland's national collections for the armed services".
    [Part of: National Museums of Scotland]
  • Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Information about the collections, and searchable databases.
• Elgin, Moray - Elgin Museum. Pictish stones, local fossils, archaeology, geology, natural history, social history and ethnography.
• Forrres, Morray -Falconer Museum. Local history museum.
• Glasgow -
  • Glasgow Museums, Scotland.
    [Responsible for: The Burrell Collection; Fossil Grove; Gallery of Modern Art; Glasgow Museums Resource Centre; Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum;Martyrs' School; McLellan Galleries; Museum of Transport; People's Palace and Winter Gardens; Pollok House; Provand's Lordship; Scotland Street School Museum; St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
  • Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Anatomical and pathological specimens. Art, coins, books, manuscripts, geology, zoology and ethnography.
  • Scottish Football Museum. History of football in Scotland.
• Grantown-on-Spey - Grantown Museum, Scotland. Local history museum.
• Inverness - Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. Collections of natural history, archaeology and local history. Includes a Discovery Centre and Records Centre (biological and archaeological).
• Isle of Skye - Isle of Skye Toy Museum.
• Kilmartin, Argyll - Kilmartin House Museum. Based in "Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape".
• Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway - John Paul Jones Cottage Museum. The re-created home of the "Father of the American Navy".
• Lerwick, Shetland -
  • Shetland Museum Service.
    [Responsible for: Shetland Museum Service, Lerwick; Croft House Museum, Dunrossness; Böd of Gremista Museum, Lerwick]
  • Shetland Museum
    [Part of Shetland Museum Service]
  • Böd of Gremista Museum
    [Part of Shetland Museum Service]
• Moray Council Museums Service.
  [Responsible for: In Forres - The Falconer Museum, and Nelson Tower; Tomintoul Museum
• Lochmaddy, North Uist, Western Isles - Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre. Local history museum and art collections.
• Mallaig, Inverness-shire - Mallaig Heritage Centre. Local history museum looking at the history and culture of the West Highlands of Scotland.
• Motherwell, North Lanarkshire - Motherwell Heritage Centre. Presents an interactive journey through the loacl history from Victorian to the present day.
• New Abbey, Dumfriesshire - Museum of Costume. A Victorian country house containing costume from the 1850s to the 1950s displayed in period room settings.
  [Part of: National Museums of Scotland]
• North Berwick, East Lothian - Museum of Flight. "Discover the story of man's ambition to take to the skies".
  [Part of: National Museums of Scotland
• Port Charlotte, Isle of Islay - Museum of Islay Life. Local history museum.
• Ruthwell, Dumfries - Savings Bank Museum. Traces the life of Rev Henry Duncan who opened the world's first savings bank based on business principles in 1810. Also houses an important archive of nineteenth century banking, social and family history.
• St Andrews, Fife -
  • Bell-Pettigrew Museum, University of St Andrews. Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships between animals.
  • British Golf Museum. Tells the story of British golf chronologically, exploring the events, personalities and equipment used throughout the ages.
  • 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.
  • Strathpeffer, Ross & Cromarty - Highland Museum of Childhood. Telling the stroy of Hightland childhood with audio-visual presentations and displays, and collections of dolls, toys and costume.
  • Westray - Orkney Faerie Museum and Gallery. "Dedicated to the legends of Orkney's Faeries and other myths".
  • Western Isles - Museum nan Eilean. Local history museums in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, and Sgoil Lionacleit, Isle of Benbecula.

Shropshire

• Darwin Country. An educational resource for lifelong learning. Explore the natural and human history of part of the West Midlands of England and adjacent parts of Wales (broadly centered on Shrewsbury, the County Town of Shropshire) during the 18th and 19th Centuries.
• 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 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.
  • Shrewsbury Museums Service.
    [Responsible for: Rowley's House, Shrewsbury Castle, Coleham Pumping Station and Clive House]

Somerset

• Somerset County Museums Service. Local museum service with collections of geology, natural history, archaeology, ceramics, textiles and social history.
  [Responsible for: Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, East Quay Bridgwater; Somerset County Museum, Taunton Castle; Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury ]
• Bath -
  • American Museum in Britain. Only museum in Europe devoted to American furniture, decorative arts and quilts.
  • Bath Postal Museum. Covers the history of the Post in the UK and introduce the key people that shaped the postal system,
  • Bath Preservation Trust. The Trust exists to preserve the historic character and amenities of Bath, one of only 3 UNESCO World Heritage Cities.
    [Responsible for: No1 Royal Crescent Museum; Building of Bath Museum; Beckford's Tower and Museum; Herschel Museum
  • Holbourne Museum and 20th Century Crafts Study Centre. Fine art and decorative art collection.
  • Jane Austen Centre in Bath. Tells the story of the author's Bath experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing.
  • Museum of Costume and Assembly Rooms.
  • Roman Baths Museum and Pump Room.
  • Royal Photographic Society. World-renowned collection of 19th century photographs, equipment, books and journals
• Bristol -
  • Arnolfini Gallery. Contemporary arts.
  • Bristol Museums and Art Gallery. Collections of: applied art, archaeology, eastern art, ethnography, fine art, geology, industrial and maritime, natural history and social history.
    [Responsible for: City Museum and Art Gallery ; Bristol Industrial Museum; The Georgian House; The Red Lodge; Blaise Castle House; Kings Weston Roman Villa]
  • Glenside Museum. "The museum has a wide range of paraphernalia and images from the life of Glenside [Hospital] and of the local Learning Disability Hospitals of the Stoke Park Group and the Burden Neurological Institution".
  • University of Bristol Theatre Collection. Dedicated to the study of British theatre history, with collections of original documents, photographs and artefacts from theatres, actors, designers.
• Frome - Frome Museum. Collection of local artefacts and sources of information, ranging from costumes from the Horner family to glass negatives from Singers Art Metal works. It has a library, collection of historic maps and a range of local information leaflets and books.
• Glastonbury - Glastonbury Abbey. Traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world, with connections to King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
• Sparkford - Haynes International Motor Museum. Transport museum with educational programme.
• Weston-super-Mare -
  • Helicopter Museum.
  • North Somerset Museum Service. 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.
• Westonzoyland - Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum. Large collection of stationary steam engines and land drainage items.
• Williton - Bakelite Museum. The largest collection of vintage plastics in Britain, especially from the Art Deco period.
• Yeovilton -Fleet Air Arm Museum. 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 - The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft. Transport museum.
• Rotherham - Magna. The UK's first Science Adventure Centre, providing an exploration of Earth, Air, Fire and Water – "a chance for visitors to create their own adventure through hands-on interactive challenges".
• Sheffield -
  • Fire and Police Museum (Sheffield). History of a local fire and police service.
  • Sheffield Bus Museum. Local transport museum.
  • Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust , 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]

Staffordshire

• Staffordshire Past Track. Featuring a searchable archive of resources (limited to Stafford District). Also on-line exhibitions on: A Thousand Years of Staffordshire Churches, Celebrations, In Loving Memory, William Palmer, Coal Mining in North Staffordshire, and Birth Rights.
• Burton-on-Trent - Coors Visitor Centre. History of the beer brewing industry.
• Coates Heath - Mill Meece Pumping Station. Early 20th century steam-powered water pumping station.
• Lichfield -
  • Lichfield Heritage Centre. Local history, including: treasury, historic documents and photographs.
  • Staffordshire Regiment Museum. Military museum.
• Stoke-on-Trent -
  • Stoke-on-Trent Museums.
    [Responsible for: The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery; Gladstone Pottery Museum; Eturia Industrial Museum and Ford Green Hall].
  • Etruria Industrial Museum.
    [Part of: Stoke-on-Trent Museums].
  • Ford Green Hall. 17th to 18th centuries farmhouse.
    [Part of: Stoke-on-Trent Museums].
  • Gladstone Pottery Museum. Working pottery.
    [Part of: Stoke-on-Trent Museums].
  • The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. The world's finest collection of Staffordshire ceramics.
    [Part of: Stoke-on-Trent Museums].
  • Spode Museum. Oldest English pottery, ceramics, bone china, earthenware.
• Stretton - Claymills Pumping Engines. A preserved Victorian pumping station.

Suffolk

• Bury St Edmunds -
  • Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery. Promotes fine arts and crafts through a programme of changing exhibition and projects outside the Gallery, working in partnership with other organisations.
  • Moyse's Hall Museum. Archaeology and local history, in a building originally built in the 12th century. Also houses the Suffolk Regiment Museum Collection.
• Ipswich -
  • Ipswich Transport Museum.
• Southwold - Southwold Museum. Local history museum, based in 17th century cottages.
• Stowmarket - Museum of East Anglian Life.
• Sudbury - Gainsborough's House. Museum and art gallery at the birthplace of artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), with examples of his work and an exhibition programme

Surrey

• Ash - Ash Museum. Local history museum.
• Chertsey - Chertsey Museum. Thames valley archaeology. Runnymeade area social history, horology, fine and decorative art and British fashionable dress.
• Cobham - Cobham Bus Museum. Transport museum, with the world's largest collection of ex-London Transport buses and coaches.
• Compton - Watts Gallery. The memorial gallery to George Frederic Watts, the Victorian artist and sculptor.
• East Molesey -
  • Royal Tennis Courts and Hampton Court Palace.
  • Embroiderers' Guild , Hampton Court Palace. The Guild's museum has a collection of over 11,000 embroidered objects of national significance, gathered from around the world, and take many forms including costume, furnishings, decorative and non-functional textiles. A particular strength is the holding of embroidery worked in Britain from the 16th century to the present day.
• Farnham -
  • Museum of Farnham. Local history museum situated in a Georgian town house dating from 1718. Collections include: material on William Cobbett, Waverley Abbey, photograph collection, newpapers. Also schools collection, special exhibitions, library and shop.
  • Rural Life Centre Old Kiln Museum. 150 years of farming.
• Godalming - Godalming Museum. Local history, industry, geology, archeology.
• Guildford - The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment Museum. Military museum
• Haslemere - Haslemere Educational Museum. Geology, natural and human history galleries, garden nature trail and observation beehive. Popular exhibits are the Egyptian mummy and 'Arthur' the brown bear.
• Richmond-upon-Thames - Museum of Richmond. Local history museum.
• Weybridge -
  • Elmbridge Museum. Local history museum.
  • Brooklands Museum. Transport museum. "The Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation" - the first purpose built motor racing circuit in the world.

Teeside

• Darlington - Tees Cottage Pumping Station. Victorian waterworks, with steam engines.

Tyne and Wear

• Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle. A major, regional museum and art gallery service.
  [Responsible for: Gateshead - Shipley Art Gallery; Newcastle - Discovery Museum, Hancock Museum, Laing Art Gallery; North Tyneside - Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum, Stephenson Railway Museum;South Tyneside: Arbeia Roman Fort & Museu