u s e u m s
around
the UK on the Web
Alphabetical Order,
'Star' Sites
Geographical Order
Items starting with
are
recent additions or updates. Items with a
have large collections
and/or are recommended. If enough people ask that a museum receive a
, it will get one.
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
Buckinghamshire
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
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
Dorset
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 -
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 -
- Stansted -
- 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 -
- 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 -
- 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 -
- 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
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 -
- 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
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
Norfolk
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 -
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
Nottinghamshire
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
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 -
- Elgin, Moray - Elgin Museum. Pictish stones, local
fossils, archaeology, geology, natural history, social history and ethnography.
- Forrres, Morray -Falconer Museum. Local history
museum.
- Glasgow -
- 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 -
- 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 -
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 -
- 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 -
- 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 -
Staffordshire
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 -
- 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
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