u s e u m s
around
the UK on the Web
Alphabetical Order,
Geographical Order
'Star' Sites
These sites have large collections and/or are recommended. Items starting
with 
are recent additions or
updates.
A, B,
C,
D, E,
F, G,
H, I,
J, K,
L, M,
N, O,
P, Q,
R, S,
T, U,
V, W,
X, Y,
Z
- 24 Hour Museum.
A gateway to information about UK museums. Includes an advanced museum locator,
up-to-date museum and gallery news, links to educational resources and a variety
of other features. The world's first ever Government-recognised national museum
which only exists in cyberspace. See also children's section
Show Me.
A
B
- Bath
Preservation Trust, Somerset. 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
- Beck Isle Museum,
Pickering, North Yorkshire. 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.
- Birmingham Museums and Art
Gallery, West Midlands.
[Responsible for:Aston
Hall, Blakesley Hall, Soho House, Weoley Castle, and the Museum of the Jewellery
Quarter]
- Bletchley Park
Trust, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. "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).
- 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.
- The Bowes Museum,
Barnard Castle, County Durham. 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.
- British Library, London.
See
Collections,
Exhibitions and
the
Treasures, which
includes the Magna
Carta, viewable at various magnifications.
- British Museum,
London. See:
World Cultures,
Compass
on-line database and
Children's
Compass,
Current
Exhibitions and
Education
Department.
-
British Postal Museum and Archive,
London. "Works to make this human story of communication, industry, and
innovation accessible to everyone."
- Buckinghamshire
County Museum, Aylesbury. Includes the
Roald
Dahl Children's Gallery and on-line databases of
5,000 objects and
over
12,000
photographs.
C
- Camborne
School of Mines Virtual Museum. A virtual museum of the Cornubian Orefield,
covering geology, mineralization, mining history, environmental impact, virtual
field trips, etc. of Devon and Cornwall.
- Chertsey Museum,
Surrey. Thames valley archaeology. Runnymeade area social history, horology,
fine and decorative art and British fashionable dress.
- Cornucopia. An
on-line database of over 6,000 collections from museums, galleries, archives and
libraries in the UK. Developed and managed by the Museums, Libraries and
Archives Council (MLA).
- 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.
D
- 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.
E
- Eden Camp, Malton,
North Yorkshire. World War II prisoner of war camp
F
- Fitzwilliam
Museum, University of Cambridge. Permanent collections include antiquities,
applied arts, coins and paintings. See on-line shop.
G
H
- 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]
- Hayward Gallery,
South Bank, London. Modern art, special exhibitions.
- The Horniman Museum and
Gardens, Forest Hill, London. Collections on world cultures (ethnography),
natural history, and music.
- Hunterian Museum and
Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Anatomical and pathological specimens.
Art, coins, books, manuscripts, geology, zoology and ethnography.
I
J
- 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]
K
L
- Leicester City
Museums, Leicestershire. Museums with collections of Egyptology; natural
history (including dinosaurs); fine art; paintings; sculpture; pre-historic,
Roman and medieval artefacts and costume
[Responsible
for: New Walk Museum; Jewry Wall Museum; Newarke Houses Museum; The Guildhall;
Abbey Pumping Station; Belgrave Hall and Gardens; Wygston's House; The Great
Hall of Leiceter Castle; The Magazine]
M
- Magna Rotherham,
South Yorkshire. 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".
- 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.
- Manx National Heritage,
Isle of Man. 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 Old Grammar 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]
- Mary Rose Maritime
Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. 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.
- Museum
of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne. Archaeology in north east England.
Includes a
Flints and Stones
exhibition and Virtual
Mithraeum.
- 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 British Road
Transport, Coventry, Warwickshire.
- 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 the History of
Science, University of Oxford. See
online exhibits and an
image library.
- 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.
N
- 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
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]
- The National
Gallery, London.
Collection of
Western European paintings (1260-1900). See also
Exhibitions and
The Micro Gallery
(off-line).
- National Library of Scotland,
Edinburgh. On-line catalogues and other resources, a digital library (including
The First Scottish Books).
- National
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Includes on-line exhibitions and searchable
databases.
- 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 Motor Museum,
Beaulieu, Hampshire.
- National Museums &
Galleries of Wales, Cardiff. (In English and Welsh).
[Responsible for:
Big Pit - National Coal
Museum, Blaenafon; National
Museum, Cardiff;
National Roman Legionary
Museum, Caerleon;
National Slate Museum,
Llanberis; National
Waterfront Museum , Swansea;
National Wool Museum,
Dre-fach Felindre; St
Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff].
- 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 Museums of
Scotland, Edinburgh. "Presenting Scotland to the World and the World to
Scotland"
[Responsible for:
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]
- National Portrait Gallery,
London.
- National Railway
Museum, York.
[Part of the
National Museum of Science and Industry].
- Natural History Museum, London. 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].
- National Tramway Museum,
Crich, Derbyshire. Includes a searchable database of 2,500 photographic images
- 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]
- Norwich
Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norfolk. Collections of archaeology, natural
history, art and social history.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology
Service]
O
P
- 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.
- Pitt Rivers Museum,
University of Oxford. Anthropology and Ethnography.
- PortCities UK.
Looks at the maritime history of Bristol, Hartlepool, Liverpool, London and
Southampton. Contains a digitised collection resource from museums, libraries
and archives. Explores the people who lived in these comunities - their trades,
industries and leisure time.
Q
- Quarry Bank
Mill, Styal, Cheshire. A leading museum of the Industrial Revolution and a
working cotton mill set in the original buildings dating back to 1784.
R
- River and Rowing Museum,
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Galleries devoted to the River Thames, the
international sport of rowing and the town of Henley.
- Royal Academy of
Arts, London. Permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
- Royal Air Force
Museum, Hendon, London.
- 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 Botanic Gardens,
Kew, London. Sections on: science and horticulture, collections, conservation
and wildlife, and education.
- Royal Observatory,
Greenwich, London. Home of the Prime Meridian of the world.
[Part of: National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich]
S
- Sainsbury's
Virtual Museum. Contains a wealth of material, including photographic and
documentary sources on shopping for the period 1869 to 1900. It is designed to
help teachers use the internet to support the teaching of the following elements
of the UK History National Curriculum
- Science Museum,
London. See
collections,
exhibitions,
and the
Wellcome
Wing.
[Part of the
National Museum of Science and Industry].
- Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. Aims to promote
appreciation of Shakespeare's works, with educational activities at all levels.
Maintains the five houses directly connected with the dramatist and his family,
and has a museum and library of books, manuscripts and records of local historic
interest.
- Show Me. The children's
section of the
24 Hour Museum. Showcases all of
the great interactive content being created by UK museums and galleries for
children. Although designed to appeal to children the site has also been
re-organised to display content by theme - which means content can be searched
for quickly and easily by teachers.
- Southampton
City Council Arts and Heritage, Hampshire. Nationally important archaeology
collections, and information about RMS Titanic.
[Responsible
for: Tudor House Musem, Southamption Maritime Museum, Museum of Archaeology, and
Southampton City Art Gallery]
- 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.
- 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 ]
T
- The Tank Museum,
Bovington, Dorset.
- 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.
- Thackray Medical
Museum, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Based in a Union Workhouse of 1861, the
collection has 30,000 items that span the whole history of medicine.
- Theatre Museum,
Covent Garden, London. 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)].
- Tullie House Museum
and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria. Collections of fine and decorative art,
human history and natural sciences.
[Responsible for:
Guildhall Museum]
- 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 & Museum, South Shields Museum & Art Gallery;Sunderland:
Monkwearmouth Station Museum; Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. ]
U
V
W
- The Wallace
Collection, Hertford House, London. Paintings (especially French 18th
century), miniatures, decorative arts, arms and armour.
- Whitworth Art
Gallery, University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints,
wallpapers, modern art. Includes a
collections
search and
exhibitions
section.
- 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].
- The Wordsworth
Museum, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria. Maintained by the Wordsworth Trust.
Y
- York Museums
Trust.
[Responsible for: York Art Gallery, York St
Mary's, York Castle Museum, and Yorkshire Museum & Gardens]
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