Museums in England

Museums in England is a link page for any museum in England.

See: List of museums, Museums in Scotland, Museums in Wales, Museums in Northern Ireland, Museums in the Republic of Ireland, List of British railway museums

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Table of contents

1 Berkshire 2 Buckinghamshire 3 Cambridgeshire 4 Cornwall 5 Cumbria 6 Derbyshire 7 Greater London 8 Greater Manchester 9 Hampshire 10 Hertfordshire 11 Kent 12 Lancashire 13 Merseyside 14 Norfolk 15 Northamptonshire 16 Northumberland 17 North Yorkshire 18 Oxfordshire 19 Shropshire 20 Somerset 21 South Yorkshire 22 Staffordshire 23 Suffolk 24 Surrey 25 West Sussex 26 West Midlands 27 West Yorkshire

Berkshire

• Reading Museum (Replica of the Bayeux Tapestry)

Buckinghamshire

• Bletchley Park Museum (Enigma machine)

Cambridgeshire

• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Cornwall

• Barbara Hepworth Museum, St Ives, Cornwall
• Penlee House, Penzance
• Tate St Ives

Cumbria

• Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
• Beatrix Potter Gallery, Hawkshead
• Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick
• Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
• Kendal Museum
• Museum of Lakeland Life, Kendal
• Tullie House Museum, Carlisle

Derbyshire

• Derby Industrial Museum
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery
• National Trust Museum of Childhood
• Working Textile Museum, Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site

Greater London

• British Museum
• Imperial War Museum -- see also Manchester
• The London Institute
• Madame Tussaud's
• Museum of London
• Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) now closed, apparently permanently
• National Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery
• Natural History Museum
• Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
• Science Museum
• Tate Gallery: Tate Britain and Tate Modern
• Victoria and Albert Museum

Greater Manchester

• Manchester City:
  • Imperial War Museum
  • Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
  • Manchester Museum
  • Pump House Peoples' History Museum
• Salford:
  • The Lowry
• Tameside:
  • Museum of the Manchester Regiment, Portland Basin Museum

Hampshire

• Beaulieu Motor Museum
• Southsea Museum

Hertfordshire

• De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, also known as Mosquito Aircraft Museum
• Verulamium Museum

Kent

• Charles Dickens Centre, Rochester
• Dog Collar Museum, Leeds Castle

Lancashire

• Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley
• British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland

Merseyside

• Customs & Excise National Museum
• Historic Warships, Birkenhead
• Lady Lever Art Gallery
• Liverpool Museum
• Merseyside Maritime Museum
• Museum of Liverpool Life
• Tate Liverpool
• Walker Art Gallery

Norfolk

• Bressingham Steam Museum
• East Anglia Railway Museum
• Strumpshaw Hall Steam Museum
• Toad Hole Museum, How Hill
• Working Textile Museum, Derwent Valley Mills

Northamptonshire

• Earls Barton Museum of Village Life
• Northampton Central Museum & Art Gallery

Northumberland

• Grace Darling Museum, Bamburgh
• Northumberland Fusiliers Museum in Alnwick Castle

North Yorkshire

• Bronte Museum, Haworth
• Castle Museum, York
• National Railway Museum, York
• Yorkshire Museum of Farming, York

Oxfordshire

• Ashmolean Museum
• Pitt Rivers Museum

Shropshire

• Coleham Pumping Station Shrewsbury
• Ironbridge - This area has many museums relating to the industrial revolution.

Somerset

• Admiral Blake Museum Bridgwater
• Somerset Brick and Tile Museum Bridgwater

South Yorkshire

• Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield
• Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley
• Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham
• Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
• Magna, Rotherham
• Sheffield Fire and Police Museum, Sheffield
• Weston Park Museum, Sheffield

Staffordshire

• Brindley Water Museum, Leek, Staffordshire
• Izaak Walton Cottage Museum

Suffolk

• Amber Museum, Southwold
• Beccles Museum
• Ipswich Museum
• Sue Ryder Foundation Museum, Cavendish
• William Clowes Printing Museum, Beccles

Surrey

• Guildford Museum

West Sussex

• Amberley Working Museum, Arundel
• Fishbourne Roman Palace

West Midlands

• Aston Hall (Birmingham)
• Aston Manor Transport Museum (Birmingham)
• Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
• Birmingham Railway Museum
• Bishop Asbury Cottage (Sandwell)
• Black County Living Museum
• Blakesley Hall (Birmingham)
• Discovery Centre at Millennium Point (Birmingham)
• Kenilworth Geology Musuem (Birmingham)
• Museum of the Jewellery Quarter (Birmingham)
• a planned Natural History Museum (Birmingham)
• Pen Room (Birmingham)
• Soho House (Birmingham)
• Walsall Leather Museum
• Weoley Castle (Birmingham)
• Willenhall Lock Musuem

West Yorkshire

• Museum of Rail Travel, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford
• Royal Armouries, Leeds
• West Yorkshire Folk Museum
• Heptonstall Museum, Heptonstall