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Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria. 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.

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland. Collections of fine art, applied art, archaeology, maritime, numismatics, science, industry and technology.

AccessArt. The aim of this site is "Making art more accessible!" It is an evolving collection of online workshops and arts educational activities aimed at all ages.

Amberley Museum, West Sussex. Outdoor industrial museum based in chalk pits.

American Museum in Britain, Bath, Somerset. Only museum in Europe devoted to American furniture, decorative arts and quilts.

Armagh Planetarium, Northern Ireland.

ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire. Contemporary visual arts venue in the New Forest.

Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Historic buildings covering seven centuries, rescued and rebuilt on an open-air site

Bailiffgate Museum, Alnwick, Northumberland. Local history museum.

Bakelite Museum, Williton, Somerset. The largest collection of vintage plastics in Britain, especially from the Art Deco period.

Barley Hall, York. A medieval oak-framed house, with all items of fixtures and fittings are made using ancient materials and techniques.

Barometer World and Museum, Merton, Devon.

Bath Postal Museum, Somerset. Covers the history of the Post in the UK and introduce the key people that shaped the postal system,

Bath Preservation Trust, Somerset. The Trust exists to preserve the historic character and amenities of Bath, one of only 3 UNESCO World Heritage Cities.

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.

Beckford Tower and Museum, Bath, Somerset. 19th century retreat for William Beckford. Contains collections illustrating his life.
[Part of: Bath Preservation Trust]

Bedford Museum. Display of human history of the region from prehistoric times.

Bellingham Heritage Centre, Northumberland. 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.

Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Nottingham.

Biggar Museum Trust, Moat Park, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland. See list of museums.
[Includes: Greenholl Covenanters' House, Moat Park Heritage Centre, Gladstone Court Museum, The Albion Archive, Biggar Gasworks, and Brownsbank Cottage (home of Hugh MacDiarmid)]

The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture , University of Exeter, Devon. Displays on the history of cinema and its percursors - zoetropes, magic lanterns, panoramas and shadow puppets.

Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall, West Midlands.

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, West Midlands.

Birmingham Schools Liaison Department, West Midlands. A group of teachers who work within museums, teaching schoolchildren during planned visits

Blackwell, Kendal, Cumbria. A surviving house in the Arts and Crafts movement style, with most of the original decorative interiors still intact.

Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands. Living history museum.

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).

Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. One of the world's largest floating collection of traditional canal craft.

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.

Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria. The home of the, 19th century, poet, artist and critic - John Ruskin.

Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk. Military museum. Preserved narrow-guage railway, with traction engines, and a Victorian steam roundabout.

British Golf Museum, St Andrews, Scotland. Tells the story of British golf chronologically, exploring the events, personalities and equipment used throughout the ages.

British Lawnmower Museum, Southport, Merseyside. Garden machinery history.

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.

Brixham Heritage Museum, Devon. Local history museum, with on-line photographs, and information about maritime history and archaeology.

Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. Transport museum. "The Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation" - the first purpose built motor racing circuit in the world.

Building of Bath Museum, Somerset. Housed in the, 18th century, Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel. Tells the story of the creation of Georgian Bath.
[Part of: Bath Preservation Trust]

Bury Art Gallery and Museum, Greater Manchester. Victorian paintings, challenging contemporary art and scenes from Bury's past. Includes works by Constable and Turner

Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk. Promotes fine arts and crafts through a programme of changing exhibition and projects outside the Gallery, working in partnership with other organisations.

Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire. 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.

Butser Ancient Farm, near Petersfield, Hampshire. 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.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, Covent Garden, London. A museum of automata (mechanical sculpture).

Cadbury World, Bournville, Birmingham, West Midlands. Includes the Cadbury Collection, an exhibition on the history of Cadbury's chocolate and the village of Bournville.

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.

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.

Canterbury Museums, Kent. 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]

Carpetbagger Aviation Museum, Harrington, Northamptonshire

Catalyst, Widnes, Cheshire. The only museum in Europe solely devoted to the chemical industry.

Charleston, nr Lewes, East Sussex. 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

Chertsey Museum, Surrey. Thames valley archaeology. Runnymeade area social history, horology, fine and decorative art and British fashionable dress.

Chester Museums, Cheshire. Based in the Grosvenor Museum, with collections of archaeology, art and architecture, local history and natural history.

Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. Re-erected agricultural and other buildings.

Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford.

City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries, Scotland. A range of venues relfecting the history and art of the capital of Scotland.

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.

Creetown Gem Rock Museum, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Displays of crystals, minerals, fossils and gemstones.

Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. Tells the story of human and animal survival in the harsh climate of the last Ice Age.

Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick, Cumbria. A company museum featuring the history of pencil making.

Cumberland Toy and Model Museum , Cockermouth, Cumbria. A wide selection of mainly British toys from c1900 to the present.

Dickens House Museum, London. One of the homes of the 19th century author Charles Dickens. Includes a virtual tour.

Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. 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.

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham. 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.

East Lothian Museums, Scotland. With on-line exhibitions.

Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire. World War II prisoner of war camp

Eden Valley Museum, Edenbridge, Kent. Local history museum.

Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Based in the former home of the pioneering, 18th century, immunologist.

Egypt Centre (formerly the Wellcome Museum of Antiquities), University of Wales, Swansea. Includes antiquities owned by Sir Henry Wellcome.

Ellenroad Engine House, Rochdale, Lancashire. The only surviving, complete working example of a genuine steam cotton-mill engine together with its original steam-raising plant.

Elmbridge Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. Local history museum.

Elgar Birthplace Museum, Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire. Collections relate to the life and work of the composer Sir Edward Elgar

Eureka!, Halifax, West Yorkshire. The Museum for Children.

Falconer Museum, Forrres, Morray, Scotland. Local history museum.

Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Agricultural museum, and remains of a Norman abbey.

Finchcocks Living Museum of Music, Hammerwood Park house, near East Grinstead, Sussex. Collection of historical keyboard instruments set in a fine Georgian manor house.

The Fighter Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Military aircraft collection.

Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Permanent collections include antiquities, applied arts, coins and paintings. See on-line shop.

Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, Somerset. Military museum. One of the world's largest aviation collections with over 40 historic aircraft on display including Concorde 002 (the British prototype).

Florence Nightingale Museum , London. Collections relating to the life and work of this 19th century pioneer of nursing and healthcare.

Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Gloucestershire. Art in a forest setting.

Freud Museum, London. The home of the founder of psychoanalysis

Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk. Museum and art gallery at the birthplace of artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), with examples of his work and an exhibition programme

Galleries of Justice, Nottingham. Set in Victorian courthouse, with attached gaol (featuring real warders!), and hands-on exhibitions.

Geevor Tin Mine Heritage Centre, Pendeen, Cornwall. Industrial museum with guides, an underground tour, and displays of original machinery.

Geffrye Museum, London. English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms.

Glasgow Museums, Scotland.

Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset. Traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world, with connections to King Arthur and the Holy Grail.

Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland. Military museum

Green's Mill, Nottingham. 19th century tower windmill in Sneinton, once owned and operated by George Green (1793-1841), a mathematical physicist and scientist.

Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford, Somerset. Transport museum.

Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London. Modern art, special exhibitions.

Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Devoted exclusively to sculpture in general, with a programme comprising Exhibitions, Collections and Research.
[Part of: Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire]

Herschel Museum, Bath, Somerset. The home the 18th century astronomer William Herschell and his sister Caroline. The planet Uranus was discovered here in 1781.
[Part of: Bath Preservation Trust]

Highland Museum of Childhood, Strathpeffer, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland. Telling the stroy of Hightland childhood with audio-visual presentations and displays, and collections of dolls, toys and costume.

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, London. Collections on world cultures (ethnography), natural history, and music.

Hull Museums.

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Anatomical and pathological specimens. Art, coins, books, manuscripts, geology, zoology and ethnography.

Imperial War Museum, London. Also includes the Cabinet War Rooms, HMS Belfast and Imperial War Museum Duxford (including the American Air Museum in Britain).

Internal Fire, Museum of Power, Tanygroes, Ceredigion, Wales. Industrial museum, dedicated to the history of the internal combustion engine.

Ipswich Transport Museum, Suffolk.

Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Telford, Shropshire. Birthplace of the industrial revolution. Including a virtual tour, and the Ironbridge Institute. UNESCO has designated the valley a World Heritage Site.

Isle of Skye Toy Museum, Scotland.

Jane Austen Centre in Bath, Somerset. Tells the story of the author's Bath experience - the effect that living here had on her and her writing.

The Jewish Museum, London. The history and religious life of the Jewish community in Britain and beyond. Based in two sites in Finchley and Camden.

Jodrell Bank Science Centre, Macclesfield, Cheshire. 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.

Judge's Lodgings (Llety'r Barnwr), Presteinge, Powys, Wales. Restored historic rooms, local history, and education section.

Kendal Museum, Cumbria. One of the country's oldest museums - founded in 1796. Its collections include local archaeology, history, geology, and natural science from around the world.

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge. 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.

Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford, Middlesex. Industrial museum.

Kew Transport Museum, London.

Kilmartin House Museum, Argyll. Centre for archaeology and landscape interpretation.

Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham, West Midlands. Geology and fossils.

Leighton House Museum, London. The studio-home of the 19th century artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton.

Linley Sambourne House, London. Late 19th century townhouse, home to the cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne.

The Lion Salt Works, Marston, Northwich, Cheshire.

Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum, Lincoln. Local transport museum.

Liverpool Scottish Museum Trust, Merseyside. Military museum [limited access].

London Canal Museum, King's Cross. 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"

Lyme Regis Philpot Museum, Dorset. Local history museum, housed in building on the site where Mary Anning, the early 19th century fossil collector was born.

Madame Tussauds, London. Waxworks.

Maidstone Museum, Kent. Local history museum

Mallaig Heritage Centre, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Local history museum looking at the history and culture of the West Highlands of Scotland.

Malton Museum, North Yorkshire. Archaeology museum - Roman and medieval collections.

Manchester Jewish Museum.

TManchester United Museum and Tour, Greater Manchester. Outlines the history of the football club from 1878 to the present day

The Manor House Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Collections of clocks and watches (horology), costume and textiles from the seventeenth century to the present day, and portrait paintings of national importance, housed in a Georgian town house.

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.

Military Museum of Devon and Dorset, Dorchester, Dorset. Regimental Museum

Mill Meece Pumping Station, Coates Heath, Staffordshire. Early 20th century steam-powered water pumping station.

Milton Keynes Museum, Buckinghamshire. Local history museum with collections strong in agriculture and industry and also those connected with domestic life and local commerce.

Museum of Army Transport, Beverley, East Yorkshire. Military museum.

Museum of Flight, North Berwick, Scotland. "Discover the story of man's ambition to take to the skies".
[Part of: National Museums of Scotland

Museum of Hatting - The Hatworks, Stockport, Greater Manchester. The UK's first and only museum dedicated to the world of hats and hat making

Museum of Lakeland Life , Kendal, Cumbria. 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.

Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. See special exhibitions 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.

Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The history of Scotland from its geological beginnings to the twentieth century.
[Part of: National Museums of Scotland

Museum of Scottish Country Life, East Kilbride, Scotland. "The story of how Scots have worked the land through the ages".
[Part of: National Museums of Scotland

Museums of the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Museum of Transport, Manchester. The biggest collection of restored vintage buses and coaches in the United Kingdom, with associated objects and archives.

Museums of the Royal Regiment of Wales. Military Museums

Mythstories, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Museum of myth and fable.

Nantwich Museum, Cheshire. Local history museum, featuring salt making, leather and clothing trade, and clockmaking.

National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne. Millennium Project.

National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Industrial museum

National Football Musuem, Preston, Lancashire. Sports museum, covering a journey through football's history, and a themed, hands-on exhibition, examining different facets within the world of football.

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), and an exhibition - Churchill: The Evidence.

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 Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands. Transport Museum.

National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire.