Links to Museums in the United Kingdom

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United Kingdom

• 1853 Gallery, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Houses pictures by David Hockney.
• 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.

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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.
  [Responsible for: Aberdeen Art Gallery; Aberdeen Maritime Museum; Provost Skene's House; The Tolbooth ]
• Aerospace Museum, Cosford, Shropshire.
• Allhallows Museum, Honiton, Devon. Local museum including lace and pottery industry displays housed in the town's oldest building.
• Almond Valley Heritage Trust, Millfield, Scotland. Includes a museum of Scottish shale oil industry, Livingston Mill Farm, and the Almond Valley Light Railway.
• Althorp House, Northamptonshire. Ancestral home of the Spencer family, resting place of Princess Diana.
• 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.
• Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline, Scotland. Based in the cottage where the steel millionaire and benefactor was born in 1835. Tells his family's story prior to their emigration to the United States.
• Apsley House, The Wellington Museum, London. 'Number One, London', 19th century home of the 1st Duke of Wellington. [Part of Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)]
• Armagh Planetarium, Northern Ireland.
• Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Contemporary arts.
• Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Oxford. See the Cast Gallery and the Griffith Institute for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
• Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Historic buildings covering seven centuries, rescued and rebuilt on an open-air site

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• Bank of England Museum & Archive, City of London.
• Barometer World and Museum, Merton, Devon.
• Bass Museum, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. History of the beer brewing industry - shire horses, web cams, and Shockwave interactive.
• Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford.
• 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 Tower and Museum; Herschel Museum]
• BBC Experience, London. Interactive exhibition on the history and work of the BBC. Includes RealAudio clips and news of education support.
• Beckford Tower and Museum, Bath, Somerset. 19th century retreat for William Beckford. Contains collections illustrating his life.
  [Part of: Bath Preservation Trust]
• Bede's World, Jarrow, Tyne & Wear. Anglo-Saxon and medieval collections from the excavations of St Paul's Monastery.
• Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham. 300 acres recreating the life of the north of England in the early 1800s and 1900s.
• Bedford Museum. Local archaeology, social history, biology and geology.
• Bell-Pettigrew Museum, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships between animals.
• Bennie Museum, Bathgate, Lothian. Local history.
• Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Nottingham.
• Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, London. [Part of Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)]
• 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.
  
• [Responsible for:Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Soho House, Weoley Castle, and the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter]
• Birmingham Railway Museum, West Midlands. Working museum, with steam locomotives.
• Birmingham Schools Liaison Department, West Midlands. A group of teachers who work within museums, teaching schoolchildren during planned visits
• Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands.
• 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 what you can see and do 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.
• Böd of Gremista Museum, Lerwick, Shetland. [Part of Shetland Museum Service]
• Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. See image catalogue of manuscripts, including a Java version with scrolling images, the shopping arcade and the
• Map Case of on-line historic maps in the Map Room.
• Bolton Museum, Art Gallery and Aquarium, Lancashire. 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: Smithills Hall, and Hall i'th'Wood]
• Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, West Yorkshire.
  [Responsible for: Bolling Hall; Bracken Hall Countryside Centre; Bradford Heritage Recording Unit; Bradford Industrial Museum and Horse at Work; Cartwright Hall Art Gallery; Cliffe Castle, Keighley; The Manor House Museum and Art Gallery, Ilkley]
• 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.
• Bridewell Museum, Norwich. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Bristol Museums Service.
• 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, digital library exhibitions and the Treasures Digitisation Project, which includes the Magna Carta, viewable at various magnifications.
• British Museum, London. See collection highlights and new Cracking Codes - The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment exhibition.
• Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. Transport museum. "The Birthplace of British Motorsport & Aviation" - the first purpose built motor racing circuit in the world.
• Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire. The home of the early 19th century women novelists
• Brunel Engine House, London. Built between 1825 and 1843 by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel as part of the pioneering Thames Tunnel - the first underwater thoroughfare 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]
• The Burrell Collection, Glasgow.
• 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.

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• 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 Museum & Art Gallery, Redruth, Cornwall.
• Cambridge Museum of Technology. Preserved Victorian pumping station and working museum on the River Cam.
• Carillon (49 Bells) War Memorial and Military Museum, Loughborough, Leicestershire
• Carpetbagger Aviation Museum, Harrington, Northamptonshire
• Castle Museum, Norwich. Collections of archaeology, natural history, art and social history[Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Catalyst, Widnes, Cheshire. The only museum in Europe solely devoted to the chemical industry.
• Centre for the History of Defence Electronics (CHiDE), Bournemouth University, Dorset. Includes a virtual museum plan.See also places to visit, listing UK military and naval museums, and an archive room plan.
• Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, University of Canterbury, Kent. 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.
• Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff. The largest gallery in Wales showing the very best of new and historical art from Wales and around the world. Also the home of Fantasmic, one of the UK's only hands-on interactive galleries exploring the fun and fascinating world of art and seeing.
• Ceredigion Museum Service, Aberystwyth, Wales. Local history, archaeology, and folk life.
  [Responsible for: In Aberystwyth - Ceredigion Museum, The Old Cottage; In Lampeter - in the County Library; also branches at New Quay Heritage Centre, Tregaron and at Llandysul]
• Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Gloucestershire. Local history.
  [Responsible for: Holst Birthplace Museum]
• Chertsey Museum, Surrey. Local history and costume from the Runnymede area.
• Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. Re-erected agricultural and other buildings.
• Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford.
• City Art Centre , Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland's premier temporary exhibition space, and an ideal home to the city of Edinburgh's fine art Collection.
• City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norfolk. Military aircraft collection.
• Claymills Pumping Engines, Stretton, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. A preserved Victorian pumping station.
• Cole Museum of Zoology, University of Reading, Berkshire.
• Colour Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Explores the concept of colour, how it is perceived and how it is used. Also looks at the story of dyeing and textile printing from ancient Egypt to the present day.
• Connections Discovery Centre, Exeter, Devon. Educational resource centre for schools and groups. Hands-on fun, real objects can be touch and try on, special displays and interpretive guides.
  [Part of: Exeter City Museums]
• Cotswolds Motor Museum, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.
• Cotswold Woollen Weavers, Filkins, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Historic working weaving mill, museum/gallery and shop.
• Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London.
• The Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney, Buckinghamshire. Presents Olney's heritage.
• Cornucopia. A pilot website, from the Museums and Galleries Commision (MGC), providing information on the 50 museums in England with Designated collections. Designation celebrates pre-eminent museum collections outside the National museums.
• 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.
• Crabble Corn Mill, Dover, Kent. A working water mill, cafe and gallery.
• Cranbrook and District Museum, Kent. Local history museum.
• Cricklade Museum, Wiltshire. Local history museum.
• Cromer Museum. Collections on local history and landscape. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Croft House Museum, Dunrossness, Shetland. [Part of Shetland Museum Service]

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• De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum), Salisbury Hill, Hertfordshire. Military aircraft collection.
• Design Museum, London.
• Dickens House Museum, London. Includes a virtual tour.
• Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester, Dorset. Britain's only museum solely devoted to dinosaurs and their fascinating world.
• Dover Museum, Kent. Local history museum.
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
• Dunaskin Open Air Museum, Ayrshire, Scotland. Large collection of industrial machinery, historic buildings, an ironworker's cottage, and a simulated coal
• mine
• 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.

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• The Earth Centre, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. A Millenium Project provide people with the opportunity to understand, explore, identify with and act on the idea of Sustainable Development.
• Easdale Island Folk Museum, Scotland. Local history, especially the slate quarring industry.
• East Lothian Council Museums, Scotland.
  [Responsible for: North Berwick Museum, Dunbar Town House Museum, Prestongrange Museum]
• Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire. World War II prisoner of war camp
• Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music.
• Egypt Centre (formerly the Wellcome Museum of Antiquities), University of Wales, Swansea. Includes antiquities owned by Sir Henry Wellcome.
• Elmbridge Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. Local history museum.
• Elgar Birthplace, Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire. Collections relate to the life and work of the composer Sir Edward Elgar
• Elgin Museum, Moray. Pictish stones, local fossils, archaeology, geology, natural history, social history and ethnography.
• Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth. Late 16th century merchants's house, with period furnishings. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Essex Secret Bunker, Mistley. The former Essex County nuclear war headquarters.
• Eturia Industrial Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. [Part of: Museums of the Potteries].
• Eureka!, Halifax, West Yorkshire. The Museum for Children.
• Exeter City Museums, Devon.
  
• [Responsible for: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, St Nicholas Priory, Underground Passages, Connections Discovery Centre]
• Exploratory Science Centre, Bristol.

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• FA Premier League Hall of Fame, London. The history of football and the legends of the modern game.
• Fan Museum, Greenwich, London. The only museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making.
• Faringdon and District Museum, Oxfordshire.
• Finchcocks Living Museum of Music, Hammerwood Park house, near East Grinstead, Sussex. Collection of historical keyboard instruments set in a fine Georgian manor house.
• Fife Museums Forum, Scotland. A group of local museums with shared site.
  [Includes: Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther; Buckhaven Museum; Burntisland Edwardian Fair Museum; Fife Folk Museum, Ceres; Crail Museum; Fife Council Museums East, Cupar; In Dunfermline - Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, West Fife Museums and Small Gallery, Pittencrief House Museum; McDouall Stuart Museum, Dysart; East Wemyss Environmental Education Centre; The Friary, Inverkeithing; Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Museum, Newburgh; In St Andrews - Bell Pettigrew Museum, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews Museum, St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum].
• The Fighter Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Military aircraft collection.
• Fire and Police Museum (Sheffield), South Yorkshire. History of a local fire and police service.
• Firepower! The Museum of Royal Regiment of Artillery, Woolwich, London. Military museum (opening 2001)
• Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. Permanent collections include antiquities, applied arts, coins and paintings. See on-line shop.
• Flagship Portsmouth at the Historic Dockyard, Hampshire. Includes: Mary Rose (Tudor warship); HMS Victory (Nelson's flagship); HMS Warrior (1860 ironclad warship); Royal Naval Museum; and Dockyard Apprentice (hands-on exhibition about building a warship).
• 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.
• Ford Green Hall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 17th to 18th centuries farmhouse. [Part of: Museums of the Potteries].
• Fox Talbot Museum, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Commemorates the life and work of William Henry Fox Talbot - known as The Father of Modern Photography.
• Freud Museum, London. The home of the founder of psychoanalysis

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• Galleries of Justice, Nottingham. Set in Victorian courthouse, with attached gaol (featuring real warders!), and hands-on exhibitions.
• Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.
• Geffrye Museum, London. English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms.
• Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Working pottery. [Part of: Museums of the Potteries].
• Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset. Traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the world, with connections to King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
• Godalming Museum, Surrey. Local history, industry, geology, archeology.
• Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland. Military museum
• Gosport Museum, Hampshire.
  [Part of: Hampshire County Council Museums Service]
• Grantown Museum and Heritage Trust, Scotland. Brief news of a local 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.
• Guernsey Museums and Galleries.
  [Responsible for: St Peter Port - Guernsey Museum and Art Gallery, Castle Cornet; St Peter's - Fort Grey]

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• Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria. A restored deep coal mine, with two huge steam winding engines.
• Hampshire County Council Museums Service. Includes an on-line catalogue with searching and browsing facilities, as well as a museums directory.
  [Responsible for: Aldershot Military Museum; Allen Gallery, Alton; Andover Museum; Bursledon Windmill; Curtis Museum, Alton; Eastleigh Museum; Flora Twort Gallery,
• Petersfield; Gosport Museum; Hampshire Farm Museum; Havant Museum; Museum of the Iron Age; Red House Museum, Christchurch; Rockbourne Roman Villa, Fordingbridge, St Agatha's Church; St Barbe Museum, Lymington; Treadgolds of Portsea; Westbury Manor Museum, Fareham; Willis Museum, Basingstoke; Whitchurch Silk Mill]
• Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne. Natural history museum.
• Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey. Natural science and human history: geology, botany, zoology, classical archaeology, costume and textile, European folk art, ethnography and local history.
• Hatting Museum, Stockport, Greater Manchester. Under construction, due to open 2000. History of the hatmaking industry
• Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle. A varied programme of contemporary and historical art exhibitions, and permanent displays of African sculpture
• Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London. Modern art, special exhibitions.
• Helicopter Museum, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
• Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire. 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]
• 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]
• Hill Toy Museum, Stansted, Essex. The largest privately owned toy museum in Europe, with over 30,000 individual items.
• Historic Royal Palaces.
  [Information on: The Tower of London; Hampton Court Palace; The Banqueting House; Kew Palace; Kensington Palace]
• Hitchin Museum, Hertfordshire. Local industries, domestic life, and historical costume.
• Holbourne Museum and 20th Century Crafts Study Centre, Bath, Somerset. Fine art and decorative art collection.
• The Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill, London.
• Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Anatomical and pathological specimens. Art, coins, books, manuscripts and ethnography. See virtual and guided tours.

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• Imperial War Museum, London. Also includes the Cabinet War Rooms, HMS Belfast and RAF Duxford (including the American Air Museum in Britain).
• 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.
  [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]
• Isle of Skye Toy Museum, Scotland.

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• Jane Austen's House, Chawton, Hampshire. Where the early 19th century novelist lived and worked.
• 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]
• The Jewish Museum, London.
• John Paul Jones Cottage Museum, Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway.
• Jorvik Viking Centre, York. See also the World of the Vikings.
• Judge's Lodgings (Llety'r Barnwr), Presteinge, Powys, Wales. Restored historic rooms, local history, and two interactives on 'King Offa' and 'Voices from
• the Past'.

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• 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.
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford, Middlesex.
• Kew Transport Museum, London.
• Kilmartin House Museum, Argyll. Centre for archaeology and landscape interpretation.
• Kingston Museum, Kingston upon Thames. Holds a large collection of photographs by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).

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• Lancashire Museums.
  [Responsible for: The Museum of Lancashire, Preston; Fleetwood Museum; Lodgings Lancaster, Helmshore Textile Museeums, Rossendale; Queen Street Mill, Burnley; Gawthorpe Hall; Turton Tower, Bolton; Clitheroe Castle Museum; Ribchester Roman Bath Museum; Museum Service to Schools]
• Lapworth Museum, University of Birmingham, West Midlands. Geology and fossils.
• Leeds University Gallery, University Library, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
• 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]
• Letchworth Museum, Herfordshire. Natural history, art, archaeology.
• The Lion Salt Works, Marston, Northwich, Cheshire.
• Liverpool Scottish Museum Trust, Merseyside. Military Museum (no premises at moment)
• London Canal Museum, King's Cross. Transport Museum
• London Transport Museum, Covent Garden.
• London's Cockney Museum. The history of London's Cockneys, Pearly Kings and Queens, and Eels Pie and Mash. (In process of being set up)
• Lothbury Gallery, London. Part of the NatWest Group art collection.
• Lowewood Museum, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Local history museum.
• Lynn Museum, King's Lynn. Collections on local history, natural science, art and industry. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]

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• Madame Tussauds, London. Waxworks.
• Manchester City Art Galleries. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and furniture, especially by 19th and 20th century artists, including the Pre-Raphaelites.
• Manchester Jewish Museum.
• The Manchester Museum. Botany, Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and Egyptology galleries.
• Manchester United Museum and Tour Centre, Greater Manchester. Outlines the history of the football club from 1878 to the present day
• Manor House Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Horology and art collections.
• Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen
• Maritime Museum for East Anglia, Great Yarmouth. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Mary Rose Maritime Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Only 16th century warship on display in the world, from the time of King Henry VIII. Includes a
• museum tour.
• Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire.
• Montfitchet Castle, Stansted, Essex. Recreation of a Norman castle on the original site.
• Moray Council Museums Service, Scotland.
  [Responsible for: The Anson Gallery, Buckie; Burghead Museum; In Forres - The Falconer Museum, and Nelson Tower; Tomintoul Museum; Tugnet Ice House, Spey Bay
• Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Archaeology and local history.
• Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne. Archaeology in north east England. Includes a Flints and Stones exhibition, with an interactive hunter gatherer food quiz and national curriculum information for teachers.
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
• Museum of Army Transport, Beverley, East Yorkshire. Military museum.
• Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley, near Reading.
• Museum of British Road Transport, Coventry, Warwickshire.
• Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Includes a cast collection.
• Museum of Costume and Assembly Rooms, Bath, Somerset
• Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
• Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Somerset.
• Museum of English Rural Life, Rural History Centre, University of Reading, Berkshire.
• Museum of Farnham, Willmer House, Surrey. Georgian house.
• Museum of Garden History, St Mary-at-Lambeth Church, Lambeth Palace, London.
• Museum of Installation, London. An artist led organisation dedicated to the research, production and dissemination of installation art.
• Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Includes Shockwave Flash, VRML, QTVR, streaming video and CD quality music.
• Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. See special exhibitions and an image library. Latest exhibition: The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, The Temple: Biblical metaphors of knowledge in early modern Europe.
• 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 the Moving Image (MOMI), British Film Institute, South Bank, London. History of film and television.
• The Museum of Submarine Telegraphy, Porthcurno, Cornwall.
• Museums of the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
  [Responsible for: The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery; The Gladstone Pottery Museum; Etruria Industrial Museum and Ford Green Hall].
• Museums of The Royal College of Surgeons, London.
  [Responsible for : Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum, Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology].
• Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry, Dre-fach Felindre. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
• Museum of Transport, Manchester. The biggest collection of restored vintage buses and coaches in the United Kingdom, with associated objects and archives.
• Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagen's, Cardiff. Re-erected buildings and social history. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
• Museums of the Royal Regiment of Wales. Military Museums
  [Responsible for: South Wales Borderers Museum , Brecon; Welch Regiment Museum, Cardiff].
• Mythstories, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Museum of myth and fable.

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• Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales.
• National Army Museum, Chelsea, London.
• National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne. Millennium Project - under construction.
• National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. A unique interactive arts and education centre that celebrates the diversity and influence of popular music. Uses Macromedia Flash
• National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Industrial museum
• 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 site map. See also 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 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 Museum & Gallery, Cardiff. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff].
• National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool.
  [Responsible for: The Conservation Centre; Liverpool Museum; Merseyside Maritime Museum; Anything to Declare? (HM Customs & Excise National Museum); Museum of Liverpool Life; Walker Art Gallery; Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight; Sudley House].
• National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff. (In English and Welsh).
  [Responsible for: National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff; Welsh Slate Museum, Llanberis; Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagen's, Cardiff; Segontium Roman Museum, Caernafon; Roman Legionary Museum, Caerleon; Museum of the Welsh Woollen Industry, Dre-fach Felindre; Turner House Gallery, Penarth; Welsh Industrial & Maritime Collections, Cardiff].
• National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, West Yorkshire. [Part of the National Museum of Science and Industry].
• National Museum of Science and Industry.
  [Responsible for: Science Museum, London; National Railway Museum, York; and, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.]
• 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 Agricultural; Armed Forces Museum; Museum of Costume, New Abbey]
• National Portrait Gallery, London. See information on the permanent collection.
• 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 Virtual Reality fossils using VRML - see a Trilobite and
• Bryozoan, for example. See also interactive exploration using Science Casebook.
  [Responsible for Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire].
• National Tramway Museum, Crich, Derbyshire. Includes a searchable database of 2,500 photographic images
• National Waterways Museum, Gloucester. Tells the 200 year story of Britain's canals through the 'National Collection' of historic waterway vessels.
• Nature in Art, Trigworth, Gloucestershire. The world's first museum exclusively to art inspired by nature, set in a Georgian mansion
• Newhaven Local and Maritime Museum, East Sussex. Many thousands of photographs of local historical interest together with artefacts recovered from the areas of local shipwrecks
• Norfolk Museums Service.
  [Responsible for: In Norwich - Castle Museum; Bridewell Museum; Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum; St Peter Hungate Museum; Stranger's Hall Museum;
  In Great Yarmouth - Elizabethan House Museum; Maritime Museum; Toll House Museum and Brass Rubbing Centre;
  In King's Lynn - Lynn Museum; Town House Museum of Lynn Life;
  Norfolk Rural Life Museum and Union Farm, Gressenhall; Cromer Museum; Thetford Ancient House Museum]
• Norfolk Rural Life Museum and Union Farm, Gressenhall. Agricultural history museum and traditional working farm. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• North Somerset Museum Service, Weston-super-Mare. 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.
• 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
• Northamptonshire Aviation Museum, Harrington, Northamptonshire.
• Nothe Fort and Museum of Coast Defence, Weymouth, Dorset.
• No1 Royal Crescent Museum, Bath, Somerset. Restored 18th century house in the palladian style.
  [Part of: Bath Preservation Trust]

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• Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology, Durham.
• Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret , London. 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.
• Open Museum, Glasgow. (Unofficial.) Community led outreach service.
• Ordsall Hall Museum, Salford, Greater Manchester. Family home of the Radclyffes.
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Entomology, geology, mineralogy, zoology collections in a Victorian neo-Gothic building.

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• Past Impressions On-line Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. On-line cultural exhibitions and gallery space.
• Path Head Water Mill, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear.
• Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport, Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.
• Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, Cornwall. Collections of archaeology, costumes and textiles, decorative art, fine art, photography, social history, and local history.
• Peter Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster. Temporary art exhibitions, and permanent displays of fine arts, contemporary ceramics and Royal Lancastrian Pottery.
• Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Anthropology and Ethnography. (Closed until the year 2000)
• The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The world's finest collection of Staffordshire ceramics. [Part of: Museums of the Potteries].
• Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, Cambridgeshire.
• Public Record Office, 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).
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast. The official place of deposit for public records in Northern Ireland.

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• 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.
• The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, London. See also Windsor Castle and the rest of the Royal Collection.

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• Ragged School Museum, London. Re-created classroom of the Victorian period, and displays on local history, industry and life in the East End of London.
• Ramsey Rural Museum, Cambridgeshire. 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.
• Reading Museum, Berkshire. Replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, history of Reading, Roman artifacts, etc.
• The Regency Town House, Hove, East Sussex. Museum and Heritage Centre covering British life between the 1780s and 1850s, especially the history of the Brighton area.
• REME Museum of Technology (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), Arborfield, near Reading, Berkshire.
• Ripon Law and Order Museums, North Yorkshire. Museums of the history of the local police force, and the operation of the Victorian Poor Law (based in the former workhouse)
  [Includes: Prison and Police Museum; Museum of the Yorkshire Poor Law]
• River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Newly opened
• Roman Baths Museum and Pump House, Bath, Somerset.
• Roman Legionary Museum, Caerleon. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
• Rotherham Museums and Arts Service.
  [Responsible for: Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham Art Gallery, York and Lancaster Regimental Museum]
• Royal Academy of Arts, London. Permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
• Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, London.
• Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon. Antiquities, ethnography, natural history, fine art, decorative arts.
  [Part of: Exeter City Museums]
• Royal Armouries, with museums in: Leeds, West Yorkshire; Fort Nelson, Fareham, Hampshire; and the Tower of London.
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Information about the collections, and searchable databases.
• The Royal Collection. A distributed collection, mainly in royal palaces, formed by the Royal family, including The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace and the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.
• Royal Cornwall Musem, Truro. The history of Cornwall from the Stone Age to the present day, as well as the natural history of Cornwall, a world famous collection of minerals, a pre-eminent collection of ceramics, and a changing display of fine and decorative art.
• Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Military museum, with collections of manuscripts, artefacts, photographs, oral history, sound recordings, paintings and prints relating to the history of the Royal Navy.
• Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, Hampshire. Military museum featuring the Submarine Service, includes a real submarine
• Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norwich. Military museum. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London. Home of the Prime Meridian of the world. Exhibitions on: The Story of Time, John Harrison and the Longitude Problem, and Halley and the Paramour.
  [Part of: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich]
• Royal Photographic Society, Bath, Somerset. World-renowned collection of 19th century photographs, equipment, books and journals
• Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Camp, Dorset. Military museum
• Royal Tennis Courts and Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
• Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Virtual Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Police museum. Includes use of Shockwave.
• Rural Life Centre Old Kiln Museum, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey. 150 years of farming.
• Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset. Housed in late 19th century building, with especially strong collections of British and Japanese art. [being refurbished - see site for 'Welcome Days']
• Ryhope Engines Museum, Ryhope Pumping Station, near Sunderland.

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• Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk.
• 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
• St Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire. Local history and arts museum.
• St.Helens Transport Museum, Merseyside. Transport museum with an unrivalled collection of historic buses, coaches, trams, cars and lorries
• St Neots Museum, Cambridgeshire. Local history museum.
• St Peter Hungate Church Museum, Norwich. Collections of religious art and craftmanship. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Sandtoft Transport Centre Ltd, The Museum of the Trolleybus, Doncaster South Yorkshire. Transport museum.
• Science Museum, London. See collections, exhibitions (including : Hands on Science and Exhiblets), and the new Wellcome Wing (opening this year). [Part of the National Museum of Science and Industry].
• 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.
• 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.
• Scottish Football Museum, Glasgow. History of football in Scotland.
• Seaford Local History, East Sussex. Housed in a Napoleonic Martello tower.
• Sedgwick Museum of Geology, University of Cambridge.
• Segontium Roman Museum, Caernafon. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
• Shakespeare and the Globe. An award-wining on-line exhibit from Renaissance Text Centre, and the Department of English, University of Reading. Includes information on the original and reconstructed theatre.
• Shardlow Heritage Centre, Derbyshire. Local history of an 18th century canal transhipment port.
• Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archaeology, Department of Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Sherlock Holmes Museum, London
• Shetland Museum, Lerwick. [Part of Shetland Museum Service]
• 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]
• Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. House and museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect (1753-1837).
• Southampton City Cultural Services, 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]
• Spode Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Oldest English pottery, ceramics, bone china, earthenware.
• Stained Glass Museum, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Based in the cathedral, and dedicated to the promotion, preservation and appreciation of stained glass in Britain
• Stranger's Hall Museum, Norwich. Social history collections. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Swaledale Folk Museum, Reeth, near Richmond, North Yorkshire. Stone walls, village life, lead mining, sheep and cattle farming, etc.
• Swansea Museums and Art Galleries, Wales.
  [Responsible for: Swansea Museum; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum]

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• The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset.
• Tate Gallery, with galleries in London, Liverpool, Merseyside and St Ives, Cornwall. National collection of British art and modern 20th century art.
• Techniquest, Cardiff. An hand-on science discovery centre with special programmes for schoolchildren link to different stages of the National Curriculum
• Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, London. [Part of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)].
• Thetford Ancient House Museum. Early Tudor building with local history, industry and natural science displays. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Tiverton Museum, Devon. Local history museum
• Toll House Museum and Brass Rubbing Centre, Great Yarmouth. Medieval building, used as prison in 19th century. Local history collections. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Tom Brown's School Museum, Uffington, Oxfordshire. Includes the White Horse and Sir John Betjeman.
• Torre Abbey Historic House & Gallery, Torquay, Devon.
• Town House Museum of Lynn Life, King's Lynn. Furniture and domestic life from medieval period to 20th century. [Part of: Norfolk Museums Service]
• Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museums, Burnley. A country house museum, set in parkland. Includes a Natural History Centre and a Museum of Local Crafts.
• Trowbridge Museum, Wiltshire. Local history
• Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, Kent. Displays of Tunbridge ware, local history, dolls and toys, natural history, and frquently changing exhibitions of art and craft.
• Turner House Gallery, Penarth. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales].

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• Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. An outdoor museum which tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes an interactive map
• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Holywood, Northern Ireland. Reconstructed buildings. Includes exhibition on Titanic ocean liner.
• Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading, Berkshire.

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• Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage, Oxfordshire.
• Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London. 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].
• Virtual Museum of Computing. A completely virtual collection of exhibits on the history of computers, etc.
• Virtual Museum of the Iron Lung. A resource centre relating specifically to the iron lung and generally to polio, post-polio and artificial ventilation.

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• Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. French Renaissance-style château was built at the end of the last century for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild to display his vast collection of 18th Century art treasure.
• The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London. Paintings (especially French 18th century), miniatures, decorative arts, arms and armour.
• Wallingford Museum, Oxfordshire.
• Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire. [Part of the Natural History Museum, London].
• The Wardrobe, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Military museum, located in the Cathedral Close. Housing the collections and archives of the Royal Berkshire, the Wiltshire and the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiments.
• Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester, West Sussex. A unique collection of over 40 domestice and agricultural buildings dating from the 13th to the 19th century.
• Welsh Industrial & Maritime Collections, Cardiff. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
• Welsh Slate Museum, Llanberis. Industrial Museum. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
• Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum, Somerset. Large collection of stationary steam engines and land drainage items.
• Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum, near St Austell, Cornwall. Heritage centre.
• Whitby Museum, North Yorkshire, Local history and archaeology museum
• Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
• Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints, wallpapers, modern art. Includes a collections database.
• Wigan Pier, Lancashire. Local history presentations and Mill & Engine House.
• William Morris Gallery, Waltham Forest, London.
• Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, London.
• Windermere Steamboat Museum, Cumbria.
• Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands. See collections of contemporary, Pop, mid 20th century and Victorian art.
• The Wordsworth Museum, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria. Maintained by the Wordsworth Trust.
• The World of Glass, St.Helens, Merseyside. Celebrates the past, present and future of glass and the glass industry. (Opening Spring 2000).
• Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Local history, especially the furniture industry, with a renowned collection of Windsor chairs. The grounds also house the British Regional Furniture Study Centre.

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• York City Museums.
  [Responsible for: York Castle Museum, The Yorkshire Museum, The York Story, and York City Art Gallery]
• The York Dungeon, York. Museum of horror.

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