Index of Art Museums Worldwide

1853 Gallery, Salts Mill, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Houses pictures by David Hockney.
19 Princelet Street, London. "An unrestored Huguenot master silk weaver's home, whose shabby frontage conceals a rare synagogue built over its garden"
1st The Queen's Dragoon Museum, Cardiff Castle, Wales. Military museum.
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.

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 ]
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.
Aerospace Museum, Cosford, Shropshire.
Allhallows Museum, Honiton, Devon. Local museum including lace and pottery industry displays housed in the town's oldest building.
Almonry Heritage Centre, Evesham, Worcestershire. Local history museum.
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.
Amersham Museum, Buckinghamshire. Local history museum, based in a 15th century half-timbered house.
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre, London. Medical archives, library and museum - "The collections work together to help date, explain and illustrate each other and are therefore a unique resource for research into the history of anaesthesia".
Anson Engine Museum, Poynton, Cheshire. An industrial museum - "Dedicated to the history of the Internal Combustion engine".
Armagh Planetarium, Northern Ireland.
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Contemporary arts.
ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire. Contemporary visual arts venue in the New Forest.
Ash Museum, Surrey. Local history museum.
Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Oxford. See the Cast Gallery and the Griffith Institute for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester. Industrial museum looking at the history of coal mining in Lancashire. Has the UK's largest collection of colliery locomotives.
Avery Historical Museum, Birmingham. Collection of scales and weighing equipment through the ages, from Ancient Egyptian to the modern day.
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.
Bank of England Museum & Archive, City of London.
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.
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford.
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.
[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.
Beckford's 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.
Bedford Museum. Display of human history of the region from prehistoric times.
Bell-Pettigrew Museum, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships between animals.
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.
Bennie Museum, Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. Local history museum
Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Nottingham.
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, London. Houses the UK's national collection of toys and games, children's costume, nursery furniture and baby equipment.
[Part of Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)]
Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History, East Sussex.
Big Pit - National Coal Museum, Blaenafon. [Part of National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff].
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 Museums and Art Gallery, West Midlands.
[Responsible for:Aston Hall, Blakesley Hall, Soho House, Weoley Castle, and the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter]
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.
[Responsible for: Locksmith's House, Willenhall]
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).
Bloxham Village Museum, Oxfordshire. Local history museum.
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 Shop 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: Hall i'th'Wood]
Bonington Gallery (The Future Factory), Nottingham. Venue for contemporary art, hosting touring exhibitions and local single artis shows. Emphasis on live performance and installation art.
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.
Bramah's Museum of Tea and Coffee, Southwark, London. World's first museum devoted entirely to the history of tea and coffee.
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 and Archaeology Service]
Bristol Museums and Art Gallery. Collections of: applied art, archaeology, eastern art, ethnography, fine art, geology, industrial and maritime, natural history and social history.
[Responsible for: City Museum and Art Gallery ; Bristol Industrial Museum; The Georgian House; The Red Lodge; Blaise Castle House; Kings Weston Roman Villa]
British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland, Lancashire. Transport museum.
British Engineerium, Hove, East Sussex. Museum of mechanical antiquities, based in a restored and working Victorian pumping station.
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.
British Schools Museum, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. "... a unique set of buildings that tell the story of elementary education in Britain from 1810 until 1945".
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.
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.
Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury. Includes the Museum Tour, the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery and on-line databases of 5,000 objects and over 12,000 photographs.
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 City 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.
Catmose Gallery, Oakham, Rutland. Temporary exhibitions and art events.
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.
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Museum, Bedford. Recreated Victorian mansion, original home of Cecil Higgins, a local brewer. Adjoining Gallery with important collection of ceramics, glass and watercolours.
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
Chelmsford Museums, Essex. Collections of archaeology, local history, natural history, industrial history, costume, art and military history.
[Responsible for: Chelmsford Museum; Essex Regiment Museum; Sandford Mill.]
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Gloucestershire. Local history museum.
[Responsible for: Holst Birthplace Museum]
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.
Chichester District Museum, West Sussex. Local history museum.
Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. Re-erected agricultural and other buildings.

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