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Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
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Quebec
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Chile
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Humlebaek
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New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
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Contemporary Art Center
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Les
Abattoirs, Toulouse (French only)
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris
Capc Musee d'Art
Contemporain, Bordeaux (French only)
Carre d'Art - Musee d'Art
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Centre d'Arts Plastiques Albert
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Paris
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Contemporain, Roubaix (French only)
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Fondation Cartier pour l'art
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Aix-en-Provence
Jean-Honore
Fragonard Museum-Villa, Grasse
Galeries nationales
du Grand Palais, Paris
The Graffiti Museum,
Marsilly
La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
Jeu de
Paume, Paris (French only)
Louvre Museum, Paris
Le MAGASIN - Centre National d'Art
Contemporain de Grenoble
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
La Maison Rouge, Fondation de Galbert,
Paris
Matisse Museum, Nice
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Malraux, Le Havre (French only)
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Paris
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Paris
Musee National Eugene Delacroix,
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Biot (French only)
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Chagall, Nice (French only)
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Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris (French only)
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Saone
Musee Rodin, Paris
Musee Zadkine,
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Museum
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National Conservatory of Arts and
Crafts, Paris (French only)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (French
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Patrimoine Photographique, Hotel de
Sully, Paris
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Paul Weber Museum, Ratzeburg
Akademie der Kunste, Berlin (German
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Bavarian National Museum,
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Buchheim Museum der Phantasie,
Bernried
Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Deutsche Guggenheim,
Berlin
Albrecht
Durer's House, Nuremberg
Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl
German Historical Museum, Berlin
Germanisches Nationalmuseum,
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Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum,
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Darmstadt (mostly in German)
Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
Kathe Kollwitz Museum,
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Kathe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne (German
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Kunst Museum Bonn
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Bonn
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Kunsthalle Tubingen (mostly
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Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
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Leopold-Hoesch-Museum,
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Lettl-Atrium Museum for Surreal Art, Augsburg
Ludwig Forum fur
Internationale Kunst, Aachen (German only)
Mannheim Internetional
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Martin von Wagner Museum at
Universitat Wurzburg
Mies
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Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum,
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Murnau Castle Museum, Murnau
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Tucher Mansion, Nuremberg
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Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Neues Museum, Nuremberg
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Nolde Museum, Neukirchen
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen (German
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Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen (German
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Pinakothek der
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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Stadtische Galerie, Frankfurt (German
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Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus,
Munich
State
Graphic Art Collection, Nuremberg
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (German
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Von der Heydt Museum,
Wuppertal
Wilhelm Busch Museum fur Karikatur
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (German
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Greece
Acropolis
Museum, Athens
Archaeological
Museum of Delphi
Archaeological
Museum at Olympia
Benaki Museum, Athens
Byzantine Museum
of Zakynthos
Hellenic Ministry of
Culture Museums, Athens
Ilias Lalaounis
Jewelry Museum, Athens
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
National
Archaeological Museum of Athens
Rhodes Municipal Art Gallery
Hungary
Hungarian
Museum of Photography, Kecskemet
Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum (Hungarian National Museum),
Budapest
Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Budapest
Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest
Iceland
Akureyri
Art Museum (Icelandic only)
Arni Magnusson Institute,
Reykjavik
National Gallery of Iceland,
Reykjavik
Nylistasafnio: The Living Art
Museum, Reykjavik
Reykjavik Museum of
Photography
India
Indian
Museum, Calcutta
National Museum of India, New
Delhi
Indonesia
Agung
Rai Museum of Art, Ubud, Bali
Mpu Tantular, the
National Museum of Eastern Java, Surabaya, East Java
Iran
Tehran
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ireland
Crawford
Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Gallery of Photography, Dublin
Hunt Museum, Limerick
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
National Gallery of Ireland,
Dublin
Royal Hibernian Academy,
Dublin
Israel
Israel
Museum, Jerusalem
Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum,
Haifa
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Italy
Accademia
Carrara, Bergamo
Biblioteca e Museo Civico,
Urbania
Canova Museum, Possagno
Casa Buonarroti,
Florence
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea, Turin (Italian only)
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci,
Prato (Italian only)
Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
CIMAC - Civico Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea, Milan (Italian only)
Civic Museums of Pavia (Italian
only)
Civico
Museo "Renato Guttuso", Palermo
Florence Museums
Fondazione Accorsi Museum of
Decorative Arts, Turin
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,
Venice (Italian only)
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma
Galleria Borghese,
Rome
Galleria Civica, Modena (Italian
only)
Galleria Corsini,
Rome
Galleria d'Arte Moderna di
Bologna
Galleria
d'Arte Moderna "E. Restivo", Palermo
Galleria
dell'Accademia, Florence (Italian only)
Galleria di
Palazzo Rosso, Genoa
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
Galleria Estense, Modena
Galleria
Nazionale, Parma (Italian only)
Galleria Nazionale
d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria,
Perugia
Galleria Palatina,
Florence (Italian only)
Galleria
Sabauda, Turin (Italian only)
Galleria Spada, Rome
Gallerie dell'Accademia,
Venice
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, Turin
GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,
Bergamo (Italian only)
International Museum of Ceramics,
Faenza
Marino Marini Museum,
Florence
Musei Capitolini,
Rome
Musei Civici d'Arte
Antica, Bologna
Musei Civici d'Arte e Storia di
Brescia
Musei di Palazzo Farnese, Rome (Italian
only)
MUSEION - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Bolzano
Museo
Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan
Museo Borgogna, Vercelli
Museo
Ca' Pesaro, Venice (Italian only)
Museo Cascella, Pescara (Italian
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Museo Castello del
Buonconsiglio, Trento
Museo Civico di Arte Antica, Milan (Italian
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Museo Civico di Prato
Museo Civico, Riva del Garda
Museo
Correr, Venice (Italian only)
Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna
Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta
Museo dei Bronzi Dorati, Pergola
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,
Trento/Rovereto (Italian only)
Museo di
Castelvecchio, Verona
Museo
di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Rome (Italian only)
Museo di San Marco,
Florence (Italian only)
Museo di Vinci
Museo Diocesano di Milan
Museo Fattori,
Livorno (Italian only)
Museo
Fortuny, Venice (Italian only)
Museo Glauco
Lombardi, Parma
Museo Morandi, Bologna
Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo,
Aquila (Italian only)
Museo Nazionale del
Bargello, Florence (Italian only)
Museo Nazionali di
Capodimonte, Naples
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
Museums
of Florence (Italian only)
Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore,
Florence
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Palazzo Barberini,
Rome
Palazzo Bianco,
Genoa
Palazzo Colonna Gallery, Rome
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (Italian
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Palazzo Ducale, Genoa (mostly
in Italian)
Palazzo Forti, Verona (Italian
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Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia
Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence
Palazzo
Montecitorio, Rome
Palazzo Ruspoli,
Rome (Italian only)
Palazzo
Vecchio (Museo Ragazzi), Florence
Palermo Museums (Italian
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Venice
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Italian
only)
Pinacoteca
Civica di Vicenza
Pinacoteca dell'Accademia dei
Concordi, Rovigo (Italian only)
Pinacoteca di
Brera, Milan
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Pinacoteca
Provinciale di Bari (Italian only)
Pitti
Palace, Florence (Italian only)
Querini Stampalia Foundation
Museum, Venice
Raccolta Manzu,
Ardea (Italian only)
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Vatican Museums, Vatican
City
Japan
Aichi
Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo
Hiroshima Museum of Art
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,
Sapporo (Japanese only)
Hokusai Museum, Obuse
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art,
Kobe
The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum,
Matsumoto
Kawamura Memorial Museum of
Art, Sakura
Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum (Japanese
only)
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum
of Art (Japanese only)
Kyoto National Museum
Kyoto University Museum
Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame
MOA Museum of Art, Atami
Mori Art Museum
Museum
of Art, Kochi, Kochi-City
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Fine Art,
Gifu
Nagoya City
Art Museum
Nagoya City Museum
Nagoya/Boston Museum
of Fine Arts
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum
Nara National Museum
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art,
Nara (Japanese only)
National Museum of Art, Osaka
National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Western Art,
Tokyo
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts,
Tokyo
Niki Museum, Nasu
Rokuzan Art Museum (Japanese
only)
Sapporo Art Park
Setagaya Art Museum,
Tokyo
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of
Art, Shizuoka-city
Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo
Takaoka
Art Museum, Toyama
Tokugawa Art Museum,
Nagoya
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
of Photography
Tokyo
National Museum
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art,
Toyota City
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo (mostly in Japanese)
Yamagata Museum of Art
Yokohama Museum of Art (Japanese
only)
Jordan
Darat
al Funun Home for the Arts, Amman
Kenya
National
Museums of Kenya, Nairobi
Kuwait
Tareq
Rajab Museum, Hawalli
Latvia
State
Art Gallery, Riga
Liechtenstein
Kunstmuseum
Liechtenstein, Vaduz (mostly in German)
Lithuania
M.K.
Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas
Europos Parkas Open Air Museum,
Vilnius
Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius
Luxembourg
Musee
National d'Histoire et d'Art (French only)
Mexico
Carillo
Gil Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City (Spanish
only)
Museo de Arte Moderno,
Mexico City
Museu Franz Mayer, Mexico City
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes,
Mexico City
Netherlands
Arnhem
Museum of Modern Art
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art,
Amsterdam
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art,
Tilburg
Dordrechts Museum (Dutch
only)
Fotomuseum den Haag, The Hague
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Frisia Museum, Spanbroek (Dutch
only)
GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The
Hague
Gemeentemuseum, Helmond (Dutch
only)
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Groninger Museum,
Groningen
Frans Hals Museum,
Haarlem
Hermitage Netherlands, Amsterdam
Het Loo Palace National Museum
Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo
Kunsthal Rotterdam
Mauritshuis Royal Picture
Gallery, The Hague
Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort
Museum Apeldoorn (Dutch
only)
Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum Bredius, The Hague
Museum Jan van der Togt,
Amstelveen
Museum Kempenland, Eindhoven (in
Dutch)
Museum Rijswijk
Nederlands Fotomuseum,
Rotterdam
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden - National Museum of
Antiquities, Leiden
Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal,
Leiden
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art,
Amsterdam
Stroom Haags Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst,
The Hague (Dutch only)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen (Dutch
only)
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn (Dutch
only)
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Jan Adam Zandleven, Eindhoven
New Zealand
Auckland
Art Gallery
Centre of Contemporary Art,
Christchurch
Christchurch Art Gallery
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth
Lopdell House Gallery, Waitakere City
Otago Museum, Dunedin
Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Annex,
Christchurch
The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu, Nelson
Te Manawa, Palmerston North
Te Papa, Wellington
Waikato Museum of Art and History,
Hamilton
Wellington City Gallery
Norway
Astrup
Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Barony Rosendal
Bergen Kunstmuseum (Norwegian
only)
Henie-Onstad Art Center (Norwegian
only)
Lillehammer Art Museum
Munch Museum, Oslo
Nasjonalgalleriet
Norway, Oslo
National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Oslo
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum,
Oslo
Vigeland-museet, Oslo
Peru
Museo
Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera, Lima
Museo de Arte de Lima (Spanish
only)
Philippines
Philippine
National Museum, Manila
Poland
Centre
for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz Polish
National Museum, Warsaw
Poznan National Museum
Royal Castle, Warsaw
Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow
Portugal
Fundacao
Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon (Portuguese only)
Museu
Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (Portuguese only)
Museu do Chiado - National
Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary
Art, Porto
Romania
National
Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
National Museum of Art of Romania,
Bucharest
Russia
Art
Gallery of Novosibirsk
Chelyabinsk Region Picture
Gallery
Chuvash State Art Museum (Russian
only)
Far Eastern Museum of Fine
Arts, Khabarovsk
Moscow Kremlin (Russian
only)
Outsider Art Museum,
Moscow
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts,
Moscow
Sergiev Posad State History and Art
Museum-Reserve
State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Russian
only)
Tver Art Gallery (Russian
only)
Tzarskoje Selo State Museum, St. Petersburg
Singapore
Asian
Civilisations Museum
Lee Kong Chian Art Museum at the
National University of Singpore
Singapore Art Museum
Slovenia
Moderna
Galerija Ljubljana
National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana
National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana
South Africa
Cape
Town Museums
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum,
Port Elizabeth
Pretoria Art Museum
South Korea
Ho-Am
Art Museum, Everland (Korean only)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Seoul Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Total Museum of Contemporary Art,
Seoul
Spain
Bilbao
Fine Arts Museum
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga
Fundacion Bartolome March Museums,
Mallorca
Fundacion Juan March Museums, Madrid
Fundacion Picasso Museum, Malaga
Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation Museums,
Costa Brava
Guggenheim Bilbao
Museum
Lazaro Galdiano Foundation Museums,
Madrid
Jaume Morera Museum of Art, Lleida
Museo Chillida-Leku, Hernani
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban
Vicente, Segovia
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia
Museo de Navarra,
Pamplona
Museo Vostell Malpartida (Spanish
only)
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
Museu Frederic Mares, Barcelona
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte
Contemporaneo Espanol, Valladolid
National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid
Pilar and Joan Miro Foundation of
Mallorca, Palma
Prado Museum, Madrid
Telefonica
Foundation Collection, Madrid
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,
Madrid
Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia
Sweden
Carl
Larsson-garden, Sundborn
Dalarnas Museum, Falun
Konstmuseum, Goteborg
Kristinehamns Konstmuseum (Swedish
only)
Kulturhuset Stockholm
Magasin 3 Konstall, Stockholm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum Lionardo da Vinci Ideale, Karlskrona
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skarhamn
Norrkopings Museum of Art,
Norrkoping (Swedish only)
Ostasiatiska Museum of Art and Far
Eastern Antiquities, Ulricehamn
Rohss Museum for Design and Applied Art,
Gothenburg
Rooseum, Malmo
Thielska Gallery, Stockholm (Swedish
only)
Vasteras
Konstmuseum
Switzerland
Antikenmuseum
Basel (German only)
Architekturmuseum, Basel
Beyeler
Foundation Collection, Basel
E.G. Buhrle Foundation
Collection, Zurich
Caricature and Cartoon Museum, Basel (German
only)
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (French
only)
Centre for Contemporary Images, Geneva
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne
Fondation de l'Hermitage,
Lausanne
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain, Friburg
Hallen fur neue Kunst, Schaffhausen
Hauser and Wirth Collection,
Switzerland
Kirchner Museum Davos (German
only)
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Bern
Kunsthalle Zurich
Kunsthaus Glarus
Kunsthaus Zug
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel
Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Warth
Kunstmuseum Lucerne (German
only)
Kunstmuseum Solothurn (German
only)
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (mostly
in German)
Kunstmuseum Thun
Kunstmuseum Winterthur (German
only)
Migros Museum, Zurich
Musee d'art et d'histoire,
Geneva (French only)
Musee d'art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO),
Geneva
Musee Jenisch, Vevey
Musees Barbier-Mueller, Geneva
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
Museo Vela,
Ligornetto
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Museum H.R. Giger, Gruyeres
Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen
Museum Rietberg, Zurich (German
only)
Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (German
only)
Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen
Oskar Reinhart Collection,
Winterthur
Paul Klee Centre, Bern
Pierre-Gianadda Foundation, Martigny
Sammlung Rosengart Lucerne
Schaulager, Basel
Segantini Museum, St. Moritz
Swiss National Museums, Zurich
Zurich Museum of Design
Villa Flora Winterthur (German
only)
Taiwan
National
Palace Museum, Taipei
Thailand
Chiang
Saen National Museum
Turkey
Topkapi
Palace Museum, Istanbul
Ukraine
Odessa
Museum of Western and Eastern Art
United Kingdom
England
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
at Oxford University
Barbican Centre, London
BALTIC, Gateshead
Ben Uri Art Society, London
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Bolton Art Gallery
Bowes Museum, County Durham
Brighton Museum and Art
Gallery
British Museum, London
Burton Art Gallery and Museum,
Bideford
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, London
Cecil
Higgins Art Gallery and Museum, Bedford
Chatsworth House, Bakewell
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
Christ Church College
Picture Gallery, Oxford
Christchurch Mansion,
Suffolk
Courtauld Institute of Art at the
University of London
Derby
Museum and Art Gallery
Dorset County Museum,
Dorchester
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Estorick Collection of Modern
Italian Art, London
Falmouth Art Gallery
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park,
Faringdon
Ferens Art Gallery,
Kingston upon Hull
Fitzwilliam Museum at the
University of Cambridge
Flora Twort Gallery,
Petersfield
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
Gilbert Collection of Decorative
Arts, London
Guildhall Art Gallery Imagebase, London
University of Newcastle Hatton Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne
Hayward Gallery, London
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA),
London
Kent County
Gallery
Lady Lever Art Gallery,
Port Sunlight
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leighton
House Museum, London
Lowry Centre, Manchester
Manchester City Art Galleries
The Manchester Museum
Manor House Museum,
Bury St. Edmunds
Maritime Art Greenwich, London
William Morris Gallery, London
Museum of Classical Archaeology
at the University of Cambridge
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
Museum of London
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Museums of the Potteries,
Stoke on Trent
National Art Library, London
National Gallery, London
National Museum of Photography, Film and
Television, Bradford
National Museums Liverpool
National Portrait Gallery, London
Nature in Art Museum and Art Gallery,
Gloucester
New Art Gallery, Walsall
New Hall Women's
Art Collection at the University of Cambridge
Northampton Museum
and Art Gallery
Norwich
Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Penlee House Gallery and Museum,
Penzance
Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Royal Collection,
London
Royal Cornwall Museum,
Truro
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery
and Museum, Bournemouth
Serpentine Gallery, London
Sheffield Galleries and Museums
Sir John Soane's Museum, London
South London Gallery
Southampton
City Gallery
Stanley Spencer Gallery,
Cookham
St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery,
Lymington
Tate Gallery, London
Tate Modern, London
Tate Liverpool
Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Waddeson Manor: The Rothschild Collection,
Aylesbury
Wallace Collection,
London
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Wolverhampton Art
Gallery
Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
York Art Gallery
Alphabetical Order
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
- 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.
A
-
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
B
- 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.
C
- 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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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.
[Responsible for: City Art Centre; Writers' Museum;
Queensferry Museum; Newhaven Museum; Museum of Childhood; The Museum of
Edinburgh; The People's Story Museum; Lauriston Castle; Travelling Gallery]
- City of Norwich Aviation
Museum, Norfolk. Military aircraft collection.
- City of Portsmouth
Preserved Transport Depot, Hampshire. Collection of restored buses.
- Claymills Pumping
Engines, Stretton, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire. A preserved Victorian
pumping station.
- Cobham Bus Museum,
Surrey. Transport museum, with the world's largest collection of ex-London
Transport buses and coaches.
- Colchester
Museums, Essex. Collections of archaeology, natural history, clocks,
etc.
[Responsible for: Colchester Castle Museum; Holytrees
Museum; Natural History Museum; Tymperleys Clock Museum]
-
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.
- Computer Museum at
Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. A large collection
of computing devices ranging from Colossus (the first computer) to the
present day.
- Congleton
Museum, Cheshire. Local history museum.
- Coors Visitor Centre,
Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. History of the beer brewing industry.
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Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. "Has arguably the finest
and most extensive collection of Romano-British material relating to a town
and its hinterland in the world." Roman, but also has displays on Cotswold
history from Prehistory to the English Civil War.
[Part of: Cotswold Museum Service]
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Costume and Textile Study Centre, Carrow House, Norwich, Norfolk.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
- Cotswold
Motor Museum, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire. Transport museum,
with a permanent collection of classic vehicles and motoring memorabilia.
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Cotswold Woollen Weavers, Filkins, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire.
Historic working weaving mill, museum/gallery and shop.
-
Courtauld
Institute of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London. Collections of Old Master
and Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings, together with sculpture
and applied arts
- The
Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney, Buckinghamshire. Presents Olney's
heritage.
-
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).
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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.
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Craigavon Museum
Services, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. A collection of research material
and objects which illustrate the history and local heritage of the area.
- Cranbrook Museum,
Kent. Local history museum.
- 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.
-
Cromer Museum. Collections on local history and landscape.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
-
Croft House Museum, Dunrossness, Shetland. [Part of
Shetland Museum Service]
- Cumberland Pencil
Museum, Keswick, Cumbria. A company museum featuring the history of
pencil making.
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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.
-
De Havilland
Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum), Salisbury Hill,
Hertfordshire. Military aircraft collection.
- Design Museum,
London. "Concerned as much with the future as the past, a programme of
highly acclaimed exhibitions capture the excitement of design evolution,
ingenuity and inspiration through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"
- Dickens House
Museum, London. One of the homes of the 19th century author Charles
Dickens.
- Digital Art Museum.
Virtual museum aiming "to become the world's leading online resource for the
history and practice of digital fine art".
- Dinosaur
Museum, Dorchester, Dorset. Britain's only museum solely devoted to
dinosaurs and their fascinating world.
- 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.
- Dorset County
Museum, Dorchester. Local history museum with collections of:
archaeology; natural history; and geology. Displays on Dorset writers, with
Thomas Hardy's study, and one of the largest Thomas Hardy collections in the
world. Run by Dorset Natural
History and Archaeological Society.
- 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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- Easdale
Island Folk Museum, Scotland. Local history, especially the slate
quarring industry.
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East
Lothian Museums, Scotland. With on-line exhibitions.
[Responsible for: North Berwick Museum, Dunbar Town House
Museum, Prestongrange Museum]
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Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire.
World War II prisoner of war camp
- Eden Valley Museum,
Edenbridge, Kent. Local history museum.
- Edinburgh
University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music.
- 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
- Elgin Museum,
Moray. Pictish stones, local fossils, archaeology, geology, natural history,
social history and ethnography.
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Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth. Late 16th century merchants's
house, with period furnishings. [Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology
Service]
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Embroiderers' Guild , Hampton Court Palace, Surrey. The Guild's museum
has a collection of over 11,000 embroidered objects of national
significance, gathered from around the world, and take many forms including
costume, furnishings, decorative and non-functional textiles. A particular
strength is the holding of embroidery worked in Britain from the 16th
century to the present day.
-
Eturia
Industrial Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
[Part of: Stoke-on-Trent
Museums].
- Eureka!, Halifax,
West Yorkshire. The Museum for Children.
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Exeter City
Museums, Devon.
[Responsible for:
Royal Albert
Memorial Museum,
St Nicholas
Priory]
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- Falconer Museum,
Forrres, Morray, Scotland. Local history museum.
- Fan Museum,
Greenwich, London. The only museum in the world devoted entirely to every
aspect of fans and fan making.
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Faringdon and District Museum, Oxfordshire.
- Farmland Museum and
Denny Abbey, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Agricultural museum, and
remains of a Norman abbey.
- Fashion and Textile
Museum, London. Collections of contemporary fashions and textiles.
- 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.
- 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.
-
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.
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Ford Green Hall,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 17th to 18th centuries farmhouse.
[Part of:
Stoke-on-Trent Museums].
-
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Gloucestershire. Art in a forest
setting.
- Fox Talbot
Museum, Chippenham, Wiltshire. Commemorates the life and work of William
Henry Fox Talbot - known as The Father of Modern Photography.
- Foxton Canal Museum and
Inclined Plane Trust, Leicestershire. Industrial museum.
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The Foundling Museum,
London. Tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, London's first home for
abandoned children.
- Freud Museum,
London. The home of the founder of psychoanalysis
- Frome Museum,
Somerset. Collection of local artefacts and sources of information, ranging
from costumes from the Horner family to glass negatives from Singers Art
Metal works. It has a library, collection of historic maps and a range of
local information leaflets and books.
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- 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
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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.
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George Marshall Medical Museum,
Worcester. Illustrates the development of medicine and health care over the
past 250 years.
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Gladstone
Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Working pottery.
[Part of:
Stoke-on-Trent Museums].
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Glasgow Museums, Scotland.
[Responsible for:
The
Burrell Collection;
Fossil
Grove;
Gallery of Modern Art;
Glasgow
Museums Resource Centre;
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum;Martyrs'
School;
McLellan
Galleries;
Museum of
Transport;
People's
Palace and Winter Gardens;
Pollok
House;
Provand's
Lordship;
Scotland
Street School Museum;
St Mungo
Museum of Religious Life and Art
- Glastonbury
Abbey, Somerset. Traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church
in the world, with connections to King Arthur and the Holy Grail.
-
Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery. Collections of: archaeological
finds, fine and decorative arts, and natural history.
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Gloucester Folk Museum. Displays include local history, such as the
Siege of Gloucester (1643), the Port of Gloucester, Severn fishing, farming
and folklore; domestic life; crafts and industries.
- Godalming
Museum, Surrey. Local history, industry, geology, archeology.
-
Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland. Military museum
- Gorleston
Heritage Museum, [Norfolk]. A virtual museum on local history, fishing,
tourism, education, community, and bygones.
- Gosport
Museum, Hampshire.
[Part of:
Hampshire Museums Service]
-
Government Art Collection.
Works of art from the Collection are displayed in British Government
buildings both in the United Kingdom and around the world. Over 4000 works -
about a third of the Collection - are now listed on this site.
- Grantown Museum,
Scotland. Local history 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.
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Green Howards
Regimental Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire. Military museum.
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Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse. Agricultural history museum and
traditional working farm.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
- 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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Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Displays 250 works of art, owned by the
Corporation of London, at a time, together with temporary exhibitions.
Artists represented include: Millais, Landseer, Constable and Singleton
Copley. The Gallery also contains the remains of London's Roman ampitheatre.
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- Hackney
Museum, London. Local history museum, with news of its education
service, exhibitions, and behind the scenes.
- Haig Colliery
Mining Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria. A restored deep coal mine, with two
huge steam winding engines.
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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]
- Handel House Museum,
London. Music museum. Displays and exhibitions in the restored home of the
18th century composer, George Frideric Handel.
-
Harris Museum and Art Gallery,
Preston, Lancashire. Collections of: fine and decorative art, costume and
textiles, local history, and photography.
- Haslemere
Educational Museum, Surrey. Geology, natural and human history
galleries, garden nature trail and observation beehive. Popular exhibits are
the Egyptian mummy and 'Arthur' the brown bear.
-
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, East
Sussex. Local history museum. Collections of ceramics, drawings and
paintings, natural history, including dinosaurs. Also has exhibits on John
Logie Baird, the pioneer of television. [Closed until early 2007]
- Hatton Gallery,
University of Newcastle. A varied programme of contemporary and historical
art exhibitions, and permanent displays of African sculpture
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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]
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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]
- The Herbert,
Coventry, Warwickshire. Local history museum, with collections of
archaeology, natural history, social and industrial history and visual arts.
[Responsible for: Herbert Media Suite; Undercroft, Lunt
Roman Fort; St Mary's Guildhall, Whitefriars]
- Hertford Museum.
Local history museum.
- Hidden Lives
Revealed. An on-line resource from the Children's Society featuring
children in care from 1881 until 1918. Has: photographs, case files,
children's homes, and publications.
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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]
- Holbourne
Museum and 20th Century Crafts Study Centre, Bath, Somerset. Fine art
and decorative art collection.
- Holst Birthplace
Museum, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Based in a Regency terrace house
where the well know music composer Gustav Holst was born in 1874.
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The Horniman Museum and Gardens,
Forest Hill, London. Collections on world cultures (ethnography), natural
history, and music.
- Hornsea Museum,
East Yorkshire. Folk museum sited in an 18th Century farmhouse, a local
history that "is not a relic but a living entity, changing with time, to
reflect the changing patterns of village life in North Holderness over the
passing centuries."
- House on the
Hill Toy Museum, Stansted, Essex. The largest privately owned toy museum
in Europe, with over 30,000 individual items.
- Hovercraft
Museum Trust, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. Transport museum [visits by
appointment only].
- Howell
Harris Museum, Coleg Trefeca, Brecon, Powys, Wales. "Shows aspects of
the life of Howell Harris, whose conversion (1735) led to the founding of
Welsh Methodism; also of the community, Teulu Trefeca, which he established
here in 1752".
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Hull Museums.
[Responsible for: Arctic Corsair (last of the Hull
'side-winder' fishing vessels); Ferens Art Gallery (collections and
programme of exhibitions and events); Hands on History (curriculum resource
centre); Hull and East Riding Museum (geology, archaeology and natural
history of the area); Maritime Museum (the story of Hull's rich and
colourful maritime history); Spurn Lightship; Streetlife Museum ('hands-on'
approach tracing 200 years of transport history); Wilberforce House Museum
(birthplace of the slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce, and social
history displays)]
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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery,
University of Glasgow. Anatomical and pathological specimens. Art, coins,
books, manuscripts, geology, zoology and ethnography.
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Imperial War Museum,
London. Also includes the
Churchill Museum and Cabinet War
Rooms, HMS Belfast and
Imperial War Museum Duxford
(including the American Air
Museum in Britain).
- Inspire
Discovery Centre, Norwich, Norfolk. Science centre. Based in a medieval
church, its aim is: "To promote and encourage the discovery and enjoyment of
science by all members of the community using hands-on exhibits and related
activities."
- Internal Fire,
Museum of Power, Tanygroes, Ceredigion, Wales. Industrial museum,
dedicated to the history of the internal combustion engine.
- Inverness Museum
and Art Gallery, Scotland. Collections of natural history, archaeology
and local history. Includes a Discovery Centre and Records Centre
(biological and archaeological).
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Ipswich Transport Museum, Suffolk.
-
Ironbridge Gorge Museum,
Telford, Shropshire. Birthplace of the industrial revolution. Including 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 Centre
in Bath, Somerset. Tells the story of the author's Bath experience - the
effect that living here had on her and her writing.
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Jane Austen's
House, Chawton, Hampshire. Where the early 19th century novelist lived
and worked.
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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. The history and religious life of the Jewish community
in Britain and beyond. Based in two sites in Finchley and Camden.
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John
Bunyan Museum, Bedford. Aims to present the life, times and works of
John Bunyan (the author of The Pilgrim's Progress) in an accessible
and relevant manner.
- John Paul Jones
Cottage Museum, Kirkbean, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The
re-created home of the "Father of the American Navy".
- 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.
-
Jorvik
Viking Centre, York. "Get face-to-face with the Vikings on the very site
where archaeologists discovered the remains of the place they once called
home."
- Judge's
Lodgings (Llety'r Barnwr), Presteinge, Powys, Wales. Restored historic
rooms, local history, and education section.
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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.
- 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.
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Kilmartin House Museum, Argyll. Based
in "Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape".
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Kingston Museum, Kingston upon Thames. Holds a large collection of
photographs by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).
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Kirklees Museums, West Yorkshire. Museums and historic houses with
collections on: local history, archaeology, natural science, childhood, etc.
[Responsible for: Bagshaw Museum, Batley; Castle Hill and
Victoria Tower, Huddersfield; Dewsbury Museum; Oakwell Hall Country Park,
Birstall; Red House, Gomersal; Tolson Museum, Huddersfield]
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Lancashire Museums.
[Responsible for: The Museum of Lancashire, Preston;
Fleetwood Museum; Judges' Lodgings Lancaster, Helmshore Mills Textile
Museums, Rossendale Museum; Queen Street Mill, Burnley; Gawthorpe Hall,
Padiham; Turton Tower, Bolton; Clitheroe Castle Museum; Ribchester Roman
Bath Museum; Museum Service to Schools]
- Lapworth Museum
of Geology, University of Birmingham, West Midlands. Geology and
fossils.
- Leece Museum,
Peel, Isle of Man. Local history museum.
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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]
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Leighton House Museum, London. The studio-home of the 19th century
artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton.
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Leighton-Linslade Virtual Museum. The creators "hope to preserve images
relating to the history" of Leighton Buzzard and Linslade, Bedfordshire
- Lichfield
Heritage Centre, Staffordshire. Local history, including: treasury,
historic documents and photographs.
- Life in a Lens,
Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Dedicated to the history of popular photography,
from its invention in 1839 to the end of the previous century.
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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].
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Llandudno Museum, Wales. Local history, archaeology.
On-line database of all its collections.
- Locksmith's
House, Willenhall, West Midlands. Industrial museum, located in a
Victorian lockmaker's house and workshops.
[Run by: Black Country
Living Museum, Dudley]
- London Canal
Museum, King's Cross. Transport Museum
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London Fire Brigade Museum, Southwark. Depicts the history of
firefighting in London from the Great Fire of 1666 to the present day.
- London
Motorcycle Museum, Greenford, Middlesex. 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"
- Lowewood Museum,
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Local history museum.
- 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.
-
Lynn
Museum, King's Lynn. Collections on local history, natural science, art
and industry. [Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology
Service]
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- Macclesfield
Silk Museums, Cheshire. Local history, and especially the silk industry.
Other collections include the work of well-known bird artist Charles
Tunnicliffe, Egyptian antiquities, costumes, textiles and a photographic
archive.
[Responsible for: Silk Museum, Paradise Mill, West Park
Museum, The Heritage Centre ]
- Madame Tussauds,
London. Waxworks.
- Maes Artro Heritage
Museum, Llanbedr, Wales. Traces the history of RAF Llanbedr, especially
during World War II and includes a 'Home Front Exhibition'. Also a 'Rural
Heritage Museum' and a 'Yester Years Museum', the latter a re-created Welsh
Village street from the 1900s.
- Maidstone
Museum, Kent. Local history museum
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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".
- Mallaig Heritage Centre,
Inverness-shire, Scotland. Local history museum looking at the history and
culture of the West Highlands of Scotland.
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Malton Museum, North Yorkshire. Archaeology museum - Roman and medieval
collections.
- Manchester
City Galleries. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and
furniture, especially by 19th and 20th century artists, including the
Pre-Raphaelites.
[Responsible for: Manchester Art Gallery; Wythenshawe Hall;
Heaton Hall; Gallery of Costume]
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Manchester Jewish Museum.
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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.
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Manchester United Museum and Tour, Greater Manchester. Outlines the
history of the football club from 1878 to the present day
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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.
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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]
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Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Collections of
Egyptian and Classical antiquities, non-Western ethnography, Scottish
prehistory and numismatics.
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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.
- Memorial
Gallery, Yale College, Wrexham, Wales. Temporary and touring
exhibitions, and events.
- Mersea Island
Museum, West Mersea, Essex. Local history museum, with collections on
fishing, oystering, wild fowling and boat building
- Metropole Galleries,
Folkestone, Kent. Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.
- Midland Air
Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire.
- 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.
- Modern Art
Oxford. A "leading centre for modern and contemporary art with a
national and international reputation".
- 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
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Motherwell Heritage Centre, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Presents an
interactive journey through the loacl history from Victorian to the present
day.
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Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Archaeology and local
history, in a building originally built in the 12th century. Also houses the
Suffolk Regiment Museum Collection.
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Museum in Docklands, London. Indutrial museum, based in a late Georgian
warehouse. Looks at the story of London's River, Port and people, from Roman
settlement of the port, through to the recent regeneration of London's
former Docklands.
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Museum nan Eilean, Western Isles, Scotland. Local history museums in
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, and Sgoil Lionacleit, Isle of Benbecula.
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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 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
Computing, University of Bath in Swindon, Wiltshire. Exhibitions of
working early computers, including early computer games.
- Museum of
Costume and Assembly Rooms, Bath, Somerset
- Museum of Costume,
New Abbey, Scotland. A Victorian country house containing costume from the
1850s to the 1950s displayed in period room settings.
[Part of: National Museums
of Scotland]
- Museum of
East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
-
Museum of
English Rural Life, Reading, Berkshire. Part of the
Rural History Centre - "A
national centre in England for the study of the history of farming, food and
the countryside". On-line catalogue, photograph collection and archive.
-
Museum of Farnham, Surrey. Local history museum situated in a Georgian
town house dating from 1718. Collections include: material on William
Cobbett, Waverley Abbey, photograph collection, newpapers. Also schools
collection, special exhibitions, library and shop.
- 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
Garden History, St Mary-at-Lambeth Church, Lambeth Palace, London.
- 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
Installation, London. An artist led organisation dedicated to the
research, production and dissemination of installation art.
- Museum
of Islay Life, Port Charlotte, Isle of Islay, Scotland. Local history
museum.
- 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 Modern
Art, Wales, Machynlleth. Temporary exhibitions.
- Museum of
Rugby, Twickenham, Middlesex. Sport museum.
-
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.
- 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
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Museums of The Royal College of Surgeons, London.
[Responsible for: Hunterian Museum; Odontological Museum,
Wellcome Museum of Anatomy; Wellcome Museum of Pathology].
- Museum of Transport,
Manchester. The biggest collection of restored vintage buses and coaches
in the United Kingdom, with associated objects and archives.
- St
Fagans: National History Museum, 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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- Nantwich
Museum, Cheshire. Local history museum, featuring salt making, leather
and clothing trade, and clockmaking.
- Narrow Gauge
Railway Museum, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. [re-opening summer 2005]
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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
Army Museum, Chelsea, London.
- The National Art
Collections Fund ("The Art Fund"). The UK's leading art charity, giving
grants to museums and galleries for the purchase of treasures that otherwise
might leave the UK, or disappear into private collections. Information on
most of the thousands of art objects which have recieved grants since 1903.
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National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne.
- 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.
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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]
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The National Gallery,
London. Collection
of Western European paintings (1260-1900). See also
Exhibitions and
The Micro Gallery
(off-line).
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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
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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.
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National Motor Museum, Beaulieu,
Hampshire.
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National Museum, Cardiff. [Part of
National Museums & Galleries of Wales,
Cardiff].
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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
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.]
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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
Scottish Country Life, East Kilbride;
National War Museum of Scotland;
Museum of Costume, New Abbey]
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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:
Museum Science,
Picture Library Online,
Interactive Online
Exhibitions, and Earth
lab datasite.
[Responsible for
Walter Rothschild Zoological
Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire].
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National Roman Legionary Museum, Caerleon. [Part of
National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
- National
Slate Museum, Llanberis. Industrial Museum. [Part of
National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
- National Space Centre,
Leicester. The UK's largest attraction dedicated to space science and
astronomy.
-
National Tramway Museum, Crich,
Derbyshire. Includes a searchable database of 2,500 photographic images
- National War
Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. Miltary museum - "Scotland's national
collections for the armed services".
[Part of: National Museums
of Scotland
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National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. [Part of
National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
- National Waterways
Museum, Gloucester. Tells the 200 year story of Britain's canals through
the 'National Collection' of historic waterway vessels.
- National
Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre. [Part of
National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
- Nature in Art,
Trigworth, Gloucestershire. The world's first museum exclusively to art
inspired by nature, set in a Georgian mansion
- New Art Gallery
Walsall, West Midlands.
[Part of: Walsall Museums Service]
-
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
- 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
- North West
Museum of Road Transport, St Helens, Merseyside. Transport museum with
an unrivalled collection of historic buses, coaches, trams, cars and lorries
- Norfolk Nelson
Museum, Great Yarmouth. Naval history museum.
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Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norfolk. Collections of
archaeology, natural history, art and social history.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
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Norwich Castle Study Centre, Norfolk.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
- Nothe Fort
and Museum of Coast Defence, Weymouth, Dorset. Military museum.
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No 1 Royal
Crescent Museum, Bath, Somerset. Restored 18th century house in the
palladian style.
[Part of:
Bath Preservation Trust]
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- Oakwell Hall,
Batley, West Yorkshire. A 16th century manor house and surrounding 110 acres
of country park.
- The Observatory
Science Centre, Herstmonceux, East Sussex.
- 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.
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Oxford University Museum of Natural
History. Collections
of: 3 million insects and several thousand spiders; over 500,000 fossil
specimens; c30,000 minerals and 50,000 rocks; 200,000 zoological specimens.
Housed in a Victorian neo-Gothic building.
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- Pallant House Gallery,
Chichester, West Sussex. Modern art based in a Queen Anne house with
appropriate furnishings.
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Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire. A preserved Victorian water
pumping station.
-
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.
- People's History
Museum, Manchester. The national centre for the collection,
conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history
of working people in Britain.
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Peter Scott
Gallery, University of Lancaster. Temporary art exhibitions, and
permanent displays of fine arts, contemporary ceramics and Royal Lancastrian
Pottery.
-
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.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, University of
Oxford. Anthropology and Ethnography.
-
The Police
Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Virtual museum.
- Pollock's Toy
Museum, London. Pollock's are famous for Victorian toy theatres.
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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.
- Porthcurno
Telegraph Museum, Cornwall.
- Portsmouth Historic
Dockyard 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).
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The Potteries
Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The world's
finest collection of Staffordshire ceramics. [Part of:
Stoke-on-Trent Museums].
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Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, Cambridgeshire. "A unique collection
of oil-burning engines saved from destruction and restored to working order
by a dedicated band of enthusiasts."
- Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast. The official place
of deposit for public records in Northern Ireland.
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RAF Signals Museum, Henlow, Bedfordshire. Military museum.
- 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.
-
Ramsgate Motor
Museum, Kent. Transport museum.
- 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.
- Renishaw Stables
Museum and Art Gallery, Derbyshire. Based on the life of the Sitwells,
the famous 20th century literary and artistic family. Also includes
Performing Arts Gallery with costumes, sketches and photographs from film
and theatre productions.
- Ribchester
Roman Museum, Lancashire. Dedicated to the Romano-British history of
Bremetenacum Veteranorum.
- Richard III
Museum, York. Housed in the medieval Monk Bar gatehouse, offers a look
at the Richard III controversy. Its major exhibition is a reconstructed
trial of King Richard.
- 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]
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River and Rowing Museum,
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Galleries devoted to the River Thames, the
international sport of rowing and the town of Henley.
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Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre,
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. Tells the story of the life of the famous
childrens' author, cares for his archive and promotes creative writing.
- Roman Baths Museum
and Pump Room, Bath, Somerset.
- Rose Theatre,
London. Remains of an Elizabethan theatre.
-
Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
- Royal Academy of Music: York Gate
Collections, London. Displays of the many fine items from the Academy's
collections, including a large collection of Cremonese stringed instruments.
Other exhibits include musical memorabilia and original manuscripts.
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Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon,
London.
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Royal Albert
Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon. Antiquities, ethnography, natural
history, fine art, decorative arts.
[Part of:
Exeter City
Museums]
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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.
- Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, London.
- Royal
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Information about the collections, and
searchable databases.
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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
Cornwall Museum, 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
Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire (Salisbury) Museum, 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. Includes search facilities to 13 World War I
war diaries and an image database of over 2,000 objects, including 1,200.
- Royal Gunpowder Mills,
Waltham Abbey, Essex. The evolution of explosives and the development of the
Mills through interactive and traditional exhibitions and displays.
- Royal Museum,
Edinburgh. The history of Scotland from its geological beginnings to the
twentieth century.
[Part of: National Museums
of Scotland
- 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
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Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norwich. Military museum.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London.
Home of the Prime Meridian of the world.
[Part of: National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich]
- Royal Photographic Society,
Bath, Somerset. World-renowned collection of 19th century photographs,
equipment, books and journals
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Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Camp, Dorset. Military museum
- Royal Society of British
Sculptors (RBS) Gallery, London. Includes on-line gallery or members
works.
- Royal Tennis
Courts and Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey
- Ruddington Framework
Knitters' Museum, Nottinghamshire. A unique complex of listed
frameshops, cottages, and outbuildings, together with a chapel. Shows the
working and living conditions of the framework knitters during the 19th
century.
- Rural Life Centre
Old Kiln Museum, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey. 150 years of farming.
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Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset. Housed in
late 19th century building, with especially strong collections of British
and Japanese art.
- Ryedale Folk
Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire. Open air museum with
reconstructed historic buildings and collections on agriculture, trades, and
crafts.
- Ryhope Engines
Museum, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Industrial museum based in a former
water-pumping station.
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Saatchi Gallery, London.
Exhibitions of contemporary art by young artists or international artists
rarely, or never, shown in the UK.
- Sainsbury Centre for
Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk.
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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 Albans
Museums, Hertfordshire. Local museum service with collections of
archaeology (particularly from the Roman and medieval town), social history,
natural science, the Salaman Collection of trade tools, and an image
library.
[Responsible for: Museum of St Albans; Verulamium Museum]
- St Barbe
Museum, Lymington, Hampshire. Local history and arts museum.
- St
Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff. Re-erected buildings and
social history. [Part of
National Museums & Galleries of Wales].
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St Nicholas
Priory, Exeter, Devon. 900 year old guest wing of a former Benedictine
Priory.
[Part of:
Exeter City
Museums]
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Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Greater Manchester. Local history
museum.
[Responsible for:
Ordsall
Hall Museum; Working Class Movement
Library]
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Sandwell Museum Service, West Midlands. Has modern heritage centre, a
Tudor yeoman's house, a Victorian gentleman's residence, a purpose built Art
Gallery. Also look after the boyhood home of Francis Asbury, the first
American Methodist Bishop.
[Responsible for: Oak House, West Bromwich; Haden Hill
House, Cradley Heath; Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery; Tipton Community
Heritage Centre; Bishop Asbury Cottage, Great Barr]
- Satrosphere,
Aberdeen, Scotland. An interactive exhibition of science and technology, the
first one in Scotland.
- Savings
Bank Museum, Ruthwell, Dumfries, Scotland. Traces the life of Rev Henry
Duncan who opened the world's first savings bank based on business
principles in 1810. Also houses an important archive of nineteenth century
banking, social and family history.
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Science Museum, London. See
collections,
exhibitions (including :
Hands on
Science and
Exhiblets), and the
Wellcome Wing. [Part of the
National Museum of Science and Industry].
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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.
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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.
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Seaford Museum and Heritage Society, East Sussex. Housed in a Napoleonic
Martello tower. Local history with displays including: shops, tableaux and
material from pre-historic times to the present day.
- Sedgwick Museum
of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. Includes material from the
collections of Charles Darwin.
- Senhouse Roman
Museum, Maryport, Cumbria. "Contains the largest grouping of Roman
military altar stones and inscriptions from any site in Britain and unique
examples of Celtic religious sculpture".
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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.
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Shardlow Heritage Centre, Derbyshire. Local history of an 18th century
canal transhipment port.
- Sheffield
Bus Museum, South Yorkshire. Local transport museum.
- Sheffield Industrial
Museums Trust , South Yorkshire. Operates three important museums
dedicated to the industrial and social history of Sheffield - "City of
Steel".
[Responsible for: Kelham Island Museum, Abbeydale Industrial
Hamlet, and Shepherd Wheel]
- 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]
-
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.
- Shrewsbury
Museums Service, Shropshire.
[Responsible for: Rowley's House, Shrewsbury Castle, Coleham
Pumping Station and Clive House]
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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 Henry
Jones Museum, Llangerrnyw, Wales. The childhood home of Sir Henry Jones
(1852-1922) who, from humble origins, became an eminent Professor of Moral
Philosophy at Glasgow University and a major influence on the education
system in Wales.
- Sir John Soane's Museum,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. House and museum of Sir John Soane, R.A.,
architect (1753-1837).
- Sleaford Museum,
Lincolnshire. No permanent home for the collection but virtual museum site
offers the ability to browse the collection.
- Soldiers of
Gloucestershire Museum, Gloucester. Military museum for the
Gloucestershire Regiment and the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.
- Somerset
County Museums Service. Local museum service with collections of
geology, natural history, archaeology, ceramics, textiles and social
history.
[Responsible for: Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, East Quay
Bridgwater; Somerset County Museum, Taunton Castle; Somerset Rural Life
Museum, Glastonbury ]
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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]
- Southwold Museum,
Suffolk. Local history museum, based in 17th century cottages.
- Spitfire
and Hurricane Memorial Museum, Manston, Kent. Military aircraft museum.
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Spode Museum,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Oldest English pottery, ceramics, bone china,
earthenware.
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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.
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Staffordshire Regiment
Museum, Lichfield. Military museum.
- Stained Glass
Museum, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Based in the cathedral, and dedicated to
the promotion, preservation and appreciation of stained glass in Britain
- Stanley
Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire. The only gallery in Britain devoted
exclusively to an artist in the village where he was born and spent most of
his working life.
- STEAM - Museum
of the Great Western Railway, Swindon, Wiltshire. Transport museum.
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Stevenage
Museum, Hertfordshire. Local history museum - "The story of the people
of Stevenage".
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Stockwood Park Museum, Luton, Bedfordshire. Displays of Bedfordshire
rural life, crafts and trades, with regular trade demonstrations. Also has
the The Mossman collection of horse-drawn vehicles.
- Stoke-on-Trent
Museums, Staffordshire.
[Responsible for:
The Potteries
Museum and Art Gallery;
Gladstone
Pottery Museum;
Etruria
Industrial Museum and
Ford Green Hall].
- Storey Gallery,
Lancaster. Art gallery. The largest single exhibition space in the North
West of England.
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Strathnaver Museum,
Bettyhill, Caithness, Scotland. Local history museum.
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Stranger's Hall Museum, Norwich. Social history collections.
[Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service]
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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 ]
- Swaledale Museum,
Reeth, near Richmond, North Yorkshire. Stone walls, village life, lead
mining, sheep and cattle farming, etc.
- Swansea Heritage
Net, Wales. A digitising project designed to aid access to the material
evidence held in trust by Swansea Museum Service.
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Swansea Museums and Art Galleries, Wales.
[Responsible for: Swansea Museum; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery;
Swansea Maritime and Industrial Museum]
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- Taigh
Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Western
Isles, Scotland. Local history museum and art collections.
- Tangmere
Military Aviation Museum, Chichester, West Sussex. Exhibits depicting 70
years of military aviation in Sussex, with special emphasis on the RAF at
Tangmere and the air war over southern England from 1939 to 1945.
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The Tank Museum, Bovington,
Dorset.
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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.
- Techniquest,
Cardiff. An hand-on science discovery centre with special programmes for
schoolchildren link to different stages of the National Curriculum.
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Tees Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington, Teeside. Victorian waterworks,
with steam engines.
- Tenby
Museum and Art Gallery, Wales. Local history museum with collections of
archaeology, geology, the natural, maritime and social history. Art by
Augustus John, Gwen John, Nina Hamnet, E.J. Head and other local artists.
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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.
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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)].
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Thetford Ancient House Museum. Early Tudor building with local history,
industry and natural science displays. [Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology
Service]
- Thinktank,
Birmingham. Museum of science and industry that "not only explores the
impact of science and technology in our daily lives but promotes the
region's significant scientific contribution and provides an opportunity for
genuine dialogue about science and the issues that affect us all".
- Thornbury
Museum, Gloucestershire. Local history museum.
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Time
and Tide, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. [Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology
Service]
- Tiverton
Museum, Devon. Local history museum.
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Tollhouse Museum, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Medieval building, used as
prison in 19th century. Local history collections. [Part
of: Norfolk Museums and
Archaeology Service]
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Tom Brown's School Museum, Uffington, Oxfordshire.
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Town
House Museum, King's Lynn. Furniture and domestic life from medieval
period to 20th century. [Part of:
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology
Service]
- Towneley
Hall Art Gallery and Museums, Burnley, Lancashire. A country house
museum, set in parkland. Includes a Natural History Centre and a Museum of
Local Crafts.
- Transport Museum,
Wythall, West Midlands.
- Trolleybus Museum
at Sandtoft, Doncaster South Yorkshire. Transport museum.
- Trowbridge
Museum, Wiltshire. Local history museum, including the story of the
town's once dominant woollen cloth industry, its people and businesses.
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Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery,
Carlisle, Cumbria. Collections of fine and decorative art, human history and
natural sciences.
[Responsible for: Guildhall Museum]
- 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.
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Tutankhamun Exhibition, Dorchester, Dorset. The Egyptian Pharaoh
Tutankamun's tomb, treasures and mummy are recreated in a permanent
exhibition.
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Twickenham Museum,
Middlesex. Local history museum.
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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. ]
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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.
- Ulster Museum,
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Collections ranging from local material to
historic collections of worldwide interest.
[Part of National Museums and Galleries of Northern
Ireland]
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University College London Collections.
The portal site for UCL's various collections:
Science;
Grant Museum of Zoology and
Comparative Anatomy;
Institute of Archaeology;
Geological Sciences;
Art;
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
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University Gallery Leeds, University Library, West Yorkshire.
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University of Bristol Theatre Collection. Dedicated to the study of
British theatre history, with collections of original documents, photographs
and artefacts from theatres, actors, designers.
- University of
Essex, Collection of Latin American Art, Colchester, Essex. "The only
specialist public collection of modern Latin American art in Europe."
- University
Museum of Zoology Cambridge. Part of the Department of Zoology, it
houses an extensive collection of scientifically important zoological
material Designated as being of outstanding national and international
significance.
- Ure Museum of Greek
Archaeology, University of Reading, Berkshire.
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- Vale and
Downland Museum, Wantage, Oxfordshire.
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Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow, London. Local history museum, with
galleries on domestic life, industry, costume and leisure in the Waltham
Forest area. Housed in an early 18th century house.
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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].
- Vintage
Carriages Trust, Ingrow, Keighley, West Yorkshire. Transport museum with
a collection historic railway carriages, small steam locomotives, rail tank
wagons, railway posters and other railway relics. Includes database of over
3,800 railway carriages with over 3,00 images.
- Violette Szabo GC
Museum, Wormelow, Herefordshire. Tells the story of the World War II
British secret agent.
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Virtual Museum of Computing. A
completely virtual collection of exhibits on the history of computers, etc.
- Virtual Valve
Museum. An on-line presentation of the personal collection of Jeremy
Harmer. There are over 900 exhibits.
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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.
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The Wallace Collection,
Hertford House, London. Paintings (especially French 18th century),
miniatures, decorative arts, arms and armour.
- Wallingford
Museum, Oxfordshire.
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Walsall Museums Service, West Midlands.
[Includes: Willenhall Museum; Birchills Canal Museum; Jerome
K. Jerome Birthplace Museum; Walsall Inside Out; Walsall Leather Museum;
New Art Gallery Walsall]
- Walter
Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire.
[Part of the Natural History Museum, London].
- Wandsworth
Museum, London. "The history of Wandsworth from prehistoric times to the
present day".
- Warrington
Museum and Art Gallery, Cheshire. Local history museum, with collections
of: natural sciences; antiquities; social history; numismatics; ethnology;
fine and decorative arts.
- Watts Gallery, Compton,
Surrey. The memorial gallery to George Frederic Watts, the Victorian artist
and sculptor.
- 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.
- Wellington
Aviation Museum, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Military museum.
- 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.
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Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge.
Collections include: scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures,
prints, photographs, books, and other material from the medieval period to
the present day.
- Whitby Museum,
North Yorkshire, Local history, geology and archaeology museum
- Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London. Temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
- Whitstable
Museum and Gallery, Kent. Local history museum. Themes on the coastal
community and seafaring traditions, with special features on oysters, diving
and shipping.[Part of
Canterbury City Museums]
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Whitworth Art Gallery,
University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints,
wallpapers, modern art. Includes a
collections search and
exhibitions
section.
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Wigan Pier
Experience, Lancashire. Local history presentations and Mill & Engine
House.
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William 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]
- William Morris
Gallery, Waltham Forest, London.
- Wimbledon Lawn
Tennis Museum, London. "Offers a glimpse of how the gentle game of Lawn
Tennis, once all the rage on the lawns of Victorian England and with origins
that go far back to medieval Royal Tennis, has become a multi-million dollar
professional sport, played all over the world."
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Wimbledon Windmill Museum, London. Agricultural industry museum, with
models and tools.
- Windermere
Steamboat Museum, Cumbria.
- Wolsey Art
Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk. "It presents a lively programme of
contemporary art and related historic works from the region and beyond".
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Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands. See collections of
contemporary, Pop, mid 20th century and Victorian art.
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The Women's Library, London
Metropolitan University. Has the most extensive collection of women's
history in the UK. Over 60,000 books and pamphlets, 2,500 periodical titles,
400 archive collections and 5,000 museum objects. Covers issues such as:
health, sexuality, popular culture, politics, history and human rights.
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The Wordsworth Museum, Dove
Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria. Maintained by the Wordsworth Trust.
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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
World of Glass, St.Helens, Merseyside. Celebrates the past, present and
future of glass and the glass industry.
- 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 Museums Trust.
[Responsible for: York Art Gallery, York St Mary's, York
Castle Museum, and Yorkshire Museum & Gardens]
Scotland
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Glasgow Museums
Hunterian Museum and Gallery at the
University of Glasgow
McManus Galleries, Dundee
National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Wales
Museum Of Modern Art, Wales,
Machynlleth
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Northern Ireland
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Uruguay
Museo
Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo (Spanish only)
Yugoslavia
City
Museum, Belgrade (in Serbian)