It?s made up of over 300 pieces including must-see oil paintings, watercolours, and drawings by masters including Degas, Boudin and Daubigny as well as locally-grown talents from Northumberland?s very own Joseph Crawhall. Also taking pride of place are Medieval, Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts, as well as Samurai armour and swords, East Asian art and …
The Carpet Museum Trust was founded in 1981 with the aim of ?establishing a public museum ? for the exhibition of items of local historical and educational interest and in particular in any way connected with the manufacture of carpets and similar textiles?. Following the boom years of the 1960?s, the carpet industry ? for …
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings is an open-air museum of rescued buildings which have been relocated to its site in Stoke Heath, a district of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. Founded in 1963 and opened in 1967, the museum was conceived following the dismantling of a 15th-century timber-framed house in Bromsgrove in 1962 to provide a location …
The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury. Services on the Sudbury Branch Line are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia. The museum has a wide collection of locomotives and rolling …
The Combined Military Services Museum in Maldon, Essex, was opened on 5 July 2004. It was set up by Richard Wooldridge to house a personal collection he had created over many years. A charity was established in 1996 to facilitate the funding of a museum building. A suitable property was found in 2001, a former …
The Kidderminster Railway Museum houses a vast range of railway artefacts, most of which date back to the days of steam travel. From pen nibs to clocks, from signs to signalling equipment, from photographs to timetables and rolling stock – there is a vast amount to see when you visit us. The items in the …
The East Surrey Museum is a small but highly attractive museum dedicated to the preservation and display of artefacts and documents relating to the social history, archaeology and geology of East Surrey from the earliest times to the more recent past. Conveniently located in the centre of Caterham, a minute’s walk from the station and …
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. The National Portrait Gallery is adjoining the National Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in …
The Haynes International Motor Museum is the UK’s largest collection of cars and bikes with over 400 amazing vehicles from the dawn of motoring in the late 1800s through nostalgic classics of the 1950s and 1960s, glorious Bentleys and Rolls Royces to world renowned super cars like the Jaguar XJ220. Located just off the A303 …
Sidmouth Museum offers ‘Something for Everyone’, attracts over 13,000 visitors a year, and thrives on local and tourist support. The focus is on local history including the wide variety of people, some very famous, who have lived and stayed in Sidmouth. Our location on the Jurassic Coast lends itself to our rich collection of fossils, …
The Museum of Royal Worcester (formerly Worcester Porcelain Museum and Dyson Perrins Museum) is a ceramics museum located in the Royal Worcester porcelain factory’s former site in Worcester, England. The museum houses the world?s largest collection of Worcester porcelain. The collections date back to 1751 and the Victorian gallery, the ceramic collections, archives and records …
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeology, and geology. Altogether the museum holds over one million objects, of which a small percentage …
The National Army Museum is the British Army’s central museum. It is located in the Chelsea district of central London, adjacent to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the “Chelsea Pensioners”. The museum is a non-departmental public body. It is usually open to the public from 10:00am to 5:30pm, except on 25?26 December and …
The Roman Army Museum, which is situated next to one of the most complete sections of Hadrian?s Wall, uses stunning real 3D technology in a specially designed film theatre and interactive displays enable visitors to understand what life was like for soldiers on this northern frontier. This accessible museum has its own Latin classroom with …
The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a natural history museum that falls part of University College London in London, England. It was established by Robert Edmond Grant in 1828 as a teaching collection of zoological specimens and material for dissection. It is one of the oldest natural history collections in the UK, …
The Seaton Sluice Watch House Museum is open to the public, staffed by volunteers from the Seaton Sluice and Old Hartley Local History Society, every Sunday afternoon throughout the summer (2019 dates: Sundays, 26th May to 29th September, incl.), from 2 pm to 4:30 pm. In addition, the Watch House will be open on the …
The Royal Logistic Corps Museum is based at the Princess Royal Barracks near Camberley in Surrey. It combines the former collections of the Royal Corps of Transport and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The collection was established by combining the museums of the Royal Corps of Transport (which had been located at Buller Barracks in …
Welcome to the Fleet Air Arm Museum – representing the flying arm of the Royal Navy. The history of the Royal Navy is preserved for the benefit of today’s and future generations by the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) which includes four museums of the Royal Navy (NMRN Portsmouth & HMS Victory, Royal …
The RNLI Grace Darling Museum commemorates the life of Victorian Britain?s greatest heroine, who risked her life to rescue nine survivors from the wrecked?SS Forfarshire?on 7 September 1838. The Grace Darling Museum guides you through Grace?s upbringing and life in the lighthouse, the events of the rescue that propelled her into the limelight and her …
Woodhorn, officially Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives and formerly known as Woodhorn Colliery Museum, is located in Ashington, Northumberland. The museum depicts the lives of coal mine workers and features original buildings and equipment from the former colliery, including the two headframes, a winding house, other engine houses, a steam winding engine, stables, a building …
The Malvern Museum in Great Malvern, the town centre of Malvern, Worcestershire, England, is located in the Priory Gatehouse, the former gateway to the Great Malvern Priory. The museum was established in 1979 and is owned and managed by the Malvern Museum Society Ltd, a registered charity. The Priory Gatehouse was a gift to the …
From 1803 to 1815 Britain was at war with Napoleonic France and many thousands of prisoners were taken. To help accommodate them redundant warships were commissioned as floating prisons known as ?the hulks?. Several hulks were at anchor at Plymouth among other places and conditions were so bad with poor sanitary arrangements, little exercise, lack …
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is a maritime museum in London. The historic buildings form part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, and it also incorporates the Royal Observatory and 17th-century Queen’s House. In 2012, Her Majesty the Queen formally approved Royal Museums Greenwich as the new overall title for the …
Home to history and the arts, Berwick Barracks is the ideal place for a family day out. Built in the early 18th century to the design of the distinguished architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, the Barracks was among the first in England to be purpose built. The ‘By Beat of Drum’ exhibition gives you an insight into …
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