History & Culture

Fairlynch Museum & Arts Centre

At Fairlynch Museum there’s masses to see But that’s not a problem ’cause all of it’s free! [99% of it anyway; donations always welcome. Fairlynch is open from Easter to end of October, also Autumn half term. This Community Page is open to anyone with an interest in the history and development of?Budleigh Salterton and …

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Norton Collection Museum

The Norton Collection Museum exists as a result of one man’s passion for collecting. Dennis Norton started collecting in 1949 and has never stopped. Over the years, he has amassed a huge array of items that help tell the history of how we lived in years gone by. Many of the exhibits also help tell …

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Topsham Museum

The Museum is housed in one of a group of late 17th century buildings overlooking the Exe Estuary. Visitors can enjoy the furnished period rooms of the original Merchant?s House and the Sail Loft with displays giving a timeline of the town?s general history. Much of the Museum?s focus is on Topsham?s maritime history, with …

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Design Museum

The Design Museum is a museum in Kensington, London, which covers product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. In 2018 the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum was originally housed in a former 1940s banana warehouse on the south bank of the River Thames in the Shad Thames area in …

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Bruton Museum

Bruton Museum is a small local museum in Bruton, Somerset, England. The museum is housed in the Dovecote Building, in the towns High Street. The building also contains a tourist information office. The Bruton Museum Society was formed in 1989 and involved the community and local schools in the development of the collection of local …

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Freud Museum London

The Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life. In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and stayed for a short while at 39 Elsworthy Road before moving …

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Castle Cary and District Museum

Castle Cary and District Museum is a small local museum in Castle Cary, Somerset, England. The museum is housed in the Market house, a grade II* listed building built in 1855 in anticipation of increased trade after the projected arrival of the railway in 1856, by F.C. Penrose. It replaced the former house on the …

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Wellcome Collection

The Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring “ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art”. Founded in 2007, Wellcome Collection now attracts over 700,000 visitors per year[citation needed] and is advertised as “the free destination for the …

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The Tudor House Museum

This beautiful 16th century building in the heart of historic Friar Street is run as a museum by volunteers. Displays focus on the house’s past, as a home to Tudor weavers through to its use as an ARP Warden’s office in WW2, and a school clinic thereafter. A cafe serves tea, coffee and wrapped cakes …

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Museum of London

The Museum of London documents the history of the UK’s capital city from prehistoric to modern times and is located in the City of London on the London Wall, close to the Barbican Centre and is part of the Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 1970s to redevelop a bomb-damaged area of …

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Gordon Russell Design Museum

The Gordon Russell Design Museum celebrates the work of the renowned twentieth century furniture designer, Sir Gordon Russell (1892-1980), and that of his company, which operated for over sixty years in Broadway, Worcestershire. The Museum is located in the original Grade II listed drawing office and workshop and was opened by Sir Terence Conran in …

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Bailiffgate Museum

The Bailiffgate Museum is a small independent museum in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, dedicated to the history of Alnwick and North Northumberland. It is staffed by trustees and volunteers. The museum is located in one of the oldest parts of Alnwick and is close by Alnwick Castle. It is housed in St Mary’s Church, dating from …

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Sir John Soane’s Museum

The museum was established during Soane’s own lifetime by a Private Act of Parliament in 1833, which took effect on Soane’s death in 1837. The Act required that No. 13 be maintained “as nearly as possible” as it was left at the time of Soane’s death, and that has largely been done. The Act was …

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Bewdley Museum

Bewdley Museum is a museum in the town of Bewdley in Worcestershire, England. It is managed by the Wyre Forest District Council. The Bewdley Museum Trust was founded in 1969, prior to Bewdley Museum opening in 1972. It was founded by Stephen Quayle who stated that the aims of the museum were, “to show people, …

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Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum in UK

Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum

In the 17th century former grammar school, discover a museum telling the story of Kingsbridge and the South Hams, Devon. Come visit the old grammar school in the beautiful town of Kingsbridge and see the marks left by hundreds of years of pupils. Explore our Victorian kitchen and?scullery, find out about farming in the South …

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Godalming Museum in UK

Godalming Museum

Godalming Museum is a local museum in Godalming, a town in Surrey, England. The museum covers the local history of Godalming and the surrounding area in Surrey. The collections include paintings, ceramics, embroidery and architectural designs. The museum has works by watercolourist Helen Allingham, watercolourist and engraver Myles Birket Foster, the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, …

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Castle Point Transport Museum in UK

Castle Point Transport Museum

Open for visitors from 10.00am to 5.00pm on the FIRST and THIRD Sundays of each month between April and October. Our end-of-season event is the second Sunday in October, and the full details will be communicated via this page or our Website. The Canvey Island Transport Museum is operated by the Castle Point Transport Museum …

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Spelthorne Museum in UK

Spelthorne Museum

Spelthorne Museum is located in Staines Library and is divided into two rooms. The Elmsleigh Room?covers the history of Spelthorne, from the Ice Age to modern times and includes a digital photo album and a changing ?monthly display showcasing a ?Window on Spelthorne?. The Thames Room?has a replica Roman shop, a traditional Victorian kitchen layout, …

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Écomusée d'Alsace in France

Écomusée d’Alsace

Tickets for Ecomusee d’Alsace. A wonderful opportunity to experience life in rural Alsace at France’s biggest open-air museum. The museum is made up of over 70 buildings with livestock, a school, a chapel and even a train station! You can even learn how to milk a cow, for those of you that haven’t done that …

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iMucha Exhibition in Czech Republic

iMucha Exhibition

Tickets for iMucha Exhibition. The permanent collection of Alphonse Mucha. Probably the Czech Republic’s most famous artist. Alphonse Mucha is the pioneer of the Art Nouveau style and is a world-renowned graphic artist. See works like his The Slavic Epic and Precious Stones, both of which have been digitally animated using the latest technology. The …

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