100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum
Diss
The Bloody Hundredth — honouring the American airmen who flew from Norfolk's skies
Free Museums in the UK
1,291 museums
16th Century Painted Room
Ledbury
Elizabethan wall paintings of the 1560s, rediscovered in 1988 beneath later layers in a house of 1510
Abbey Pumping Station
Leicester
Where Victorian steam power meets quirky science - and Leicester's famous toilet museum!
Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Aberdeen
Discover Aberdeen's seafaring heritage from clipper ships to oil rigs
Aberdeenshire Farming Museum
Mintlaw
The Story of Farming in North-East Scotland, in the Heart of Buchan
Aberdulais Tin Works and Waterfall
Neath
Four centuries of water power in a wooded gorge, still generating electricity today
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Aberystwyth
Wales's largest arts centre, with three galleries and a major contemporary ceramics collection, on the University's Penglais campus
Aberystwyth Castle
Aberystwyth
Edward I's coastal fortress — Owain Glyndŵr's court and capital of the Welsh revolt
Aberlemno Sculptured Stones
Angus
Four magnificent Pictish symbol stones in their original settings, including the famous battle scene at Aberlemno churchyard
Abertillery and District Museum
Abertillery
The memory of the valley: coal, community, and culture in Blaenau Gwent
Acton Burnell Castle
Shrewsbury
Fortified episcopal manor where England's first merchant parliament met in 1283
Aycliffe Bus Museum
Newton Aycliffe
North East buses, timetables and depot ephemera, preserved by the people who ran them.
Allhallows Museum
Honiton
Queen Victoria's wedding lace and three centuries of Honiton's finest craft tradition
Amersham Museum
Amersham
A 15th-century timber-framed house telling Amersham and the Chilterns' story
Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum
Aberystwyth
Discovering Ceredigion's heritage in a historic Edwardian theatre
Amgueddfa Forwrol Llŷn Maritime Museum
Nefyn
Ships built on open beaches and captains from every family, in Nefyn's old parish church
Anatomical Museum
Edinburgh
Robert Rowand Anderson's 1874 anatomy theatre, still teaching medical students today
Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life
Thetford
Discover the rich history of Thetford and the Breckland region in a remarkable Tudor merchant's house
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
Dunfermline
From Dunfermline weaver's cottage to global philanthropist
Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Rangers Museum
Carrickfergus
Where America's 7th President came from — and where the US Rangers trained for war
Applecross Heritage Centre
Applecross
Crofting, sanctuary, and survival on one of Scotland's most remote peninsulas
Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum
South shields
Walk through a reconstructed Roman fort at the gateway to Hadrian's Wall
Arbroath Art Gallery
Arbroath
Angus Council's civic art collection, including two Bruegel the Younger paintings, within Arbroath Library
Arbroath Museum
Arbroath
Bell Rock lighthouse heritage and Arbroath's maritime story in the historic Signal Tower
Arctic Corsair
Hull
A preserved 1960s deep-sea trawler that fished the Arctic grounds and took part in the Cod Wars, moored on the River Hull
Armadale Community Museum
Armadale
Scotland's pioneering shale oil industry and the bings of West Lothian
Armagh Robinson Library
Armagh
The oldest public library in Ireland — books, manuscripts, and Georgian splendour on Armagh's Cathedral Close
Army Apprentices College Heritage Centre
Chepstow
Seventy years of Army apprentices at Beachley, 1924 to 1994, told by the old boys themselves
Arnos Vale Cemetery
Bristol
Bristol's forty-five-acre Victorian garden cemetery — heritage site, nature reserve and working burial ground
Aros An Rubha
Point
The Point Historical Society's community archive and museum on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis
Art Collection University of Stirling
Stirling
One of Scotland's finest contemporary art collections, woven into campus life since 1967
Ash Museum
Ash
A parish transformed by Aldershot Camp, recorded in a former cemetery chapel on the Surrey border
Ashby-de-la-Zouch Museum
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch's social and spa-town history, told by volunteers in the former National School building
Ashwell Village Museum
Ashwell
Medieval voices, chalk springs, and nine hundred years of Hertfordshire village history
Ashworth Laboratories Natural History Collections (Aubrey Manning Gallery)
Edinburgh
Three centuries of Edinburgh's zoological and natural history collections, centred on the Aubrey Manning Gallery
Astley Cheetham Art Gallery
Stalybridge
One of the finest collections of Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art outside the national museums
Astley Hall Museum And Art Gallery
Chorley
Extraordinary Plasterwork, Cromwell's Rest, and a Century of Art in Lancashire
Athelstan Museum
Malmesbury
England's oldest borough — home to kings, monks, philosophers, and the first flying man
Auld Kirk Museum
Kirkintilloch
Kirkintilloch's heritage in a historic church — from Roman frontier to canal-side industry
Baconsthorpe Castle
Baconsthorpe
15th-century moated semi-fortified manor — the Heydon family's ambitious statement of Norfolk gentry power
Bagshaw Museum
Batley
A Victorian Gothic mansion in Batley housing world cultures and Egyptian antiquities
Bayard's Cove Fort
Dartmouth
A Tudor blockhouse on Dartmouth's exquisite medieval waterfront — free open access
Baysgarth House Museum
Barton-upon-Humber
Georgian elegance meets deep local history — archaeology, ceramics and social heritage in Barton-upon-Humber's park-set house museum
Ballycastle Museum
Ballycastle
Gateway to the Glens — where Marconi broadcast and the Lammas Fair rings through the centuries
Ballymoney Museum
Ballymoney
Home of a motorcycling legend — exploring the story of Joey Dunlop and north Antrim heritage
Ballogie Soutar's Shop
Aboyne
Scotland's only surviving intact rural shoemaker's workshop, untouched since 1941
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art stands as one of the world's most distinctive and ambitious contemporary art spaces, housed in a dramatically converted…
Banbury Museum
Banbury
North Oxfordshire's history from the nursery rhyme to the Civil War, canals, and plush weaving
Bankfield Museum
Halifax
World-class textile collections in a magnificent Victorian mansion at the heart of Halifax
Bantock House Museum
Wolverhampton
An Edwardian house museum in beautiful parkland, showcasing Wolverhampton's rich artistic heritage and the decorative arts of the West Midlands
Barclodiad y Gawres
Rhosneigr
A Neolithic passage tomb on Anglesey's clifftops with rare decorated chamber stones in the Irish Sea megalithic tradition — access via key from the local post office
Basing House
Basingstoke
Where Cromwell stormed the largest Tudor palace in England — Civil War ruins of extraordinary drama in Hampshire
Basingwerk Abbey
Greenfield
Cistercian hospitality on the Pilgrims' Way — a Welsh border abbey in a remarkable industrial heritage valley
Bassetlaw Museum
Retford
Nottinghamshire life from prehistory to the present — Retford's treasured local museum
BDA Deaf Museum and Archive
Manchester
Britain's collection of Deaf history, sign language and community heritage
Beccles and District Museum
Beccles
River Waveney, William Clowes printing, and the town where Nelson was married
Bedwellty House and Park
Tredegar
An ironmaster's Regency house and its restored park at the head of the Sirhowy valley
Beecroft Art Gallery
Southend-on-sea
Southend's public art collection — over 2,000 works spanning four centuries
Beith Cultural and Heritage Society
Beith
Scotland's furniture-making town: cabinet-making heritage in North Ayrshire
Belas Knap
Cheltenham
A 5,000-year-old Neolithic long barrow with a famous false entrance, high on the Cotswold ridge
Berkhamsted Castle
Berkhamsted
Where the Norman Conquest was sealed — 1066's most pivotal royal fortress
Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre
Reading
Two centuries of hospital medicine, in the old laundry of the Royal Berkshire
Berney Arms Windmill
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk's remotest windmill — seven storeys of marsh drainage history reachable only by foot, boat or train
Bersham Colliery Engine House
Wrexham
Preserved colliery winding engine house and headgear on the former Wrexham coalfield
Berwick Museum And Art Gallery
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick's civic museum in Hawksmoor's historic barracks — with art from the Burrell Collection
Bethlem Museum of the Mind
London
Eight hundred years of mental health history — patient art, archive, and the extraordinary story of Bethlem Royal Hospital
Beverley Guildhall
Beverley
Beverley's Georgian civic courtroom, with an outstanding plasterwork ceiling, still in active council use
Bewdley Museum
Bewdley
Exploring the trades and traditions of the Wyre Forest in a charming 18th-century almshouse courtyard
Big Pit National Coal Museum
Torfaen
Descend 300 feet into Wales's coal mining heritage with former miners
Bill Douglas Cinema Museum
Exeter
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter is one of Britain's finest and most distinctive museum collections — a vast archive of visual…
Bilsthorpe Heritage Museum
Bilsthorpe
From hamlet to colliery village: Nottinghamshire coal, community, and Sherwood Forest heritage
Bilston Craft Gallery
Bilston
A specialist contemporary craft gallery in a beautiful Art Deco building, celebrating the craft traditions of Bilston and the wider world
Binham Priory
Binham
Home of England's earliest bar tracery window — a living parish church within a dramatic priory ruin
Bishop's Waltham Palace
Bishop's Waltham
The medieval palace of England's wealthiest bishops, where royalty from Henry V to Mary I once lodged
Bishops Stortford Museum
Bishops Stortford
Exploring the stories of Bishops Stortford and East Hertfordshire
Bishopsteignton Heritage
Teignmouth
The story of a Devon estuary village, told from a community archive of some four thousand items
Black Cultural Archives
London
The UK's national heritage centre for Black British history, on Windrush Square in Brixton
Black Watch Regimental Museum
Perth
Am Freiceadan Dubh — The Black Watch, Three Centuries of Highland Service
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Blackburn
World-class collections in the heart of Lancashire since 1874
Blackridge Community Museum
Blackridge
The story of the world's first commercial oil industry, told from the heart of shale country
Blaenavon Ironworks
Blaenavon
A UNESCO World Heritage Site — where the industrial revolution was forged in iron
Blaina Heritage Action Group Museum
Blaina
Volunteer-run local history museum preserving Blaina's coal, iron and community heritage
Blakeney Guildhall
Blakeney
A medieval merchant's undercroft in a once-busy North Norfolk harbour village
Blakesley Hall
Birmingham
Blakesley Hall is one of Birmingham's most significant surviving Tudor timber-framed buildings, dating from 1590. This remarkable merchant's farmhouse offers…
Blue Town Heritage Centre
Sheerness
The blue-grey streets of Sheerness's historic naval dockyard community
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Bolton
Egyptian mummies, natural wonders, and Lancashire art since 1888
Booth Museum of Natural History
Brighton
Victorian natural history museum with exceptional bird and butterfly collections
Boston Manor House
London
A restored Jacobean manor house with West London's finest surviving plaster ceilings
Bourne Hall Museum
Epsom
From Nonsuch Palace to Epsom salts — discover the surprising stories of Epsom and Ewell
Bovey Tracey Heritage Centre
Newton Abbot
From an archbishop's murder to industrial pottery — the layered history of a Dartmoor-edge Devon market town
Bradford Industrial Museum
Bradford
Where Bradford's textile heritage comes alive in a real Victorian mill
Bradford on Avon Tithe Barn
Bradford on Avon
A 14th-century masterpiece of monastic architecture — one of England's finest tithe barns
Bradford Police Museum
Bradford
170 years of Bradford policing — from Victorian wool city to modern West Yorkshire
Bramber Castle
Steyning
William de Braose's Norman stronghold above the Adur — free open-access ruins and sweeping Downland views
Brampton Museum
Newcastle-under-lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme — where the Potteries meet a proud market town history
Brechin Museum
Brechin
History of the city of the Round Tower — gateway to Angus's Pictish heartland
Bredon Barn
Bredon
A fourteenth-century National Trust tithe barn in the shadow of Bredon Hill, restored after a serious fire
Bressay Heritage Centre
Bressay
The story of Bressay Sound, Shetland's herring fishery, and island life just a short ferry ride from Lerwick
Brewhouse Yard Museum
Nottingham
Brewhouse Yard Museum offers an intimate journey through Nottingham's domestic and working-class social history, housed in a cluster of five 17th-century…
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Brighton
Eclectic collections of art, fashion, and world cultures in the Pavilion Gardens
British Optical Association Museum
London
World's finest collection of spectacles and optical instruments
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
London
The history of British humanitarianism — from Solferino to today
Brixton Windmill
London
A working 1816 windmill improbably surviving amid the streets of inner-city Brixton
Bryn Celli Ddu
Llanfairpwll
Anglesey's finest Neolithic passage tomb, where the summer solstice sunrise illuminates the inner chamber — a monument unique in Wales for combining henge and passage tomb
Brynmawr & District History Museum
Brynmawr
Brynmawr's volunteer-run museum, home to the celebrated 1930s Brynmawr Experiment furniture collection
Bromley Museum at Bromley Historic Collections
Bromley
Bromley's museum collection — archaeology and local history displayed via rotating exhibits across the borough
Bronllys Castle
Bronllys
A fine early 13th-century round tower keep on its motte, alone in the Black Mountains borderland
Brora Heritage Centre
Brora
The only Highland coal mine, salt panning and woollen mill heritage of Brora
Brough Castle
Brough
A Roman fort site turned medieval castle, restored by the legendary Lady Anne Clifford
Broughty Castle
Dundee
15th-century Tay estuary fortress turned free museum — Dundee's whaling history, arms and armour, and panoramic Tay views
Broxburn Community Museum
Broxburn
Where the World's First Oil Industry Was Born — Scotland's Shale Heritage
Brunei Gallery, SOAS
London
Changing Exhibitions on the Art and Culture of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Buckfastleigh Museum
Buckfastleigh
Gateway to Dartmoor — wool, railways, and the monks who rebuilt an abbey by hand
Buckingham Old Gaol Museum
Buckingham
Buckingham's local history museum inside a striking 18th-century castellated former county gaol
Buckley Library, Museum and Gallery
Buckley
Buckley's local pottery and industrial heritage, housed within the town library
Bucks County Museum
Aylesbury
160 years of Buckinghamshire's story — archaeology, lace, natural history, and Roald Dahl
Builth Wells Museum
Builth Wells
Gateway to mid Wales and guardian of the last Welsh prince's legacy
Burgh Castle
Great Yarmouth
Three walls of a Roman Saxon Shore fort standing to original height — 1,700 years of history at the edge of the Broads
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre
Bury
Turner, Constable, and International Sculpture in the Heart of Greater Manchester
Burnham-on-Crouch and District Museum
Burnham-on-Crouch
The Cowes of the East Coast — yachts, oysters, and the River Crouch
Burns House Museum
Mauchline
Robert Burns' first marital home — where Scotland's national poet began his family life with Jean Armour
Burntisland Museum
Burntisland
Scotland's first post-Reformation church, ancient fair, and Firth of Forth ferry town
Burton Art Gallery and Museum
Bideford
North Devon's leading gallery — British art, Bideford lace, and the story of a great Atlantic port
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Bushey
Herkomer's art school, Lucy Kemp-Welch and the artists' colony that made a Hertfordshire village famous
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Buxton
Geology, Archaeology, and Art in the Heart of the Peak District
Caergwrle Castle
Caergwrle
The last castle of independent Wales — Dafydd ap Gruffudd's hilltop stronghold above the Alyn valley
Caithness Horizons
Thurso
At the Edge of Britain — Fossils, Vikings, Brochs, and Dounreay on the Caithness Horizon
Callendar House
Falkirk
A grand French chateau-style house at the heart of 600 years of Scottish history
Camborne School of Mines Geological Museum
Penryn
Cornish mining heritage and mineral specimens at one of the world's foremost mining education institutions
Campbeltown Museum
Campbeltown
At the Foot of Kintyre — Whisky, Fishing, and the Story of a Remarkable Town
Canalside Heritage Centre
Beeston
Restored 1796 lock cottages where the Beeston Cut leaves the Trent
Cannon Hall Museum
Barnsley
A free Georgian country house, cavalry regimental museum, and stunning walled gardens in 70 acres of South Yorkshire parkland
Canolfan Ucheldre Centre
Holyhead
Anglesey's principal arts centre, in a converted Victorian convent in Holyhead
Carmarthenshire County Museum
Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire County Museum is the principal museum for one of Wales's largest and most historically rich counties, housed in a building of extraordinary…
Carnasserie Castle
Kilmartin
The tower of the man who first printed Scottish Gaelic — in the heart of prehistoric Kilmartin Glen
Carrawburgh Roman Fort Mithraeum
Carrawburgh
Britain's most atmospheric Roman Mithras temple on Hadrian's Wall
Cartmel Priory Gatehouse
Cartmel
A fourteenth-century monastic gatehouse straddling the road into Cartmel village, cared for by the National Trust
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Bradford
Victorian elegance meets artistic excellence in Bradford's magnificent park gallery
Castell y Bere
Tywyn
Remote native Welsh castle of Llywelyn the Great in the mountain heartland — one of the last strongholds to fall to Edward I
Castle Acre Castle
Castle Acre
England's finest Norman castle earthworks — de Warenne power in a perfectly preserved medieval village
Castle Douglas Art Gallery
Castle Douglas
Scottish Art in the Heart of Galloway — Scotland's Food Town
Castle of Old Wick
Wick
The "Old Man of Wick" — one of Scotland's oldest stone castles on a wild Caithness cliff promontory
Castle Sween
Lochgilphead
The oldest stone castle on the Scottish mainland — an 11th-century Argyll fortress on the shore of Loch Sween
Castleford Forum Museum
Castleford
Roman Lagentium, the coal mining heritage, and the birthplace of Henry Moore
Celtic Harmony Camp
Hertford
A reconstructed Iron Age village and Palaeolithic cave in thirteen acres of Hertfordshire woodland
Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection
London
The creative archive of one of the world's leading art schools
Centre for Research Collections
Edinburgh
Rare books, manuscripts and centuries of university history at the heart of Edinburgh's Main Library
Chapter Arts Centre
Cardiff
Cardiff's artist-led multi-disciplinary arts centre in a converted 1907 school, running since 1971
Charlbury Museum
Charlbury
Cotswold market town history and the story of Charlbury's glove-making trade
Charnwood Museum
Loughborough
Discover the stories of Charnwood — from ancient forest to modern town
Chatteris Museum
Chatteris
A volunteer-run local history museum tracing the story of fen drainage and community life in the Cambridgeshire Fenland town of Chatteris
Chesterfield Museum & Art Gallery
Chesterfield
Eight Centuries of Market Town Heritage — From Crooked Spire to Coalfield
Chetham's Library
Manchester
The English-speaking world's oldest free public library, unchanged since 1653
Chippenham Museum And Heritage Centre
Chippenham
From Saxon Kings to Market Town — A Thousand Years of Wiltshire Heritage
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Merthyr Tydfil
Gothic castle of iron kings - where industrial wealth meets artistic legacy
Cymer Abbey
Dolgellau
A Cistercian abbey that bred horses for Welsh princes, set beneath Cadair Idris in the Mawddach valley
Clava Cairns
Inverness
Four thousand years of prehistory: Scotland's finest chambered cairn complex, free to visit
Cliffe Castle Museum
Bradford
Victorian textile wealth meets natural history in a Gothic Revival mansion
Clifton Suspension Bridge Visitor Centre
Bristol
Brunel's first great bridge, explained from the Leigh Woods end
Clydebank Museum
Clydebank
The story of the town that built the world's greatest ships — and survived the Blitz
Clun Castle
Clun
Norman Marcher castle in Housman's quietest town — dramatic keep above the River Clun
Coastal Communities Museum
North Berwick
From fishing harbour to Victorian seaside resort on the Firth of Forth
Cockburn Geological Museum
Edinburgh
Scotland's university geology collection at the heart of Earth sciences
Coity Castle
Coity
Eight centuries of Norman lordship in the Vale of Glamorgan — the seat of the Turberville and Gamage families
Coldstream Museum
Coldstream
Where the Coldstream Guards were born — Border history, military legend, and the story of the Tweed crossing
Colzium Museum
Kilsyth
History, battle and industrial heritage within Kilsyth's historic country estate
Comunn Eachdraidh Nis
Ness, Isle of Lewis
The Ness Historical Society at the top of Lewis, in the old Cross School at North Dell
Conwy Mussel Museum
Conwy
The centuries-old story of Conwy's estuary mussel fishermen, told in a small quayside museum
Conwy Town Walls
Conwy
Europe's finest medieval town walls — a complete 13th-century circuit walkable above Conwy's rooftops
Cooper Gallery
Barnsley
Turner, Constable, and van Dyck in Barnsley's intimate civic art gallery — one of Yorkshire's hidden art treasures
Corby Heritage Centre
Corby
'Little Scotland' — steelworkers, migration, and the reinvention of a Northamptonshire town
Corrigall Farm Museum
Harray
A preserved Victorian Orkney farmstead — life in the islands before the age of machines
Corstorphine Heritage Centre
Edinburgh
A village swallowed by the city: Corstorphine's independent history
Coultershaw Heritage Site and Beam Pump
Petworth
An 1782 water-powered beam pump, still working, on the Rother Navigation below Petworth
Cousland Smiddy
Cousland
A Midlothian village forge worked continuously since at least 1703, still fired by a farrier on open days
Coventry Cathedral Visitor Centre
Coventry
From destruction to hope — the world's greatest reconciliation cathedral
Coventry Transport Museum
Coventry
Coventry Transport Museum is the UK's largest publicly owned collection of British-made road transport, telling the remarkable story of Coventry's pivotal role…
Cowbridge and District Museum
Cowbridge
The story of a medieval walled town, told inside its own eighteenth-century gaol cells
Cowes Maritime Museum
Cowes
The world's sailing capital — two centuries of racing heritage on the Isle of Wight
Crafts Study Centre
Farnham
The national collection of British studio crafts — Bernard Leach, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and more
Craigavon Museum Services
Craigavon
At the Heart of Lough Neagh — Nature, Heritage, and the Largest Lake in the British Isles
Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum
Sleaford
Celebrating a Century of Military Aviation at RAF Cranwell
Crawfordjohn Heritage Venture
Crawfordjohn
Curling stone quarrying and upland farming in South Lanarkshire
Crawley Museum
Crawley
The story of a Sussex market town and one of Britain's first post-war new towns, in a medieval manor house
Crewkerne and District Museum and Heritage Centre
Crewkerne
Sailcloth, Webbing, and the Story of a Somerset Market Town
Crichton Castle
Pathhead
Scotland's most surprising architectural discovery — a Renaissance Italian courtyard in rural Midlothian
Crickhowell Castle
Crickhowell
Norman Marcher castle at the gateway to the Brecon Beacons — Crickhowell's medieval heart
Cruck Cottage
Torthorwald
The last surviving cruck-framed thatched cottage of its kind near Torthorwald, Dumfries and Galloway
Cuckfield Museum
Cuckfield
Free volunteer-run museum of a mid Sussex market town and the Wealden dinosaur quarry on its edge
Cumberland House Natural History Museum
Portsmouth
Portsmouth's window into the natural world — free for all
Cumbernauld Museum
Cumbernauld
Old Village, New Town — The Story of a Planned Community on the Lanarkshire Hills
Cusworth Hall, Museum and Park
Doncaster
Doncaster's social history museum in a Grade I listed Georgian house above its own landscaped park
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
Dundee
Zoological specimens and the legacy of Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Dacorum Heritage
Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead and Dacorum's local history, archive and heritage — from market town to New Town
Dalkeith Museum
Dalkeith
Coal, aristocracy and community — the layered story of Midlothian's county town
Damhouse
Tyldesley
A manor house that became an isolation hospital, rescued by the town that remembered it.
Dartford Borough Museum
Dartford
From Spilman's paper mill to the Dartford Crossing — the industrial history of a Kent gateway town
Daventry Museum
Daventry
From Iron Age hillfort to BBC Empire Service — 2,500 years of Daventry history
Daws Castle
Watchet
An Anglo-Saxon promontory earthwork with spectacular Bristol Channel views — free open access
Deddington Castle
Deddington
Norman castle earthworks in a north Oxfordshire market town, historically significant as the site of the capture of Piers Gaveston in 1312
Delapre Abbey
Northampton
A medieval nunnery turned country house beside the Battle of Northampton battlefield
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Derby
Home to the world's largest collection of Joseph Wright paintings
Derby Silk Mill - Museum of Making
Derby
The world's first factory - celebrating 300 years of making in Derby
Desborough Heritage Centre
Desborough
Celtic masterwork to corduroy factories — Desborough's deep history
Dewsbury Museum
Dewsbury
Childhood memories and the remarkable story of Dewsbury's shoddy and mungo industry
Dick Institute Museum and Art Gallery
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock's gift of art, nature, and heritage since 1901
Din Lligwy
Moelfre
A remarkably complete Romano-British settlement on Anglesey, where the foundations of a 4th-century farming and craft community survive within a still-impressive enclosure wall
Dingwall Museum
Dingwall
Viking assembly town on the Cromarty Firth — the Norse, Gaelic, and Highland heritage of Ross-shire's county capital
Discovery Museum
Newcastle-upon-tyne
The Discovery Museum stands as Newcastle's flagship science and social history museum, bringing together the region's extraordinary innovation legacy with…
Dock Museum
Barrow-in-Furness
From hamlet to powerhouse in a generation — the extraordinary story of Barrow's rise as Britain's greatest submarine-building town
Dogdyke Steam Drainage Station
Tattershall
An 1856 beam engine and scoop wheel, still in steam and still draining the fen where it was built
Dolforwyn Castle
Montgomery
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's castle — the last stand of an independent Wales on a Severn Valley hilltop
Donnington Castle
Newbury
A spectacular medieval gatehouse that withstood a two-year Civil War siege for King Charles I
Dovecot Studios
Edinburgh
Scotland's leading tapestry studio, where visitors can watch weavers at work
Down County Museum
Downpatrick
County Down's heritage - from St. Patrick to social history in a Georgian gaol
Dryswyn Castle
Llandeilo
A native Welsh hilltop castle of the Princes of Deheubarth above the Tywi — and the scene of a dramatic 1287 siege
Droitwich Spa Heritage Centre
Droitwich spa
Two thousand years of salt and spa heritage in the heart of Worcestershire
Duke of Wellington's Regimental Museum
Halifax
Three centuries of a proud West Riding regiment — from Blenheim to the Falklands
Dukes Wood Oil Museum
Newark-on-Trent
England's secret wartime oilfield, where American drillers helped keep Britain's fuel supply flowing during the Battle of the Atlantic
Dunbar Town House Museum
Dunbar
Dunbar's history inside one of Scotland's oldest surviving town houses
Dunblane Museum
Dunblane
4,000 years of Dunblane's history, from Bronze Age burials to Wimbledon champions, beside the medieval cathedral
Dundrennan Abbey
Dundrennan
Where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night in Scotland — an Early Gothic masterpiece in the Galloway hills
Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries
Dunfermline
Andrew Carnegie's gift to his birthplace - culture, heritage, and learning
Dunkeld Cathedral Chapter House Museum
Dunkeld
Inside Dunkeld Cathedral's 1457 Chapter House, later the Atholl family mausoleum, beside the River Tay
Duntulm Castle
Staffin
Clifftop seat of the MacDonald Lords of the Isles — dramatic Skye headland and vast sea views
Durban House Heritage Centre
Nottingham
The former colliery company offices in D.H. Lawrence's Eastwood, exploring the author's life and the town's mining heritage
Durham University Oriental Museum
Durham
Northern England's gateway to the art and cultures of the Orient
Earth Sciences Museum
Bristol
Over 100,000 geological specimens dating to 1905, with free public displays and appointment-based deeper collection access
Easby Abbey
Richmond
Romantic Premonstratensian abbey ruins in an idyllic riverside setting near Richmond
East Grinstead Museum
East Grinstead
The town that did not stare — McIndoe's Guinea Pig Club and the story of East Grinstead
East Surrey Museum
Caterham
Volunteer-run local history museum for the downland parishes of east Surrey
Eden Valley Museum
Edenbridge
West Kent social history in a late fifteenth-century Wealden hall house on Edenbridge High Street
Edinburgh Printmakers
Edinburgh
Scotland's oldest open-access print studio and a leading contemporary print gallery, based in the converted Castle Mills building on the Union Canal
Edlingham Castle
Alnwick
A dramatic 14th-century solar tower house rising above the quiet Northumbrian countryside near Alnwick
Eynsford Castle
Eynsford
A Norman curtain-walled castle in one of Kent's most picturesque riverside villages
Eleanor Cross Geddington
Geddington
The finest surviving Eleanor Cross — an outstanding 13th-century royal memorial to Edward I's queen, standing in a beautiful Northamptonshire village
Elstree & Borehamwood Museum
Borehamwood
From Star Wars to EastEnders — the world's most famous studios on Hertfordshire's doorstep
Emsworth Museum
Emsworth
Oysters, sailing, and the Hampshire harbour town that inspired P G Wodehouse
Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum
Englesea-brook
One of England's oldest Primitive Methodist chapels — faith, social reform and working-class Christianity
Epping Forest District Museum
Waltham abbey
Exploring 6,000 years of human history in the ancient landscape at the edge of Epping Forest
Essex Collection of Art from Latin America
Colchester
One of the UK's most significant collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art, housed within the University of Essex's Albert Sloman Library
Etal Castle
Etal
A 14th-century border tower house in one of Northumberland's most picturesque estate villages
Ewloe Castle
Ewloe
Native Welsh D-tower castle hidden in Flintshire woodland — built by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1257 to defend the Welsh borderland
Experience Barnsley
Barnsley
Barnsley's story, told through its people, in the heart of the Town Hall
F.E. McWilliam Gallery And Studio
Banbridge
The work of F.E. McWilliam — Northern Ireland's greatest sculptor, including the Women of Belfast
Fairfield Heritage
Glasgow
The story of Govan's shipbuilding heritage, told inside the Fairfield shipyard's original Victorian offices
Falkirk Museums — Callendar House
Falkirk
History, heritage, and hands-on discovery in a Scottish palace
Falmouth Art Gallery
Falmouth
Cornish art from Newlyn to St Ives, plus a nationally renowned collection of magical automata
Faversham Society Museum
Faversham
England's oldest gunpowder town — medieval, maritime, and magnificently preserved
Ferens Art Gallery
Hull
The Ferens Art Gallery stands as one of the finest regional art galleries in England, housing an exceptional collection spanning seven centuries of European…
Ferryhill Railway Heritage Centre
Aberdeen
Aberdeen's last railway turntable, restored by volunteers and still essential to steam excursions today
Fetlar Interpretive Centre
Fetlar
Folklore, crofting and community history on Fetlar, one of Shetland's smallest inhabited islands
Fiddleford Manor
Sturminster Newton
Exceptional 14th-century manor house interior — the finest arch-braced timber roofs of any domestic building in the South West
Finchingfield Guildhall
Finchingfield
A rare surviving 15th-century medieval guildhall at the heart of Finchingfield, one of Essex's most picturesque villages
Findhorn Heritage Centre and Ice House
Findhorn, Forres
Findhorn village's history and its atmospheric 150-year-old salmon ice house, on the Moray coast
Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier
Cardiff
The Story of the Welsh Soldier — From the Longbow to the Modern Battlefield
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam Museum stands as one of Britain's greatest art and antiquities museums, a treasure house of world-class collections housed in a magnificent…
Fyne Court
Broomfield
A Quantock Hills nature reserve and visitor centre on the former estate of pioneering Victorian electrical scientist Andrew Crosse
Fleetwood Museum
Fleetwood
A planned Victorian town, a fishing empire built on cod, and the devastating story of the Cod Wars
Flint Castle
Flint
Edward I's first Welsh castle — the scene of Richard II's fall, with a unique detached donjon tower
Flintham Museum
Flintham
A Victorian village shop frozen in time — the daily life of a Nottinghamshire community
Fochabers Folk Museum and Heritage Centre
Fochabers
An eclectic volunteer-run social history collection in the planned village of Fochabers, Moray
Fordingbridge Museum
Fordingbridge
A New Forest market town's history, and its unexpected connection to painter Augustus John
Forge Mill Needle Museum
Redditch
The world's last surviving water-powered needle-scouring mill, alongside the excavated remains of Bordesley Abbey
Formby Heritage Centre
Formby
Asparagus, shrimps, red squirrels — and footprints made five thousand years ago.
Fort Brockhurst
Gosport
One of England's finest Victorian polygonal forts, part of Palmerston's landward defences of Portsmouth
Forth Bridge Heritage Centre
North Queensferry
Telling the story of the UNESCO World Heritage Forth Bridge, directly beneath its cantilevers at North Queensferry
Fourteen Locks Canal and Heritage Centre
Newport
A dramatic 1790s staircase of locks raising boats 51 metres up the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
Frenchay Village Museum
Frenchay, Bristol
A volunteer-run window onto Quaker heritage and hospital history in a historic Bristol village
Frinton & Walton Heritage Museum
Frinton-on-Sea
Two very different Essex resorts, their lifeboats and their railways, told by the town that made them
Fry Art Gallery
Saffron Walden
Bawden, Ravilious, and the Great Bardfield artists — the heart of mid-century British art in Essex
Gallery of Modern Art
Glasgow
The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is Glasgow's contemporary art museum housed in one of the city's finest neoclassical buildings in the heart of Royal Exchange…
Garioch Heritage Centre
Inverurie
The history of the Garioch district, housed in Inverurie's former Locomotive Works
Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare
London
David Garrick's 1756 riverside shrine to Shakespeare on the Thames at Hampton
Garstang Museum of Archaeology
Liverpool
Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East — the fieldwork legacy of pioneer archaeologist John Garstang
Garvagh Museum and Heritage Centre
Garvagh
Plantation-era origins and market town life in the Bann Valley, County Londonderry
George Marshall Medical Museum
Worcester
Exploring the history of medicine in Worcestershire, from Tudor apothecaries to modern healthcare, housed within Worcestershire Royal Hospital
George Waterston Memorial Museum
Fair Isle
Fair Isle's story of Norse settlement, world-famous bird migration and traditional knitting, in the island's former school
Gillingham Museum
Gillingham
Thomas Hardy's Vale of Little Dairies — the story of Gillingham and the Blackmore Vale
Gisborough Priory
Guisborough
Dramatic priory ruins in Guisborough, jointly cared for by English Heritage and a community heritage project
Glasgow Print Studio
Glasgow
Contemporary printmaking, studio access, and gallery exhibitions in Glasgow's Trongate
Glasgow Royal Infirmary Museum
Glasgow
Scotland's only medical museum inside a working hospital, telling the story of Lister's antiseptic surgery
Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow
The UK's only Accredited Museum dedicated to women's history, in a Carnegie library in Glasgow's East End
Glenside Hospital Museum
Bristol
The history of psychiatric care in Bristol, told from the former Bristol Lunatic Asylum
Glyn Valley Tramway and Industrial Heritage Museum
Llangollen
The 1873 to 1935 narrow gauge tramway of the Ceiriog Valley, in its own restored engine shed
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Swansea
Wales's regional art gallery - from Old Masters to cutting-edge contemporary
Godalming Museum
Godalming
Where the world's first electric light shone — and the Titanic story lives on
Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery
London
4,000+ textile and print objects, built on textile artist Constance Howard's teaching collection at Goldsmiths
Govan Stones
Glasgow
One of Britain's most significant collections of early medieval carved stones, inside a historic Govan church
Govanhill Baths Archives and Exhibition Space
Govanhill, Glasgow
The archive of Glasgow's 'Save Our Pool' campaign, in a former Edwardian public bathhouse turned community heritage site
Grampound with Creed Heritage Centre
Grampound
The story of one of Cornwall's oldest boroughs and its notorious parliamentary history
Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum
Edinburgh
The material history of Scottish Freemasonry, inside Edinburgh's Freemasons' Hall
Grangemouth Heritage Trust
Grangemouth
Preserving the industrial and social history of Grangemouth, Scotland's purpose-built port and petrochemical town
Grantham Museum
Grantham
Birthplace of a Prime Minister, schoolroom of a scientist — Grantham's extraordinary story
Great North Museum: Hancock
Newcastle upon Tyne
Discover the wonders of the natural world and human history
Greater Manchester Police Museum & Archives
Manchester
A Victorian police station with its cells intact, open one day a week
Green Lane Museum
Limavady
The heritage of Limavady and the Roe Valley — home of the Londonderry Air
Green's Windmill and Science Centre
Nottingham
Green's Windmill and Science Centre combines industrial heritage with scientific education, celebrating both a beautifully restored working windmill and the…
Grey Abbey
Greyabbey
Ireland's most complete Cistercian ruin — medieval splendour on the Ards Peninsula
Greyfriars Kirk Museum
Edinburgh
The National Covenant, Greyfriars Bobby and Scotland's first post-Reformation church, in Edinburgh's Old Town
Grimsay Boat Haven and Grimsay Archive
Grimsay
The Western Isles' only dedicated maritime museum, preserving Grimsay's boatbuilding and fishing heritage
Grimspound
Dartmoor
A perfectly preserved Bronze Age settlement in the heart of Dartmoor — free open moorland access
Groam House Museum
Rosemarkie
Pictish stones, Celtic art, and the Black Isle's early medieval heritage
Grosmont Castle
Grosmont
One of the Three Castles of Gwent — Hubert de Burgh's finest Welsh Marches fortress
Guildford Museum
Guildford
Surrey's story — from flint tools to Lewis Carroll, beside the castle walls
Guildhall Museum Rochester
Rochester
Rochester's past brought to life — from Roman foundations to Victorian streets
Guisborough Museum
Guisborough
Priory town and ironstone district: the history of Guisborough and east Cleveland
Hadleigh Castle
Hadleigh
Constable's immortalised ruin — Essex castle on the Thames estuary painted in grief and grandeur
Hailes Castle
East Linton
A beautifully situated 13th-century castle on the River Tyne, once held by the earls of Bothwell and intimately connected with Mary Queen of Scots
Halliwell's House Museum
Selkirk
Selkirk's local history museum, in the town's oldest surviving row of dwellings
Harborough Museum
Market harborough
The story of south Leicestershire — from Naseby to the present day
Hardknott Roman Fort
Eskdale
Most dramatically sited Roman fort in Britain, high above Eskdale on the Hard Knott Pass
Harlow Museum and Walled Gardens
Harlow
A Roman temple, seventeenth-century slipware and historic cycles, in Mark Hall's walled gardens
Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre
Harrow
A medieval moated manor in suburban London — one of Greater London's most unexpected heritage treasures
Hartlepool Art Gallery
Hartlepool
Contemporary visual art in a stunning converted Victorian church at the heart of Hartlepool
Haslemere Educational Museum
Haslemere
A Victorian polymath's vision: natural history, ancient Egypt, and world cultures in the heart of the Surrey Hills
Hastings Fishermen's Museum
Hastings
The largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe — still working the Stade as it has for centuries
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Hastings
Local history, world cultures, and a spectacular Indian palace room
Hat Works Museum
Stockport
The UK's only museum dedicated to the art, craft, and industry of hat-making
Hatton Gallery
Newcastle upon Tyne
Home of Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn — one of the 20th century's most important artworks
Haulfre Stables
Llandudno
A restored Victorian stable block and terraced gardens above Llandudno, with outstanding Great Orme and bay views
Havant Museum
Havant
Where Roman remains, medieval glove-makers, and a great tidal harbour define the story of a Hampshire market town
Haverfordwest Town Museum
Haverfordwest
Pembrokeshire's county town history told within a Norman castle on the Cleddau
Haverhill Local History Museum
Haverhill
Eight thousand photographs and the story of a Suffolk market town remade twice over
Havering Museum
Romford
Local history of a London borough with royal medieval roots — free admission
Hawick Museum
Hawick
Hawick's knitwear and hosiery heritage, at Wilton Lodge Park, with the adjoining Scott Art Gallery
Headstone Manor & Museum
London
A fourteenth-century moated manor house in Harrow — medieval heritage and local history in one of Middlesex's most historic settings
Hedon Museum
Hedon
Hedon's story — from important medieval Humber port to quiet East Riding market town
Helena Thompson Museum
Workington
The story of Workington and the Allerdale coast, told through remarkable collections of costume, silver, ceramics, and local heritage
Helston Museum
Helston
Furry Dance, serpentine stone, and the wireless signal that changed the world — Helston's extraordinary story told from the heart of the town
Henfield Museum
Henfield
Free village museum recording the rural life, trades and people of a West Sussex parish
Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre
Christchurch
Gateway to a headland shaped by Iron Age traders, 19th-century ironstone miners, and thousands of years of natural history
Herbert Art Gallery And Museum
Coventry
Coventry's Story — From Lady Godiva to Peace and Reconciliation
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
Hereford
Herefordshire's heritage, art, and natural world under one roof
Herefordshire Light Infantry Regimental Museum
Hereford
Two centuries of Herefordshire's county regiment, from volunteer origins to Light Infantry service
Heriot-Watt University Museum and Archive
Edinburgh
Heriot-Watt University's history and the textile heritage of southern Scotland, at the Cameron Smail Library
Heron Corn Mill
Milnthorpe
A Grade II* watermill of 1740 on the River Bela, still working, and free to visit
Hinckley and District Museum
Hinckley
Thatched cottages, stocking frames, and the industry that made Hinckley
Hylton Castle
Sunderland
Hylton Castle is one of the most remarkable and best-preserved medieval tower house gatehouse structures in the North East of England. Rising dramatically…
Hynish (Skerryvore Lighthouse Museum)
Isle of Tiree
Shore station for Skerryvore Lighthouse, Scotland's tallest lighthouse, built by the Stevenson engineering dynasty
HMS Ganges Museum
Shotley Gate
The story of the Royal Navy's boy-seaman training establishment at Shotley, 1905-1976
Hoy Heritage Centre
Hoy
Shipwrecks, seabirds and Scapa Flow history, on the dramatic island home of the Old Man of Hoy
Hopetown Darlington
Darlington
Where the railway revolution began — celebrating the 200th anniversary of the world's first steam railway
Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
Horsham
26 rooms of history, art, and discovery in medieval Causeway House
Hough Mill
Coalville
A restored tower windmill above the birthplace of Stephenson's Leicester and Swannington Railway
House on Crutches Museum
Bishop's Castle
Bishop's Castle's history, told across four rooms of a striking sixteenth-century timber-framed building propped up on wooden 'crutches'
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Hove
Film heritage, toys, art, and local history in an elegant Edwardian villa
Howell Harris Museum
Talgarth
The life and legacy of Howell Harris, founder of Welsh Methodism, at Coleg Trefeca
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Huddersfield
Outstanding Lowry collection and modern British art in West Yorkshire
Hull and East Riding Museum
Hull
The Hull and East Riding Museum brings to life the rich archaeological and social history of Hull and its surrounding region, from prehistoric times through…
Hull Maritime Museum
Hull
Hull Maritime Museum tells the story of one of Britain's greatest port cities and its profound connections to the sea across eight centuries. Hull (officially…
Ikon Gallery
Birmingham
Internationally significant contemporary art, free admission, in a Victorian Gothic gem
Imperial War Museum
London
Stories of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts since 1914
Inglis Memorial Hall Library Visitor Centre
Edzell
Robert Inglis's 1898 gift to Edzell — a beautifully preserved Victorian village library and local history centre
Insch Connection Museum
Insch
District history and railway heritage in the ticket office of a still-working Aberdeenshire station
Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland Museum
Edinburgh
750 civil engineering artefacts including Forth Bridge construction material, at Heriot-Watt's William Arrol Building
Invergordon Naval Museum and Heritage Centre
Invergordon
The naval, industrial and maritime history of Invergordon, a major 20th-century Royal Navy base on the Cromarty Firth
Isle of Man Railway Museum
Port Erin
Railway heritage at the southern terminus of one of the world's oldest working narrow-gauge steam railways
Y Gaer (Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery)
Brecon
Art, History, and Roman Heritage in the Heart of the Beacons
Yate and District Heritage Centre
Yate
Uncovering the hidden history of Yate and South Gloucestershire, from prehistoric times to new town development
York and Lancaster Regimental Museum
Rotherham
South Yorkshire's Regiment — From the Somme to the Steel City
York Art Gallery
York
York Art Gallery, reopened in 2015 following a transformative £8 million refurbishment, stands as one of England's leading regional art museums. Located in a…
James Clerk Maxwell Museum
Edinburgh
The birthplace of the physicist whose equations made radio, radar and wireless possible
Jedburgh Castle Jail and Museum
Jedburgh
Where medieval castles fell and reforming prisons rose — Jedburgh's extraordinary story
Jewry Wall Museum
Leicester
Roman Leicester revealed - standing beside Britain's most spectacular Roman wall
John Buchan Story Museum
Peebles
The Thirty-Nine Steps, and the improbably varied life of the man who became Governor General of Canada
John Bunyan Museum and Library
Bedford
The life, imprisonment and worldwide readership of the author of The Pilgrim's Progress
John Creasey Museum
Salisbury
A small Salisbury gallery celebrating a prolific crime writer's gift to his adopted city
John Gray Centre
Haddington
East Lothian's museum, archive and library together in one Haddington building
John Muir's Birthplace
Dunbar
Where the father of America's national parks was born, on Dunbar High Street
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Manchester
Spectacular Victorian Gothic library housing medieval manuscripts and rare books
Joseph Parry's Cottage and Museum
Merthyr Tydfil
Birthplace cottage of composer Joseph Parry, creator of 'Myfanwy' and the hymn tune 'Aberystwyth'
Jurby Transport Museum
Jurby
The Isle of Man's largest transport museum, housing seven decades of Manx buses in a former RAF hangar
Keele Observatory
Keele
Free public stargazing every Tuesday and Saturday, with a historic 1874 refractor and modern research telescope
Keele University Arboretum
Keele
One of Europe's largest university campuses, planted as an arboretum across 600-plus acres, with a National Collection of flowering cherries
Kegworth Heritage Centre
Kegworth
Framework knitting, a Roman curse tablet and a village at the meeting of three counties
Kent Museum of Freemasonry
Canterbury
Two centuries of Kent Masonic history — regalia, warrants and regional Freemasonry heritage
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
Keswick
Musical stones, Romantic poets, and the curiosities of the Lake District — Cumbria's most fascinating local museum
Kettle's Yard
Cambridge
Kettle's Yard represents a unique vision in the museum world—a place where art is experienced not in the formal context of gallery walls but within the…
Kidderminster Railway Museum
Kidderminster
Preserving railway heritage at the heart of the Severn Valley Railway
Kilchurn Castle
Dalmally
Campbell stronghold at the head of Loch Awe — one of Scotland's most iconic Highland ruins
Kilwinning Abbey Tower
Kilwinning
An 1816 clock tower within the ruins of Kilwinning Abbey, at the legendary birthplace of Scottish Freemasonry
King John's Hunting Lodge
Axbridge
A well-preserved late-medieval merchant's house on Axbridge's market square, its popular name reflecting local tradition rather than documented history
King's Museum
Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen's natural history, geology, world cultures and fine art collections
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum
Doncaster
Two centuries of Yorkshire's light infantry heritage
King's Own Royal Regiment Museum
Lancaster
Three centuries of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
Kings Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Three centuries of the King's Own Scottish Borderers — raised in Edinburgh Castle in 1689
Kingston Museum
Kingston upon Thames
Saxon coronations, Muybridge's motion photography, and Kingston's story
Kingswood Heritage Museum
Wotton-under-Edge
Community museum for Kingswood and Wotton-under-Edge on the southern Cotswold edge
Kington Museum
Kington
A border market town's history, in the stable block of the old King's Head Inn
Kinneil Museum
Bo'ness
James Watt's steam engine birthplace, Roman Wall, and Renaissance paintings — Scotland's most layered historic site
Kirbuster Farm Museum
Birsay
The last un-restored traditional Orkney 'firehoose' farmhouse in Northern Europe
Kirkcudbright Galleries
Kirkcudbright
Celebrating the Kirkcudbright artists' colony, including E.A. Hornel and Jessie M. King
Kirkleatham Museum
Redcar
Redcar and Cleveland's story — from seaside resort to steel town and beyond
Knighton Museum / Amgueddfa Tref-y-Clawdd
Knighton
A handling collection and dementia-friendly museum in a Welsh border town
Knowlton Church and Earthworks
Wimborne Minster
A Norman church inside a Neolithic henge — 4,500 years of sacred landscape in a single view
Knutsford Heritage Centre
Knutsford
Gaskell's Cranford, Watt's Italianate towers and May Day sanding, on King Street
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Liverpool
Edwardian masterpiece showcasing Pre-Raphaelite treasures in a model village
Laing Art Gallery
Newcastle upon Tyne
Discover five centuries of British art in the heart of Newcastle
Laing Museum
Newburgh
On the Tay shore beneath Lindores Abbey — the oldest Scotch whisky record and Fife's heritage of kings and pilgrims
Lampeter Museum
Lampeter
The story of a small Ceredigion market town that became home to one of Britain's oldest degree-awarding colleges
Lamphey Bishop's Palace
Lamphey
A medieval episcopal country retreat with Wales's most distinctive decorative parapet — Bishop de Gower's masterpiece
Lancashire Infantry Museum
Preston
Three centuries of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment — courage, sacrifice and service
Lancashire Police Museum
Lancaster
The story of Lancashire's police, told from inside the cells of Lancaster Castle
Land, Sea and Islands Visitor Centre
Arisaig
Arisaig's secret Special Operations Executive wartime training history, alongside local land, sea and island heritage
Lanman Museum
Framlingham
Exploring the rich history of Framlingham and the surrounding Suffolk countryside, housed within the grounds of the medieval castle
Lapworth Museum of Geology
Birmingham
250,000 geological specimens spanning 3 billion years of Earth history
Larne Museum
Larne
Larne's local history from Mesolithic settlement to the 1914 gun-running and the modern ferry port
Lauriston Castle
Edinburgh
Lauriston Castle, perched on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth in northwest Edinburgh, offers visitors an exceptional glimpse into Edwardian life…
Lawrence House Museum
Launceston
Georgian elegance meets Cornish history in a National Trust town house
Leadhills Miners' Library
Leadhills
Britain's oldest subscription library, founded by lead miners in 1741
Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum
Leamington Spa
Art, history and heritage in Leamington's historic Royal Pump Rooms
Leeds City Museum
Leeds
Where Leeds meets the world - natural history, ancient civilizations, and local stories
Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
Leeds
One of the world's largest woollen mills, now telling Leeds's industrial story
Leicester Guildhall
Leicester
Step into 600 years of Leicester's civic life in one of England's finest medieval guildhalls
Leicester Magazine Gateway
Leicester
Leicester's oldest building - 600 years guarding the gateway to medieval power
Leighton Library
Dunblane
Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library, built 1687 for Bishop Robert Leighton's book bequest
Leiston Abbey
Leiston
Medieval Premonstratensian abbey where monastic ruins meet working farmstead in the Suffolk countryside
Lilleshall Abbey
Newport
Magnificent Romanesque west front and substantial abbey ruins — one of Shropshire's finest medieval monastic monuments
Lincluden Collegiate Church
Dumfries
Medieval carved splendour — the tomb of a Scottish princess among Scotland's finest ruins
Linen Hall Library
Belfast
Ireland's oldest library and one of the most important cultural institutions in Belfast
Linlithgow Canal Museum
Linlithgow
The Union Canal's construction and working history, at Linlithgow's historic Manse Road Basin
Linlithgow Museum
Linlithgow
A royal burgh's own museum, told through its tanners as much as its kings
Little Clarendon
Dinton
A rare unaltered Tudor manor house within the National Trust's Dinton Park estate
Little Holland House
Carshalton
One man's hand-made masterpiece — Arts and Crafts devotion in a Carshalton cottage
Lydford Castle and Saxon Town
Lydford
Saxon burgh and medieval stannary prison on the edge of Dartmoor — free open access
Lymm Heritage Centre
Lymm
Sandstone, a lockless canal, fustian cutting and a cross carved from the rock.
Llanelli Museum
Llanelli
Llanelli's heritage jewel — fine pottery, local history, and a beautiful Edwardian mansion
Llanon Cottage
Llanon
A rare surviving straw-rope-underthatch cottage in the Ceredigion coastal village of Llanon
Llansteffan Castle
Llansteffan
Norman fortress on a headland above the Tywi estuary — commanding views across Carmarthenshire and beyond
Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre
Cwmbran
South-east Wales's dedicated applied arts and craft gallery, in a nineteenth-century grange house, Cwmbran
Llanthony Priory
Llanthony
A romantic Augustinian ruin in the remote Vale of Ewyas, deep in the Black Mountains
Llawhaden Castle
Llawhaden
A bishops' castle in a wooded Pembrokeshire valley — medieval episcopal power in the heart of the St Davids diocese
Locomotion: The National Railway Museum at Shildon
Shildon
Birthplace of the railways — where the modern world began
London Mithraeum
London
A 3rd-century Roman temple to Mithras, preserved in situ beneath Bloomberg's London HQ
Long Crendon Courthouse
Long Crendon
One of the National Trust's first-ever properties — a 15th-century timber-framed manorial courthouse in a historic Buckinghamshire village
Longhope Lifeboat Museum
Longhope, Hoy
Remembering the 1969 Longhope lifeboat disaster and Orkney's volunteer sea-rescue tradition
Longtown Castle
Hereford
Early cylindrical keep in the Black Mountains foothills — rare Norman round tower in the Golden Valley
Lostwithiel Museum
Lostwithiel
Medieval capital of Cornwall — the story of tin, the Black Prince, and the River Fowey
Loughor Castle
Loughor
Roman fort Leucarum, Norman tower — two thousand years of strategic command above the Loughor estuary
Low Parks Museum
Hamilton
The story of Hamilton and Lanarkshire — from Roman times to the present day
Lowestoft Museum
Lowestoft
Britain's most easterly museum — maritime heritage, porcelain, and coastal history
Lowewood Museum
Hoddesdon
The story of the Lea Valley — from Georgian coaching town to glasshouse nursery heartland
Ludgershall Castle and Cross
Ludgershall
A royal hunting lodge and medieval market cross in the heart of Wiltshire
Lundy Old Light
Lundy Island
An 1819 lighthouse abandoned for being built too high, on a remote island reached only by boat or helicopter
Lutterworth and District Museum
Lutterworth
Where Wycliffe translated the Bible and Whittle built the jet engine
Maclaurin Art Gallery
Ayr
Scottish art in a Georgian mansion — one of Ayrshire's finest cultural destinations
Maggie Law Maritime Museum
Gourdon
The 1890 inshore lifeboat that saved thirty-six lives, in the old coastguard building at Gourdon harbour
Maid of the Loch and Balloch Steam Slipway
Balloch
Britain's last paddle steamer and Europe's only working steam slipway, at the foot of Loch Lomond
Maidenhead Heritage Centre
Maidenhead
Maidenhead's local history and the remarkable story of the Air Transport Auxiliary's wartime pilots
Maidstone Carriage Museum
Maidstone
Fifty horse-drawn vehicles, including Queen Victoria's State Landau, in medieval stables
Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery
Maidstone
An Elizabethan manor house filled with world-class collections — free to all
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester
Six centuries of art from Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces to contemporary innovation
Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections
Manchester
Five centuries of radical history and rare books in the heart of Manchester
Manchester Museum
Manchester
Ancient Egypt, dinosaurs, and natural wonders at Manchester's great university museum
Manx Aviation and Military Museum
Ballasalla
Free volunteer-run museum preserving the Isle of Man's wartime aviation and military heritage
March and District Museum
March
Fenland history, St Wendreda's angels, and the heritage of a Cambridgeshire market town
Margam Stones Museum
Port Talbot
One of the finest collections of early medieval inscribed stones and Celtic crosses in Wales
Mary Queen of Scots House & Visitor Centre
Jedburgh
Where a queen nearly died and history changed forever
Maryhill Museum
Maryhill, Glasgow
Stained glass, canal history and community memory in Maryhill's restored Burgh Halls
Marlow Museum
Marlow
The Thames, the Shelleys and a suspension bridge that became a template for Budapest
Marmion Tower
West Tanfield
A perfect Perpendicular gem — North Yorkshire's most elegant medieval manor gateway
Martlesham Heath Control Tower Museum
Martlesham Heath
The former watch office of Britain's premier aircraft-testing airfield, preserved by local volunteers
Mattersey Priory
Mattersey
The only surviving remains of a Gilbertine priory — England's unique indigenous monastic order
Maud Railway Museum
Maud
The junction where the Buchan lines divided, in the station buildings at Maud
McKechnie Institute
Girvan
Girvan's fishing, Ailsa Craig and coastal history, in a Victorian library, museum and gallery
McLean Museum and Art Gallery
Greenock
James Watt's birthplace — art, history, and innovation on the Clyde
Melton Carnegie Museum
Melton mowbray
Pork pies, Stilton, and the hunt — the story of the Rural Capital of Food
Mercer Art Gallery
Harrogate
Victorian and contemporary art in a beautiful Regency spa building at the heart of Harrogate
Mersea Island Museum
West Mersea
Island life, oyster heritage, and two thousand years of history on the Essex coast
Methil Heritage Centre
Methil
Coal, docks and community — the industrial heritage of East Fife's Levenmouth
Mevagissey Museum
Mevagissey
Pilchards, smuggling and boatbuilding, in a 1745 workshop on the inner harbour
Mid Wales Arts Centre
Caersws
A sculpture park and gallery centred on the Stefan Knapp enamel collection, at Maesmawr near Caersws
Mid-Antrim Museum
Ballymena
The linen, land, and local history of Ballymena and the mid-Antrim district of County Antrim
Middle Littleton Tithe Barn
Middle Littleton
One of England's largest surviving medieval tithe barns, built for Evesham Abbey and cared for by the National Trust
Middleton Top Engine House
Middleton by Wirksworth
The last surviving complete winding-engine house of the pioneering Cromford & High Peak Railway
Mildenhall Museum
Mildenhall
Half a million years of Breckland and fen-edge history, from worked flint to the airbase
Military Intelligence Museum
Shefford
The hidden history of British military intelligence, told from within a still-active intelligence establishment
Mill Green Museum and Mill
Hatfield
Where ancient millstones still turn — and the story of a new town and its aircraft builders comes to life
MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art)
Middlesbrough
Where contemporary art meets everyday life
Minehead Museum
Minehead
Harbour town, seaside resort and Hobby Horse: the story of Minehead and its coast
Minera Lead Mines
Wrexham
Surviving engine house and surface workings of a major North East Wales lead mining site
Minerva Arts Centre
Llanidloes
The Quilt Association's exhibition space for Welsh quilting and textile heritage, Llanidloes
Minories Art Gallery
Colchester
Colchester's oldest art gallery, presenting a changing programme of contemporary art in a historic Georgian townhouse
Minster Lovell Hall
Witney
Romantic ruins of a 15th-century manor house — haunt of the lost Viscount Lovell, who vanished after the Wars of the Roses
Mission Gallery
Swansea
Wales's leading contemporary craft gallery, in a former seamen's mission chapel, Swansea
Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle
Bishop's Castle
A Bronze Age stone circle of around 2000 BC on a remote Shropshire hilltop — with panoramic views to Wales
Mold Library, Museum and Gallery
Mold
Mold's local history museum, centred on novelist Daniel Owen's life and legacy
MOMA Machynlleth
Machynlleth
A redundant chapel turned gallery and concert hall, holding four centuries of Welsh art in a mid-Wales market town
Monkwearmouth Station Museum
Sunderland
Victorian railway grandeur preserved in the heart of Sunderland
Monmouth Castle and Regimental Museum
Monmouth
The story of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, in a stable wing of Great Castle House
Montgomery Castle
Montgomery
13th-century English Marcher castle on a dramatic rocky crag — scene of the Treaty of Montgomery 1267, slighted by Parliament in 1649
Montrose Museum
Montrose
One of Scotland's oldest museums, celebrating Montrose's proud history since 1842
Morecambe Heritage Centre
Morecambe
Piers, ballrooms, cockles and the Midland Hotel: a Lancashire resort remembers itself
Moreton Corbet Castle
Moreton Corbet
Medieval castle meets unfinished Elizabethan prodigy house — a uniquely evocative Shropshire ruin of two frustrated ambitions
Mostyn
Llandudno
Wales's leading contemporary art gallery, in an Edwardian building with a major modern extension, Llandudno
Mousa Broch
Sandwick
The world's most complete Iron Age broch — standing to full height on Shetland's Mousa island
Much Wenlock Museum
Much wenlock
Where the modern Olympic Games were born — Much Wenlock's extraordinary sporting heritage
Muness Castle
Unst
The northernmost castle in Britain — a 1598 Z-plan tower house at the edge of Shetland
Museum at the Mill
Newtownabbey
Discover the story of Ulster's linen industry in the heart of a Victorian mill
Museum nan Eilean, Lews Castle
Stornoway
The Lewis Chessmen and the story of the Outer Hebrides, at Lews Castle overlooking Stornoway
Museum of Abernethy
Abernethy
A Perthshire village's history in eighteenth-century farm buildings beside the Abernethy round tower
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cambridge
World Cultures & Human History - Cambridge's Global Collections
Museum of Banff
Banff
Scotland's largest collection of Banff silver, Thomas Edward's natural history, and the Deskford Carnyx
Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon
Barnstaple
The story of North Devon from prehistory to the present, in the heart of the region's capital
Museum of Cambridge
Cambridge
The Museum of Cambridge offers an intimate journey through the city's social history, focusing not on the famous university but on ordinary Cambridge residents…
Museum of Cannock Chase
Cannock
Mining, Military, and the Chase — The Story of a Staffordshire Landscape
Museum of Carpet
Kidderminster
The story of Kidderminster, once the carpet-weaving capital of the world, told through working looms
Museum of Childhood
Edinburgh
The Museum of Childhood on Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile is the world's first museum dedicated to the history of childhood. Founded in 1955 by Councillor…
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Cambridge
The World's Greatest Ancient Sculptures, Gathered in Plaster
Museum of Communication
Burntisland
Telegraph to television and beyond, in a specialist collection on Burntisland High Street
Museum of Croydon
Croydon
Surrey Street market to Croydon Airport — two thousand years of South London history
Museum of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh's story told through objects, from everyday items to treasured relics
Museum of English Rural Life
Reading
Five centuries of English farming, food and the countryside — University of Reading
Museum of Farnham
Farnham
Discover Farnham's story from prehistoric times in a stunning Grade I listed Georgian townhouse
Museum of Gardening
Hassocks
The history of the lawn mower and the garden tool, free to visit at the South Downs Heritage Centre
Museum of Gloucester
Gloucester
Two thousand years of Gloucester's history, from Roman Glevum to the present day
Museum of Medicine and Health
Manchester
300 years of Manchester medical history, from the university's Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
Museum of Military Medicine
Aldershot
Healing the wounds of war - military medicine through the ages
Museum of Policing in Cheshire
Warrington
The story of Cheshire Constabulary from Victorian beat officers to the modern force
Museum of Policing in Devon and Cornwall
Tavistock
Nearly two centuries of policing history in Devon and Cornwall, told from a historic combined court and police station
Museum of Richmond
Richmond
Tudor palaces, royal parks and riverside splendour — the story of Richmond upon Thames
Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage
Edinburgh
Two centuries of Scottish firefighting history, from James Braidwood's pioneering 1824 Edinburgh brigade to today
Museum of Somerset
Taunton
12,000 years of Somerset's extraordinary story in the heart of Taunton Castle
Museum of the Cumbraes
Millport
Four thousand years of Cumbrae history in Garrison House, ten minutes by ferry from Largs
Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Leeds
Interdisciplinary science, technology, and medicine collections from across the University of Leeds, established 2007
Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
Oxford
The world's finest collection of historic scientific instruments
Museum of the Iron Age
Andover
Discovering Iron Age Britain through Danebury hillfort's extraordinary archaeology
Museum of the Manchester Regiment
Ashton-under-Lyne
Two centuries of service — the story of the Manchester Regiment from 1758 to 1958
Museum of the Order of St John
London
900 years of history from Crusader knights to St John Ambulance
Museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Leicester
The Tigers — 276 years of Leicester's regiment
Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
London
The History of British Pharmacy, From Apothecary to Profession
Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA)
St andrews
Five Centuries of Discovery at Scotland's First University
Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester
Manchester
Manchester's public transport heritage brought to life
Museum of Wigan Life
Wigan
Discover the people, places, and stories that shaped Wigan from Roman times to the present day
Museum on the Mound
Edinburgh
Scotland's relationship with money — 300 years of banking history in Edinburgh's most iconic building
Musselburgh Museum
Musselburgh
The Honest Toun's own museum, from Roman Inveresk to the fishwives of Fisherrow
Nant Mill Visitor Centre
Wrexham
A restored water-powered corn mill and ancient woodland nature reserve on the edge of Wrexham
Nantgarw Chinaworks Museum
Nantgarw
The site of Britain's most technically exceptional porcelain works, producing translucent Nantgarw china
Narberth Castle
Narberth
The Arberth of the Mabinogi — a town-centre castle ruin at the heart of Welsh myth
National Coal Mining Museum for England
Wakefield
Descend 140 metres underground to experience the real world of coal mining at an authentic Yorkshire colliery
National Mining Museum Scotland
Newtongrange
Scotland's coal mining story — from the Victorian pit to the last closure
National Museum of Rural Life
East Kilbride
Scotland's national museum of farming and rural life, at a historic working farm jointly stewarded with the National Trust for Scotland
National Paralympic Heritage Centre
Aylesbury
Where the Paralympics began, on a hospital lawn in 1948
National Railway Museum
York
World's largest railway museum - where legendary locomotives come alive
National Science and Media Museum
Bradford
Britain's museum of photography, film, television, and the internet
National Waterfront Museum
Swansea
Wales's industrial and maritime heritage - innovation that changed the world
Natural History Museum at Tring
Tring
One of Britain's finest zoological collections, housed in the remarkable museum built by Walter Rothschild
Naughton Gallery at Queen's
Belfast
Contemporary and historic art within Queen's University Belfast's landmark Lanyon Building
Neath Abbey
Neath
Wales's wealthiest medieval monastery — Cistercian ruins transformed by Elizabethan mansion and early industry
Netley Abbey
Southampton
A hauntingly beautiful Cistercian ruin steeped in romance and royal history
New Mills Heritage and Information Centre
New Mills
Industrial heritage at the gateway to the Peak District
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
Leicester
Leicester's treasure house of art, natural history, and ancient Egypt
Newark Town Hall Museum
Newark-on-Trent
Three Civil War sieges, a royal death, and Georgian grandeur on the banks of the Trent
Newcastle Emlyn Castle
Newcastle Emlyn
Native Welsh castle above the Teifi — gateway to the first printing press in Wales
Newport Ship
Newport
A fifteenth-century merchant ship, rescued from the River Usk mud — view the ongoing conservation, Fridays and Saturdays in season
Newry and Mourne Museum
Newry
Exploring the history of Newry and the Mourne district from ancient origins to the modern day
Niarbyl
Dalby
A dramatic coastal viewpoint and geological landmark on the Isle of Man's south-west coast, looking out to the Calf of Man
No 28 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
A Robert Adam-designed Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh's New Town, combining National Trust for Scotland offices with selectively opened decorative arts rooms
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
Bungay
The Mighty Eighth and RAF history in East Anglia's largest aviation museum
Norfolk Museum of Freemasonry
Norwich
Three centuries of Norfolk Freemasonry, explained by the people who practise it
Norham Castle
Norham
Mighty border fortress on the Tweed, inspiration for Turner's most luminous paintings
North Ayrshire Heritage Centre
Saltcoats
North Ayrshire's principal archive and museum, home to one of Scotland's finest medieval stone sarcophagi
North Coast Visitor Centre
Thurso
Caithness geology, history and the Dounreay nuclear legacy, in Thurso's former Town Hall
North Down Museum
Bangor
From Bangor Abbey's global mission to the Victorian seaside resort — the story of North Down from prehistory to present
North Elmham Chapel
North Elmham
Saxon cathedral remains and Norman chapel — the seat of the East Anglian diocese before Norwich
North Hertfordshire Museum
Hitchin
Natural history, archaeology, and the scent of Hitchin lavender — north Hertfordshire's story
North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre
Motherwell
The story of Scotland's iron and steel heartland and its remarkable communities
North Leigh Roman Villa
North Leigh
One of Roman Britain's greatest country villas — a magnificent fourth-century mosaic in the Evenlode valley
North Lincolnshire Museum
Scunthorpe
Six thousand years of North Lincolnshire history, from Iron Age to Steel Age
Northern Ireland War Memorial
Belfast
The Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum in central Belfast is a free museum dedicated to the men and women of Northern Ireland who served in the armed forces…
Norwegian Church Arts Centre
Cardiff
Where Norwegian heritage meets contemporary arts by Cardiff Bay
Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham
Nottingham Contemporary stands as one of the UK's largest contemporary art spaces outside London, housed in a striking purpose-built facility that has become…
Nuneaton Museum And Art Gallery
Nuneaton
George Eliot Country — Where Literature Meets Local Heritage
Nurse's Cottage Heritage Centre
Isle of Berneray
Berneray's own heritage centre and visitor point, on the island off North Uist — not Great Bernera off Lewis
Oak House Museum
West Bromwich
A late-Tudor timber-framed yeoman's house at the heart of the Black Country
Oakham Castle
Oakham
Norman splendour and five centuries of royal horseshoes in England's smallest county
Oakwell Hall Country Park
Batley
A beautiful Elizabethan manor and Charlotte Brontë's model for 'Fieldhead' in Shirley
Offa's Dyke Centre
Knighton
Interpreting the largest ancient monument in Britain, at the halfway point of the trail
Ogmore Castle
Ogmore-by-Sea
Cross the famous stepping stones to one of Glamorgan's most charming Norman castles — beside Europe's second-largest dunes
Old Bell Museum
Montgomery
History of the Welsh Marches in a preserved coaching inn — castle, canal, Offa's Dyke and Civil War
Old Gala House
Galashiels
A 1583 tower house telling the story of Galashiels, with a contemporary art gallery on the upper floor
Old Oswestry Hillfort
Oswestry
One of Britain's finest Iron Age hillforts — spectacular multivallate earthworks with commanding views over the Shropshire-Wales borderland
Old Royal Station, Ballater
Ballater
Queen Victoria's gateway to Balmoral, with a recreated royal waiting room and replica royal saloon carriage
Old Soar Manor
Borough Green
A remarkably complete 13th-century solar block — one of the finest survivals of medieval domestic architecture in England
Orchardton Tower
Dalbeattie
The only complete circular tower house in Scotland — a remarkable 15th-century architectural rarity near Dalbeattie
Oriel Davies Gallery
Newtown
Mid Wales's principal contemporary art gallery, set in Newtown's riverside Park since 1994
Oriel y Parc Gallery and Visitor Centre
St Davids
Pembrokeshire's landscape art gallery and National Park visitor centre, on the edge of St Davids
Oriel Ynys Môn
Llangefni
Anglesey's premier gallery and heritage centre — celebrating the island's art, history, and natural world in the heart of Llangefni
Oriel Myrddin Gallery
Carmarthen
South-west Wales's principal contemporary art and craft gallery, in a converted Victorian school, Carmarthen
Orkney Wireless Museum
Kirkwall
Wireless and radio technology history, with Scapa Flow's crucial wartime communications role, in Kirkwall
Orleans House Gallery
Twickenham
Richmond's riverside art gallery in a magnificent baroque house surrounded by woodland gardens
Otley Museum and Archive Trust
Otley
Chippendale's birthplace and the town that built the world's printing presses
Paisley Thread Mill Museum
Paisley
The story of Paisley's globally significant thread-making industry, housed in a former mill building
Pannett Art Gallery
Whitby
Whitby's own art gallery celebrating the town's maritime heritage and the artists it inspired
Parc Howard Museum
Llanelli
Parc Howard Museum is Llanelli's principal public museum and art gallery, housed in an elegant Edwardian mansion set within the beautiful public parkland of…
Parham Airfield Museum (390th Bomb Group Memorial Air Museum)
Framlingham
Commemorating the USAAF 390th Bomb Group who flew from Suffolk's wartime skies
Penarth Pier Pavilion
Penarth
A restored 1929 Art Deco pier pavilion, now a thriving community cinema and arts venue on the Penarth seafront
Pendragon Castle
Mallerstang
A remote Norman tower keep in a breathtaking Eden Valley landscape — associated with the legend of Uther Pendragon
Penmon Priory
Beaumaris
Sixth-century Celtic Christian site with Norman priory church — Anglesey's most atmospheric early monastery
Pentre Ifan
Newport
Wales's finest Neolithic dolmen — a 16-tonne capstone balanced on three slender uprights in the Preseli Hills, with views across Pembrokeshire to the sea
Pershore Heritage Centre
Pershore
Telling the story of Pershore and the Vale of Evesham, from Anglo-Saxon abbey town to Georgian market centre
Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Perth
Scotland's Royal City — Two Centuries of Collections in a Magnificent New Home
Peter Scott Gallery
Lancaster
Lancaster University's public gallery — contemporary and modern art on the Bailrigg campus
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
Peterborough
Peterborough's History from the Jurassic Seas to the Present Day
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
London
One of the world's greatest collections of Egyptian archaeology
Physicians' Gallery, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Alchemy, Jacobite medicine and patient art at Scotland's Royal College of Physicians
Piel Castle
Barrow-in-Furness
A medieval island fortress in Morecambe Bay — Furness Abbey's harbour castle, Lambert Simnel's landing, and the King of Piel
Pierhead
Cardiff
Cardiff Bay's flamboyant 1897 dock-company headquarters, now telling the story of Welsh democracy
Pitlochry and Moulin Heritage Centre
Moulin, near Pitlochry
The older village behind a Victorian resort town — Moulin, Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire
Pleasley Pit
Pleasley
Two headstocks, a working winding engine and a country park on a Derbyshire colliery site
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Plymouth
Plymouth's civic treasure — art, nature and the story of a remarkable city
Portland Basin Museum
Ashton-under-Lyne
Tameside's industrial heritage brought to life at a historic canal junction
Portsoy Salmon Bothy
Portsoy
An 1834 salmon netting bothy on Portsoy harbour, restored as the museum of Scotland's salmon fishery
Potters Bar Museum
Potters Bar
A small local history museum tracing Potters Bar's transformation from rural Hertfordshire settlement to London commuter town
Powysland Museum
Welshpool
One of Wales's oldest museums, preserving the rich archaeology and heritage of the ancient kingdom of Powys beside the historic Montgomery Canal
Prescot Museum
Prescot
Watchmaking, wire and Knowsley — the craft heritage of an historic Lancashire town
Preston Park Museum and Grounds
Stockton-on-tees
Step into a Victorian street and explore the social history of Teesside
Prestongrange Museum
Prestonpans
A former colliery and industrial heritage site on the Firth of Forth, home to one of Scotland's best-preserved Cornish beam engines
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Museum
York
Three centuries of Yorkshire military service
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment & Queen's Museum
Dover
350 years of courage, service, and regimental tradition
Prior's Hall Barn
Widdington
One of England's finest medieval aisled barns — a fourteenth-century masterpiece of crown-post timber construction in rural Essex
Provand's Lordship
Glasgow
Provand's Lordship is Glasgow's oldest surviving house, a remarkable medieval building dating from 1471 that offers a rare glimpse into pre-industrial urban…
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum
Maidstone
Three centuries of courage: the story of Kent's celebrated regiment
Queen's University Museum Collections
Belfast
University teaching and research collections - natural history, archaeology, ethnography
Queensferry Museum
South Queensferry
The Burryman, three great Forth bridges, and eight centuries of ferry history
Radlett & District Museum
Radlett
A Roman road, a Victorian railway and Handley Page's aerodrome, in one small Hertfordshire village
Radnorshire Museum
Llandrindod Wells
The heritage of Wales's most thinly-populated county — from Roman forts and hillforts to Victorian spa elegance
RAF Manston History Museum
Manston
The full story of one of Kent's most historic airfields, from the Great War to the Cold War
RAF Museum Cosford
Cosford
One of Europe's largest aviation collections, home to Britain's three V-bombers together under one roof
Rayleigh Town Museum
Rayleigh
Nine centuries of market town life beneath Rayleigh's Norman castle mount
Ramsey Rural Museum
Huntingdon
Seventy display areas of Fenland farming and rural trades in seventeenth-century barns
Ravenglass Railway Museum
Ravenglass
La'al Ratty's history, beside the fifteen-inch gauge terminus on the Cumbrian coast
Ravenscraig Castle
Kirkcaldy
Scotland's first purpose-built artillery castle — the fortress that changed military architecture
Ravenspoint Museum
South Lochs, Isle of Lewis
The Pairc Historical Society's local history museum for the townships of South Lochs, Isle of Lewis
Reculver Towers
Herne Bay
Roman Saxon Shore fort and medieval twin towers — a 1,700-year maritime landmark on the Kent coast
Redfern's Cottage: Museum of Uttoxeter Life
Uttoxeter
Samuel Johnson's penance, market town heritage, and racing in eastern Staffordshire
Renfrew Community Museum
Renfrew
Earth, Fire, Air and Water — nine centuries of Renfrew, cradle of the Stewart dynasty
Revolution House
Chesterfield
Where the Glorious Revolution of 1688 was planned — the alehouse that changed Britain
Rhyl Museum
Rhyl
The story of North Wales's favourite seaside resort — from Victorian pier to the Sun Centre wave pool
RIBA Collections (Library, Drawings and Photographs Collections)
London
One of the world's great architectural research collections — drawings, photographs and archives at RIBA's Portland Place headquarters
Richard Jefferies Museum
Swindon
Birthplace of a Victorian visionary — nature, wildness, and imagination
Ring of Brodgar
Stenness
The Ring of Brodgar stands on a narrow strip of land between the Lochs of Harray and Stenness on the Orkney Mainland, one of the most atmospheric and evocative…
River Findhorn Heritage Centre
Forres
The River Findhorn's geology, crofting history and legends of Randolph's Leap and the Wolf of Badenoch, at Logie Steading
River Tweed Salmon Fishing Museum
Kelso
Over two centuries of salmon fishing history on the River Tweed, in Kelso Town Hall
Riverside Museum
Glasgow
The Riverside Museum is Glasgow's stunning award-winning transport museum, designed by internationally renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid. Opened in June 2011…
RNCM Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
Manchester
Over 300 instruments, from a fifteenth-century virginal to a Tibetan bone trumpet, free in term time
RNLI Grace Darling Museum
Bamburgh
The story of Victorian Britain's most celebrated heroine and the 1838 Forfarshire rescue
Robert Gordon University Art & Heritage Collections
Aberdeen
Fine art, applied art and architectural heritage from Gray's School of Art and Robert Gordon University's predecessor institutions, displayed across the working campus
Robert Owen Memorial Museum
Newtown
Newtown's museum dedicated to Robert Owen, pioneering social reformer and founder of the co-operative movement
Robin Hood's Bay Museum
Whitby
Smuggling, cobles and coastal erosion in a village stacked above the North Sea
Rochester Cathedral
Rochester
Rochester Cathedral stands as one of England's oldest and most historically significant religious buildings, founded in 604 AD by Bishop Justus under the…
Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre
Limavady
Where the Londonderry Air was first heard and the Roe Valley story is told
Royal Academy of Music Museum
London
Rare instruments and musical treasures at Britain's oldest conservatoire
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Exeter
Museum of the Year — world-class collections of art, cultures, and natural history in the heart of Exeter
Royal Army Chaplains' Museum
Shrivenham
Faith in the Forces: the story of British Army chaplaincy, in a purpose-built gallery at Shrivenham
Royal Army Physical Training Corps Museum
Aldershot
160 years of British Army fitness, sport and combat training, told at its working home in Aldershot
Royal Armouries Fort Nelson
Fareham
The national museum of artillery — 600 years of firepower in a spectacular Victorian fort with daily gun firings
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art
Conwy
Wales's foremost art academy since 1881, in a purpose-built gallery within Conwy's medieval walled town
Royal College of Nursing Library and Heritage Centre
London
The Royal College of Nursing's library and archive, preserving over a century of nursing professional history
Royal Dragoon Guards Museum
York
Three centuries of cavalry courage — the proud story of the Royal Dragoon Guards in York
Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum
Glasgow
Three centuries of Scotland's soldiers — Glasgow and Ayrshire's own regiment
Royal Holloway Art Collections and Picture Gallery
Egham
Thomas Holloway's Victorian art collection in the Château de Chambord-inspired Founder's Building, opened by Queen Victoria in 1886
Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum
Armagh
Faugh A Ballagh — two centuries of Irish regimental courage and service
Royal Lancers Museum
Derby
The Charge of the Light Brigade and three centuries of British light cavalry
Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum
London
275 years of medical innovation and compassionate care
Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum
Norwich
Norfolk's military history from 1685 to the Royal Anglian Regiment
Royston and District Museum
Royston
Home to the secrets of Royston Cave — Hertfordshire's most enigmatic underground monument
Ross of Mull Historical Centre
Isle of Mull
Crofting, fishing and granite-quarrying history of the Ross of Mull peninsula, in Bunessan
Rough Castle
Bonnybridge
Rome's northernmost frontier — the best-preserved fort on the Antonine Wall UNESCO World Heritage Site
Rozelle House
Ayr
A Georgian mansion gifted to Ayr — architecture, art and parkland on the Firth of Clyde
Rushden Historical Transport Society Museum
Rushden
A rescued Victorian station and a century of transport heritage in Northamptonshire
Ruskin Library
Lancaster
The world's largest collection of John Ruskin — drawings, manuscripts, diaries, and the archive of a visionary Victorian mind
Rustington Museum
Rustington
A West Sussex village from the Stone Age to the seaside boom, with a wartime airfield and a famous composer
Ruthwell Cross
Dumfries
One of Europe's greatest early medieval monuments — a runic cross that shaped English literature
Saffron Walden Museum
Saffron walden
One of Britain's oldest purpose-built museums, beside the ruins of a Norman castle
Salcombe Maritime Museum
Salcombe
The seafaring history of one of South Devon's most beautiful estuary towns
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Salford
Victorian pioneering spirit — England's first public park and one of Britain's oldest free museums
Saltaire Collection
Shipley
The story of Sir Titus Salt's UNESCO World Heritage model village, built for workers on the banks of the River Aire
Saltwell Towers
Gateshead
Saltwell Towers is the extraordinary Victorian Gothic mansion that forms the focal point of Saltwell Park, widely regarded as one of the finest Victorian…
Sanday Heritage Centre
Sanday, Orkney
Local history archive, a restored traditional but'n'ben croft house, and a reconstructed prehistoric burnt mound, on Sanday, Orkney
Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum
Sanquhar
Home of the world's oldest post office, the Sanquhar Declaration, and Scotland's most distinctive knitting tradition
School of Art Gallery and Museum
Aberystwyth
15,000 Objects of Fine and Decorative Art at Aberystwyth University
Science and Industry Museum
Manchester
Celebrating Manchester's world-changing contributions to science and industry
Scotland Street School Museum
Glasgow
Scotland Street School Museum occupies a stunning building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in 1906. This purpose-built school served…
Scotstarvit Tower
Cupar
Six storeys of Scottish scholarship — the tower of the man who mapped Scotland
Scott Polar Research Institute
Cambridge
The Scott Polar Research Institute houses the world's most comprehensive collection dedicated to polar exploration and research. Founded in 1920 as a memorial…
Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre
Glasgow
An international collection of puppets and masks, and a working puppet theatre, in Glasgow's West End
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Edinburgh
Scotland's gallery for modern and contemporary art in beautiful parkland
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh
Scotland's story told through portraits of famous Scots
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Cambridge
Darwin's Museum - Fossils, Rocks & 4.5 Billion Years of Earth History
Sentry Hill
Newtownabbey
Step inside five generations of Ulster life at this uniquely preserved Victorian farmhouse
Session Cottage Museum
Turriff
A 250-year-old Turriff but and ben furnished as an Aberdeenshire home of about 1900
Sevenoaks Museum
Sevenoaks
Discover the history of Sevenoaks and the surrounding Kentish countryside
Shap Abbey
Shap
The last abbey founded in Westmorland — serene riverside ruins in the Cumbrian uplands
Shoemakers Museum
Street
Two hundred years of Clarks shoemaking history, in a restored Tudor building at Clarks Village
Shotts Heritage Centre
Shotts
Covenanting history and the story of the Shotts Iron Company, within Shotts Library, North Lanarkshire
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury's story from prehistoric times to Charles Darwin, in the heart of a magnificent medieval town
Silbury Hill
Avebury
Europe's largest prehistoric mound — a 4,400-year-old mystery that has never been solved
Sime Gallery
Worplesdon
The original grotesque and fantastical art of illustrator Sidney Sime, in a Surrey village hall
Sir Walter Scott's Courtroom
Selkirk
The original courtroom where Sir Walter Scott presided as Sheriff of Selkirkshire for over three decades
Skelmorlie Secret Bunker
Skelmorlie
A restored 1965 Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring bunker, with guided tours led by former Corps members
Skenfrith Castle
Skenfrith
Compact 13th century fortress with distinctive round keep beside the River Monnow
Skidby Windmill
Skidby
The East Riding's last working windmill, built 1821, with demonstrations of traditional wind-powered flour milling
Skipness Castle
Skipness
13th-century coastal castle and chapel with carved West Highland grave slabs
Sma' Shot Cottages
Paisley
Restored weavers' cottages commemorating Paisley's handloom weaving heritage and the 1850s Sma' Shot dispute
Smithills Hall
Bolton
One of England's finest medieval great halls — and the enduring legend of the Bloody Footprint of George Marsh
Society of Antiquaries of London
London
England's Senior Learned Society for the Study of Antiquities, Since 1707
Somerset Brick and Tile Museum
Bridgwater
The last surviving trace of Bridgwater's once-mighty brick and tile industry
Sound Centre
Cregneash
A year-round visitor centre overlooking the Calf of Man and the tidal Calf Sound
South Ribble Museum
Leyland
The social history of South Ribble borough, from rural villages to Leyland's industrial heyday
South Shields Museum and Art Gallery
South shields
The story of South Tyneside — from Roman soldiers to Catherine Cookson
South Wales Miners Museum
Port talbot
The voices of the valleys — coal, community and the South Wales mining legacy
Southburn Archaeological Museum
Nafferton
Over 1,000 archaeological finds from the Yorkshire Wolds, spanning Neolithic to Medieval times
Southchurch Hall
Southend-on-sea
A perfectly preserved medieval manor house in the heart of Southend
Spelthorne Museum
Staines-upon-thames
The history of Spelthorne, the Thames, and the forgotten landscape of north-west Surrey
Spode Museum Trust Heritage Centre
Stoke-on-Trent
Spode ceramics and the factory archive, on the Stoke works where bone china was perfected
Spofforth Castle
Spofforth
Ruined Percy stronghold with rock-cut undercroft in the North Yorkshire countryside
St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum
St andrews
Preserving the history of Scotland's most celebrated medieval and university town
St Cecilia's Hall
Edinburgh
St Cecilia's Hall stands as Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall and now houses one of the world's finest collections of historical keyboard…
St Monans Camera Museum
St Monans
Over 3,000 historic cameras from the Jim Matthew Collection, in a former Salvation Army Hall in St Monans, Fife
St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art
Glasgow
Exploring the world's religions through art and artifacts
St Ronan's Wells Visitor Centre
Innerleithen
The historic sulphur spa, Walter Scott's novel, and the St Ronan's Border Games, at Innerleithen's original spa pump room
Staffordshire Yeomanry Museum
Lichfield
From gentleman cavalry to armoured regiment — Staffordshire's volunteer soldiers
Staffordshire Regiment Museum
Whittington
The Staffordshire Regiment Museum at Whittington Barracks near Lichfield is the regimental museum of the Staffordshire Regiment and its predecessor regiments —…
Staircase House
Stockport
Seven centuries of Stockport life within a medieval townhouse — home to England's most extraordinary staircase
Stanton Drew Stone Circles
Chew Valley
England's second largest stone circle complex — a Neolithic wonder in the Chew Valley
Stevenage Museum
Stevenage
From ancient market town to Britain's first New Town — Stevenage's extraordinary story
Stewarton Museum
Stewarton
The 'Bonnet Toun' — bonnet-making, lace weaving and Ayrshire community life
Stewartry Museum
Kirkcudbright
Artists' colony, Covenanting country, and the heritage of Galloway's ancient Stewartry
Stockport Museum
Stockport
One of England's oldest municipal museums — Stockport's local history, natural world, and archaeological heritage in a Victorian parkland setting
Stockwood Discovery Centre
Luton
Horse-drawn carriages, period rooms, and craft treasures in a historic Luton park
Storiel
Bangor
Storiel — the Welsh word for gallery — is the principal public museum and art gallery for the county of Gwynedd, housed in a handsome Victorian building in the…
Storrington and District Museum
Storrington
The history of Storrington and ten neighbouring Downland parishes, in the old village school
Stourbridge Glass Museum
Stourbridge
Four centuries of English glassmaking excellence in the heart of the Black Country
Stourport Canal Basins
Stourport-on-Severn
Five Georgian canal basins where the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal meets the Severn, in England's only canal-built town
Strachur Smiddy Museum and Craft Shop
Strachur
A working 18th-century Highland blacksmith's forge on the shores of Loch Fyne, with live weekend demonstrations
Strathaven Museum
Strathaven
The weaving, Covenanting and radical history of a South Lanarkshire town, kept by its own community
Streetlife Museum of Transport
Hull
Streetlife Museum of Transport offers visitors an immersive journey through 200 years of transport history, bringing the sights, sounds, and even smells of…
Stronsay Heritage Centre
Stronsay
Stronsay's own record, from the herring boom at Whitehall to island genealogy, in temporary premises at Wood's Yard
Sturminster Newton Museum and Mill
Sturminster Newton
Blackmore Vale history in the town centre and a working watermill on the Stour
Sueno's Stone
Forres
The tallest Pictish cross-slab in Scotland — a 6.58-metre carved monument of the ninth century
Suffolk Regiment Museum
Bury-st-edmunds
The story of Suffolk's regiment from 1685 to the Royal Anglian
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
Coatbridge
Scotland's Noisiest Museum — Iron, Steel, and the Lives That Built a Nation
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Sunderland
Art, history and exotic nature in Sunderland's cultural heart
Surrey Heath Museum
Camberley
The story of Camberley and Surrey Heath — heathland, Sandhurst, and a town shaped by the British Army
Sutton Scarsdale Hall
Chesterfield
A haunting Baroque shell — one of Derbyshire's most evocative ruins
Sutton Valence Castle
Sutton Valence
A Norman ragstone keep ruin on a Kentish Weald ridge, with sweeping views south to the South Downs — a quiet and seldom-visited English Heritage site in an attractive village
Swalcliffe Barn
Swalcliffe
A fifteenth-century tithe barn near Banbury housing part of Oxfordshire's historic rural vehicle and agricultural collections
Swansea Castle
Swansea
Medieval castle fragment with an exceptional arcaded parapet in the heart of Swansea
Sweetheart Abbey
New Abbey
Founded for love — Devorguilla of Galloway's memorial to her husband's embalmed heart
Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre
Lochmaddy
North Uist social history, Gaelic culture and the Runrig archive, in a former merchant's store at Lochmaddy
Tayside Medical History Museum
Dundee
The history of medicine and healthcare across Tayside, displayed within Dundee's Ninewells teaching hospital
Talbot Rice Gallery
Edinburgh
The Talbot Rice Gallery, the University of Edinburgh's public art gallery, occupies a magnificent position within the Old College designed by architect William…
Taliesin Arts Centre
Swansea
Swansea University's arts centre for film, performance and visual art exhibitions, Singleton campus
Talley Abbey
Llandeilo
The only Premonstratensian abbey ever founded in Wales, its lone tower rising above twin lakes
Tameside Central Art Gallery
Ashton-under-Lyne
Art for Tameside — a free public gallery in the heart of Ashton-under-Lyne
Tangwick Haa Museum
Northmavine
A restored laird's haa telling the story of crofting and fishing in remote Northmavine, Shetland
Tarves Heritage Centre
Tarves
A village museum in an 1837 school, complete with a restored Victorian classroom, in the heart of Formartine
Teign Heritage Centre
Teignmouth
The story of Teignmouth and the Teign estuary — town, sea, and river
Tenbury Museum
Tenbury Wells
Tenbury Wells' spa-town Victorian heritage and hop-growing agricultural history, told by local volunteers
Tetbury Police Museum and Courtroom
Tetbury
Cells, charge room and courtroom preserved together in a Cotswold town
Tewkesbury Museum
Tewkesbury
The battle, the abbey and the river trade of a Gloucestershire town, in a timber-framed house on Barton Street
Thame Museum
Thame
Free museum of a planned medieval market town on one of Oxfordshire's grandest High Streets
The Adjutant General's Corps Museum
Winchester
Preserving the history of the British Army's administrative backbone since 1992
The Alasdair Gray Archive
Glasgow
The visual and literary archive of Alasdair Gray, author of Lanark, with a restaging of his working studio
The Atkinson
Southport
Southport's cultural heart — art, museum, library, theatre, and literature under one roof
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Birmingham
World-class art from the 13th to 20th century in an Art Deco jewel
The Biscuit Factory
Newcastle upon Tyne
The UK's largest independent art gallery in Newcastle's creative Ouseburn Valley
The Boilerhouse
Market Harborough
The rise and fall of an engineering marvel on Britain's most spectacular canal staircase
The Burrell Collection
Glasgow
The Burrell Collection is one of the world's greatest personal art collections, gifted to Glasgow by shipping magnate Sir William Burrell (1861-1958) and his…
The Cater Museum
Billericay
Billericay's town museum, from the Peasants' Revolt at Norsey Wood to the Mayflower and beyond
The Cole Museum of Zoology
Reading
One of Britain's most important teaching zoology collections — 4,000 specimens open to all
The Dudson Museum
Hanley
Over two centuries of Dudson Brothers earthenware — one of the Potteries' great family firms
The Gibberd Gallery
Harlow
The indoor gallery of Harlow Sculpture Town, and home of the Gibberd watercolour collection
The Grundy Art Gallery
Blackpool
Blackpool's free gallery for art, culture, and curiosity since 1911
The Guardroom Museum
Winchester
The story of the Adjutant General's Corps and its proud heritage of service, discipline, and military justice
The Heritage Hub
Ayr
South Ayrshire's collections and archives brought to Ayr High Street, next door to the Town Hall
The Hockey Museum
Woking
Britain's national museum of field hockey, from Victorian codification to Olympic gold
The Hunterian Museum
Glasgow
The Hunterian is Scotland's oldest public museum and one of the world's great university collections, founded in 1807 when the University of Glasgow received…
The Infirmary
Worcester
Where the British Medical Association was founded, now an interactive medical history exhibition
The Young Gallery
Salisbury
Salisbury's public gallery for changing contemporary and community art since 1913
The Kelpies & The Helix Visitor Centre
Falkirk
Inside the world's largest equine sculptures — the iconic Kelpies of Falkirk
The Light Dragoons Museum
Newcastle upon Tyne
Two and a half centuries of light cavalry — from Balaclava to Normandy
The Lightbox
Woking
Award-winning gallery and museum beside the Basingstoke Canal, home to the Ingram Collection of modern British art
The Lighthouse
Glasgow
The Lighthouse is Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture, housed in a landmark building that was Charles Rennie Mackintosh's first public commission -…
The MAC (Metropolitan Arts Centre)
Belfast
Contemporary arts center - galleries, theatre, dance, and creativity
The Mackintosh House
Glasgow
The most authentic collection of Mackintosh domestic design in the world
The Marton Museum of Country Bygones
Marton
The hand tools of an English village, kept by the families who used them.
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum
Dundee
Dundee's treasure house of art, history, and culture in a Victorian Gothic masterpiece
The Meffan Museum and Art Gallery
Forfar
Ancient Pictish stones, witch trial history, and Scottish art in the heart of Angus
The Mercian Regiment Museum
Worcester
Preserving the history and honours of the Mercian Regiment and its predecessor regiments, from the English Civil War to the present day
The Mill on the Fleet
Gatehouse of Fleet
Community-run heritage and exhibition centre in a restored 18th-century cotton mill on the Water of Fleet
The Museum at Comann Eachdraidh an Taobh Siar
Shawbost
The West Side Historical Society's museum in the old Shawbost school, recording the crofting townships from Arnol to Dalbeg
The Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House
London
Discover the home and legacy of Methodism's founder
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Walsall
An award-winning contemporary art gallery in the heart of Walsall, housing the remarkable Garman Ryan Collection
The New Room (John Wesley's Chapel)
Bristol
The World's Oldest Methodist Building — Where a Movement Was Born
The Nicholson Museum and Art Gallery
Leek
Silk, embroidery, and the Leek dyehouses where William Morris learned his colours.
The Old Haa
Yell
A historic 'haa' house on Yell, Shetland, combining local history, arts and crafts, and a tearoom
The Oxfordshire Museum
Woodstock
Oxfordshire's county museum telling the story of the county from prehistoric times to the present day, with a beloved dinosaur garden
The Panacea Museum
Bedford
The most extraordinary domestic heritage site in England — a preserved world of Victorian faith and communal life
The Pankhurst Centre
Manchester
The house where the Women's Social and Political Union was founded in 1903
The People's Story Museum
Edinburgh
The People's Story Museum tells the history of Edinburgh's working people from the late 18th century to the present day. Located in the historic Canongate…
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
London
The principal Polish military and government-in-exile collection outside Poland
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Stoke-on-Trent
World-class ceramics in the heart of the Potteries
The Queen's Own Hussars Museum
Warwick
Three centuries of cavalry heritage in a medieval masterpiece
The Queens Royal Lancers Regimental Museum
Perlethorpe
Three Centuries of Lancer Cavalry History — From Balaklava to Afghanistan
The Raven Mason Collection
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Mason's Ironstone and the Staffordshire ceramic tradition — a specialist collection near Keele
The Rifles Museum
Winchester
Honouring the heritage and sacrifice of The Rifles regiment and its distinguished infantry predecessors
The Riverfront Theatre & Arts Centre
Newport
Newport's professional theatre and arts centre, on the banks of the River Usk
The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum
Winchester
Three centuries of Hampshire soldiering — from Marlborough to the Gulf
The Royal Logistic Corps Museum
Deepcut
Sustaining the Army — the national museum of military logistics
The Ropewalk
Barton upon Humber
Contemporary craft and visual arts in a converted 19th-century ropewalk — the cultural heart of Barton-upon-Humber
The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery
Leeds
University of Leeds art collection in the iconic Parkinson Building
The Suttie Arts Space
Aberdeen
Britain's only commissioning contemporary art gallery inside an acute hospital, open around the clock at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
The Ted Lewis Centre
Barton-upon-Humber
The writer who invented British noir, and the film that made him famous
The Twickenham Museum
Twickenham
The local history of Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and the Hamptons, in a listed house on the riverside
The Victoria Gallery and Museum
Liverpool
Art, science, and heritage in a Victorian architectural masterpiece
The Wee Museum of Memory, Ocean Terminal
Edinburgh
A hands-on museum of everyday life and a dementia-friendly drop-in centre, with no glass cases and nothing you cannot touch
The Wee Museum of Memory, West Lothian
Livingston
A hands-on reminiscence museum and social space in the middle of The Centre, Livingston
The Whitaker
Rossendale
Rossendale's museum and gallery — art, natural history and local heritage in the heart of Lancashire
The Whitworth
Manchester
Art gallery in the park with world-class collections and award-winning architecture
The Wilson (Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum)
Cheltenham
Arts and Crafts Masterpieces, Dutch Masters, and the Story of Cheltenham
The Witney and District Museum
Witney
Free museum of Witney's three-hundred-year blanket industry and the Windrush valley district
The Wyllieum
Greenock
The world of George Wyllie, 'Scul?tor' — Straw Locomotive, Paper Boat and a lifetime of Clyde-coast art
The Women's Art Collection
Cambridge
Europe's largest collection of art by women, lived with daily across a Cambridge college
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth
Bournemouth
Contemporary art and design exhibitions at Arts University Bournemouth, with a national and international touring programme
Thetford Priory
Thetford
Cluniac priory founded 1103 — mausoleum of the Dukes of Norfolk, set in Thetford parkland
Thirsk Museum
Thirsk
The birthplace of Thomas Lord, founder of Lord's, and the collection of a North Yorkshire market town
Thornbury and District Museum
Thornbury
Henry VIII's Tudor castle and the history of a South Gloucestershire market town
Thorney Heritage Museum
Thorney
How drainage made a fenland village: Thorney Abbey, the Bedford Level and the settlers who worked it
Thurrock Museum
Grays
Thames Estuary history from Tilbury Fort to the chalk and cement industries of Grays
Thwaite Mills Watermill
Leeds
A rare water-powered mill on its own island — 400 years of industrial heritage
Titchfield Abbey
Fareham
Where Shakespeare's patron was born amid the ruins of a Premonstratensian abbey
Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House
Tynemouth
The first volunteer life brigade, still operational, in its own Watch House above the Tyne
Tomen y Mur
Trawsfynydd
A Roman fort reused as a Norman castle on wild Eryri moorland, with Britain's rarest amphitheatre earthworks
Totnes Elizabethan House Museum
Totnes
Step inside a Tudor merchant's world in the heart of medieval Totnes
Touchstones Rochdale
Rochdale
Rochdale's arts, heritage and community — a vibrant cultural hub for Greater Manchester
Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum
Burnley
Five Centuries of Art and History in Lancashire's Finest Manor
Treasure House
Beverley
Beverley's combined library, archives, museum and gallery, opened 2007 as the East Riding's flagship cultural building
Tredegar Local History Museum
Tredegar
The story of Tredegar's ironworks, its labour history, and its role as the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan and the NHS's origins
Tregaron Heritage Centre
Tregaron
The story of the red kite's rescue from near-extinction, told at the heart of its last British stronghold
Tring Local History Museum
Tring
Community local history museum for Tring and the surrounding Hertfordshire area
Trowbridge Museum
Trowbridge
Celebrating the rich woollen cloth-making heritage of Wiltshire's county town
Tudor House Heritage Centre
Worcester
A 16th-century timber-framed building on Worcester's Friar Street, tracing weavers' cottages to wartime ARP post
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Tunbridge Wells
From Regency spa to Victorian county town — the history of Royal Tunbridge Wells
Turriff Museum and Heritage Centre
Turriff
Turriff's civic, Covenanting and farming history, including the famous 1913 Turra Coo incident
Tweeddale Museum and Gallery
Peebles
Ancient Greece in the Scottish Borders — Where the Unexpected Awaits
Uffington Museum
Uffington
The White Horse, Tom Brown's Schooldays and village life, in a schoolroom of 1617
Uffington White Horse
Uffington
Britain's oldest chalk figure — a 3,000-year-old masterpiece of prehistoric art
Uig Museum
Uig
The community museum of Uig on the Isle of Lewis, where the Lewis Chessmen came to light in 1831
Ulster Museum - Natural History Collections
Belfast
Northern Ireland's natural history collections - biodiversity, fossils, and Irish giant deer
University Museum of Zoology
Cambridge
3 Million Specimens - Biodiversity from Microscopic to Magnificent
University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum
Aberdeen
A free university teaching collection surveying the animal kingdom, from protozoa to whales
University of Bristol Theatre Collection
Bristol
One of Britain's largest theatre history archives — designs, prompt books and personal archives from three centuries of British theatre
University of Dundee Museums
Dundee
Free changing exhibitions from the University of Dundee's art, science and natural history collections
University of Nottingham Museum
Nottingham
Free archaeology of the East Midlands, 250,000 years of it, in the parkland of University Park
University of Oxford - Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
Oxford
Where music history comes alive
University of Salford Art Collection
Salford
University art collection with L.S. Lowry works and north-west art, open to the public
University of South Wales Museum
Pontypridd
Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of South Wales
Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology
Reading
Ancient Greek art and archaeology on the University of Reading campus
Vale and Downland Museum
Wantage
Exploring the rich history of Wantage and the Vale of White Horse, from prehistoric times to the present day
Wagoners' Museum
Sledmere
A thousand Yorkshire Wolds waggoners, raised for a war that had not yet started.
Wayland's Smithy
Ashbury
Where Wayland the Smith shod horses by night — a 5,500-year-old Neolithic mystery
Wakefield Museum
Wakefield
Wakefield's Wars of the Roses battlefield, Waterton's nature reserve, and the West Riding heritage
Wales Millennium Centre
Cardiff
Cardiff Bay's landmark performing arts centre, home to free exhibitions and the Bocs immersive art space
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool
One of Europe's finest art galleries showcasing seven centuries of European painting and sculpture
Wall Roman Site (Letocetum)
Lichfield
The remains of a Roman roadside posting station and bathhouse on Watling Street
Walsall Leather Museum
Walsall
Celebrating Walsall's world-famous leather industry with working craftspeople, historic machinery, and exceptional collections
Waltham Abbey Gatehouse and Bridge
Waltham Abbey
Medieval gatehouse and bridge from England's last abbey to be dissolved, marking the burial place of Harold II, last Anglo-Saxon king
Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
London
A Victorian waterworks engine house of 1885, now a volunteer-run industrial and transport museum
Wandle Industrial Museum
Mitcham
The industries and people of the River Wandle, in Mitcham's Victorian Vestry Hall annexe
War Poets Collection
Edinburgh
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Craiglockhart War Hospital, in the building where they met in 1917
Wardlaw Museum
St-andrews
St Andrews' new museum — natural history, world cultures and Scottish heritage
Wardown Park Museum
Luton
Luton and Bedfordshire's history in a beautiful Victorian mansion park setting
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
Warrington
One of the oldest municipal museums in Britain, housing an eclectic Victorian collection in the heart of Warrington
Washington F Pit Museum
Washington
Washington F Pit Museum preserves one of the most complete Victorian colliery arrangements surviving in the North East of England. Situated in the historic…
Waterlines Heritage Centre
Lybster
The story of Lybster, once one of Scotland's greatest herring ports, told beside the harbour that made it
Watford Museum
Watford
Celebrating the art, history, and heritage of Watford and Hertfordshire in a beautiful Victorian mansion
Waverley Abbey
Farnham
England's first Cistercian abbey, founded 1128 — in a beautiful riverside setting near Farnham
Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery
Wednesbury
Ruskin Pottery, Pre-Raphaelites, and the Black Country's decorative arts tradition
Weymouth Museum
Weymouth
Celebrating the rich history of Weymouth and the Dorset coast, from Roman times to the Georgian resort era and beyond
Wellingborough Museum
Wellingborough
Preserving the heritage of Wellingborough and North Northamptonshire in a characterful historic hall at the heart of the town
Wellwood Burns Centre and Museum
Irvine
Irvine Burns Club's museum of Robert Burns's formative months in the town, with original manuscripts and Kilmarnock editions
Welsh Quilt Centre
Lampeter
Jen Jones's collection of historic Welsh quilts, in Lampeter's Town Hall
Wemyss Caves Visitor Centre and Museum
East Wemyss
Scotland's largest collection of Pictish cave carvings, on the Fife coast at East Wemyss
Weobley Castle
Swansea
A medieval fortified manor on the Gower Peninsula — domestic grandeur with views across the Loughor estuary
Weoley Castle
Birmingham
Weoley Castle is a rare surviving example of a 13th-century fortified manor house, offering visitors a fascinating glimpse into medieval life in the West…
West Berkshire Museum
Newbury
The history of West Berkshire — Civil War battleground, cloth trade capital, and canal country
West Highland Museum
Fort William
From Jacobite secrets to Ben Nevis — the story of Scotland's dramatic West Highlands
West Kennet Long Barrow
Avebury
Walk inside a 5,600-year-old Neolithic tomb — Britain's finest chambered long barrow
West Kilbride Museum
West Kilbride
A volunteer-run village museum of Ayrshire whitework, natural history and local memory, above West Kilbride Village Hall
West Midlands Police Museum
Birmingham
The history of policing in Birmingham and the West Midlands, from Victorian foot patrols to the modern force
West Park Museum and Art Gallery
Macclesfield
A century of curiosity in the heart of Macclesfield's park
Westbury Manor Museum
Fareham
Fareham's heritage story told within a beautiful 17th-century manor house and walled garden
Weston Museum
Weston-super-mare
Exploring the history and heritage of Weston-super-Mare and the surrounding Somerset coast
Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum
Bridgwater
An 1861 steam pumping engine still working in the house it was built for
Whalley Abbey Gatehouse
Whalley
A rare surviving gatehouse from one of Lancashire's greatest Cistercian abbeys
Whalsay Heritage and Community Centre
Whalsay
The heritage of Shetland's Bonnie Isle, from haaf fishing to Europe's most modern pelagic fleet
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Cambridge
Historic Scientific Instruments - Tools That Revealed Nature's Secrets
Whitburn Community Museum
Whitburn
Preserving the stories, memories, and heritage of Whitburn and the communities of West Lothian
Whitchurch Heritage Centre
Whitchurch, Shropshire
Roman Mediolanum, three centuries of tower clocks, and the composer of Merrie England
White Castle
Llantilio-crossenny
Magnificent moated medieval fortress of the Three Castles, set in peaceful Monmouthshire countryside
White Ladies Priory
Boscobel
Where Charles II began his escape disguised as a peasant — woodland priory ruins with royal connections
Whitstable Museum and Gallery
Whitstable
Exploring the rich maritime heritage, oyster fishing traditions, and creative spirit of one of Kent's most distinctive coastal towns
Wigtown Museum
Wigtown
The story of the Burgh of Wigtown in its French gothic County Buildings, with Scotland's most complete set of 1707 town weights
Wilberforce House
Hull
Wilberforce House stands as one of Britain's most significant heritage sites, being the birthplace of William Wilberforce, the parliamentarian whose tireless…
Wilderspin National School
Barton upon Humber
Where Victorian Britain learned to teach its smallest children — the living museum of Samuel Wilderspin's revolutionary infant education methods
William Booth Birthplace Museum
Nottingham
The Nottingham birthplace of William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, and the origins of a global movement
William Lamb Sculpture Studio
Montrose
The preserved studio of a sculptor who lost his right hand at the Front and taught himself to work with his left
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum
Birkenhead
World-class Liverpool porcelain, outstanding Victorian paintings, and Merseyside maritime heritage — free admission
Willis Museum
Basingstoke
Basingstoke's civic memory — from George Willis's extraordinary clock collection to the archaeology of north Hampshire and the dramatic story of the town's transformation
Winchester City Museum
Winchester
Three thousand years of Winchester's story told through Roman mosaics, Anglo-Saxon treasures, and the rich heritage of England's ancient capital
Wireless in Wales Museum
Denbigh
The history of radio broadcasting and wireless technology in Wales, at Canolfan Iaith Clwyd, Denbigh
Wisbech & Fenland Museum
Wisbech
The oldest purpose-built museum in England still in its original use, with one of the most extraordinary collections in the country — including the original manuscript of Great Expectations
Wye Heritage Centre
Ashford
Monthly changing displays on a Kent village and its agricultural college, in a Latin School of about 1445
Woburn Heritage Centre
Woburn
A Bedfordshire town's own history, kept in its redundant medieval church
Wollaton Hall Natural History Museum
Nottingham
Wollaton Hall presents one of Britain's most spectacular museum settings—a magnificent Elizabethan mansion set within 500 acres of parkland, housing…
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton
Home to one of the UK's finest Pop Art collections, alongside Victorian masterworks and cutting-edge contemporary art in the heart of the West Midlands
Woodchurch Village Life Museum
Woodchurch
A volunteer-run museum of village life in Woodchurch, Kent, on the edge of Romney Marsh
Woodhorn Museum
Ashington
The colliery that became a cultural landmark — art, industry and community in Northumberland
Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery
Worcester
Worcester's principal museum, offering a remarkable encyclopaedic collection in a magnificent Victorian building on Foregate Street
Worcestershire Masonic Library and Museum
Worcester
Preserving over two centuries of Masonic heritage and lodge history in Worcestershire
Working Class Movement Library
Salford
Two hundred years of trade union, Chartist and radical history, collected by Ruth and Eddie Frow
Worsbrough Mill Museum
Barnsley
A 17th-century corn mill still grinding flour — industrial heritage alive in Yorkshire
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery
Worthing
One of the largest free museums in the south east of England, with an exceptional costume collection, fine art, and Sussex archaeology
Wotton Heritage Centre
Wotton-under-Edge
A Cotswolds wool town's history and archive, in a converted fire station
Wrexham County Borough Museum
Wrexham
Discover the rich story of Wrexham and north-east Wales, from medieval ironworking to football glory
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