Museums in the East Midlands
152 museums
Abbey Pumping Station
Leicester
Where Victorian steam power meets quirky science - and Leicester's famous toilet museum!
Alford Manor House
Alford
A rare thatched Tudor manor house — and the Lincolnshire town that helped found America
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
Bakewell Old House Museum
Bakewell
Five centuries of Peak District life in a Tudor house dating from 1534
Barrow Hill Roundhouse
Barrow Hill
Britain's last Victorian roundhouse — 150 years of steam in an intact Midland Railway engine shed
Bassetlaw Museum
Retford
Nottinghamshire life from prehistory to the present — Retford's treasured local museum
Belper North Mill
Belper
Birthplace of the factory system — a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Derwent Valley
Belton House
Belton
One of England's finest late 17th-century country houses — baroque perfection in Lincolnshire
Belvoir Castle
Grantham
Seat of the Duke of Rutland — a magnificent Gothic Revival castle with art, armour, and gardens
Bilsthorpe Heritage Museum
Bilsthorpe
From hamlet to colliery village: Nottinghamshire coal, community, and Sherwood Forest heritage
Bolsover Castle
Bolsover
A fantastical 17th-century pleasure castle built for entertainment and display
Boston Guildhall Museum
Boston
Where the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned before founding America — since 1450
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre
Market bosworth
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre occupies the site of one of the most decisive battles in English history — the Battle of Bosworth Field, fought on 22…
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…
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Buxton
Geology, Archaeology, and Art in the Heart of the Peak District
Calke Abbey
Ticknall
The un-restored house — a hauntingly beautiful time capsule frozen in the late 19th century
Canalside Heritage Centre
Beeston
Restored 1796 lock cottages where the Beeston Cut leaves the Trent
Canons Ashby House
Daventry
An Elizabethan manor house with medieval priory church in peaceful Northamptonshire
Castle Donington Museum
Castle Donington
Medieval mills, motor racing history, and village life beside the Trent
Charnwood Museum
Loughborough
Discover the stories of Charnwood — from ancient forest to modern town
Chatsworth House
Bakewell
One of England's greatest stately homes, home to the Dukes of Devonshire for 500 years
Chesterfield Museum & Art Gallery
Chesterfield
Eight Centuries of Market Town Heritage — From Crooked Spire to Coalfield
City of Caves
Nottingham
City of Caves offers a unique journey into Nottingham's hidden underground world—an extensive network of sandstone caves carved beneath the city center over…
Corby Heritage Centre
Corby
'Little Scotland' — steelworkers, migration, and the reinvention of a Northamptonshire town
Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum
Sleaford
Celebrating a Century of Military Aviation at RAF Cranwell
Creswell Crags Museum and Visitor Centre
Worksop
Britain's only Ice Age cave art, hidden in a spectacular limestone gorge on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border
D H Lawrence Birthplace Museum
Eastwood
The mining cottage where one of literature's most controversial and visionary novelists began
Daventry Museum
Daventry
From Iron Age hillfort to BBC Empire Service — 2,500 years of Daventry history
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
Doddington Hall and Gardens
Doddington
Smythson's Elizabethan Masterpiece — Unchanged for Four Hundred Years
Dogdyke Steam Drainage Station
Tattershall
An 1856 beam engine and scoop wheel, still in steam and still draining the fen where it was built
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
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
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
Flintham Museum
Flintham
A Victorian village shop frozen in time — the daily life of a Nottinghamshire community
Framework Knitters Museum
Nottingham
A rare surviving yard of Georgian knitters' cottages and workshops preserving the story of the East Midlands hosiery trade
Gainsborough Old Hall
Gainsborough
One of England's finest medieval manor houses — where the Pilgrim Fathers' story began
Galleries of Justice Museum
Nottingham
The Galleries of Justice Museum occupies one of Britain's most atmospheric and historically significant buildings—a complex that served as Nottinghamshire's…
Grantham Museum
Grantham
Birthplace of a Prime Minister, schoolroom of a scientist — Grantham's extraordinary story
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…
Harborough Museum
Market harborough
The story of south Leicestershire — from Naseby to the present day
Hardwick Old Hall
Chesterfield
The Elizabethan ruin that Bess of Hardwick built before she built the mansion next door
Hinckley and District Museum
Hinckley
Thatched cottages, stocking frames, and the industry that made Hinckley
Hough Mill
Coalville
A restored tower windmill above the birthplace of Stephenson's Leicester and Swannington Railway
International Bomber Command Centre
Lincoln
Remembering the 57,861 - Honouring Bomber Command's Ultimate Sacrifice
Jewry Wall Museum
Leicester
Roman Leicester revealed - standing beside Britain's most spectacular Roman wall
Kedleston Hall
Quarndon
One of Britain's finest neoclassical houses — Robert Adam's Derbyshire masterpiece
Kegworth Heritage Centre
Kegworth
Framework knitting, a Roman curse tablet and a village at the meeting of three counties
Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth
One of the greatest castle ruins in England — stage to a thousand years of royal history
King Richard III Visitor Centre
Leicester
Discover the king beneath the car park - England's most remarkable archaeological story
Kirby Hall
Corby
A magnificent Renaissance ruin with restored seventeenth-century gardens in rural Northamptonshire
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
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
East Kirkby
Where Lancaster bomber 'Just Jane' keeps the memory of Bomber Command alive
Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway
Ingoldmells
The world's first bare-land volunteer railway, home to the only surviving WW1 trench ambulance van
Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum
North Hykeham
Lincolnshire's bus heritage — decades of preserved vehicles from the county's great transport companies
Lyveden New Bield
Oundle
England's most mysterious Elizabethan building — an unfinished Catholic garden lodge with moated grounds
Lutterworth and District Museum
Lutterworth
Where Wycliffe translated the Bible and Whittle built the jet engine
Mattersey Priory
Mattersey
The only surviving remains of a Gilbertine priory — England's unique indigenous monastic order
Melton Carnegie Museum
Melton mowbray
Pork pies, Stilton, and the hunt — the story of the Rural Capital of Food
Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre
Metheringham
Guy Gibson's squadron and the Lancaster crews of Bomber County
Middleton Top Engine House
Middleton by Wirksworth
The last surviving complete winding-engine house of the pioneering Cromford & High Peak Railway
Midland Railway - Butterley
Ripley
Celebrating the Midland Railway in the heart of Derbyshire coal country
Moira Furnace Museum and Country Park
Swadlincote
An 1804 blast furnace that failed early and survived intact, on the Ashby Canal
Mrs Smith's Cottage Museum
Navenby
An unaltered early-twentieth-century Lincolnshire cottage, home of Hilda Smith
Museum of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
Leicester
The Tigers — 276 years of Leicester's regiment
Museum of Timekeeping
Newark
The British Horological Institute's collection of clocks, watches and tools at Regency Upton Hall
National Justice Museum
Nottingham
Crime, punishment, and justice — from the genuine cells and courts of Georgian England
National Space Centre
Leicester
The National Space Centre stands as the UK's largest dedicated space attraction, offering an awe-inspiring journey through space exploration, astronomy, and…
National Trust Museum of Childhood
Ashbourne
Exploring 300 years of childhood in the servants' wing of a baroque mansion
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
Newstead Abbey
Nottingham
Byron's ancestral home — medieval ruins, Romantic poetry, and spectacular gardens
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Nottingham
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery occupies one of England's most historically significant sites, crowning a sandstone outcrop that has been fortified…
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…
Nottingham Industrial Museum
Nottingham
Nottingham Industrial Museum preserves and celebrates the city's rich industrial heritage, housed in historic buildings at Wollaton Park adjacent to Wollaton…
Oakham Castle
Oakham
Norman splendour and five centuries of royal horseshoes in England's smallest county
Papplewick Pumping Station
Papplewick
The most ornate Victorian pumping station in Britain — a cathedral of steam and civic pride
Peveril Castle
Castleton
A royal Norman fortress perched dramatically above Hope Valley in the Peak District
Piddington Roman Villa Museum
Piddington
Forty years of excavation at one Roman villa, displayed by the society that dug it
Pleasley Pit
Pleasley
Two headstocks, a working winding engine and a country park on a Derbyshire colliery site
Poole's Cavern
Buxton
A limestone show cave of orange-stained formations and Roman finds, beneath Buxton Country Park
RAF Ingham Heritage Centre
Lincoln
A volunteer-run Lincolnshire heritage centre preserving the story of RAF Ingham and its Polish Bomber Command squadrons
Revolution House
Chesterfield
Where the Glorious Revolution of 1688 was planned — the alehouse that changed Britain
Rocks by Rail: The Living Ironstone Museum
Cottesmore
A working ironstone quarry railway heritage site near Oakham, with preserved locomotives and scheduled train rides
Royal Lancers Museum
Derby
The Charge of the Light Brigade and three centuries of British light cavalry
Rushden Historical Transport Society Museum
Rushden
A rescued Victorian station and a century of transport heritage in Northamptonshire
Rushton Triangular Lodge
Kettering
Sir Thomas Tresham's extraordinary stone testament to his outlawed Catholic faith
Sibsey Trader Windmill
Sibsey
England's finest six-sailed tower windmill — built 1877, fully restored, working on selected days
Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation
Paulerspury
The life and engineering of Sir Henry Royce, with the definitive Rolls-Royce and Bentley chassis archive
Sir John Moore Heritage Centre
Swadlincote
Three centuries of charity school education in a beautiful 17th-century building
Stoneywell
Ulverscroft
Ernest Gimson's Arts and Crafts masterpiece — a cottage grown from the Charnwood Forest rock
Sulgrave Manor
Sulgrave
The ancestral home of George Washington's family — a Tudor manor linking Northamptonshire to the White House
Sutton Scarsdale Hall
Chesterfield
A haunting Baroque shell — one of Derbyshire's most evocative ruins
Tattershall Castle
Tattershall
A medieval masterpiece of brick — one of England's greatest castle towers
The Boilerhouse
Market Harborough
The rise and fall of an engineering marvel on Britain's most spectacular canal staircase
The Broadcast Engineering Museum
Hemswell Cliff
Cameras, telecine and OB trucks — the machinery behind the picture, still working.
The Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust
Ripley
Keeping the Duchess alive — restored LMS Coronation Class locomotives at Swanwick Junction
The Queens Royal Lancers Regimental Museum
Perlethorpe
Three Centuries of Lancer Cavalry History — From Balaklava to Afghanistan
The Silverstone Museum
Silverstone
British motorsport from a wartime airfield to Formula One, in a hangar beside the Silverstone circuit
University of Nottingham Museum
Nottingham
Free archaeology of the East Midlands, 250,000 years of it, in the parkland of University Park
Wellingborough Museum
Wellingborough
Preserving the heritage of Wellingborough and North Northamptonshire in a characterful historic hall at the heart of the town
William Booth Birthplace Museum
Nottingham
The Nottingham birthplace of William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, and the origins of a global movement
Wirksworth Heritage Centre
Wirksworth
Two Thousand Years of Lead Mining, Free Miners, and a Famous Novelist's Inspiration
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…
Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum
Woodhall Spa
A Lincolnshire spa in the pinewoods, and the Dambusters who came after
Woolsthorpe Manor
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth
Birthplace of Isaac Newton and the apple tree that changed our understanding of the universe
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