Museums in South East England
377 museums
Aylesford Priory
Aylesford
Where the Carmelites first settled in England in 1242 — an active friary and pilgrimage centre on the Medway
Alfriston Clergy House
Alfriston
The first property ever bought by the National Trust — a 14th-century Wealden hall house saved for £10
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
Arundel
36 acres of Sussex industrial heritage and working exhibits on the South Downs
Amersham Museum
Amersham
A 15th-century timber-framed house telling Amersham and the Chilterns' story
Appuldurcombe House
Ventnor
The finest Baroque house on the Isle of Wight — an atmospheric 18th-century shell in landscaped grounds
Ash Museum
Ash
A parish transformed by Aldershot Camp, recorded in a former cemetery chapel on the Surrey border
Aston Martin Heritage Trust Museum
Oxford
The official archive and heritage collection of Aston Martin, Britain's celebrated luxury sports car marque
Bayham Abbey
Tunbridge Wells
A Premonstratensian abbey in a romantic river valley, dissolved by Cardinal Wolsey before the Reformation
Banbury Museum
Banbury
North Oxfordshire's history from the nursery rhyme to the Civil War, canals, and plush weaving
Barbican House Museum
Lewes
Sussex's finest archaeological collections in the county town's historic heart
Basildon Park
Reading
An 18th-century Palladian mansion rescued from ruin — National Trust at its finest
Basing House
Basingstoke
Where Cromwell stormed the largest Tudor palace in England — Civil War ruins of extraordinary drama in Hampshire
Bateman's
Etchingham
Rudyard Kipling's beloved Sussex home — where 'If—' was written and time stands still
Battle Abbey and Battlefield
Battle
The site of the Battle of Hastings 1066 — where English history was forever changed
Battle Museum of Local History
Battle
From 1066 to gunpowder mills — the full story of a famous English town
Beecroft Art Gallery
Southend-on-sea
Southend's public art collection — over 2,000 works spanning four centuries
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
Bignor Roman Villa
Pulborough
Home to Britain's finest Roman mosaic floors in an ancient Sussex landscape
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
Blenheim Palace
Woodstock
England's greatest palace — birthplace of Churchill, masterpiece of Vanbrugh
Blue Town Heritage Centre
Sheerness
The blue-grey streets of Sheerness's historic naval dockyard community
Bluebell Railway Museum
Sheffield Park
A railway heritage museum at Sheffield Park, telling the pioneering preservation story of the Bluebell Railway
Boarstall Tower
Aylesbury
A 14th-century moated gatehouse tower standing alone in beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside
Booth Museum of Natural History
Brighton
Victorian natural history museum with exceptional bird and butterfly collections
Bourne Hall Museum
Epsom
From Nonsuch Palace to Epsom salts — discover the surprising stories of Epsom and Ewell
Bramber Castle
Steyning
William de Braose's Norman stronghold above the Adur — free open-access ruins and sweeping Downland views
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Brighton
Eclectic collections of art, fashion, and world cultures in the Pavilion Gardens
Brighton Toy and Model Museum
Brighton
Britain's finest collection of toys and models in Victorian railway arches
British Engineerium
Hove
Historic Victorian pumping station museum celebrating Britain's engineering heritage
Buckingham Old Gaol Museum
Buckingham
Buckingham's local history museum inside a striking 18th-century castellated former county gaol
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
Quainton
A living railway heritage centre preserving the golden age of British steam
Bucks County Museum
Aylesbury
160 years of Buckinghamshire's story — archaeology, lace, natural history, and Roald Dahl
Buscot Park
Faringdon
A neoclassical treasure house with Burne-Jones's Briar Rose series and Old Master paintings
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Bushey
Herkomer's art school, Lucy Kemp-Welch and the artists' colony that made a Hertfordshire village famous
Calshot Castle
Calshot
Henry VIII's Solent fortress: where Tudor artillery met RAF seaplanes and Lawrence of Arabia
Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library
Canterbury
The Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library represents one of the oldest and most significant documentary collections in the entire English-speaking world.…
Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Newport
Royal imprisonment, medieval magnificence, and the island's own story
Charlbury Museum
Charlbury
Cotswold market town history and the story of Charlbury's glove-making trade
Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum
Portsmouth
The room where Dickens was born, and the couch on which he died
Chartwell
Westerham
Winston Churchill's beloved family home for over 40 years, set in the rolling hills of the Kentish Weald
Chastleton House
Moreton-in-marsh
One of England's finest and most complete Jacobean manor houses — four centuries unchanged
Chawton House
Chawton
Jane Austen's brother's Elizabethan manor, now a research library of early women's writing
Chiddingstone Castle
Chiddingstone
Japanese art, Egyptian antiquities and Jacobite relics in a Gothic castle above a Tudor village
Chiltern Open Air Museum
Chalfont-st-giles
Saving the Chilterns' Historic Buildings for Future Generations
Christ Church Picture Gallery
Oxford
Oxford college's outstanding Old Master paintings and drawings, including works by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo
Claydon House
Buckingham
Claydon House in Buckinghamshire is a building of two distinct and extraordinary characters held in singular tension. From the outside, the surviving west wing…
Clandon Park
West Clandon
A Palladian mansion severely damaged by fire in 2015, now the subject of an ambitious long-term restoration and reimagining project
Classic Boat Museum
Cowes
More than ninety classic craft in a working boat shed on the Medina at Cowes
Cliveden
Taplow
Cliveden stands high above the Thames near Taplow in Buckinghamshire, a palatial Italianate mansion in a position of extraordinary natural drama — the terrace…
Cogges Manor Farm Museum
Witney
A living farm where 1,300 years of rural Oxfordshire history comes to life
Colchester Castle Museum
Colchester
Europe's Largest Norman Keep — Built on the Foundations of Roman Britain
Colne Valley Railway
Sible Hedingham
A recreated rural branch line steam railway near Castle Hedingham, evoking the vanished Colne Valley and Halstead Railway of the Essex-Suffolk borders
Combe Mill
Woodstock
A working watermill and beam engine on the Blenheim Palace estate, brought to life on steaming days
Copped Hall
Epping
A fire-gutted 18th-century Essex mansion under long-term restoration by the Copped Hall Trust, with a restored historic walled garden
Cotswold Motoring Museum
Bourton-on-the-Water
A Century of British Motoring Magic in a Cotswold Watermill
Coultershaw Heritage Site and Beam Pump
Petworth
An 1782 water-powered beam pump, still working, on the Rother Navigation below Petworth
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
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
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
Dartford Borough Museum
Dartford
From Spilman's paper mill to the Dartford Crossing — the industrial history of a Kent gateway town
Deal Castle
Deal
Henry VIII's most technically advanced artillery fortress — the rose-shaped Tudor castle of Deal
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
Dinosaur Isle
Sandown
Europe's first purpose-built dinosaur museum — where fossils are still being found today
Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Ditchling
Where art, craft and faith forged an extraordinary village colony
Donnington Castle
Newbury
A spectacular medieval gatehouse that withstood a two-year Civil War siege for King Charles I
Dorchester Abbey Museum
Dorchester-on-Thames
A thousand years of faith at the cradle of the English Church
Dover Museum And Bronze Age Boat Gallery
Dover
Discover 3,500 years of history at England's gateway to Europe
East Anglian Railway Museum
Chappel
Victorian railway heritage beneath the soaring arches of Chappel Viaduct
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
Eastchurch Aviation Museum
Eastchurch
Where British aviation began: the pioneer flying grounds of the Isle of Sheppey
Eastney Beam Engine House
Portsmouth
Victorian engineering triumph that saved Portsmouth from disease
Eden Valley Museum
Edenbridge
West Kent social history in a late fifteenth-century Wealden hall house on Edenbridge High Street
Eynsford Castle
Eynsford
A Norman curtain-walled castle in one of Kent's most picturesque riverside villages
Eling Tide Mill Experience
Totton
A working tide mill on Southampton Water, grinding flour by the power of the falling tide
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
Epping Forest District Museum
Waltham abbey
Exploring 6,000 years of human history in the ancient landscape at the edge of Epping Forest
Essex Fire Museum
Grays
A specialist volunteer-run museum in Grays preserving the history of firefighting and the fire service across Essex, distinct from the general-history Thurrock Museum
Explosion! The Museum of Naval Firepower
Gosport
From gunpowder to guided missiles — the story of naval firepower
Faversham Society Museum
Faversham
England's oldest gunpowder town — medieval, maritime, and magnificently preserved
Finchingfield Guildhall
Finchingfield
A rare surviving 15th-century medieval guildhall at the heart of Finchingfield, one of Essex's most picturesque villages
Fishbourne Roman Palace
Chichester
Britain's Largest Roman Palace -- Mosaics, Gardens, and Imperial Splendour
Fordingbridge Museum
Fordingbridge
A New Forest market town's history, and its unexpected connection to painter Augustus John
Fort Amherst
Chatham
Britain's finest Napoleonic fortification — tunnels, ramparts and military history
Fort Brockhurst
Gosport
One of England's finest Victorian polygonal forts, part of Palmerston's landward defences of Portsmouth
Gilbert White & The Oates Collection
Alton
Where pioneering natural history meets heroic polar exploration
Godalming Museum
Godalming
Where the world's first electric light shone — and the Titanic story lives on
Greys Court
Henley-on-Thames
A medieval tower, the Archbishop's Maze, and a donkey wheel house — intimate Tudor history in the Chiltern Hills
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
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
Hatchlands Park
Guildford
Robert Adam's first masterpiece, home to the world's greatest collection of historic keyboard instruments
Havant Museum
Havant
Where Roman remains, medieval glove-makers, and a great tidal harbour define the story of a Hampshire market town
Henfield Museum
Henfield
Free village museum recording the rural life, trades and people of a West Sussex parish
Highclere Castle
Newbury
The real Downton Abbey - a Victorian Gothic masterpiece with an extraordinary Egyptology story
Hinton Ampner
Bramdean
An elegant Georgian-revival house and one of the finest gardens of 20th-century England
HMS Warrior 1860
Portsmouth
The world's first iron-hulled armoured warship — still afloat in Portsmouth
HorsePower: The Museum of The King's Royal Hussars
Winchester
Seven cavalry regiments, from the sabre at Balaclava to the Challenger tank
Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
Horsham
26 rooms of history, art, and discovery in medieval Causeway House
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Hove
Film heritage, toys, art, and local history in an elegant Edwardian villa
Huguenot Museum
Rochester
Britain's only museum of Huguenot history, above the French Hospital almshouses in Rochester
Isle of Wight Aviation Museum
Sandown
The remarkable story of the Isle of Wight's flying boats, hovercraft, and Britten-Norman light aircraft heritage
Isle of Wight Bus and Coach Museum
Ryde
Preserving over a century of island bus and coach history, from vintage charabancs to Southern Vectis heritage vehicles
Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Havenstreet
Victorian and Edwardian carriages behind steam on five and a half miles of the island's original railway
Yarmouth Castle
Yarmouth
Henry VIII's final castle — and the birthplace of angled bastion design in England
Kelmscott Manor
Kelmscott
The beloved Thames-side retreat of William Morris, father of the Arts and Crafts movement
Kent Museum of Freemasonry
Canterbury
Two centuries of Kent Masonic history — regalia, warrants and regional Freemasonry heritage
Layer Marney Tower
Colchester
The tallest Tudor gatehouse in England, an extraordinary early-16th-century architectural fragment of a never-completed great courtier house near Colchester
Lamb House
Rye
Lamb House is a handsome early Georgian townhouse in the centre of Rye, East Sussex, that served as the home of the American novelist Henry James from 1898…
London Bus Museum
Weybridge
The world's finest collection of historic London buses, kept in running order at Brooklands
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
Lullingstone Roman Villa
Eynsford
Exceptional Roman mosaics and the earliest Christian wall paintings in Roman Britain
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
Marlipins Museum
Shoreham-by-Sea
Norman heritage and maritime history in a twelfth-century building on the Sussex coast
Marlow Museum
Marlow
The Thames, the Shelleys and a suspension bridge that became a template for Budapest
Michelham Priory
Hailsham
Eight centuries of history enclosed within England's longest medieval moat
Milestones — Hampshire's Living History Museum
Basingstoke
Full-scale Victorian and 1940s Hampshire streetscapes inside a vast indoor museum — the most immersive living history experience in the south of England
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
Milton Keynes Museum
Milton keynes
Bringing north Buckinghamshire's industrial, agricultural, and social history to life
Milton's Cottage
Chalfont St Giles
The only surviving home of John Milton — where Paradise Lost was completed in plague-year exile
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
Mottisfont Abbey
Mottisfont
Medieval priory, Rex Whistler murals and the National Collection of old roses beside the River Test
Museum of Army Flying
Middle wallop
From balloons to Apaches — the complete story of British Army aviation
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 Island History
Newport
The whole Isle of Wight, from dinosaurs to the present, inside John Nash's Guildhall
Museum of Military Medicine
Aldershot
Healing the wounds of war - military medicine through the ages
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
National Motor Museum Beaulieu
Brockenhurst
World-famous motor museum in a beautiful New Forest estate
National Paralympic Heritage Centre
Aylesbury
Where the Paralympics began, on a hospital lawn in 1948
Natural History Museum at Tring
Tring
One of Britain's finest zoological collections, housed in the remarkable museum built by Walter Rothschild
Netley Abbey
Southampton
A hauntingly beautiful Cistercian ruin steeped in romance and royal history
New Forest Heritage Centre
Lyndhurst
The story of England's ancient royal forest, its Commoners, and its timeless landscape
Nymans
Handcross
One of Britain's great gardens, created around the romantic ruins of a Messel family house
North Leigh Roman Villa
North Leigh
One of Roman Britain's greatest country villas — a magnificent fourth-century mosaic in the Evenlode valley
Nuffield Place
Henley-on-thames
The modest home of the man who put Britain on wheels — and gave his fortune away
Oakhurst Cottage
Hambledon
A rare, unaltered sixteenth-century labourer's cottage near Godalming, preserving the intimate scale of ordinary rural life
Old Police Cells Museum
Brighton
Victorian justice preserved beneath Brighton Town Hall — authentic cells, real graffiti, forgotten stories
Old Soar Manor
Borough Green
A remarkably complete 13th-century solar block — one of the finest survivals of medieval domestic architecture in England
Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum
Oxford
Britain's oldest botanic garden, founded 1621, plus 130 acres of specialist woodland at the Harcourt Arboretum
Oxford Bus Museum
Long Hanborough
An independent, volunteer-run museum preserving the history of bus and coach transport in and around Oxford
Oxford Castle Unlocked
Oxford
A thousand years of Oxford's darkest and most dramatic history unlocked
Petersfield Museum
Petersfield
A Hampshire local history museum housed within Petersfield's former magistrates' court and police station
Petworth House and Park
Petworth
One of England's Greatest Art Collections in a Magnificent Deer Park
Pevensey Castle
Pevensey
Pevensey Castle in East Sussex occupies one of the most historically charged sites in Britain — a Roman fort of the 4th century AD, within whose massive walls…
Pitstone Green Museum
Pitstone
Rural Chilterns life preserved: farmsteads, trades, and engines of the Buckinghamshire Vale
Pitstone Windmill
Pitstone
One of England's oldest surviving post mills, dated to around 1627, near Pitstone, Buckinghamshire
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard stands as the world's greatest concentration of historic warships and maritime heritage, a vast museum complex occupying a working…
Powell-Cotton Museum
Birchington
World-class African and Asian wildlife dioramas and extraordinary ethnographic collections in a historic Kent estate
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment & Queen's Museum
Dover
350 years of courage, service, and regimental tradition
Quebec House
Westerham
Childhood home of General James Wolfe, the hero of the Battle of Quebec whose victory shaped the destiny of Canada
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum
Maidstone
Three centuries of courage: the story of Kent's celebrated regiment
RAF Manston History Museum
Manston
The full story of one of Kent's most historic airfields, from the Great War to the Cold War
Ramsgate Tunnels
Ramsgate
Britain's largest civilian deep-shelter tunnel network, where a Kent town lived underground
Reculver Towers
Herne Bay
Roman Saxon Shore fort and medieval twin towers — a 1,700-year maritime landmark on the Kent coast
Richborough Roman Fort
Sandwich
Where Roman Britain began — Claudius's 43 AD invasion beachhead, triumphal monument, and Saxon Shore fort with walls standing nearly eight metres tall
Rye Castle Museum (Ypres Tower)
Rye
A medieval tower with eight centuries of history and remarkable views over Romney Marsh
Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
Great Missenden
The world and words of the world's best-loved storyteller
Rochester Castle
Rochester
Rochester Castle commands the crossing of the River Medway at one of the most strategically important points in England — the main road from London to the…
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…
Rockbourne Roman Villa
Fordingbridge
Hampshire's largest Roman villa — three centuries of Romano-British life revealed in the New Forest countryside
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 Engineers Museum
Chatham
The Story of Britain's Military Engineers — Building, Fighting, and Innovating Since 1066
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 Navy Submarine Museum
Gosport
Dive into the world of the submarine — from Holland 1 to nuclear hunters
Royal Pavilion
Brighton
George IV's extraordinary seaside palace with Indian exterior and Chinese interiors
Rollright Stones
Chipping Norton
Three monuments, three thousand years — the Cotswolds' most magical prehistoric landscape
Rural Life Centre
Farnham
Step back into the vanishing world of English village life across 10 acres of Surrey countryside
Rustington Museum
Rustington
A West Sussex village from the Stone Age to the seaside boom, with a wartime airfield and a famous composer
Saffron Walden Museum
Saffron walden
One of Britain's oldest purpose-built museums, beside the ruins of a Norman castle
Sandham Memorial Chapel
Burghclere
Stanley Spencer's visionary WWI murals in a chapel lit only by daylight
Sandwich Guildhall Museum
Sandwich
Five centuries of civic life in England's finest medieval Cinque Port
Scotney Castle
Tunbridge wells
A picture-perfect moated castle and Victorian mansion set in one of England's most romantic landscapes
Seaford Museum and Heritage Society
Seaford
Four decades of collecting inside a Napoleonic Martello tower on the Sussex shore
Seaside Museum, Herne Bay
Herne Bay
The rise and fall of a Kent seaside resort, told through its pier, clock tower and promenade
Sevenoaks Museum
Sevenoaks
Discover the history of Sevenoaks and the surrounding Kentish countryside
Shalford Mill
Shalford
An eighteenth-century Surrey watermill saved from demolition by the eccentric 1930s conservationists of Ferguson's Gang
Shaw's Corner
Welwyn
The Arts and Crafts home of Nobel Prize-winning playwright George Bernard Shaw, preserved as he left it
Shipwreck Museum
Hastings
Five centuries of Channel shipwrecks — from Dutch East Indiamen to Tudor warships — recovered and revealed
Shuttleworth Collection
Biggleswade
The world's finest collection of airworthy vintage aircraft still regularly flown
Sime Gallery
Worplesdon
The original grotesque and fantastical art of illustrator Sidney Sime, in a Surrey village hall
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Sissinghurst
The world's most famous garden, created by Vita Sackville-West around a ruined Elizabethan castle in Kent
Smallhythe Place
Tenterden
The enchanting Tudor home of Victorian actress Ellen Terry, set in the idyllic Kent countryside
Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Woodstock
The story of Oxfordshire soldiers from the English Civil War to the present, told through compelling modern interactive displays
South Foreland Lighthouse
Dover
Victorian lighthouse on the White Cliffs — first electric light in the world and Marconi's earliest radio experiments
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
Spitfire and Hurricane Memorial Building
Ramsgate
Honouring the Few — authentic Spitfire and Hurricane at the Battle of Britain's home airfield
St Augustine's Abbey
Canterbury
Where Christianity returned to England — founded by St Augustine in 597 AD
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
Lymington
Salt, sea and art — Lymington's heritage on the edge of the New Forest
Steamship Shieldhall
Southampton
Britain's largest working steamship, still under steam in Southampton's Western Docks
Stevenage Museum
Stevenage
From ancient market town to Britain's first New Town — Stevenage's extraordinary story
Stockwood Discovery Centre
Luton
Horse-drawn carriages, period rooms, and craft treasures in a historic Luton park
Stoneacre
Otham
A beautiful 15th-century Wealden hall-house in the heart of the Kent Weald — one of the finest survivors of its type
Storrington and District Museum
Storrington
The history of Storrington and ten neighbouring Downland parishes, in the old village school
Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome
Purleigh
Europe's most complete First World War aerodrome, still a working grass airfield in the Essex fields
Surrey Heath Museum
Camberley
The story of Camberley and Surrey Heath — heathland, Sandhurst, and a town shaped by the British Army
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
Tangmere Military Aviation Museum
Chichester
Fighter Command's Frontline -- The Story of RAF Tangmere
Temple Manor
Rochester
A rare surviving mid-13th-century Knights Templar hall in Rochester, Kent — one of the few intact Templar buildings remaining in England
Tenterden Museum
Tenterden
Wealden wool town, Cinque Port limb, and the birthplace of a remarkable rural railway
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 Brickworks Museum
Swanwick
The last steam-driven Victorian brickworks in the country, with its 1897 machinery in place
The Cole Museum of Zoology
Reading
One of Britain's most important teaching zoology collections — 4,000 specimens open to all
The Cowper and Newton Museum
Olney
Home of William Cowper, poet of The Task, and John Newton, who wrote Amazing Grace
The Dunsfold Collection
Dunsfold
The world's largest Land Rover collection, at a purpose-built museum in the Surrey countryside
The Guardroom Museum
Winchester
The story of the Adjutant General's Corps and its proud heritage of service, discipline, and military justice
The Gurkha Museum
Winchester
Celebrating over two centuries of extraordinary service: the story of the Gurkha soldier and the enduring bond between Nepal and Britain
The Hockey Museum
Woking
Britain's national museum of field hockey, from Victorian codification to Olympic gold
The Homewood
Esher
Patrick Gwynne's 1938 modernist family home in Esher, Surrey, a landmark of English Modern Movement architecture
The Hovercraft Museum
Lee-on-the-Solent
The world's largest hovercraft collection — Cockerell's invention preserved at the Solent
The Lightbox
Woking
Award-winning gallery and museum beside the Basingstoke Canal, home to the Ingram Collection of modern British art
The National Museum of Computing
Bletchley
The world's only working Colossus rebuild — and the complete history of computing
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 Priest House
East Grinstead
A fifteenth-century Wealden hall house, its herb garden, and the suffragettes' handkerchief
The Rifles Museum
Winchester
Honouring the heritage and sacrifice of The Rifles regiment and its distinguished infantry predecessors
The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum
Winchester
Home to the world-famous Battle of Waterloo diorama and the proud history of the light infantry and rifle regiments from 1741 to the present
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 Story Museum
Oxford
Britain's first museum of story — Oxford's celebration of narrative, imagination and the written word
The Vyne
Basingstoke
The earliest classical portico on an English country house, Tudor chapel glass of supreme quality, and Jane Austen's Hampshire — layered history at its finest
The Witney and District Museum
Witney
Free museum of Witney's three-hundred-year blanket industry and the Windrush valley district
Tilbury Fort
Tilbury
England's finest 17th-century artillery fort — where Elizabeth I rallied her troops against the Armada
Titchfield Abbey
Fareham
Where Shakespeare's patron was born amid the ruins of a Premonstratensian abbey
Tring Local History Museum
Tring
Community local history museum for Tring and the surrounding Hertfordshire area
Tudor House and Garden
Southampton
Five centuries of history in Southampton's finest medieval townhouse
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Tunbridge Wells
From Regency spa to Victorian county town — the history of Royal Tunbridge Wells
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
University of Oxford - Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
Oxford
Where music history comes alive
Upnor Castle
Rochester
The Tudor fort that failed to stop the Dutch Raid on the Medway — 450 years of naval history
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
Verulamium Museum
St albans
Walk in the footsteps of Roman citizens at one of Britain's finest Roman museums
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon
A French Renaissance chateau in England housing one of the world's finest Rothschild collections
Wayland's Smithy
Ashbury
Where Wayland the Smith shod horses by night — a 5,500-year-old Neolithic mystery
Wakehurst
Ardingly
Wakehurst in West Sussex is Kew's wild botanic garden — 535 acres of Elizabethan mansion, extraordinary planted landscape, and one of the most important…
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
Wardown Park Museum
Luton
Luton and Bedfordshire's history in a beautiful Victorian mansion park setting
Watford Museum
Watford
Celebrating the art, history, and heritage of Watford and Hertfordshire in a beautiful Victorian mansion
Watts Gallery – Artists' Village
Guildford
A Victorian genius's gallery and Arts and Crafts village in the Surrey Hills
Waverley Abbey
Farnham
England's first Cistercian abbey, founded 1128 — in a beautiful riverside setting near Farnham
Welwyn Roman Baths
Welwyn
A Roman bath house sealed beneath the motorway — one of Britain's most unusual heritage sites
West Berkshire Museum
Newbury
The history of West Berkshire — Civil War battleground, cloth trade capital, and canal country
Westbury Manor Museum
Fareham
Fareham's heritage story told within a beautiful 17th-century manor house and walled garden
Westgate Museum
Winchester
Stand inside a genuine medieval gateway and discover Winchester's history through a remarkable Tudor ceiling, ancient graffiti, and centuries of civic life
Whitchurch Silk Mill
Whitchurch
The oldest silk mill in England still in its original building — weaving fine silk on Victorian machinery since 1800
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
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 Mill
Winchester
A working Saxon-era watermill on the River Itchen — Domesday origins, 1744 architecture, and flour ground fresh today
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
Wings Museum
Balcombe
A volunteer-run Second World War aviation collection built around recovered wreckage and a walk-through D-Day Dakota
Wye Heritage Centre
Ashford
Monthly changing displays on a Kent village and its agricultural college, in a Latin School of about 1445
Woodchurch Village Life Museum
Woodchurch
A volunteer-run museum of village life in Woodchurch, Kent, on the edge of Romney Marsh
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
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