16th Century Painted Room
Ledbury
Elizabethan wall paintings of the 1560s, rediscovered in 1988 beneath later layers in a house of 1510
Museums in the West Midlands
185 museums
Acton Burnell Castle
Shrewsbury
Fortified episcopal manor where England's first merchant parliament met in 1283
Acton Scott Working Farm Museum
Church-stretton
Victorian Farming Brought to Life in the Shropshire Hills
Aldridge Transport Museum
Walsall
Preserving the buses and transport history of Walsall and the Black Country, from Walsall Corporation to Midland Red
Almonry Museum and Heritage Centre
Evesham
Evesham's monastic almonry building, telling the story of the abbey, the Battle of Evesham and the Vale's market gardening heritage
Attingham Park
Shrewsbury
A magnificent neoclassical mansion by George Steuart and John Nash, set in Humphry Repton's parkland
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
Bewdley Museum
Bewdley
Exploring the trades and traditions of the Wyre Forest in a charming 18th-century almshouse courtyard
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
Birmingham Back to Backs
Birmingham
Step into 130 years of working-class life in Birmingham's last surviving back-to-backs
Black Country Living Museum
Dudley
The open-air museum that brings the Black Country's industrial past to life
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…
Blists Hill Victorian Town
Ironbridge
Step inside a working Victorian town in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site
Brampton Museum
Newcastle-under-lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme — where the Potteries meet a proud market town history
Bredon Barn
Bredon
A fourteenth-century National Trust tithe barn in the shadow of Bredon Hill, restored after a serious fire
British Motor Museum
Gaydon
World's largest collection of historic British cars — from 1896 to the present, 300+ vehicles at Gaydon
Broadway Museum & Art Gallery
Broadway
Fine art from the Ashmolean's founding collections, displayed in a Cotswolds Tudor house
Broseley Pipeworks
Broseley
Britain's last clay tobacco pipe factory — frozen in 1957 exactly as it was left
Buildwas Abbey
Telford
Cistercian purity in the Ironbridge Gorge — the best nave arcade you've probably never seen
Cadbury World
Birmingham
Discover the story of chocolate and Cadbury through interactive experiences and free samples
Cambrian Heritage Railways
Oswestry
A volunteer-run railway preservation project reviving the historic Cambrian Railways works and engine sheds at Oswestry
Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens
Birmingham
A rare surviving formal Baroque garden of the 1680s to 1740s, planted only with pre-1750 varieties
Chasewater Railway Museum
Burntwood
Colliery locomotives and the Cannock Chase coalfield heritage on a lakeside heritage railway
Churchill Forge Mill
Churchill
A volunteer-preserved Worcestershire watermill keeping the county's rural forge and milling heritage alive
Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
Burton upon Trent
Four beam engines of 1885, still in steam, built to pump a brewing town's effluent.
Clun Castle
Clun
Norman Marcher castle in Housman's quietest town — dramatic keep above the River Clun
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
Ironbridge
The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, where Abraham Darby changed the world
Coalport China Museum
Ironbridge
Two centuries of English porcelain in the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site
Compton Verney
Stratford-upon-avon
World-class art collections in a stunning Robert Adam mansion set in Capability Brown parkland in the heart of Warwickshire
Coughton Court
Alcester
Six hundred years of the Throckmortons — the Catholic family at the heart of the Gunpowder Plot
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…
Croft Castle
Leominster
Medieval castle, Georgian Gothic interiors and ancient parkland on the Welsh Marches
Croome Park
Besford
Capability Brown's first complete landscape commission, with a Robert Adam mansion and a Second World War radar research exhibition
Darby Houses
Ironbridge
The Georgian homes of the ironmaster family who started the Industrial Revolution
Droitwich Spa Heritage Centre
Droitwich spa
Two thousand years of salt and spa heritage in the heart of Worcestershire
Dudmaston Hall
Quatt
A late 17th-century Shropshire estate with a surprising collection of modern masters and natural history art
Elgar Birthplace Museum
Lower Broadheath
Where Elgar was born — the Worcestershire cottage that began a musical life
Forge Mill Needle Museum
Redditch
The world's last surviving water-powered needle-scouring mill, alongside the excavated remains of Bordesley Abbey
George Marshall Medical Museum
Worcester
Exploring the history of medicine in Worcestershire, from Tudor apothecaries to modern healthcare, housed within Worcestershire Royal Hospital
Goodrich Castle
Ross-on-Wye
Magnificent concentric medieval fortress above the River Wye — a Romantic landscape masterpiece
Gordon Russell Museum
Broadway
The life and furniture designs of Sir Gordon Russell, a pioneering figure in twentieth-century British good design
Greyfriars House and Garden
Worcester
A rare surviving medieval merchant's house in the heart of Worcester, beautifully preserved with a tranquil walled garden
Hagley Hall
Hagley
A Georgian Palladian masterpiece and the ancestral seat of the Lyttelton family, still a private family home
Hall's Croft
Stratford-upon-avon
The Jacobean Home of Shakespeare's Daughter and Her Physician Husband
Hanbury Hall and Gardens
Droitwich Spa
James Thornhill's spectacular baroque painted ceilings in a perfect William and Mary house
Harvington Hall
Chaddesley Corbett
England's largest collection of priest holes, in a moated Elizabethan manor house associated with Nicholas Owen
Haughmond Abbey
Shrewsbury
Exceptional Romanesque stonework and abbot's lodgings in the Shropshire woodlands
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
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'
Ikon Gallery
Birmingham
Internationally significant contemporary art, free admission, in a Victorian Gothic gem
Jackfield Tile Museum
Ironbridge
Five thousand tiles and a century and a half of decorative ceramic art in the Ironbridge Gorge
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
Kidderminster Railway Museum
Kidderminster
Preserving railway heritage at the heart of the Severn Valley Railway
Kington Museum
Kington
A border market town's history, in the stable block of the old King's Head Inn
Kinver Edge Rock Houses
Kinver
The last inhabited rock houses in England — troglodyte cave dwellings carved into Kinver Edge
Lapworth Museum of Geology
Birmingham
250,000 geological specimens spanning 3 billion years of Earth history
Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum
Leamington Spa
Art, history and heritage in Leamington's historic Royal Pump Rooms
Lilleshall Abbey
Newport
Magnificent Romanesque west front and substantial abbey ruins — one of Shropshire's finest medieval monastic monuments
Little Malvern Court
Little Malvern
A former Benedictine priory and recusant Catholic family home beneath the Malvern Hills
Longtown Castle
Hereford
Early cylindrical keep in the Black Mountains foothills — rare Norman round tower in the Golden Valley
Ludlow Castle
Ludlow
Where English history turned: fortress of the Marcher Lords and the Tudor dynasty
Lunt Roman Fort
Coventry
Britain's only reconstructed Roman cavalry training ground — where Boudicca's legacy shaped the fort
Madresfield Court
Madresfield
A moated house held by the Lygon family for 900 years, widely regarded as a key inspiration for Brideshead Revisited
Malvern Museum
Malvern
Malvern's story told inside the town's surviving 15th-century priory gatehouse
Mappa Mundi and Chained Library
Hereford
The largest surviving medieval world map, and the world's largest chained library
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
Middleport Pottery
Stoke-on-Trent
Britain's last working Victorian pottery, still printing Burleigh ware on the canal at Burslem
Midland Air Museum
Coventry
The birthplace of the jet engine — aviation history at Coventry Airport, from Whittle to the jet age
Military Wireless Museum in the Midlands
Kidderminster
A specialist collection tracing the history of British and Allied military wireless communications
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
Moreton Corbet Castle
Moreton Corbet
Medieval castle meets unfinished Elizabethan prodigy house — a uniquely evocative Shropshire ruin of two frustrated ambitions
Morgan Motor Museum
Malvern Link
The history and living hand-crafted manufacture of Morgan sports cars, at the company's Malvern Link factory
Morville Hall
Morville
A National Trust Elizabethan manor near Bridgnorth, celebrated chiefly for the historically themed Dower House Garden created by Katherine Swift
Moseley Old Hall
Fordhouses
The Elizabethan farmhouse where King Charles II took refuge after the Battle of Worcester in 1651
Much Wenlock Museum
Much wenlock
Where the modern Olympic Games were born — Much Wenlock's extraordinary sporting heritage
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 Cider
Hereford
England's premier cider heritage — from ancient orchards to the world's largest cider maker
Museum of Royal Worcester
Worcester
Three centuries of Royal Worcester porcelain in one extraordinary collection
Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
Birmingham
Step inside an authentic 1980s jewelry workshop frozen in time
Museum of the Post Office in the Community
Ironbridge
The story of the penny post and community communication in the Ironbridge Gorge
Newman Brothers at the Coffin Works
Birmingham
A complete Jewellery Quarter coffin-furniture factory, preserved as its last workers left it
Nuneaton Museum And Art Gallery
Nuneaton
George Eliot Country — Where Literature Meets Local Heritage
Oak House Museum
West Bromwich
A late-Tudor timber-framed yeoman's house at the heart of the Black Country
Old Oswestry Hillfort
Oswestry
One of Britain's finest Iron Age hillforts — spectacular multivallate earthworks with commanding views over the Shropshire-Wales borderland
Pershore Heritage Centre
Pershore
Telling the story of Pershore and the Vale of Evesham, from Anglo-Saxon abbey town to Georgian market centre
RAF Museum Cosford
Cosford
One of Europe's largest aviation collections, home to Britain's three V-bombers together under one roof
Redfern's Cottage: Museum of Uttoxeter Life
Uttoxeter
Samuel Johnson's penance, market town heritage, and racing in eastern Staffordshire
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Birmingham
One of Britain's oldest artists' societies — gallery, member exhibitions, and open competitions in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter since 1814
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire)
Warwick
Preserving 350 years of regimental history
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
Stratford-upon-avon
Four centuries of Shakespeare brought to life
Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
Lichfield
Birthplace of the great English lexicographer and man of letters
Selly Manor
Birmingham
Two medieval timber-framed buildings saved by George Cadbury, restored and furnished in the heart of Bournville village
Shakespeare's Birthplace
Stratford-upon-avon
Where Shakespeare began — the most visited literary birthplace in the world
Shakespeare's New Place
Stratford-upon-avon
The Site of Shakespeare's Own Home, with Nash's House and the Garden of New Place
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury's story from prehistoric times to Charles Darwin, in the heart of a magnificent medieval town
Shropshire Regimental Museum
Shrewsbury
Centuries of military service preserved within Shrewsbury Castle's medieval walls
Soldiers of Shropshire Museum
Shrewsbury
Shropshire's fighting tradition from the English Civil War to the present day
Spode Museum Trust Heritage Centre
Stoke-on-Trent
Spode ceramics and the factory archive, on the Stoke works where bone china was perfected
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 —…
Statfold Barn Railway
Tamworth
World-class narrow gauge steam, recovered from industrial railways across the globe
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
Tenbury Museum
Tenbury Wells
Tenbury Wells' spa-town Victorian heritage and hop-growing agricultural history, told by local volunteers
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Birmingham
World-class art from the 13th to 20th century in an Art Deco jewel
The Commandery
Worcester
The headquarters of King Charles II during the last battle of the English Civil War, a 15th-century building steeped in Royalist history
The Dudson Museum
Hanley
Over two centuries of Dudson Brothers earthenware — one of the Potteries' great family firms
The Infirmary
Worcester
Where the British Medical Association was founded, now an interactive medical history exhibition
The Lace Guild Museum
Stourbridge
The art and craft of lace, past and present, at the home of The Lace Guild
The Marton Museum of Country Bygones
Marton
The hand tools of an English village, kept by the families who used them.
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 New Art Gallery Walsall
Walsall
An award-winning contemporary art gallery in the heart of Walsall, housing the remarkable Garman Ryan Collection
The Nicholson Museum and Art Gallery
Leek
Silk, embroidery, and the Leek dyehouses where William Morris learned his colours.
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 Raven Mason Collection
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Mason's Ironstone and the Staffordshire ceramic tradition — a specialist collection near Keele
Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
Birmingham
Discover 200 years of scientific achievement and explore the science of tomorrow
Tyseley Locomotive Works
Birmingham
A working Birmingham engineering shed where Great Western Railway steam locomotives are restored and maintained for main line running
Transport Museum Wythall
Wythall
Over 90 preserved buses tracing West Midlands transport history, on a former RAF airfield
Tudor House Heritage Centre
Worcester
A 16th-century timber-framed building on Worcester's Friar Street, tracing weavers' cottages to wartime ARP post
Tudor House Museum
Upton-upon-Severn
A genuine sixteenth-century timber-framed building telling the story of riverside Upton-upon-Severn
Upton House And Gardens
Banbury
El Greco, Bruegel, and Stubbs in a 1930s country house with extraordinary terraced gardens
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
Waterworks Museum – Hereford
Hereford
A century and a half of water pumping engines, still working, on the Wye at Hereford
Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery
Wednesbury
Ruskin Pottery, Pre-Raphaelites, and the Black Country's decorative arts tradition
Wenlock Priory
Much wenlock
Cluniac beauty and Olympic beginnings in England's finest small medieval town
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 Midlands Police Museum
Birmingham
The history of policing in Birmingham and the West Midlands, from Victorian foot patrols to the modern force
Weston Park
Shifnal
A magnificent 17th-century stately home by Elizabeth Wilbraham, set in 1,000 acres of Capability Brown parkland with a world-class fine art collection
Whitchurch Heritage Centre
Whitchurch, Shropshire
Roman Mediolanum, three centuries of tower clocks, and the composer of Merrie England
White Ladies Priory
Boscobel
Where Charles II began his escape disguised as a peasant — woodland priory ruins with royal connections
Whitmore Hall
Whitmore
One of England's oldest continuously inhabited family homes, in the same family for centuries
Wightwick Manor and Gardens
Wolverhampton
An outstanding Victorian manor house with magnificent William Morris interiors and one of Britain's finest Pre-Raphaelite art collections
Wilderhope Manor
Wenlock Edge
An Elizabethan manor on Wenlock Edge, uniquely combining National Trust heritage and YHA hostel use
Winterbourne House and Garden
Birmingham
A complete Arts and Crafts house of 1903 with a restored 7-acre Edwardian garden — one of the finest in the Midlands
Witley Court
Great Witley
A spectacular fire-ruined Victorian palace with restored Nesfield parterres and the giant Perseus and Andromeda fountain
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
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
Wroxeter Roman City
Shrewsbury
Rome's fourth city in Britain — still buried beneath Shropshire fields
Wroxeter Roman Site and Museum
Wroxeter
Walk through the ruins of Viroconium — the fourth-largest city of Roman Britain, home to the magnificent Old Work
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