Museums in Britain - An A-Z

A-Z Listing of Museums in Britain

British Museum, London.
British Museum, London

See a listing of museums and art galleries in Britain. Some of Britain's museums and galleries may have free admission but most charge an entrance fee.

Britain's museums range from such world famous institutions such as the British Museum, the Tate Modern, the Natural History Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Science Museum, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Kelvingrove in Glasgow to less well-known provincial museums covering an amazing array of subjects.

These include advertising, beer, brands, cartoons, dog collars, Dr. Johnson, football, gnomes, hats, Jane Austen, jute, lawn mowers, locks, marbles, medicine, mental health, mustard, prams, Shakespeare, silk, teddy bears, The Beatles, The Blitz, teapots, trams, witchcraft, Wordsworth, World War II and much more.

Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, Scotland

Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, Cornwall.
Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, Cornwall

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A = Abbey Mill

American Museum in Bath

Anne Hathaway's Cottage

Anson Engine Museum

Ashmolean Museum

Assembly Rooms Bath

Avebury Henge

Aviation Museums

Avro Heritage Museum

B = Barbara Hepworth Museum

Barrington Court

Bath Abbey

Bath Museums

Bignor Roman Villa

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Bishop's Palace Wells

Black Watch Castle & Museum

Blenheim Palace

Bramall Hall

British Library (London)

British Museum (London)

Broughty Castle Museum (Dundee, Scotland)

Buckingham Palace

Buxton Museum & Art Gallery

Duxford, Cambridge, England, UK.
IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England

C = Cadbury World

Caenarfon Castle

Caerleon Amphitheatre

Caerleon Fortress Baths

Caerphilly Castle

Calderdale Industrial Museum

Cambridge Museums

Canterbury Heritage Museum

Canterbury Tales

Cardiff Castle

Cardiff Museums

Carfax Tower

Castle Apartments at Cardiff Castle

Castle Drogo

Cavern Quarter Liverpool

Chadkirk Chapel

Chastleton House

Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House Chapel

Chedworth Roman Villa

Chester Museums

Coleridge Cottage

Conwy Castle

Corinium Museum

Corsham Court

Coventry Transport Museum

Crich Tramway Village

Cutty Sark Greenwich

Dartmoor Prison Museum, Dartmoor, Devon.
Dartmoor Prison Museum, Devon

D = Dartington Hall

Dartmoor Prison Museum

Derby Museum & Art Gallery

Deva Roman Experience

Doctor Johnson's House

Dorset County Museum

Dove Cottage

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA)

Dundee Museums

Dunster Castle

Dyrham Park

E = Edinburgh Castle

Etihad Stadium (Manchester)

Eureka! The National Children's Museum

Eyam Hall

F = Fair Maid's House Perth

Falmouth Art Gallery

Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Fenton House & Garden

Firstsite Colchester

Fishbourne Roman Palace

Fitzwilliam Museum

Freemasons Hall London

Galleries at Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art.
One of the spacious galleries at Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art

G = Glasgow Museums

Glasgow City Chambers

Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)

Glasgow Science Centre

Glenfinnan Monument

Golden Hinde

Great Chalfield

Greater Manchester Police Museum

Grosmont Castle

Gunnersbury Museum

Gwalia Stores

Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Sculptures by Barbara Hepworth on display at the Hepworth Wakefield

H = Hardy's Cottage

Hat Works Museum (Stockport)

Hepworth Wakefield

Hidcote Manor Garden

HMS Belfast (River Thames)

HMS Victory (National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth)

HMS Warrior (National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth)

Holbourne Museum of Art

Hollytrees Museum

House of Marbles

IWM Duxford.
The IWM Duxford has a collection of aircraft on display from biplanes to jets

I = IWM London

Imperial War Museum North (Manchester)

International Slavery Museum (Liverpool)

IWM Duxford

J = Jane Austen Centre

John Wesley's Chapel Bristol

K = Kelham Island Museum

Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum (Glasgow)

Kensington Palace

Kenwood House

Killerton

Kingsbridge Cathedral

The British Library, King's Cross, London.
The British Library, King's Cross, London

L = Lacock Abbey

Lawnmower Museum (Southport)

Leicester Guildhall

Leeds Museums

Leighton House

Lendal & Barker Towers York

Libraries in Britain

Liverpool Beatles Museum

Liverpool Museums

The Lightbox

London Art Galleries

London Museums

Lodge Park

Lyme Hall

Lyme Regis Aquarium

Lytes Cary Manor

Royal Armouries, Leeds, England, UK
Royal Armouries, Leeds, England

M = The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum

Macclesfield Silk Museum

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester Jewish Museum

Manchester Museum

Manchester Town Hall

Manor Gardens at Avebury

Marble Museum

Max Gate

Mayor's Parlour Bath

Midlands Museums

Millennium Gallery Sheffield

Mompesson House

Monmouth Museum

Montacute House

Museums in Manchester

Museum of East Asian Art Bath

Museum of Liverpool

Museum of London

Museum of London Docklands

Museum of Making Derby

Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI)

Museum of Transport Greater Manchester

Museum of Welsh Life

National Gallery, London.
National Gallery and the fountains of Trafalgar Square, London

N = National Emergency Services Museum

National Football Museum (Manchester)

National Gallery

National Museum Cardiff

National Portrait Gallery

National Railway Museum

Natural History Museum

Newark Park

Newcastle Museums

Newport Street Gallery

O = Oakdale Workman's Institute

Old Sarum

Old Trafford Manchester United Museum

Ordsall Hall

Osterley Park & Manor

Gone With The Wind, 1980s poster.
Gone With The Wind, 1980's poster featuring US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

P = Pencil Museum

People's History Museum

Perth Art Gallery

Perth Museum

Peveril Castle

Pickford's House

Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

Plas Newydd House & Gardens

Pram Museum

Prior Park

Powderham Castle

Part of the display of animal skeletons at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Part of the display of animal skeletons at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Q = Quarry Bank Mill

R = R&A World Golf Museum

Radcliffe Camera

Radstock Museum

Raglan Castle

Robinson's Brewery (Stockport)

Rochdale Pioneers Museum

Roman Ampitheatre at Cirencester

Roman Barracks Caerleon

Roman Baths Bath

Roman Legionary Museum Caerleon

Roman Museum Canterbury

Royal Academy of Arts

Royal Armouries Museum Leeds

S = Saatchi Gallery

Sally Lunn's

Saltaire Mill

Science Museum London

Scottish National Gallery

Serpentine Gallery

Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Sham Castle

Sheffield Museums

Sir John Soane's Museum

Skenfrith Castle

Snowshill Manor

Somerset Rural Life Museum

SS Great Britain

Staircase House (Stockport)

St Andrews Museum

St Andrews Museums

Steam Museum of the Great Western Railway

Stembridge Tower Mill

Stockport Air Raid Shelters

Stockport Museums

Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery

Stoke sub-Hamdon Prior

Stourhead

St. Paul's Cathedral

Tate Liverpool at Albert Dock in Liverpool is a major museum for modern and contemporary art.
Tate Liverpool at Albert Dock in Liverpool is a major museum for modern and contemporary art

T = Tate Britain

Tate Liverpool

Tate Modern

Tate St Ives Cornwall

The Beatles Story (Liverpool)

The Cartoon Museum

The Lowry (Manchester)

Thomas Oken's House

Tintern Abbey

Tolldy Tollhouse

Tower of London

Treasurer's House (Martock)

Tyntesfield

U = Undercroft Museum

University Church of St. Mary the Virgin Oxford

V = Vernon Park Museum (Greater Manchester)

Victoria & Albert Museum

V&A Dundee

Verdant Works

Victoria Art Gallery Bath

W = Wadworth Brewery Devizes

Wallace Collection

Wardlaw Museum St Andrews

Warwick Castle

Whipple Museum

White Castle

Whitworth Art Gallery

William Herschel Museum

Wiltshire Heritage Museum

Woodbank Hall (Greater Manchester)

Woodchester Park

X =

Y = York Art Gallery

York Museums

Yorkshire Museum

Yorkshire Museum Gardens

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Z =

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England

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