Museums

London

London 2012: 50 of the best unusual museums in London
London 2012: 50 of the best unusual museums in London - part two
Museums & Galleries Commission (MGC)
Cornucopia : Discovering UK Collections
Bank of England - Museum & Archive
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood Children's Book Collections
British Museum
How to visit the British Museum
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
COLLAGE: Corporation of London Library and Art Gallery Electronic
Design Museum
Dickens House Museum
Grant Museum of Zoology
Museum of London
Museums in London
London Museums
London museums
London Canal Museum
London Fire Brigade Museum
Museums and Memorials
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Science Museum
The V & A
The Brunel Engine House, Rotherhithe
The Wellington Museum (Aspley House)
Thomas Layton Memorial and Museum Trust
24hourmuseum.org.uk
All Hallows By The Tower Undercroft Museum Effigy of Edward III
Gunnersbury Park Museum
Kew Bridge Steam Museum

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Renaissance machines are reborn - 19/10/99
Museums offered £1 entry fee deal - 04/04/00
Museum to alter £98m portico over 'poor' work - 25/08/00
Caught out by wrong kind of stone - 25/08/00
Museum agrees plan to change portico - 26/08/00
Museum attacked for failing to question cut-price portico - 17/01/01
Museum rescue 'to cost taxpayer £25m' - 18/01/01
'Free entry' to museums - 23/01/01
British Museum chief quits after two years - 08/09/01
Pests acquire an appetite for our national treasures - 28/09/01
Visitors rush to free museums - 07/01/02
£150m plans to improve V&A museum - 19/04/02
Visitors flock to free museums - 01/05/02
Treasures of the Royal Collection - 13/05/02
British Museum 'needs £10m boost' - 27/06/02
British Museum stumbles on lost treasures - 10/07/02
Climbdown on Treasury sale of the family silver - 16/07/02 it will be lent to the V & A instead
Spirit of the British Empire wins through - 28/09/02 the new British Empire and Commonwealth Museum was turned down for lottery funding and public money - for not being left wing!
'No return' for Elgin Marbles - 23/02/03
V&A museum opens five galleries - 26/11/03
Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open - 02/09/08

Oxford

Museums of Oxford
Ashmolean
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
Museum of the History of Science University of Oxford

South East of England

Amberley Museum, West Sussex
Bedford Museum
Bletchley Park Trust
Brooklands Museum, Weybridge
Ramsey Rural Museum, Herts
Butser Ancient Farm, Hants
Chertsey Museum
Cole Museum of Zoology, Reading
Crabble Corn Mill, Dover
Cranbrook and District Museum, Kent
De Havilland Heritage Museum (Mosquito Aircraft Museum), Herts
Dover Museum
Elmbridge Museum, Weybridge
Essex Secret Bunker, Mistley

South West of England

All Hallows Museum, Honiton, Devon
Arts & Crafts Museum, Cheltenham
Barometer World, Merton, Devon
Bath Preservation Trust
Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema & Popular Culture, Exeter
Bristol museums
Bristol Museums Service
Cornwall museums
Geological Museum and Art Gallery, Redruth, Cornwall
Centre for the History of Defence Electronics, Bournemouth
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Connections Discovery Centre, Exeter
Devon museums
Dorset County Museum
Dorset museums
The Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester
Elgar's Birthplace & Museum, Worcs.
Helicopter Museum, Weston
The Keep Military Museum, Dorchester
Museum of Costume, Bath
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Cornwall
Portland Museum
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Russel-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth
Somerset museums
STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon
Trowbridge Museum, Wilts

East Anglia

Bressingham Steam Museum, Norfolk
Bridewell Museum, Norwich
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Cromer Museum
Elizabethan House Museum, Great Yarmouth
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Norwich Castle Museum
Norwich Aviation Museum
Stained Glass Museum, Ely

The Midlands

Birmingham and Midland Museum of Transport
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Birmingham Railway Museum
Black Country Living Museum
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Cadbury World, Bournville, Birmingham
Carpetbagger and Northants Aviation Museums
Claymills Pumping Engines, Burton-on-Trent
Daventry Museum
Derbyshire museums
Etruria Industrial Museum, Staffs
Wolverhampton Arts & Museums

North East of England

Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham
Bede's World, Jarrow
Bradford Museums and Galleries
Captain Cook Memorial Museum Whitby
Eden P.O.W. Camp, North Yorks
Eureka! (The Museum for Children), Halifax
Howarth Parsonage Museum
Military Vehicle Museum future secured - 11/05/12
Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle
Oriental Museum, Durham University
Oriental Museum, Durham
Richard III Museum, York
Whitby Museum
York Castle Museum
Yorkshire Air Museum

North West of England

Brantwood, Cumbria
Boat Museum, Cheshire
Catalyst, the Museum of the Chemical Industry
Cheshire museums
Cumbria museums
Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness
Greater Manchester museums
Hatworks, Stockport
Lancashire museums
Merseyside museums
Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester

Rest of England

British Lawnmower Museum
Cotswolds Motor Museum
Cotswold Woollen Weavers
The Cowper and Newton Museum (they wrote "Amazing Grace")
Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford
Newark Air Museum
Haslemere Educational Museum Surrey
Mersea Island Museum
Kettering Museum
Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth
Places to Visit in Hampshire with D-Day Connections
Royal Marines Museum
Aldershot Military Museum
Mineral Museums
National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland
British Museum: Our Top Ten British Treasures
National Maritime Museum
Milton Keynes Museum with Victorian street
Worcester City Museums
Chertsey Museum
Maidstone Museum
Cavendish Gallery of Print and Typography
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Museum of Flight, East Fortune
Royal Air Force Museum, NW9
Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford, Shropshire
English Heritage
Dartmoor prison turns to captivating tourists - 22/05/09

Wales

Centre for the Visual Arts, Cardiff
Egypt Centre, Swansea

Scotland

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
Bell Pettigrew Museum
The Bennie Museum, Bathgate
Biggar Museum Trust
The B”d of Gremista, Shetland
Croft House Museum, Shetland
Dunaskin Outdoor Museum, Ayrshire
East Lothian Museums Service
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
Elgin Museum, Moray
Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
National Museums of Scotland

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Australia

The Australian Museum - Australia's oldest natural history museum

Canada

Royal British Columbia Museum

USA

California Academy of Sciences Natural History Museum
American Museum of Photography
International Spy Museum 800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
Arkansas Museums Index
The Arkansas Roadside Travelogue
The art of Washington - 03/08/10
Why the Smithsonian almost didn't exist - Nov 29, 2015

France

France: 'Astounding' Louvre branch to open in Lens - 29/11/12

South Africa

Links South African Museums
Military Museums in Pretoria