Alphabetical List of Museums | Location | Collections |
Anne Hathaway's Cottage | Stratford | Tudor architecture, period furnishings |
Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | art and archaeology |
Bath Abbey | Bath | medieval architecture |
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution | Bath | natural history |
The British Library | London | books |
The British Museum | London | world cultures from antiquity to present
search by culture search Compass (online image collection) |
Fan Museum | London | fans
collection |
Fitzwilliam Museum | Cambridge | fine arts and antiquities
collections |
Fox Talbot Museum of Photography | Wiltshire | chemistry of photography |
Globe Theatre | London | reconstructed Elizabethan theatre |
Hampton Court Palace | London | 16th - 17th c architecture, period furnishings
art collection |
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology | Cambridge | collections |
Museum of Classical Archaeology | Cambridge | casts of Greek & Roman statues |
Museum of Costume | Bath | costumes and textiles |
Museum of Costumes & Textiles | Nottingham | Costume displays from 1790 to mid- 20th century in period rooms. |
Museum of the History of Science | Oxford | scientific instruments
Virtual Oxford Science Walk |
National Gallery | London | European Painting
collection searches |
National Maritime Museum | London | naval equipment, uniforms, paintings
galleries search online exhibits |
National Portrait Gallery | London | images of famous Britons
use search engine or view exhibition list by room |
The Natural History Museum | London | biology and geology
virtual gallery collections |
Oxford U Museum of Natural History | Oxford | biology, geology |
Roman Baths | Bath | best preserved Roman Baths |
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | London | botanical specimens, greenhouses
collections index |
The Royal Institution of Great Britain | London | Faraday Museum |
Royal Observatory Greenwich | London | astronomical equipment
events and exhibitions |
St Paul's Cathedral | London | Baroque architecture
Wren's dome history and architecture of the Cathedral |
Salisbury Cathedral | Wiltshire | gothic cathedral |
The Science Museum | London | scientific instruments and artifacts
virtual tour |
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences | Cambridge | geology |
Shakespeare's Birthplace | Stratford | Tudor architecture, period furnishings |
Sherlock Holmes Museum | London | recreation of rooms kept by Holmes |
Stonehenge
several views |
Wiltshire | ruins of a pre-historic calendar |
Tate Gallery / Britain | London | works by British artists 1500-present
Tate Collections index |
Theatre Museum | London | costumes, designs, playbills
exhibitions |
Tower of London | London | medieval architecture
arms and armor; crown jewels things to see armories collection |
Victoria & Albert | London | applied and decorative arts
explore the museum |
Warwick Castle | near Stratford | medieval castle |
Wedgwood | Staffordshire | china manufacturing |
Whipple Museum for History of Science | Cambridge | scientific instruments
exhibitions collections |
William Herschel Museum | Bath | astronomy
period furnishings |
tourist information | chemistry of materials |
history of science | |
museums and field trip sites | science in art and literature |
Last updated: July 2, 2002