Museums and Field Trip Sites in Great Britain

Information about 2500+ museums and galleries in the United Kingdom is available at 24 Hour Museum:  the National Virtual Museum
 
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

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Last updated: July 2, 2002