Museums

Museums of local history, art, science, transport and industry.

Museums by town

City of Westminster 40 Manchester 28 Edinburgh 26 Brighton and Hove 23 Cardiff 22 Birmingham 21 Leeds 21 Nottingham 20 Sheffield 20 Bristol 18 Glasgow 18 Liverpool 16 Belfast 16 Brompton 14 Cambridge 13 Oxford 13 Derby 11 Holborn 11 Coventry 10 Leicester 10 Norwich 10 Bloomsbury 10 Southampton 9 Bath 8 City of London 8 Newcastle upon Tyne 8 York 7 Lambeth 7 Strand on the Green 7 Gloucester 6 Plymouth 6 Northampton 6 Watford 6 Portsmouth 5 Sunderland 5 Derry 5 Barnstaple 5 Birkenhead 5 Halifax 5 Poole 5 Stanley 5 Swindon 5 Telford 5 Woodstock 5 Fort William 5 North Southwark 5 St Pancras 5 Durham 4 Hereford 4 Kingston upon Hull 4 Salisbury 4 Worcester 4 Perth 4 Castle Cary 4 Margate 4 St Helens 4 Wellingborough 4 Oban 4 The Borough 4 Wapping 4

Museums across the UK

Restored K6 phone booth

Museum St Pancras

This box is a non functioning red phone box now run by a charity. and restored to how it would look in the 1940s

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Royal College of Music Museum

Museum City of Westminster

The Royal College of Music Museum contains over 15,000 musical treasures, including the earliest known guitar and most recognised portrait of Joseph Haydn.

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Wartime Shelters

Museum Cardiff

Few people realise that within the walls of the Castle are tunnels – tunnels which came into their own as air-raid shelters during the Second World War.

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