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South & South East England > Places to Visit > Museums
Museums
Mountfitchet Castle and Norman Village of 1066
A Norman Mott & Bailey Castle & Village of 1066, reconstructed on it's original site. The only one of its kind. The toy museum is a nostalgic experience, dipicting toys from the mid victorian up to the late 70's.
Museum of Canterbury
The award-winning museum is housed in the beautiful medieval Poor Priests' Hospital (once an almshouse for poor or elderly priests) built in 1373. The building was restored in the 1980s and officially opened as a museum by The Queen.
Museum of Kent Life - Cobtree
As you stand beside the Oast house in the middle of our site, it's hard to believe that Maidstone town centre is only a few minutes away. A visit here is an opportunity to leave the modern world behind and experience the sights, sounds and smells of country life in Kent over the last 300 years.
Museum of St Albans
The collections and services of St Albans museums including the Roman Verulamium museum, 3rd largest city in Roman Britain and Museum of St Albans with new exhibitions every few months.
Museum Of The Royal Dockyard
The Society was founded in 1980 by a group of Dockyard men dedicated to perpetuating the history and work of Chatham Dockyard.
Occupation Museum
The museum gives a picture of life in Guernsey during the German Occupation, 1940-1945.
Pallot Steam Museum
An absorbing evocation of times past. There is something to excite the interest of everyone in this fascinating collection of steam, farm and other machinery.
Powell-Cotton Museum
The Park, gardens and woodlands provide an attractive and tranquil backdrop to Quex House, one of Kent's finest Regency houses, and the Powell-Cotton Museum a vast collection of treasures gathered on twenty-eight expeditions to Africa and Asia.
Priest's House Museum
The Priest's House is an historic town house dating from the 16th century. This Grade II listed building retains many original architectural features.
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Home of the award winning Stonehenge Gallery, fascinating displays of history of Salisbury, costume, ceramics, pictures and changing temporary exhibitions.
Seaford Museum
Local history museum with many unusual displays of domestic and office equipment and tableaux of 19th & 20th century. The museum is in the Seaford Martello Tower on the seafront.
St Barbe Museum Art Gallery
St. Barbe Museum offers colourful, interactive, displays on the history and culture of Lymington and the New Forest. Two art galleries provide a changing programme of high quality exhibitions.
St Margaret's Museum
The Museum has a wealth of local and maritime interest and an exhibition of Noel Coward who was once a celebrated resident of St. Margaret's in the early 1950's.
Stapehill Abbey
For nearly 200 years, Stapehill Abbey was a place of quiet retreat and meditation locked away from the outside world, Home to a Silent Order of Nuns. It is now a museum, farm, gardens and craft centre.
Steyning Museum
The museum draws together a wealth of objects which recall days long gone and others which seem like only yesterday.
Tudor House Museum
Everyone's favourite museum, this beautiful house was built for John Dawtrey and his wife Jane in 1495.
Ventnor Heritage Museum
The museum holds an annual exhibition every year. Apart from the exhibition hall, we also have an extensive archive section with many hundreds of items referring to Ventnor and the surrounding area.
Verulamium Museum
The collections and services of St Albans museums including the Roman Verulamium museum, 3rd largest city in Roman Britain and Museum of St Albans with new exhibitions every few months.
West Gate Towers
One of England's finest mediaeval fortified gatehouses, with arms and armour displays, prison cells and panoramic views from the battlements.
Whitstable Museum & Art Gallery
Whitstable's unique coastal community andseafaring traditions are the main themes of the town's lively museum; with special features on oysters, diving and shipping. The museum hosts regular exhibitions.
Willis Museum
Travel back in time, and experience some of the major changes that have created the Basingstoke that we know today.
Aldershot Military Museum
Aldershot Military Museum, the history of the home of the British Army and the birthplace of British aviation.
Battle of Flowers Museum
Why not come on safari with us at the Battle of Flowers Museum. See a wonderland of animals, meet the zebras, lions, the 101 Dalmatians and lots of other interesting animals. All of the exhibits are made from Harestails and Marram Grass.
Bear Museum (Petersfield)
Homepage of the world's first Bear Museum, in Petersfield, Hampshire, UK. Museum guide, identifying your bear, history of teddy bears, online store selling Steiff, Kosen, Deans, Merrythought and other bears.
Beaulieu
Beaulieu, including Palace House, Beaulieu Abbey, the National Motor Museum and Buckler's Hard, offers the best day out in England!
Bekonscot Model Village
Bekonscot.com is the ultimate Model Website. Bekonscot Model Village is the oldest model village in the world; and is located in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in England. It's a wonderland in miniature for children and adults alike.
Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum
See the fascinating collection of over 1000 swans, geese and ducks from all over the world, along with a superb collection of gleaming Veteran, Edwardian and Vintage Cars and Motorcycles. Visit Bentley House, a Palladian-style mansion restored by Raymond Erith.
Bexhill Museum
From the Giant Crab of Japan to tiny Goldcrests; from Egyptology to ethnography, Bexhill Museum's displays have a variety and scope to interest everybody.
Booth Museum of Natural History
The Booth Museum is the creation of the Victorian ornithologist Edward Booth. It was built in 1874 to house his collection of stuffed British birds.
Breamore House Museum
The magnificent Manor House is set above the picturesque village of Breamore, overlooking the avon Valley on the edge of the New Forest just north of Fordingbridge.
Brenzett Aeronautical Museum
Brenzett Aeronautical Museum on Romney Marsh is a unique collection of wartime equipment, remains recovered from aircraft crash sites and memorabilia collected and donated to the museum since it's opening in 1972.
Canterbury Roman Museum
The Roman Museum is underground at the level of the Roman town. It's an exciting mix of excavated real objects: authentic reconstructions; and preserved remains of a Roman town house with its famous mosaics.
Canterbury Royal Museum & Art Gallery
A splendid Victorian building houses decorative arts and picture collections - including a gallery for T.S. Cooper, England's finest cattle painter.
Castle Cornet
Castle Cornet is Guernsey's ancient harbour fortress, which was isolated upon a rocky islet, until the construction of a breakwater and bridge in the 19th century. The castle contains a number of museums.
Chichester District Museum
Chichester District Museum, housed in an eighteenth century corn store, explores the history of Chichester and District. Come and find out about Boxgrove Man, as well as Roman, Saxon and Medieval life in Chichester.
Dolphin Yard Sailing Barge Museum
The site includes the original sail loft and forge which have been converted to a museum devoted to the history of the Thames Sailing Barge and the associated industries of brick and cement making which once sustained the local fleet of barges.
Dover Roman Painted House
The Roman Painted House, the finest Roman House on show in Britain, was discovered by Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit. Twenty five years of excavation across ancient Dover by the Unit have uncovered 50 major structures.
Eastleigh Museum
Eastleigh Museum, a local museum for the hsitoric railway town of Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK.
Fort Grey
Fort Grey is located on Guernsey's rocky west coast, near the infamous Hanois reefs and the site of many historic shipwrecks. The small martello tower contains a museum about Guernsey shipwrecks, with many salvaged artefacts and related illustrations.
Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery
The main permanent displays, interpreting the natural and human history of the island were renewed in 1994. The building also houses an art gallery, audio-visual/lecture theatre, shop and café.
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