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Museums and galleries in Britain

Museums, galleries and science centers.

Facts last checked Oct 25, 2026. Britlens is independent: see our editorial policy.

Places from the lists below; each photo links to the guide page that lists it.

Where to start

Reasoned from our data counts

These three destinations have the most matching places in our guides. That shows where our coverage is deepest for this interest, not an official ranking.

  • London

    75 matching places.

    Most in: Bloomsbury & Fitzrovia (7), Greenwich (6).

  • Edinburgh

    23 matching places.

    Most in: Old Town & Royal Mile (6), Grassmarket & Southside (4).

  • Glasgow

    16 matching places.

    Most in: Finnieston, Clydeside & the Riverside (4), Glasgow Green & the East End (3).

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All 471 places, by destination

For the museums and galleries we have checked as free, see the free guide.

London75places

Show 65 more in London

Edinburgh23places

Show 13 more in Edinburgh

Glasgow16places

Show 6 more in Glasgow

Portsmouth and Southampton15places

Show 5 more in Portsmouth and Southampton

The Scottish Highlands15places

Show 5 more in the Scottish Highlands

Yorkshire15places

Show 5 more in Yorkshire

Liverpool14places

Show 4 more in Liverpool

Manchester13places

Show 3 more in Manchester

Devon12places

Show 2 more in Devon

Canterbury & Kent11places

Show 1 more in Canterbury & Kent

Bath10places

Cornwall10places

Leeds10places

St Andrews and Fife10places

Wales10places

Bristol9places

Cambridge9places

Cardiff9places

Newcastle and Gateshead9places

The Jurassic Coast9places

Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire8places

Birmingham8places

Norfolk and the Broads8places

Orkney8places

Oxford8places

Shetland8places

Stratford & Warwickshire8places

The Cotswolds8places

Blackpool and the Lancashire coast7places

Brighton & Hove7places

Northern Ireland7places

Nottingham7places

Sheffield7places

York7places

Leicester6places

Salisbury & Stonehenge6places

The Lake District6places

Stirling and the Trossachs4places

Gloucester3places

Hereford3places

The New Forest3places

The Outer Hebrides3places

The Peak District3places

Windsor3places

Worcester3places

Coventry2places

Lincoln2places

Lindisfarne (Holy Island)2places

Lundy2places

North Coast 5002places

Anglesey1place

Islay and Jura1place

Isle of Arran1place

Isle of Bute1place

Isles of Scilly1place

Mull and Iona1place

Shrewsbury1place

The South Downs1place

How we matched these places

We search the type label and name of every sight in our guides for this interest. Places we have not listed, or that our data labels differently, will be missing. Data checked Oct 25, 2026. Hearts save a place to My trip.

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Sources

Official pages read on Oct 25, 2026. Rules, prices and opening times change: check the source before you rely on it. Counts and rankings on this page come from Britlens place data and are not official figures.

No external source is cited on this page; every figure is computed from our own data.