UK museums and galleries

44AD Artspace

Contemporary art gallery and artists' studios in a Grade II listed house on Abbey Street.

• Abbey & Roman Baths, Bath

Abbey House Museum

Museum in the Grade II* listed former gatehouse of Kirkstall Abbey, across Abbey Road from the ruins.

• Headingley, Hyde Park and Kirkstall, Leeds

Abbey Pumping Station

Victorian pumping station with four restored beam engines beneath a 150-foot chimney; general entry is free except on event days.

• Leicester city centre, Leicester

Aberdeen Art Gallery

The city art gallery on Schoolhill, run by Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums.

• Aberdeen city, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

Aberdeen Maritime Museum

Maritime museum on the historic Shiprow, near the city harbour.

• Aberdeen city, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

Aberdeen Science Centre

Hands-on science centre on Constitution Street.

• Aberdeen city, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

Alexander Keiller Museum

Museum of finds from the Avebury monuments; English Heritage suggests starting here to learn about the sites around the village.

• Avebury and Marlborough, Salisbury & Stonehenge

American Museum & Gardens

• Bathwick & Widcombe, Bath

Amesbury History Centre

Local history centre on Church Street with exhibitions, talks and family workshops about a town people have visited for 10,000 years.

• Stonehenge and Amesbury, Salisbury & Stonehenge

Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum

The 18th-century weaver's cottage where Andrew Carnegie was born, with a memorial hall added in 1928.

• Dunfermline and the Forth, St Andrews and Fife

Apsley House

The Duke of Wellington's London home at Hyde Park Corner, known as Number One London, with his art collection.

• Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens, London

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum

Regimental museum inside Stirling Castle, included in castle admission, telling the story of the 91st and 93rd Highlanders.

• Stirling and Bannockburn, Stirling and the Trossachs

Armitt Museum and Library

Museum, gallery and library on Rydal Road; its website features Beatrix Potter material.

• Ambleside & Grasmere, The Lake District

Ashmolean Museum

The University's museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683, on Beaumont Street.

Entry: according to the venue’s own page, read Oct 25, 2026. Special exhibitions and events may be charged. Source

• Radcliffe Square, Broad Street and St Giles, Oxford

Aspex

Contemporary art gallery and charity at Gunwharf Quays, showing new art and ideas.

• Portsmouth Harbour & Old Portsmouth, Portsmouth and Southampton

Bakewell Old House Museum

16th-century yeoman's house with a museum on the house and the lives of people in Bakewell.

• Bakewell, Haddon & Monsal, The Peak District

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Contemporary art centre in a converted flour mill on the Gateshead bank, with changing exhibitions and no permanent collection.

• Quayside and Gateshead, Newcastle and Gateshead

Bankside Gallery

The home of two royal societies of watercolor and printmaking, in a small gallery beside Tate Modern.

• The South Bank, London

Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden

Studio and garden where the sculptor Barbara Hepworth lived and worked from 1949 until her death in 1975, kept much as she left them.

• St Ives & West Penwith, Cornwall

BayArt

Art gallery and workshop space in Butetown, in the streets behind the waterfront.

• Cardiff Bay, Cardiff

Beck Isle Museum

Rural life museum in Pickering with recreated shops, from barber and chemist to cobbler, and a Victorian pub.

• North York Moors, Yorkshire

Beckford's Tower

Booking: the venue’s own page advises booking ahead (read Oct 25, 2026). Source

• Georgian Bath, Bath

Bell Pettigrew Museum

University natural history museum of animals and fossils from around the world, including extinct species.

• St Andrews, St Andrews and Fife

Berwick Barracks

Former army barracks, also called Ravensdowne Barracks, with the King's Own Scottish Borderers regimental museum.

• Berwick-upon-Tweed, Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Museum of cinema history on the university's Streatham Campus, holding over 80,000 objects; open to the public since 1997.

• Exeter, Devon

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

• City Centre & Bullring, Birmingham

Black Cultural Archive

A national heritage center for Black British history, with exhibitions and an archive on Windrush Square.

• Brixton, London

Bonhoga Gallery

Gallery, shop and café in a converted mill beside the Weisdale burn, run by Shetland Arts.

• Scalloway & the West Mainland, Shetland

Bridport Museum

Museum in a 16th-century building on South Street known as the Castle.

• Bridport & West Bay, The Jurassic Coast

Brighton Fishing Museum

Small independent museum in the King's Road arches, run with the local fishing community, on the history of Brighton's fishermen. Admission is free.

• The Lanes & seafront, Brighton & Hove

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

• North Laine & the Royal Pavilion, Brighton & Hove

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Entry: according to the venue’s own page, read Oct 25, 2026. Special exhibitions and events may be charged. Source

• Old City, King Street & Park Street, Bristol

British Museum

One of the world's great museums, home to the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian mummies and Parthenon sculptures beneath a glass-roofed Great Court.

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• Bloomsbury & Fitzrovia, London

Brixham Heritage Museum

Local museum of the fishing town of Brixham.

• Torquay, Paignton & Brixham, Devon

Broadway Museum and Art Gallery

Local museum and art gallery with exhibitions on the history of Broadway.

• Broadway, The Cotswolds

Burgh House and Hampstead Museum

Early 18th-century house on New End Square that is home to the Hampstead Museum.

• Hampstead & Primrose Hill, London

Burton at Bideford

Art gallery and museum in Victoria Park, with collections on Bideford's history and changing exhibitions.

• Bideford, Appledore & Westward Ho!, Lundy

Bute Museum

Museum of the Bute Museum and Natural History Society on the archaeology, history and wildlife of Bute; shorter winter opening from October.

• Rothesay and the island, Isle of Bute

Calshot Spit Lightship

Former Trinity House lightvessel LV 78, once anchored off Calshot Spit and now a museum ship beside Solent Sky.

• Southampton Old Town & City Centre, Portsmouth and Southampton

Cambridge Museum of Technology

Industrial heritage museum in an 1894 sewage pumping station beside the Cam; the building is a scheduled monument.

Entry: according to the venue’s own page, read Oct 25, 2026. Special exhibitions and events may be charged. Source

• Mill Road and the East, Cambridge

Canterbury Roman Museum

Museum built around the remains of a Roman town house and its mosaics, below the modern street level.

• Canterbury, Canterbury & Kent

Captain Cook Memorial Museum

Walker's House on Grape Lane, where James Cook lodged as an apprentice to the shipowner John Walker from 1746.

• Whitby & Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire

Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum

Museum in Great Ayton about the boyhood of James Cook.

• North York Moors, Yorkshire

Cardiff M.A.D.E.

Gallery and arts space in Roath showing work by local artists and makers.

• Cathays Park and Roath, Cardiff

Carlyle's House

The Victorian home of writers Thomas and Jane Carlyle on Cheyne Row, kept much as they knew it. Run by the National Trust.

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• Chelsea, London

Castlefield Gallery

Free contemporary art gallery at Hewitt Street, supporting artists through exhibitions and events.

Entry: according to the venue’s own page, read Oct 25, 2026. Special exhibitions and events may be charged. Source

• Castlefield & the Canals, Manchester

Centre for Life

Science village and charity next to Central Station that promotes the life sciences.

• Grainger Town, Newcastle and Gateshead

Charles Dickens Museum

The only surviving London home of Charles Dickens, where he wrote Oliver Twist, furnished as in his time.

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• Bloomsbury & Fitzrovia, London

Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum

House museum in Landport, north of the city centre, in the house where Charles Dickens was born.

• Portsmouth Harbour & Old Portsmouth, Portsmouth and Southampton

Christ Church Picture Gallery

Gallery of the college's collection of Old Master paintings and drawings, in a building opened in 1968.

• Christ Church, St Aldate's and Folly Bridge, Oxford

Churchill War Rooms

The underground bunker where Churchill's war cabinet met during the Second World War, kept as it was, with the Map Room intact.

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• Westminster & Whitehall, London

City Art Centre

Council-run gallery on Market Street, showing the city's art collection and temporary exhibitions.

Entry: according to the venue’s own page, read Oct 25, 2026. Special exhibitions and events may be charged. Source

• Old Town & Royal Mile, Edinburgh

City Observatory

Historic observatory buildings on Calton Hill, now home to the contemporary art organization Collective.

• Holyrood, Arthur's Seat & Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Clifton Observatory

Former windmill and snuff mill on Clifton Down, converted into an observatory with a camera obscura and Giant's Cave.

• Clifton & the Suspension Bridge, Bristol

Clifton Suspension Bridge Visitor Centre

Free visitor center on the Leigh Woods side of the bridge, with displays on how it was built and is maintained.

• Avon Gorge, Leigh Woods & Ashton Court, Bristol

Clink Prison Museum

A museum on the site of the medieval Clink Prison, with displays about medieval prisoners and punishment.

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• Borough & Bermondsey, London

Coffin Works

Newman Brothers' coffin furniture factory, working from 1894 to 1998 and a museum since 2014.

• Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

Corinium Museum

Museum of Roman Corinium and Cotswold history, with over 90 mosaics known from the town and area.

• Cirencester, The Cotswolds

Cotswold Motoring Museum and Toy Collection

Museum of 20th-century motoring with cars, motorbikes, caravans, toys and memorabilia in the village center.

• Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds

Court Barn Museum

Museum of craft and design telling the story of makers in the area from about 1900, starting with the Guild of Handicraft.

• Chipping Campden, The Cotswolds