Museum directory

Museums in United Kingdom

105 museums holding antiquities, coins and archaeology collections.

Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Aberdeen — North Sea fishing, clippers, and oil.

Stonehenge Visitor Centre
Amesbury — The monument's finds and reconstructed houses.

Andover Museum of the Iron Age
Andover — Danebury hillfort's excavated finds.

Armagh County Museum
Armagh — Ireland's oldest county museum.

Alexander Keiller Museum
Avebury — Finds from Europe's largest stone circle.

Roman Baths
Bath — Roman baths and temple finds.

Beamish Museum
Beamish — North-East England living history at full scale.

Ulster Museum
Belfast — Irish archaeology, Spanish Armada gold.

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Birmingham — Home of the Staffordshire Hoard's Anglo-Saxon gold.

Big Pit National Coal Museum
Blaenavon — Underground tour with real miners.

Bolton Museum
Bolton — One of England's best Egyptology collections.

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Brighton — Egyptology and Sussex archaeology.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Bristol — Egyptology, archaeology, and art in an Edwardian baroque building.

National Roman Legion Museum
Caerleon — Isca — legionary fortress, barracks, and amphitheatre.

Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge — Antiquities and coins.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Cambridge — Cambridge's world archaeology collections.

Canterbury Roman Museum
Canterbury — A Roman townhouse and mosaic preserved beneath the streets.

National Museum Wales
Cardiff — Roman and prehistoric Wales.

St Fagans National Museum of History
Cardiff — Wales's open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings.

Tullie House Museum
Carlisle — Hadrian's Wall frontier archaeology in the border city.

Grosvenor Museum
Chester — Roman tombstones of the Deva legion.

Fishbourne Roman Palace
Chichester — Britain's grandest Roman residence and mosaics.

Chesters Roman Fort
Chollerford — Cavalry fort and Clayton's antiquarian museum.

Corinium Museum
Cirencester — Roman Britain mosaics.

Colchester Castle Museum
Colchester — Roman Britain's first capital, in the largest Norman keep ever built.

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Coventry — City history from Godiva to the Blitz.

Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Derby — Bronze Age log boat and Wright of Derby.

Tower Museum
Derry — The story of Derry and an Armada shipwreck.

Wiltshire Museum
Devizes — Bronze Age gold from the Stonehenge landscape.

Dorset Museum
Dorchester — Wessex archaeology.

Dover Museum
Dover — Home of the world's oldest known seagoing boat, 3,500 years old.

Dumfries Museum
Dumfries — Camera obscura atop a windmill of local finds.

The McManus
Dundee — Dundee's Victorian gallery of art and history.

Oriental Museum
Durham — Durham University's museum of Asia and Egypt.

National Museum of Scotland
Edinburgh — Early medieval and Pictish material.

Elgin Museum
Elgin — Pictish stones and fossil fish, independently kept.

Ely Museum
Ely — Fenland archaeology from flint to eel traps.

Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Exeter — Devon's museum — archaeology, world cultures, and Gerald the giraffe.

Lullingstone Roman Villa
Eynsford — Villa with early Christian wall paintings.

West Highland Museum
Fort William — Jacobite relics and Highland life.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow — Glasgow's grand red-sandstone museum of everything, free to all.

The Hunterian
Glasgow — Scotland's oldest public museum — Roman Scotland and the Antonine Wall.

Museum of Gloucester
Gloucester — Roman Glevum and medieval city finds.

Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Hastings — Sussex finds and world cultures.

Vindolanda Museum
Hexham — Roman frontier tablets.

Ulster Folk Museum
Holywood — Ulster rural life rebuilt building by building.

Hull and East Riding Museum
Hull — Iron Age Hasholme boat and Roman mosaics.

Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
Inverness — Highland history — Pictish stones and Jacobite relics.

Ipswich Museum
Ipswich — Suffolk archaeology and natural history in a Victorian gem.

Jarrow Hall
Jarrow — Bede's world — Anglo-Saxon farm and monastery.

Scottish Crannog Centre
Kenmore — Reconstructed Iron Age loch dwelling.

Kilmartin Museum
Kilmartin — Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape.

The Orkney Museum
Kirkwall — Skara Brae to the Vikings, in the heart of Neolithic Orkney.

Leeds City Museum
Leeds — Yorkshire archaeology and the Leeds mummy.

Royal Armouries Museum
Leeds — The national collection of arms and armour.

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
Leicester — Ancient Egypt and the city's deep past.

Shetland Museum
Lerwick — Shetland's story from Neolithic settlers to Norse rule.

The Collection
Lincoln — Lincolnshire's archaeology beside the usher gallery.

World Museum
Liverpool — Antiquities and world cultures.

Oriel Môn
Llangefni — Anglesey's archaeology and art.

British Museum
London — Egyptian, Greek, and medieval Europe.

Horniman Museum
London — Anthropology, natural history, and instruments.

Museum of London
London — Roman and medieval London finds.

National Maritime Museum
London — The world's largest maritime museum, at Greenwich.

Natural History Museum
London — Fossils, minerals, and the flint-tool gallery.

Petrie Museum
London — Egyptian archaeology.

Sir John Soane's Museum
London — Antiquities and the sarcophagus of Seti I.

Victoria and Albert Museum
London — Decorative arts across every age.

Wellcome Collection
London — Medicine's strange and wonderful objects.

Maidstone Museum
Maidstone — Kentish archaeology and a mummy.

Manchester Museum
Manchester — Egyptology and archaeology.

Great North Museum: Hancock
Newcastle — Hadrian's Wall antiquities.

Norwich Castle Museum
Norwich — A Norman keep filled with East Anglian archaeology — Boudica to the Vikings.

Nottingham Castle
Nottingham — Ducal palace museum above the caves.

Ashmolean Museum
Oxford — Medieval metalwork and antiquities.

Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford — Half a million objects, arranged by type.

Perth Museum
Perth — New home of the Stone of Destiny.

Peterborough Museum
Peterborough — Fenland archaeology near the Bronze Age site of Flag Fen.

The Box
Plymouth — Plymouth's museum of voyages, from the Mayflower to modern art.

The Mary Rose Museum
Portsmouth — Henry VIII's raised warship and thousands of Tudor objects.

Reading Museum
Reading — Finds from Roman Silchester and Britain's Bayeux Tapestry replica.

Saffron Walden Museum
Saffron Walden — 1835 town museum, archaeology to ethnography.

The Salisbury Museum
Salisbury — Stonehenge archaeology and the famous Amesbury Archer.

Skara Brae Visitor Centre
Sandwick — Neolithic village older than the pyramids.

Rotunda Museum
Scarborough — William Smith's geology in a purpose-built drum.

Weston Park Museum
Sheffield — Sheffield's history and archaeology, from the Ice Age onward.

Wroxeter Roman City
Shrewsbury — Viroconium — the fourth city of Roman Britain.

Arbeia South Shields Roman Fort
South Shields — Reconstructed gatehouse and granaries.

Verulamium Museum
St Albans — Roman Britain.

Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
Stirling — The world's oldest football, and much else.

Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Stoke-on-Trent — The Staffordshire Hoard's Anglo-Saxon gold.

The Food Museum
Stowmarket — East Anglian rural life and foodways.

Swansea Museum
Swansea — Wales's oldest museum, from mummy to maritime Swansea.

Museum of Somerset
Taunton — Low Ham mosaic and lake-village finds.

Royal Cornwall Museum
Truro — Cornish archaeology and minerals, from stone circles to tin mines.

Segedunum Roman Fort
Wallsend — Hadrian's Wall's eastern end, viewed from a tower.

Market Hall Museum
Warwick — Warwickshire archaeology and the Sheldon tapestry.

Butser Ancient Farm
Waterlooville — Experimental archaeology — rebuilt ancient buildings.

Whitby Museum
Whitby — Victorian cabinet of fossils and curiosities.

Winchester City Museum
Winchester — From Roman Venta Belgarum to the capital of Saxon Wessex.

Wisbech & Fenland Museum
Wisbech — A Victorian museum preserved intact.

Sutton Hoo
Woodbridge — The Anglo-Saxon ship-burial site, with exhibition hall.

Creswell Crags Museum
Worksop — Ice-age cave art gorge on the county line.

Jorvik Viking Centre
York — Viking-age York rebuilt over its own excavated streets.

Yorkshire Museum
York — Roman, Viking, and medieval York.

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