Explore the world of the UK's Registered museums, plus news, trails, features.
Amberley Museum, Nr. Arundel, West Sussex
Association for Industrial Archaeology - Organisation for those interested in industrial history
Association of Independent Museums
Astley Green Colliery MuseumBirmingham & Midland Museum of Transport
Birmingham Railway Museum - Tysley
The Black Country Museum - includes a working boatyard and several boats
Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
British Engineerium at Hove is a working Victorian Pumping Station with a Museum of mechanical antiquities
British Library - this great epicentre of British culture is very close to the Museum
British Museum - Grandfather of museums - the British Museum is within walking distance of London Canal Museum
Cambridge Museum of Technology is a preserved Victorian pumping station and working museum on the banks of the Cam in Cambridge. It houses a collection of steam, gas and electric powered pumping engines.
Canal Junction - A huge canal site with lots of graphics and information about canals and their history and life
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust
Claverton Pumping Station - a wonderful relic of canal water supply on the Kennet and Avon Canal
The Crossness Engines - an outstanding site with a lot of interesting history about public health engineering.
The Cutty Sark - Famouse tea clipper ship
Dickens House Museum - where the great author lived
East Anglian Museums with stationary steam engines
Ellenroad Engine House, Rochdale
Fan Museum - in Greenwich, a collection of fans in a beautiful building.
Fire World UK Fire Services National Museum Trust
Florence Nightingale Museum - telling the story of the famous hospital reformer
Forncett Industrial Steam Museum
Foxton Inclined Plain Trust - working to restore the Foxton inclined place in Leicestershire, including a museum.
Garden History (Museum of) - covering the story of gardens
Geffrye Museum - Museum of English domestic interiors
Grange Museum - local history in north west London
Great Yarmouth Maritime Museum
Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
Historical Engines, David K. Hulse
Historic Narrowboat Owners Club - for those interested in historic boats
Imperial War Museum - one of London's major national museums
Industrial Archaeology & History web ring.
The Inland Waterways Heritage Network - a comprehensive listing of museums
Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Kew Bridge Steam Museum - Steam power for water supply - a working steam and water supply museum
Laws Railroad Museum - California
Leawood Pump at Cromford in Derbyshire is powered by a Cornish type beam engine and is in steam several days a year.
London (The Museum of) - Large Museum of London's history
London City of Science - a fascinating guide to some of the scientists and scientific advances of the capital.
London's Transport Museum - the story of the capital's public transport systems
Manchester Museum of Science & Industry
Manor House Museum museum of art and horology and the development of timekeeping in Britain, Europe, and America.
Manor Park Museum - telling the story of East London
Millennium Point the museum of the 21st Century exploring the wonders of science and technology
Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association
Moseley Industrial Tramway & Museum
Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
Museum of Lancashire (Fleetwood Museum)
The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Towyn
National Coal Mining Museum for England
National Historic Ship Collection
National Motor Museum at Beaulieu
National Museums and Galleries of Wales (formerly the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum)
National Railway Museum Includes availability of archived information (drawings etc)
National Maritime Museum - for those liking seagoing boats
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
National Museum of Film and Photography
National Railroad Museum located at Green Bay, Wisconsin, the NRRM is the home of British-built class A4 locomotive Dwight D. Eisenhower and his command cars used by the General in WW2..
National Museum of Science and Industry
The National Waterways Museum at Gloucester
Northern Mill Engine Society Collection
Old Engine Househttp://www.oerm.mus.ca.us - Perris, California
Pacific County Historical Society and Museum
Pereslavl Railway Museum, Russia
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
President Steam Narrowboat - a sight often to be seen at festivals around the system
Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum near Ely in Cambridgeshire has a collection of diesel engines used for fenland drainage.
RAF Museum, Hendon, North London
Ragged School Museum - by the canal in east London - a museum of 19th century life and education in East London.
Railway and Canal Historical Society - an organisation for people with an interest in railway and canal history.
Royal Air Force Museum - Hendon. Large Museum of military aviation
Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, Hampshire
Ryhope Engines Museum near Sunderland is a former pumping station housing two compound rotative beam engines.Although the station no longer pumps water, the two 100 horsepower beam engines are kept in working order by volunteer members of the Ryhope Engines Trust, and "steamed" periodically for the benefit of their visitors.
Science Museum (National Museum of Science and Technology)
Sir John Soane's Museum - the famous architect who left his collection for the benefit of the public
Steam - Museum of the Great Western Railway
Thinktank museum of science and discovery.
University Of York: Institute Of Railway Studies
Victoria and Albert Museum - One of London's major national Museums
Virtual Library Museums Page - Listings of many other museums
Victorian Web - excellent history site covering many aspects of the Victorian era
World Museum links - over 5000 links to museum websites around the world.
Updated February 2007 by Webmaster