ANU Classics Department Museum,
Australian National University, Canberra.
Part of
ArtServe -
27,000 images of art and architecture,
mainly from the Mediterranean area.
(Requires registration and payment for full use.)
The
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Collections include
Australian, Aboriginal, Asian, western and contemporary art,
photography.
Australian Museum, Sydney.
Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.
La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne.
Macleay Museum, Sydney.
Natural history collection.
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
Natural and cultural heritage collections at several sites.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Fine art.
National Motorcycle Museum, Mitchell, Canberra.
National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
Physics Museum, University of Queensland.
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Science, technology, decorative arts, design and Australian
social history.
Australia's largest museum.
Queensland Museum,
University of Queensland.
See
arachnology homepage, including the Red Spider.
Royal Australian Air Force Museum, Point Cook, Victoria.
Sydney Jewish Museum.
The Holocaust and Australian Jewish history,
including
related links.
Victorian Racing Museum, Caulfield, Victoria.
Horse racing.
Western Australian Maritime Museum, Perth.
Western Australian Museum, Perth.
Australian Museums On Line (AMOL).
See
National Directory and
Museum Search.
Australian University Museums Online (AUMOL).
Combined catalogue of
university collections.
Search the AUMOL databases.
Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS).
Museums and Collections at Macquarie University.
Victoria museums.
Félicien Rops Museum, Namur.
Covers the work of the artist F. Rops (1833-1898).
Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance.
Musée d'Art Religieux et d'Art Mosan (MARAM), Liège.
(In French.)
Musée de la photographie à Charleroi,
Photography museum. (In French.)
Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve,
Université catholique de Louvain.
See also
ÉOLE database on Belgian cultural heritage.
(In French, also
English, Dutch and German.)
Museum of Natural Sciences,
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science,
Brussels.
(Also in French and Dutch.)
Royal Museum of the Army and Military History.
(In Dutch, French and English soon.)
Brussels museums.
Namur museums.
University Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals
University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia.
Museum towns.
Varna museums.
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Sofia museums.
Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
(In Chinese and
English.)
Beijing museums
(see also
here)
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, Croatia.
Part of the
Art Plus site.
(See information
in English.)
Czech Pharmaceutical Museum.
Moravian Museum, Brno.
Archaeology, history, numismatics, literature, music, theatre,
geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology and entomology.
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague.
National Museum, Prague.
(In
Czech and English.)
National Gallery in Prague, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art.
Galleries contacts and addresses.
Prague.
See also
Museums and Galleries Image Tour.
Association of Czech, Moravian ana Silesian Museums (AMG).
Includes a directory of Czech museums and galleries,
and a calendar of exhibitions.
(In Czech only.)
Danish Museum of Electricity.
(In
Danish, English and German.)
Immigrantmuseet, Stavnsholtvej.
(In Danish.)
Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund.
(A.k.a.
Isac Dinesen,
also
in Danish and English.)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Situated on the North Zealand coast in spectacular setting.
(In
English and Danish.)
Museet på Koldinghus, Koldinghus.
(In Danish.)
Museums of Natural History, Faculty of Science,
University of Copenhagen.
Botany, geology and zoology.
Includes searchable botanical
specimen database.
(25,000 records.)
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.
(Also in Danish.)
See also related
museums.
North Sea Museum.
(Nordsømuseet, in Danish.)
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Archeological (especially Egyptian) artefacts,
Impressionist and other paintings.
(Some information in
English.)
Skive Art Museum.
(Mainly Danish, some information in Dutch,
English
and German.)
Steno Museum, University of Aarhus, Århus.
(Also in Danish.)
History of science and medicine.
Struer Museum.
History of the town.
(Also in Danish and German.)
Telephone Museum, Hellerup.
(Also in Danish.)
Cultural institutions (including many museums)
under the
Ministry of Culture, from
Kulturnet Danmark.
Storstrøm museums.
(In Danish, English and German planned.)
Art Museum of Estonia.
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Estonian Literary Museum.
(Also in
English.)
Estonian Maritime Museum (Meremuuseum), Tallinn.
See also
unofficial information.
Estonian National Museum, Tartu.
Estonian Open Air Museum, Tallinn.
(In Estonian.)
Museum of Viljandi.
(Also in
English.)
Museums list.
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Museum search.
Museums list.
(In Estonian.)
Tallin museums.
(In Estonian.)
Fiji Museum.
Aine Art Museum, Tornio.
Finnish visual arts from 1814.
(Also in
Finnish.)
See also
Ars Nordica publications.
Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä.
Specializes in architecture.
Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.
Fine art.
(In
English, Finnish and Swedish.)
Helsinki City Art Museum.
Responsible for many statues and sculptures around the city.
(In
English, Finnish and Swedish.)
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
(In
English, Finnish and Swedish.)
Museum of Central Finland, Jyväskylä.
Cultural history.
(Also in
Finnish, German and Swedish.)
The
National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
(Also in
Finnish and Swedish.)
Finnish museums information including a
alphabetical list of museums
(also ordered
by location and
by type)
from the
Finnish Museums Association.
(Also in Finnish and Swedish.)
Nordic museum links (Finland).
Tampere.
Château de Versailles, near Paris.
(In French and
English.)
Includes
The Carriage Museum.
Cité des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris.
(In French and
English.)
Electropolis,
Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy.
(In French,
English and German.)
French Ministry of Culture. (Mainly in French,
some
English.) See:
The age of enlightenment in the
paintings of France's national museums
on-line exhibition.
(In English
and
French.)
Documentation, including several databases.
(In French.)
E.g.:
Archaeological discovery of a decorated Palaeolithic cave
near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on 25 December 1994 (announced 17 January 1995).
An interesting example where a virtual exhibition is the only way to
allow instantaneous worldwide general public access without risk of
damage.
The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon.
Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996.
Devoted to works of art created using new technologies.
(In French and English.)
Centre Georges Pompidou,
Musée national d'art moderne.
(Also
in French.)
The Louvre, Paris.
Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world
with the
most famous painting in the world.
(Also
in French,
Japanese,
Spanish and Portuguese.)
See also
Louvre.edu educational resources (by subscription, in French),
virtual visit, and
here.
Musée des arts et métiers
(Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris, and the
Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers.
(Mainly in French,
some English and bilingual pages available.)
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse.
(In French and
English.)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
(In French.)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper.
(In French.)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.
(In French.)
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Sculpture and drawings by the artist
Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron
where he rented the ground floor.
(In French and
English.)
Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
See
collections catalogue including searchable
fish catalogue.
(In French and English.)
Museum of l'Empéri, Salon-de-Provence.
(Also in French.)
Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris.
(In French and
English.)
Videomuseum. (In
English soon - September 1997.)
Art and culture - major French museums guide.
(In
French, English and Italian.)
Museums,
exhibitions and
monuments/museums map of
Paris.
Museums of
L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs
(UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
Maritime museums.
Giverny and Vernon museums.
See also
Claude Monet's
garden.
The Acropolis Museum,
Athens.
Situated on
the Acropolis.
Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Macedonia.
Houses the
Alexander, WWW Server of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Rhodes Jewish Museum, Rhodes.
Technical Museum of Thessaloniki.
(Also
in Greek.)
WebAcropol, Athens.
A virtual tour of
the Acropolis.
Cultural map of Greece and
list of museums.
Part of the
Hellenic Culture information server
from the
Hellenic Ministry Of Culture.
(In
English and
Greek.)
Hellenic Culture including
Macedonia and Thrace.
Hellenic Museums by type.
Comprehensive collection of images, etc.
Athens.
Thessaloniki.
Hong Kong Museum of Art.
Hong Kong Museum of History.
Hong Kong Science Museum.
Hong Kong Space Museum.
Museums listed by the
Hong Kong Tourist Association
Hafnarfjörður Museum,
Hafnarfjörður.
Former residence of Bjarni Sívertsen.
House of Merchants Folk Museum, Eyrarbakki.
One of Iceland's oldest buildings.
(In Icelandic,
English, Danish and German.)
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík.
(In Icelandic and
English.)
National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík.
Museums and libraries in Reykjavík.
Indian Museum (unofficial),
Calcutta.
National Rail Museum, New Delhi.
Prince of Wales Museum,
Bombay.
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, New Delhi.
Indian museums.
Forts and palaces including the
Taj Mahal.
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
Dungarvan Museum, Waterford.
The
Garda Museum, Dublin Castle.
Museum of Ireland's national police force.
Guinness Hopstore, Dublin.
Includes a
Transport Museum section.
Hunt Museum, University of Limerick.
Art and antiquities.
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.
Babylonian Jewry Museum, Or-Yehuda.
History of the Jews of Babylon.
Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv.
Includes a
virtual exhibition.
Edith and Rubin Hecht Museum, Haifa University.
Archaeology and paintings.
Ghetto Fighters' House
Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum,
Western Galilee.
(Also in
English.)
Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Includes
Dead Sea Scrolls - Shrine of the Book,
Judaica and Jewish ethnography,
fine art, Archaeological Museum Rockefeller,
East Jerusalem Art Center Paley, and Ticho House.
Take a
virtual tour.
Israel National Museum of Science,
Daniel and Matilde Recanati Center, Haifa.
Jerusalem Mosaic.
Information, exhibits and images about Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Amedeo Lia Museum, La Spezia.
Art collection of Amedeo Lia and his family, founded in 1995.
(Also in
Italian and German.)
Archaeological Museum of Bologna.
Egyptian, Etruscan and other collections.
(Also in
Italian.)
Astronomical Museum, Bologna.
CeSMAP Study Centre and Prehistoric Art Museum, Pinerolo.
(Also in
Italian.)
Institute and Museum History of Science, Florence.
(Also in Italian.)
Italian Web Museum.
Virtual marketing!
Keat-Shelley House, Piazza di Spagna, Rome.
Visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets.
Monumentale Cemetery of Milano, Milan.
Biggest museum of sculptures in Italy.
(Also in Italian.)
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari.
(In Italian.)
Museo dell'Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti Visuali,
Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata.
Museums of the Photographic Image and of the Visual Arts.
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.
Includes the Farnese picture collection.
(Also in Italian.)
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza.
Ceramics.
(In Italian.)
Museo Morandi, Bologna.
Works of art by Giorgio Morandi.
(Also in Italian.)
Museum of the Physics Department, Institute of Physics of Naples.
An exhibition of early instruments of the Institute.
(In English and Italian.)
Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, Florence.
Natural history museum.
Anthropology, botany, geology and paleontology, mineralogy and zoology.
(In English and Italian.)
National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci,
Milan.
(Also
in Italian.)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
Modern art.
An outpost of the
Guggenheim Museum,
Revoltella Museum, Modern Art Gallery, Trieste.
(Also in
Italian.)
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of
the galleries and an
index of artists with some images such as
Botticelli's
The Birth of Venus.
(Also in
Italian.)
See also
Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).
The Virtual Museum of Pisa
Shockwave for multimedia.
(In Italian and English.)
Wooden Toy exhibition, Padua.
Art exhibition and museums
including Assisi, Pisa and Pompeii.
(In English and Italian.)
Musei e Gallerie Statali,
Soprintendenza dei Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze.
Florentine museum information, including database access,
from Florence.
(In Italian.)
Tareq Rajab Museum, Hawelli.
Macau Museum of Art.
(Also in Chinese and Portuguese.)
The
Museum of Macau, opened in 1998 in the old fortress.
(Also in Chinese and Portuguese.)
Maritime Archaeology Museum, Malacca.
7th Museum, Amsterdam.
A public art project.
Anne Frank House, Amsterdam.
(In Dutch and
English).
See
information on the house.
See also the travelling exhibit
Anne Frank In the World: 1929-1945 from
Anne Frank Online and the
Virtual Anne Frank House.
Centraal Museum Utrecht.
The oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands,
including historical works of art and
the Rietveld Schröder house (1924).
(Mainly in Dutch.)
Computer Museum, University of Amsterdam.
Scientific and industrial computing.
Electronic calculators, analog computers, core memory and paper tape.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
Art collection including Mondrian and Escher.
(In Dutch.)
Jan Adam Zandleven museum, Digital Town Eindhoven.
Virtual museum of the Dutch painter Jan Adam Zandleven (1868-1923).
(Also in Dutch.)
Laboratory for Architecture (LAVA), Eindhoven University.
Archectural Guide and Gallery including
Museums.
Limburgs Museum, Limburg.
Includes multimedia using RealAudio.
(In Dutch.)
Museon, The Hague.
Science and natural history:
geology, biology and ecology, history and archaeology
physics and technology, ethnology.
(In
English and Dutch.)
Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine.
(In
English and Dutch.)
Museum Gevangenpoort, The Hague.
(In Dutch.)
National Museum of Coins and Medals, Leiden.
(Also in Dutch.)
Natural History Museum, Maastricht.
Includes a
virtual tour and
kid's museum with a
quiz.
(In
English and Dutch.)
Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg.
Uses of textiles with respect to industry, technology, art and design.
(In
English and Dutch.)
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam.
(In
English and Dutch.)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
(Not yet on-line.)
The
Software Museum, Amsterdam.
Early computer software disk directory listings.
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam.
Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country.
Artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave.
(In
English and Dutch.)
Technical Museum of the University of Delft.
(In Dutch.)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
Fossils and minerals, scientific instruments, medals and coins,
paintings, prints and drawings.
Oldest public museum and the first virtual museum in the country.
(Also
in Dutch, French and German.)
University Museum, Utrecht. (In Dutch.)
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Contemporary art.
(In English and Dutch.)
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Mainly artworks by Vincent Van Gogh.
(In
English and Dutch.)
Zuiderzeemuseum.
(In Dutch.)
Amsterdam museums.
Eindhoven museums.
(Dutch and some English.)
Museums in the Netherlands and
Search for Museums,
Netherlands Board of Tourism (NBT).
Succinct information, comprehensive coverage.
Holland Museums from the
Netherlands Board of Tourism supported by the
Netherlands Association of Museums.
See
English information including a directory of
all museums.
An excellent, comprehensive resource.
De Museumserver.
Dutch museums on the Internet.
(Mostly Dutch, some
English.)
Good, but slowed by use of Java.
Musea in Nederland.
Links sorted by
name,
type and
location.
(In Dutch only.)
North Holland museums
(also
by city.
Museumboot, Amsterdam.
Guided boat tour around major museums.
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Auckland WebMuseum. Online museum presenting Maori culture.
Howick Historical Village, Pakuranga, Auckland.
A living museum recreating a British immigrant village of the
Fencible settlement.
Matakohe Kauri Museum, Northland.
Story of the
Kauri tree, its timber and its gum.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Art, history, Maori culture and the natural environment.
Now available from New Zealand itself; a new museum opening in 1998.
National Maritime Museum, Auckland.
New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, Wanaka Airport.
Includes links to
other aviation museums on the Web.
Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Annex, Christchurch.
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.
Museums of Natural History, Tøyen, Oslo.
Northern Lights Planetarium.
Norwegian Emigrant Museum, Hamar.
Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo.
(In
English, French and Norwegian.)
Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo.
(Also in Norwegian.)
Tromsø Museum.
(Also in Norwegian.)
Museums in
alphabetical order, by region, etc., from
Museumsnet Norway.
Comprehensive list, including hyperlinks where available.
(In Norwegian,
English, French and German soon.)
Norway museum links
Centre For Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
(In English and Polish.)
The Distillery Museum, Lancut.
Winner of the
European Museum of the Year Award.
Museum of Art, Lodz.
Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium, Gdynia.
(Also in Polish.)
Saltmine "Wieliczka",
Museum of Cracow salt-works, Wieliczka.
Wawelu Royal Castle, Cracow.
(In
English, German and Polish.)
Museums,
Lublin.
(Also
in Polish.)
Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum.
Singaporean artist whose works incorporate images, sculptures,
poetry and music.
Includes on-line
souvenir shop and
toilet.
National Museum of Singapore, National heritage Board.
Includes
Asia Civilisations Museum,
Singapore History Museum and
Singapore Art Museum.
See also
shop.
National University of Singapore museums.
Includes the
Lee Kong Chian Art Museum of Chinese Art and the
Ng Eng Teng Gallery of sculpture and art.
Singapore Philatelic Museum.
Stamps.
Povazske Museum, Zilina.
History of the Slovak tinker's trade.
(Also in Slovak.)
Slovak National Museum, Bratislava.
(Also in Slovak.)
Slovak museums.
Museum of Modern History, Ljubljana.
(In
English and Slovene.)
National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana.
Archaeology, history, applied arts, drawings and graphics.
Technical Museum of Slovenia, Bistra, Borovnica.
Traffic, agriculture, textile, electricity, forestry, wood processing,
hunting, fishing.
National Palace Museum.
(In
English and Chinese.)
The World Religions Museum, Taipei.
(In
English and Chinese.)
Bank of Thailand Museum.
Rama IX Art Museum Foundation, Bankok.
Interactive Museum of Turkey.
See
virtual galleries.
Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture.
Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul.
History and development of industry.
(Also in
English.)
Topkapi Palace Museum.
Istanbul museums.
Ajman Museum,
Ajman.
Historic
fortress.
Dubai Museum.
Housed in Al-Fahidi Fort, thought to be Dubai's oldest building.
Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani). See also
Christus Rex virtual exhibits
containing many images of
the
Vatican City,
Sistine Chapel and
Raphael Stanzas and Loggias.
(Unofficial.)
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1853 Gallery,
Salts Mill, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire.
Houses pictures by David Hockney.
The
Abbey Museum, Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Allhallows Museum, Honiton, Devon.
Local museum including lace and pottery industry displays
housed in the town's oldest building.
Althorp House, Northamptonshire.
Ancestral home of the Spencer family, resting place of Princess Diana.
A
museum on Princess Diana is planned for 1998.
Amberley Museum, West Sussex.
Outdoor industrial museum based in chalk pits.
Armagh Planetarium, Northern Ireland.
See also list of
other Planetariums.
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Contemporary arts.
Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Oxford.
See the
Cast Gallery and the
Griffith Institute for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
Banchory Museum, Aberdeenshire. Local history.
Bank of England Museum & Archive, City of London.
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford.
Beamish Open Air Museum, County Durham.
300 acres recreating the life of the north of England in the
early 1800s and 1900s.
Bedford Museum.
Local archaeology, social history, biology and geology.
Bell-Pettigrew Museum, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships between animals.
Biggar Museum Trust, Moat Park, Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
See list of
museums.
Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall, Birmingham.
Black Country Museum, Dudley.
Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, UK.
"Britain's Best Kept Secret."
See
what you can see and do
including the German Enigma Cipher machine,
the Lorenz Cipher machine and the rebuild of Colossus
(with photographs), and
further information at Aston University.
The
Boat Museum, Ellesmere Port.
See also
related museums and the unofficial
British Waterways site.
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. See
image catalogue of manuscripts,
including a
Java version with scrolling images, the
shopping arcade and the
Map Case of online historic maps in the
Map Room.
British Lawnmower Museum, Southport, Lancashire.
British Library, London, UK.
See
collections,
digital library,
exhibitions and the
Treasures Digitisation Project, which includes the
Magna Carta, viewable at
various magnifications.
British Museum, London.
See
collection highlights and
school project below.
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire.
The
Burrell Collection, Glasgow.
BT Museum, Blackfriars, London.
The story of telecommunications.
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Cabaret Mechinal Theatre, Covent Garden, London.
A museum of automata (mechanical sculpture).
Cadbury World, Bournville, Birmingham.
Includes the Cadbury Collection, an exhibition on the
history of Cadbury's chocolate and the village of Bournville.
Cambridge Museum of Technology.
Preserved Victorian pumping station and working museum on the
River Cam. Includes Java.
Centre for the History of Defence Electronics (CHiDE),
Bournemouth University, Dorset.
Includes a virtual
museum plan.
See also
places to visit, listing UK military and naval museums, an
archive room plan,
Museums Tray of links and
UK Museum Organisation Home Page.
Chertsey Museum, Surrey.
Local history and costume from the Runnymede area.
Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford.
Claymills Pumping Engines, Stretton, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire.
A preserved Victorian pumping station.
Cole Museum of Zoology, University of Reading.
Cotswolds Motor Museum, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.
Cotswold Woollen Weavers, Filkins, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire.
Historic working weaving mill, museum/gallery and shop.
Courtauld Gallery,
Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
(Reopening Autumn 1998.)
The
Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney, Buckinghamshire.
Presents Olney's heritage.
Crabble Corn Mill, Dover, Kent.
A working water mill, cafe and gallery.
Design Museum, London.
Dickens House Museum, London.
Includes a
virtual tour.
Dover Museum
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments,
Faculty of Music.
Elgin Museum, Moray.
Pictish stones, local fossils, archaeology, geology, natural
history, social history and ethnography.
Eureka!, Halifax.
The Museum for Children.
Exploratory Science Centre, Bristol.
Faringdon and District Museum, Oxon.
Farnham Museum, Willmer House, Surrey.
Georgian house.
Finchcocks Living Museum of Music,
Hammerwood Park house, near East Grinstead, Sussex.
Collection of
historical keyboard instruments
set in a fine Georgian manor house.
See also an on-line
tour.
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
Permanent collections include antiquities, applied arts, coins
and paintings.
See on-line
shop.
Foxton Canal Museum, Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.
Garlogie Mill Power House Museum, Aberdeenshire.
Geffrye Museum, London.
English furniture and decorative arts in a chronological
series of period rooms.
Godalming Museum, Surrey.
Local history, industry, geology, archeology.
The
Grange
Art Gallery and
Museum,
Rottingdean Preservation Society, Brighton, Sussex.
See the
Rudyard Kipling Room,
dolls and model railway.
Green's Mill, Nottingham.
19th century tower windmill in Sneinton,
once owned and operated by George Green (1793-1841),
a mathematical physicist and scientist.
Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Natural history museum.
Harveys Wine Museum, Bristol.
Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey.
Natural science and human history:
geology, botany, zoology, classical archaeology, costume and
textile, European folk art, ethnography and local history.
Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London.
Modern art, special exhibitions.
Holbourne Museum and
20th Century Crafts Study Centre, Bath.
Fine art and decorative art collection.
The
Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest Hill, London.
Horsforth Village Museum of Local History,
Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Anatomical and pathological specimens.
Art, coins, books, manuscripts and ethnography.
See
virtual and guided tours.
Imperial War Museum,
London.
Also includes the
Cabinet War Rooms,
HMS Belfast and RAF
Duxford (including the
American Air Museum in Britain, opened 1 August 1997).
International Helicopter Museums, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Ipswich Transport Museum, Suffolk.
Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Shropshire.
A World Heritage Site, birthplace of the industrial revolution.
See also the
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, including a
virtual tour, and the
Ironbridge Institute.
The
Jewish Museum, London.
John Paul Jones Cottage Museum,
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Jorvik Viking Centre, York.
See also the
World of the Vikings.
Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford, Middlesex.
Kilmartin House Museum, Kilmartin, Scotland.
Centre for archaeology and landscape interpretation.
Kingston Museum, Kingston upon Thames.
Holds a large collection of
photographs by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).
Lapworth Museum, University of Birmingham.
Geology and fossils.
Leeds University Gallery, University Library, Leeds.
Letchworth Museum.
Natural history, art, archaeology.
The Lion Salt Works, Marston, Northwich, Cheshire.
The
London Dungeon, London.
Museum of horror.
London Canal Museum, King's Cross.
See also
links to related sites and museums.
London Toy & Model Museum.
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden.
Lothbury Gallery, London.
NatWest Group art collection.
Lunt Roman Font, near Coventry.
Madame Tussauds, London. Waxworks.
Manchester City Art Galleries.
Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and furniture,
especially by 19th and 20th century artists,
including the Pre-Raphaelites.
Manchester Jewish Museum.
The
Manchester Museum.
Botany, Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and Egyptology
galleries.
Manor House Museum, Bury St. Edmunds.
Horology and art collections.
Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen.
Mary Rose Maritime Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Only 16th century warship on display in the world, from the
time of King Henry VIII.
Includes a
museum tour.
Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport.
Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St. Edmunds.
Archaeology and local history.
Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Archaeology in north east England.
Includes a
Flints and Stones exhibition, with an interactive hunter gatherer
food quiz and
national curriculum information for teachers.
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Cambridge.
Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley, near Reading.
Museum of British Road Transport, Coventry.
Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Includes a cast collection.
Museum of Costume and Assembly Rooms, Bath.
Registered site to appear.
Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk.
Museum of English Rural Life,
Rural History Centre, University of Reading.
See
new building fund appeal.
Museum of Garden History,
St. Mary-at-Lambeth Church, Lambeth Palace, London.
Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.
Includes an on-line
tour.
Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford.
See
special exhibitions and an
image library.
Latest exhibition:
Cameras: the technology of photographic imaging.
Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Lincoln.
Social history.
Museum of London.
See
entrance hall.
Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI),
British Film Institute, South Bank, London.
History of film and television.
Museum of Scotland.
A new museum for Scottish collections being built in Edinburgh,
due to open in 1998.
The
Museum of Submarine Telegraphy, Porthcurno.
Includes
QuickTime VR.
Museums of The Royal College of Surgeons.
National Army Museum, Chelsea, London.
National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
The
National Gallery, London.
Collection of Western European paintings (1260-1900).
See
site map.
See also
The Micro Gallery (off-line).
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
National Motor Museum,
Beaulieu, Hampshire.
National Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, London.
National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool.
A group of eight institutions:
The Conservation Centre;
Liverpool Museum;
Merseyside Maritime Museum;
HM Customs & Excise National Museum;
Museum of Liverpool Life;
Walker Art Gallery;
Lady Lever Art Gallery;
Sudley House.
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford.
National Museums & Galleries of Wales.
Information on a number of
Welsh museums including the
National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff.
(In English and Welsh.)
National Museum of Science and Industry.
National Museums of Scotland.
Information on a number of Scottish museums including the
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
See information on the
permanent collect.
(Not many pictures!)
National Railway Museum, York.
Natural History Museum, London.
The first UK museum with its own Web server.
Includes
Virtual Reality fossils using
VRML - see a
Trilobite and
Bryozoan, for example.
See also interactive exploration using
Science Casebook.
Newlyn Pilchard Works, Cornwall.
Britains last salt pilchard factory, a working museum.
Nothe Fort and Museum of Coast Defence, Weymouth, Dorset.
Open Museum, Glasgow. (Unofficial.)
Community led outreach service.
Ordsall Hall Museum, Salford.
Family home of the Radclyffes.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Entomology, geology, mineralogy, zoology
collections in a
Victorian neo-Gothic building.
Past Impressions On-line Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
On-line cultural exhibitions and gallery space.
Path Head Water Mill, Blaydon on Tyne.
Pendon Museum of Miniature Landscape and Transport, Oxon.
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
Anthropology and Ethnography.
Portsmouth Bus Museum, Old Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum.
Pump House People's History Museum, Manchester.
The
Queen's Gallery at
Buckingham Palace, London.
See also
Windsor Castle and the rest of the
Royal Collection.
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Reading Museum, Berkshire.
Replica of the
Bayeux Tapestry, history of Reading, Roman artifacts, etc.
The
Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Hove, East Sussex.
Museum and Heritage Centre covering British life between the 1780s and
1850s, especially the history of the Brighton area.
REME Museum of Technology
(Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers),
Arborfield, near Reading, Berkshire.
River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.
This is believed to be the first museum in the world started
virtually before being established in reality. Due to open 1998.
Rochdale Pioneers Memorial Museum, Lancashire.
On the Co-operative Movement.
Roman Baths Museum and Pump House, Bath.
Registered site to appear.
Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Permanent galleries and temporary
exhibitions such as the
Summer Exhibition.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon.
Antiquities, ethnography, natural history, fine art, decorative arts.
See
Totem Pole Project.
Royal Armouries
museums,
Leeds,
Fort Nelson and
London.
A major new national museum at Leeds, opened in April 1996,
houses a collection of arms and armour
originally held at the Tower of London.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
The
Royal Collection.
A distributed collection, mainly in
royal palaces, formed by the
Royal family, including
The Queen's Gallery at
Buckingham Palace and
the
Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.
The
Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Includes the
Mary Rose.
Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Camp, Dorset.
Rural Life Centre Old Kiln Museum, Tilford, Farnham, Surrey.
150 years of farming.
Ryhope Engines Museum, Ryhope Pumping Station, near Sunderland.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,
University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Sandtoft Transport Centre. Trolleybus museum.
Science and Industry Museum, Birmingham.
Science Museum, London.
(part of the
National Museum of Science and Industry.)
See
galleries,
Information Superhighway exhibition (opened on 25 April 1995),
Flight Exhibition On-Line and
Treasures of the Science Museum.
Sedgwick Museum of Geology, University of Cambridge.
Shefton Museum,
Department of Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Shetland Croft House Museum.
Shetland Museum, Lerwick.
Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
House and museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect (1753-1837).
Southampton City Art Gallery.
South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regimental Museum, Brecon.
Museum of the Royal Regiment of Wales.
Spode Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Oldest English pottery, ceramics, bone china, earthenware.
Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Staffordshire.
See a virtual version of the
Flights of fancy exhibition on bats, which originally ran
from 21 July to 10 September 1995, with
sounds, one of the first UK on-line museum exhibitions.
Swaledale Folk Museum, Reeth, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Stone walls, village life, lead mining, sheep and cattle farming, etc.
The
Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset.
Tate Gallery, London, Liverpool and St. Ives.
National collection of British art and modern 20th century art.
See also information on the
Turner Prize,
Britain's most prestigious prize for contemporary art,
exhibited at the
Tate.
The
Teddy Bear Museum, Stratford-on-Avon.
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Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, London.
Tom Brown's School Museum, Uffington, Oxon.
Includes the
White Horse and
Sir John Betjeman.
Torre Abbey Historic House & Gallery, Torquay, Devon.
Totnes Motor Museum, Devon.
Transport and Technology Museum, Basingstoke, Hampshire.
(Temporary name.)
Steam engines and road vehicles made in Hampshire.
Due to open 1999.
Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading.
Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage, Oxon.
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London.
The largest museum of the decorative arts in the world.
Includes an index.
See also the
National Art Library,
collections departments and
Dartington Crystal glass.
The
Virtual Museum of Computing.
A completely virtual collection of exhibits on the history of
computers, etc.
Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckingshire.
Museum of the Year, 1997.
Collection of English and Dutch old master paintings, Sèvres
porcelain, continental and French furniture, etc.,
housed in a French Renaissance style chÂteau built by
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the 1870s.
Owned by the
National Trust.
The
Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London.
Paintings (especially French 18th C.), miniatures,
decorative arts, arms and armour.
Wallingford Museum, Oxon.
Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, Tring, Hertfordshire.
Wellcome Museum, University of Wales, Swansea.
Egyptian antiquities owned by Sir Henry Wellcome.
Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London.
"Number One, London", 19th century home of the 1st Duke of Wellington.
Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum, near St. Austell, Cornwall.
Heritage centre.
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester.
Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints, wallpapers, modern art.
Includes a
collections
database.
Wigan Pier.
Local history presentations and Mill & Engine House.
William Morris Gallery, Waltham Forest, London.
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, London.
Windermere Steamboat Museum, Cumbria.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
See
collections of contemporary, Pop, mid 20th century and
Victorian art.
The
Wordsworth Museum, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria.
Maintained by the Wordsworth Trust.
Wycombe Museum, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
Includes furniture collections.
The
York Dungeon, York.
Museum of horror.
Aberdeenshire
(North East Scotland Museums Service).
Birmingham.
Bolton, Lancashire.
See also
attractions.
Bradford, Yorkshire.
Brighton, Sussex.
Bristol Museums Service.
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Cambridge.
Cambridgeshire.
Chester, Cheshire.
Cotswolds.
Dorchester, Dorset.
Dorset.
See also
here.
Dumfries, Scotland.
See also
Sanquhar and
Stranraer.
Durham.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
See also
monthly guide and
map.
Exeter, Devon.
See also
here.
Fife, Scotland.
See also
East Fife Museums Service.
Glasgow, Scotland.
See also
here.
Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Hampshire.
Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.
Hereford.
Hull.
Kent
(see also
County Council museums)
Lancashire (contact information only).
Leeds, Yorkshire.
Leicestershire.
Liverpool attractions.
London.
See also
art galleries,
list of attractions,
virtual communities museums list and
museums and galleries.
Manchester.
See also
arts organizations and
art galleries.
Moray, north east Scotland.
Norfolk from the
Norfolk Museums Service.
North East England from the
North of England Museums Service (NEMS).
Norwich, Norfolk.
Nottingham.
Oxfordshire.
Pembrokeshire.
Reading, Berkshire.
St. Albans.
Scotland from the
Scottish Museums Council.
Sheffield.
Southampton.
Somerset.
South-East England (Kent, Surrey and Sussex).
Southwark attractions, London.
Stoke-on-Trent, museums of the potteries.
Suffolk Museums Service.
Surrey, including
disabled information.
Sussex attractions.
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Torbay, Devon.
Wakefield district
(including
Pontefract and
Castleford), Yorkshire.
Walsall.
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Wansbeck, Northumberland.
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Warwickshire.
West Sussex.
Weymouth attractions, Dorset.
Wiltshire (west).
Winchester, Hampshire.
Worcester attractions.
York.
See also
here.
Aviation museums.
Maritime museums.
Military museums.
Railway preservation sites. E.g.:
Birmingham Railway Museum.
Bressingham Steam Museum & Gardens.
Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland.
Information on the Roman wall and its suroundings
from Tynedale District Council.
Tour of
No. 10 Downing Street, London.
Home of Britain's Prime Ministers since 1735.
You may sign the
visitor's book.
See also
visits to the Houses of Parliament.
Virtual Stonehenge.
Greenwich Millennium Exhibition, including
Old Father Thames, from
Greenwich2000.
Tower of London virtual tour and
Tower of London introduction (using ShockWave).
The Virtual Tour of
Winchester College.
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN).
See
related information and
search facilities.
Electronic gateway to UK museums by region and
museum organizations from the the
Museums Association.
MuseumNet, including an
alphabetical guide,
regional guide and a
what's new page.
Museums OnLine guide to the UK's museums,
including an
A-Z of UK museums and
news.
Museums sorted by name and
by location from
Welcome to Britain.
UK museums e-mail directory from the
Museums Documentation Association.
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Museums Documentation Association (MDA),
including a
UK Museums E-mail Directory.
Museums Guide from
Art Guide to Britain and Ireland.
ICOM UK (United Kingdom National Committee of the
International Council of Museums).
See also
UK ICOM mirror site.
Museums Week
(16-24 May 1998) including
search facilties.
UK museums guide in
Japanese by
Yohji Iwamoto.
Department of Museum Studies,
University of Leicester.
British Museum Key Stage 2 virtual tour by
All Souls Primary School.
800 year-old "unicorn horn", saved for
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.
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Britannia Rules the Seas walking tour of Greenwich,
including the National Maritime Museum, by
Aquanet. (Slow from the UK.)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition,
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow (25/5/96 - 30/9/96).
Famous Scottish architect and designer.
Touring to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles (19/11/96 - 2/11/97).
National Trust.
See also
unofficial guide, including
maps and
searching using Java.
Science Centres in the UK from the
Exploratory.
UK museum search from
WWLib.
Museums and
art galleries listed in the
UK Directory.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
(previously the
Department of National Heritage),
UK Government.
See also
National Lotery information.
English Heritage, including
historic properties.
See
Archaeology Division.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of
England.
Includes the
National Monuments Record - see
picture gallery and
browse.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of
Scotland.
Early Work on the Arc Lamp, an
IEE Archives Department exhibition.
Search for "museum" in
Yellow Pages.
Art museums in the UK from
WWAR.
SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network).
A Millennium Project to build a networked multimedia resource base for
the study, teaching and appreciation of history and material culture in
Scotland.
Scarborough Millenium.
Tourist attraction in Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Visual Arts and Museums Unit,
Arts about Manchester.
Science and Technology Museums and Galleries information from the
British Council.
20thcentury on-line project.
A planned virtual museum of 20th century life in the UK.
UK Museum Organisation Home Page,
School of Conservation Sciences,
Bournemouth University.
Includes
Military Collections, Museums & Sites of Interest Directory and
searching.
See also
CHiDE.
The Bridgeman Art Library, London and
New York.
Hampshire County Council Museums Service.
Includes an excellent on-line
catalogue with
searching
and
browsing facilities,
as well as a
museums directory.
Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA).
See selected
museums and galleries and
links to other sites.
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