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Tiptree, England
Tiptree Jam Museum
As the Royal Family's jam supplier, this museum displays relics from the two world wars, farm equipment, a four legged chick, and other curiosities.
Portsmouth, England
18th Century Pirate’s Jolly Roger
This genuine, blood red Jolly Roger was captured off the North African coast in 1790 by Admiral Richard Curry.
Wisbech, England
Wisbech & Fenland Museum
This great example of a Victorian museum claims to be the oldest purpose-built museum in the UK.
Bradford, England
Bradford Industrial Museum
A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.
Wakefield, England
The Hepworth Wakefield
An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.
Apsley, England
Frogmore Paper Mill
The birthplace of paper's industrial revolution, where machine-made paper began.
Langham, England
Langham Dome
This museum tells the story of the first purpose-built military simulator buildings and RAF Langham.
Cirencester, England
Corinium Museum
This fascinating museum takes visitors through Britain’s Roman past.
Bath and North East Somerset, England
The Museum of East Asian Art
5,000 years of East and Southeast Asian art in the heart of Bath.
Sheffield, England
National Videogame Museum
An interactive museum where visitors can play through the evolution of video games.
Manchester, England
Manchester Jewish Museum
A Victorian synagogue-turned-museum chronicles centuries of Jewish life.
London, England
Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar
Once part of a magnificent Tudor palace, this wine cellar is a time capsule underneath the Ministry of Defence.
London, England
Garden Museum
Tony Blair's garden gnome and a Howitzer shell-turned-flower-pot are on display in this deconsecrated 13th-century church.
Maidstone, England
Iguanodon Statue
A reminder of the dinosaur skeleton discovered in a local quarry.
London, England
Exhale: Bionic Chandelier
A living lighting fixture.
Durham, England
'Seek Knowledge Even as Far as China'
A tile mosaic displaying a saying from the prophet Muhammad presents the mission of Durham University's Oriental Museum.
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