Museums in England

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

Monuments and plaques commemorate the local man whose invention shrunk the world.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A rare example of the RAF’s flying spy taxi.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.