Museums in England

Discover 204 unusual museums in England.

World War II Lee Enfield rifle and Sten sub-machine gun , bayonets, World War I Webley pistol.

Hythe Library Museum

This vintage weapons display would be the perfect place for bibliophiles to hold out in a zombie apocalypse.

Hope Valley, England

The Round Building

This petite cutlery factory sits on the foundations of a defunct gasworks.

Wortley Trop Forge

Wortley, England

Wortley Top Forge

This industrial museum is based on one of the oldest standing iron forges in the U.K.

London, England

Victoria & Albert Museum Dining Rooms

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Gallopers.

Thursford, England

Thursford Collection

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

View of one of the coral reef marine ecosystems and its spectacular fish

London, England

Horniman Aquarium

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

The taxidermy "puma-pard."

Tring Natural History Museum Hybrid Animals

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

Congolese Kuyu sculptures.

Birchington-on-Sea, England

Powell-Cotton Ethnographic Collection

A vast archive of cultural artifacts collected from numerous expeditions across Africa and Asia.

The entrance to the Northampton Museum.

Northampton, England

Northampton Museum and Gallery

The museum houses one of the world's largest shoe collections, boasting over 12,000 pairs.

Entrance to one of the Rock Houses.

Kinver, England

Holy Austin Rock Houses

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

Exterior.

Rochdale, England

Rochdale Pioneers Museum

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

Newmarket, England

Potoooooooo

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

The flute-playing rat.

Deal Maritime and Local History Museum

A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.

House of Marbles.

Bovey Tracey, England

House of Marbles

This historic factory peddles classic toys from the picturesque English county of Devon.

London, England

Shield of Parade

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

The Woodeaton wolf-god.

London, England

Wolf-God of Woodeaton

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.