History Museums in the United Kingdom
Museums telling the story of the United Kingdom – from the Romans and medieval castles through the Industrial Revolution to the World Wars and the recent past.
666Museums
12Regions
South East England (114)
Blenheim Palace
£41
Windsor Castle
£32
Bletchley Park
£25.87
Dover Castle
£24.65
HMS Victory
£36
Royal Pavilion
£21.50
Leeds Castle
£34.50
Osborne House
£20.06
Hever Castle
£25.50
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Free admission
Carisbrooke Castle
£12.32
Highclere Castle
£25
Chartwell
£24
Waddesdon Manor
£27
Fishbourne Roman Palace
£15
Knole
£19
Cliveden
£23
Frogmore House
Jane Austen's House
£15.50
Deal Castle
£8.50
Upnor Castle
Hurst Castle
£9.50
Walmer Castle and Gardens
£13.85
Yarmouth Castle
£6.88
Petworth House and Park
£21
Southsea Castle
Free admission
Broughton Castle
£13
Greys Court
£19
History of Science Museum
Free admission
Monk's House
£12
National Motor Museum
£28.35
Penshurst Place and Gardens
£17
Scotney Castle
£20
Stowe House
£9.50
The National Museum of Computing
£20
West Wycombe Park
£12
Charleston
£29
Farnham Castle
£5
Guildford Castle
£5
Ightham Mote
£19
Basildon Park
£20
Bignor Roman Villa
£11.50
Boarstall Tower
Goodwood House
£15
Bateman's
£18
Bluebell Railway
£27
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
£10.50
Mary Rose Ship Hall and Museum
£36
Museum of Military Medicine
Polesden Lacey
£18
Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
£13.95
Royal Navy Museum
£36
Royal Navy Museums: Submarines
£36
The Vyne
£18
Amberley Museum
£14
Basing House
£11
Booth Museum of Natural History
Butser Ancient Farm
£15.50
Chiddingstone Castle
£15.25
Claydon House
£12
Didcot Railway Centre
£12
Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower
£36
Great Dixter
£17.75
Hughenden Manor
£18
Kent & East Sussex Railway
£30
Lamb House
£10
Loseley Park
£22
Museum of English Rural Life
Free admission
Parham House
£16.50
SeaCity Museum
£14.50
Weald and Downland Living Museum
£14.90
Ashdown House
£7.50
Battle of Britain Memorial
£6
Canterbury Roman Museum
£11
Charles Dickens' Birthplace Museum
£6.95
Chastleton House
£15
Clandon Park
Dorney Court
£14
Goodnestone Park
£7
Mapledurham House
£31.50
Museum of Oxford
£4
Newhaven Fort
£19.95
PS Medway Queen
£10
Royal Engineers Museum
£17.50
Royal Marines Experience
£36
Stonor Park
£13
Stratfield Saye House
£14
Titsey Place
£10
Tudor House and Garden
£10
Abingdon County Hall Museum
Free admission
Alfriston Clergy House
£10
Anne of Cleves House
£7.50
Arundel Museum
£5.75
Ascott House
£12.95
Belmont House and Gardens
£10
Bexhill Museum
£4
Brading Roman Villa
£15.40
Brooklands Museum
£24.35
Buckingham Old Gaol
£5
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
£12.50
Chenies Manor House
£8
Chesham Museum
Chiltern Open Air Museum
£13.50
Curtis Museum
Free admission
FAST Museum
Free admission
Glynde Place
£10
Godinton House
£17.50
Guildford Museum
Free admission
Guildhall Museum, Rochester
£5
Hammerwood Park
£10
Haslemere Museum
Free admission
Horsham Museum and Art Gallery
Free admission
Kent Battle of Britain Museum
£12
Kent Museum of Freemasonry
Free admission
London (84)
British Museum
Free admission
Buckingham Palace
£33
Tower of London
£38
National Gallery
Free admission
Royal Observatory Greenwich
£24
Tate Modern
Free admission
Victoria and Albert Museum
Free admission
Natural History Museum
Free admission
Kensington Palace
£19
Hampton Court Palace
£30
National Portrait Gallery
Free admission
Science Museum
Free admission
Imperial War Museum London
Free admission
Tate Britain
Free admission
National Maritime Museum
Free admission
HMS Belfast
£26.80
Queen's House
Free admission
Wallace Collection
Free admission
Apsley House
£10.79
Freud Museum London
£14.90
Kenwood House
Free admission
Sir John Soane's Museum
Free admission
Kew Palace
£17
London Transport Museum
£27
Churchill War Rooms
£34
Eltham Palace and Gardens
£15.38
Old Royal Naval College
£19
Strawberry Hill House
£16.50
Charles Dickens Museum
£14
Chiswick House & Gardens
£13.50
RAF Museum London
Free admission
Red House
£14
Royal Hospital Chelsea
Free admission
Spencer House
£19.50
Syon House
£16.50
Bruce Castle Museum
Free admission
Down House
£15.38
Leighton House
£14
Osterley Park and House
£18
Ham House and Garden
£18
Handel Hendrix House
£14.50
Royal Mews
£18
Florence Nightingale Museum
£12
Young V&A
Free admission
Jewel Tower
£6.88
Museum of the Home
Free admission
National Army Museum
Free admission
Foundling Museum
£13.50
Wellcome Collection
Free admission
Battle of Britain Bunker
£14
Clink Prison Museum
£10
Jack the Ripper Museum
£12
London Museum Docklands
Free admission
Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum
Free admission
Fulham Palace
Free admission
Garden Museum
£16
Boston Manor House
Free admission
Cinema Museum
£15
Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum
Keats House
£10.30
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
£14
2 Willow Road
£13
Chislehurst Caves
£10
HMS Wellington
London Canal Museum
£8
Queer Britain
Free admission
The Postal Museum
£20.50
Benjamin Franklin House
£10
Brunel Museum
£10
Dennis Severs' House
£16
Golden Hinde
£6
Hogarth's House
Free admission
Hunterian Museum
Free admission
Orleans House Gallery
Free admission
Sutton House and Breaker's Yard
Valentines Mansion
Free admission
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
£20
World Rugby Museum
£12.50
Barnet Museum
Free admission
Crofton Roman Villa
Eastbury Manor House
£9
Fenton House
£14
Havering Museum
£3
William Morris Society & Museum
£5
South West England (83)
Tintagel Castle
£15.38
Bristol Dockyards
£22
The Tank Museum
£19.60
Roman Baths
£23.50
Dunster Castle and Watermill
£19
Berkeley Castle
£17
Pendennis Castle
£12.32
Powderham Castle
£14.95
Sudeley Castle and Gardens
£24
Dartmouth Castle
£8.50
Kingston Lacy
£23
Montacute House
£15
Farleigh Hungerford Castle
£7.65
Jane Austen Centre
£18
Compton Castle
£12
Greenway
£18
Portland Castle
£7.65
Castle Drogo
£18
Lulworth Castle
£9
Sherborne Castle
£15
Herschel Museum of Astronomy
£12.50
Jamaica Inn
£3.95
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
£8
Tiverton Castle
£10
Clouds Hill
£12
Cotehele
£18
STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway
£14
Tintagel Old Post Office
£8
West Somerset Railway
£36
Barrington Court
£13
Fashion Museum
Geevor Tin Mine
£23
Knightshayes Court
£18
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
£12.50
Saltram House
£16
Antony House
£13
Beckford's Tower and Museum
£10
Morwellham Quay
£9
Mount Edgcumbe House
£14
Pencarrow
£18.75
Royal Artillery Museum
Free admission
Sezincote House
£9
South Devon Railway
£23
Swanage Railway
£27.50
The Bishop’s Palace and Gardens
£15
Trerice
£15
Tyntesfield
£21
A La Ronde
£12
Clevedon Court
£13
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
£13.95
Georgian House Museum
Free admission
Hestercombe House
£15.30
Highcliffe Castle
£10
Killerton
£18
Lanhydrock House
£24
Levant Mine and Beam Engine
£14
Museum of Bath Architecture
Penlee House Museum and Gallery
£8
Prideaux Place
£18.50
Red Lodge Museum
Free admission
Treasurer's House
£5
Aerospace Bristol
£20
Alexander Keiller Museum
£7
American Museum and Gardens
£17
Arlington Court and the National Trust Carriage Museum
£18
Bodmin and Wenford Railway
£9
Charles Wesley's House
Chavenage House
£12
Chedworth Roman Villa
£15
Clearwell Caves
£14
Coleridge Cottage
£9.50
Coleton Fishacre
£18
Cotswold Motoring Museum
£9.95
Crownhill Fort
£5
Dean Forest Railway
£18
Dr Jenner's House
£10
Godolphin
£14
Great Chalfield Manor and Garden
£15
Haynes Motor Museum
£22.45
John Wesley's New Room
£8
Kelly House
Kirkham House
Free admission
National Waterways Museum Gloucester
£10
Scotland (81)
Balmoral Castle
£10
Edinburgh Castle
£23.50
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Free admission
National Museum of Scotland
Free admission
Glamis Castle
£19.50
Royal Yacht Britannia
£23
Inveraray Castle
£18.50
Riverside Museum
Free admission
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Free admission
Craigievar Castle
£18
Braemar Castle
£16
Castle of Mey
£18.30
Crathes Castle
£18
Fort George
£10
The Hunterian
Free admission
Corgarff Castle
£7.50
Hill House
£15
HMS Unicorn
£9.20
Thirlestane Castle
£16.50
Mount Stuart
Castle of St John
Free admission
People's Palace
Shetland Museum and Archives
Free admission
Tall Ship Glenlee
£4.50
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum
Free admission
Writers' Museum
Free admission
Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Free admission
Dean Castle
Free admission
Jedburgh Castle Jail and Museum
Free admission
Museum of Edinburgh
Free admission
Provand's Lordship
Free admission
Scotland Street School Museum
Scottish Football Museum
£10
The R&A World Golf Museum
£17.50
Callendar House
Free admission
David Livingstone Birthplace
£10
Glasgow Women's Library
Free admission
McLean Museum and Art Gallery
Free admission
Meffan Museum and Art Gallery
Free admission
Museum of Childhood
Free admission
Museum on the Mound
Free admission
National Mining Museum Scotland
£4
National Museum of Rural Life
£12.50
Orkney Museum
Free admission
Perth Museum
Free admission
Stromness Museum
£8
Surgeons' Hall Museum
£10
Trinity House
£7.50
Hackness Battery and Martello Tower
Inveraray Jail
£16.50
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
Free admission
Moirlanich Longhouse
£4.50
National Museum of Flight
£15
People's Story Museum
Free admission
SS Explorer
Free admission
St Andrews Museum
Free admission
St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum
£7.50
Stonehaven Tolbooth
Free admission
The Tenement House
£10
Tolbooth Museum
Verdant Works Museum
£13
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
Free admission
Arbroath Signal Tower Museum
Free admission
Barry Mill
£10
Blairs Museum
Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway
£17
Campbeltown Heritage Centre
Free admission
Culross Palace
£14
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
Free admission
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
£9
Dunblane Museum
Free admission
Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries
Free admission
Fife Folk Museum
Free admission
Gairloch Museum
£9
Glenesk Folk Museum
£5
Gordon Highlanders Museum
£15.50
Groam House Museum
Free admission
John Paul Jones Cottage Museum
£6
Kirkcudbright Tolbooth and Art Gallery
Free admission
Peterhead Prison Museum
£18
Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm
£7
West Midlands (59)
Warwick Castle
£26
Ludlow Castle
£10
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Free admission
Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden
£13.85
Shakespeare's Birthplace
£25
Aston Hall
£10
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
£5.40
Stafford Castle
Free admission
Stokesay Castle
£9.26
Cadbury World
£18
Soho House
Anne Hathaway's Cottage
£15
Hartlebury Castle
£15.25
Tamworth Castle
£11.95
Baddesley Clinton
£18
Charlecote Park
£18
Coughton Court
£15.50
Coventry Transport Museum
£15.50
Croome
£18
Eastnor Castle
£15.50
Blists Hill Victorian Town
£24
Croft Castle
£17
RAF Museum Midlands
Free admission
Weston Park
£13
Berrington Hall
£17
Boscobel House and The Royal Oak
£12.32
Chillington Hall
£15
Harvington Hall
£13.50
National Motorcycle Museum
£17
Packwood House
£18
Ragley Hall
Shugborough Estate
£18
Upton House and Gardens
£18
Wightwick Manor and Gardens
£18
Arbury Hall
£16
Attingham Park
£18
British Motor Museum
£18
Midland Air Museum
£11
Museum of Royal Worcester
£11.95
Pen Museum
£8.95
Whitmore Hall
£8
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
£15
Bantock House Museum
Free admission
Benthall Hall
£11
Birmingham Back to Backs
£12
Birmingham Proof House
Black Country Living Museum
£27.95
Blakesley Hall
£8
Cambrian Heritage Railways
£8
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron
£9
Coalport China Museum
Farnborough Hall
£9.50
Gladstone Pottery Museum
£9.10
Hanbury Hall
£18
Hellens Manor
£10
Izaak Walton's Cottage
Free admission
Jackfield Tile Museum
£12
St John Medieval Museum and Coningsby Hospital
Little Malvern Court & Gardens
£9
East of England (48)
Sandringham House
£26
Fitzwilliam Museum
Free admission
Hatfield House
£27
Woburn Abbey
Colchester Castle
£13.95
Framlingham Castle
Holkham Hall
£24
Kimbolton Castle
£10
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
£15.30
Hedingham Castle
£12
IWM Duxford
£26.80
Natural History Museum at Tring
Free admission
Orford Castle
£8.50
Audley End House and Gardens
£20.06
Blickling Estate
£18
Knebworth House
£22.50
Hylands House
Free admission
Caister Castle
£22
Oxburgh Estate
£14
Euston Hall
Anglesey Abbey
£19
Elton Hall
£18.50
Ickworth Estate
£15
Ingatestone Hall
£10.50
Shuttleworth Collection
£19.50
Somerleyton Hall
£11
Wimpole Estate
£21
Felbrigg Hall, Gardens and Estate
£16
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
£12.70
Strangers' Hall
£7.10
Bure Valley Railway
£15
Cressing Temple Barns
Free admission
Cromwell Museum
Free admission
Kentwell Hall
Layer Marney Tower
£12
Museum of Watford
Norfolk Tank Museum
£9.50
Tilbury Fort
£8.50
Christchurch Mansion
Free admission
City of Norwich Aviation Museum
£10
Colne Valley Railway
De Havilland Aircraft Museum
£12
Food Museum
£17.50
Frogmore Paper Mill
£15
Gainsborough's House
£15
Hill Hall
John Bunyan Museum and Library
Free admission
Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
£15
North West England (48)
Walker Art Gallery
Free admission
Chetham's Library
U-534
Mendips
£37
National Football Museum
£16
Imperial War Museum North
Free admission
Lyme Park
£19
International Slavery Museum
Free admission
Hill Top
£17
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Free admission
Muncaster Castle
£24.95
20 Forthlin Road
£37
Manchester Jewish Museum
£10
Museum of Liverpool
Free admission
Science and Industry Museum
Free admission
Sizergh Castle
£15
The Beatles Story
£20
Bramall Hall
£7
Clitheroe Castle
£5.20
Little Moreton Hall
£16
People's History Museum
Free admission
Hutton in the Forest
£11
Pankhurst Museum
£5
Rydal Mount
Wordsworth Grasmere
£16
Gawthorpe Hall
£7
Holker Hall
£15.95
Levens Hall
£15
Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester
£7.50
The Harris
Free admission
Wordsworth House and Garden
£6
Arley Hall and Gardens
£7
British Lawnmower Museum
£3
Croxteth Hall and Country Park
Dunham Massey
£11
Rufford Old Hall
£13
Speke Hall
£13
Sudley House
Free admission
Anson Engine Museum
£8
Astley Hall
Free admission
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Free admission
British Music Experience
£20
Capesthorne Hall
£8
Elizabeth Gaskell's House
£9
Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives
Free admission
Hat Works
Free admission
Hoghton Tower
£13.60
Leighton Hall, Lancashire
£14.20
Yorkshire and the Humber (47)
Castle Howard
National Railway Museum
Free admission
Harewood House
Conisbrough Castle
£7.65
Bolton Castle
£15
Yorkshire Museum
£10
Skipton Castle
£12.80
National Science and Media Museum
Free admission
Brontë Parsonage Museum
£15
Ripley Castle
£19.50
Royal Armouries Museum
Free admission
Helmsley Castle
£9.26
Bishops' House
Free admission
Leeds City Museum
Free admission
Temple Newsam
£10.50
Tolson Museum
Free admission
Weston Park Museum
Free admission
Arctic Corsair
Brodsworth Hall
£12.32
Burton Agnes Hall
£18.50
Cusworth Hall and Park
Free admission
Fairfax House
£8.50
Hull Maritime Museum
Free admission
Kelham Island Museum
Free admission
Magna Science Adventure Centre
£20.95
The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft
£13.50
Treasurer's House, York
£12
Barley Hall
£9.50
Bramham Park
£8
Captain Cook Museum Whitby
£11
Fountains Hall
£21
Green Howards Museum
£8.50
Leeds Industrial Museum
£6.40
Markenfield Hall
National Coal Mining Museum for England
Free admission
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
£48.95
Abbey House Museum
£7.35
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Free admission
Beck Isle Museum
£8
Bolling Hall Museum
Free admission
Bradford Industrial Museum
Free admission
Burton Constable Hall
£16
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
Free admission
Clifton Park Museum
Free admission
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum
Free admission
Hovingham Hall
Kiplin Hall
£13
East Midlands (44)
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Free admission
Pickford's House
Free admission
Museum of Making
Free admission
Lincoln Castle
£18
Althorp
Burghley House
£22
Belvoir Castle
£26
Tattershall Castle
£11
Belton House
£21
Woolsthorpe Manor
£15
Hardwick Hall
£23
Kedleston Hall
£21
Bolsover Castle
£13.85
National Tramway Museum
£24
Wollaton Hall
£18
Rockingham Castle
Calke Abbey
£8.50
Gordon Boswell Romany Museum
£8.50
Grimsthorpe Castle
Lincoln Museum
Free admission
Melbourne Hall
£8
The Children's Country House at Sudbury
£22
Heckington Windmill
£5
Kirby Hall
£9.26
Leicester Guildhall
Free admission
National Holocaust Centre and Museum
£10
Abbey Pumping Station Museum
Free admission
Bassetlaw Museum
Free admission
Gainsborough Old Hall
£9.26
Newarke Houses Museum
Free admission
The Old Manor at Norbury
£8
78 Derngate - The Charles Rennie Mackintosh House
£12
Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens
Free admission
Bakewell Old House Museum
£7.50
Belgrave Hall
Deene Park
£18
Doddington Hall
£13.50
Holdenby House
£12
International Bomber Command Centre
£11.50
Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
Free admission
Kelmarsh Hall
£14
Lamport Hall
£16
Lincoln Medieval Bishops' Palace
Free admission
National Gas Museum
Free admission
North East England (24)
Durham Castle
£7.50
Bamburgh Castle
£19.95
Warkworth Castle
Lindisfarne Castle
£13
Newcastle Castle
£13.65
Arbeia, South Shields Roman Fort
Free admission
Raby Castle
£23
Chillingham Castle
£15
Aydon Castle
£7.65
Cragside
£11
Auckland Palace
£20
Tynemouth Priory and Castle
£7.65
Chipchase Castle
£12
Locomotion
Free admission
Great North Museum: Hancock
Free admission
Wallington
£22
Bywell Hall
£10
Belsay Hall
£13.85
Hexham Old Gaol
£7
Tanfield Railway
£16.22
Washington Old Hall
£7
Bessie Surtees House
Free admission
Cherryburn
Free admission
Jarrow Hall
£11.50
Wales (24)
National Library of Wales
Free admission
National Museum Cardiff
Free admission
Smallest House in Great Britain
£1.50
St Fagans National Museum of History
Free admission
Gwydir Castle
£12
Hay Castle
£7.50
Big Pit National Coal Museum
Free admission
Castle and Regimental Museum, Monmouth
Free admission
National Wool Museum
Free admission
Cosmeston Medieval Village
Free admission
National Roman Legion Museum
Free admission
National Waterfront Museum
Free admission
Weobley Castle
£5.60
Ceredigion Museum
Nantclwyd y Dre
£9
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Free admission
Plas Newydd, Llangollen
£9
Swansea Museum
Free admission
Abergavenny Museum
Free admission
Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths
£5.80
Carmarthenshire Museum
Free admission
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
Chepstow Museum
Free admission
Holyhead Maritime Museum
£6
Northern Ireland (10)
History Museums in the United Kingdom: Overview & Tips
Our guide lists 666 history museums in the United Kingdom, spread across 12 regions and 387 towns and cities. Most of them are in South East England (114), London (84), and South West England (83).
At the city level, London (73), Edinburgh (12), and Liverpool (11) lead the way – ideal if you want to see several history museums in a single day.
157 museums are free to visit. For the others with a published price, a regular adult ticket costs £14 at the median, and the middle half charge between £10 and £18.
182 museums are fully wheelchair accessible, 485 offer dedicated programs for families, and 437 have a café or restaurant. These figures come from our ongoing research – museums whose details we haven’t verified yet aren’t included in the counts.
Top 10 history museums in the United Kingdom
The best-known history museums in the United Kingdom
British MuseumArt · London
Buckingham PalaceCastles & Palaces · London
Tower of LondonCastles & Palaces · London
Blenheim PalaceCastles & Palaces · Woodstock
Windsor CastleCastles & Palaces · Windsor
Bletchley ParkHistory · Milton Keynes
Dover CastleCastles & Palaces · Dover
HMS VictoryHistory · Portsmouth
Royal PavilionCastles & Palaces · Brighton
Leeds CastleCastles & Palaces · Maidstone
History museums in the United Kingdom with free admission
- British MuseumArt · London
National GalleryArt · London
Tate ModernArt · London
Victoria and Albert MuseumArt · London
Derby Museum and Art GalleryArt · Derby
Natural History MuseumNature · London
National Portrait GalleryArt · London
Science MuseumTechnology · London
Imperial War Museum LondonHistory · London
Tate BritainArt · London
History museums in the United Kingdom with programs for families
- British MuseumArt · London
- Buckingham PalaceCastles & Palaces · London
- Tower of LondonCastles & Palaces · London
- Blenheim PalaceCastles & Palaces · Woodstock
- Windsor CastleCastles & Palaces · Windsor
- Bletchley ParkHistory · Milton Keynes
- Dover CastleCastles & Palaces · Dover
- HMS VictoryHistory · Portsmouth
- Royal PavilionCastles & Palaces · Brighton
- Leeds CastleCastles & Palaces · Maidstone
Wheelchair-accessible history museums in the United Kingdom
- British MuseumArt · London
- Bletchley ParkHistory · Milton Keynes
- National GalleryArt · London
Balmoral CastleCastles & Palaces · Ballater- Tate ModernArt · London
- Derby Museum and Art GalleryArt · Derby
- Natural History MuseumNature · London
Kensington PalaceCastles & Palaces · London- National Portrait GalleryArt · London
- Science MuseumTechnology · London
History museums in the United Kingdom with the highest published visitor numbers
- Science MuseumTechnology · London
National Maritime MuseumTechnology · London
National Museum of ScotlandHistory · Edinburgh- National Portrait GalleryArt · London
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and MuseumArt · Glasgow
Riverside MuseumTechnology · Glasgow
Museum of LiverpoolHistory · Liverpool
Birmingham Museum & Art GalleryArt · Birmingham
Merseyside Maritime MuseumTechnology · Liverpool
Science and Industry MuseumTechnology · Manchester
By region
Cities with the most museums
Good to know
Founded 601Tynemouth Priory and Castle has the longest history3Mvisits a year at Science Museum – the top figure among history museums in the United Kingdom
307museums are regularly open on Mondays, too
2 hoursis how long a typical visit takes
Frequently asked questions
How many history museums are there in the United Kingdom?
Our directory currently lists 666 history museums in the United Kingdom across 387 towns and cities.
What are the best-known history museums in the United Kingdom?
Some of the best known are British Museum, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Blenheim Palace, and Windsor Castle.
Which history museums in the United Kingdom offer free admission?
157 museums are free to visit – for example British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, and Victoria and Albert Museum.
Which history museums in the United Kingdom are open on Mondays?
Many museums are closed on Mondays, but according to their regular hours 307 are open, such as British Museum, Tower of London, and Blenheim Palace.
Which history museums in the United Kingdom are wheelchair accessible?
182 museums are fully wheelchair accessible, including British Museum, Bletchley Park, and National Gallery. Others are partially accessible – you’ll find the details on each museum’s page.
How much does it cost to visit history museums in the United Kingdom?
A regular adult ticket costs £14 at the median, with prices ranging from £1.50 to £48.95. Children, students and families usually pay less.
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