Glasgow Museums: St Mungoʼs Museum

The museum is named after Glasgow’s patron saint who brought the Christian faith to Scotland in the 6th century. It is built on the site of the medieval Bishops’ Castle and is designed in its style. The galleries are full of displays, objects and stunning works of art that explore the importance of religion in peoples’ lives across the world and across time.

The venue aims to promote understanding and respect between people of different faiths and those of none and offers something for everyone. There are regular events, from family-friendly activities to talks about culture and religion in Scotland today. Or you can relax in the popular cafe which opens out to the first Zen garden in Britain.

The museum sits across from Provand’s Lordship, which is the oldest house in Glasgow, and alongside the Glasgow Cathedral. Why not take a trip to visit all three?

Sheringham Museum

Sheringham, on the beautiful North Norfolk coast, has a history that stretches back over a thousand years. The Museum tells the story of the town and its proud, brave, independent people over the last two centuries, told through beautiful displays packed with interesting things to see, hear and do.

Step inside stunning galleries and walk amongst Sheringham’s extraordinary historic fleet of lifeboats and fishing boats. Our collection includes a rich variety of photographs, social history items, agricultural and fishing artefacts as well as our spectacular fleet of boats. It’s well worth a visit!

The Museum organises well over 20 public events over the year, with a major 3-month exhibition each summer and events to support Sheringham’s many cultural initiatives.

Elmbridge Museum

Elmbridge Museum initially opened in 1909 as the Museum for Weybridge, and has operated as Elmbridge Museum since 1974.

The origins of the Museum dates back to the late 1800s. The Weybridge Literary and Mutual Improvement Society was formed to inspire ‘the artisans and working class of the village’, which they sought to do through public exhibitions.

In 1909 the Weybridge Urban District Council opened the Museum for Weybridge, dealing initially only with the Weybridge area. The remit widened to include Walton following the political amalgamation of the Walton and Weybridge Urban District Councils. Eventually the collection of the Walton based museum, established by Mr Percy Webb, was moved to Weybridge after the Second World War. Following the war the Museum reopened on the first floor of the original building, as the Weybridge Library moved in downstairs.

Burwell Museum

Set among beautifully preserved historic farming buildings, Burwell Museum tells the story of a bustling fen-edge village. Alongside the 19th-century mill, displays from the everyday to the amazing vividly recreate Burwell life over the ages.

• The Barn: this stunning 18th-century timber-framed barn contains reconstructions of an old Burwell wash room, kitchen, living room and child’s bedroom. There are agricultural displays of historic farm tools and machines, local building materials, plus historic plumbing and carpentry tools.
• Vintage Vehicles Gallery: see the last remaining ‘Burwell and District’ bus, rare carriages and vintage vehicles including a working (though slightly temperamental) 1907 Holsman, an Austin 7 and a mobile butcher’s shop.
• Nissen Hut contains items from both World Wars including a serviceman’s bed and locker and a range of uniforms. Contemporary songs and
  radio broadcasts play in the background. There is a working air-raid siren.
• Wagon Sheds house historic carts and farm machinery.
• Village Shop and Victorian Schoolroom, with interactive 1950s/60s mechanical telephone exchange and a reconstructed cab from a Burwell and District bus.
• Forge and Wheelwright’s Shop: originally from Haddenham Museum, this includes a working forge and hand-operated wheelwright’s lathe and is used for craft skills workshops and blacksmithing demonstrations.
• Audio-Visual Gallery: have a look through the archive of photographs and books of Burwell activities and events. Listen to oral recordings of Burwell people’s lives, and watch videos of life in East Anglia …
• Roman Pottery: contains a Roman kiln from Huntingdon, a replica potter’s wheel and pots.
• Shepherd’s Hut: an authentic local shepherd’s hut, complete with its own sheep …
• Revolving Summerhouse
• Museum shop in the Barn selling interesting gifts, books and light refreshments.

Epping Forest District Museum

Epping Forest District Museum reopened on Saturday 19 March 2016 after a grant of nearly £2 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund has helping to pay for improved facilities and displays in the original building and an extension into the building next door with increased exhibition space and an activity room.

Housed in Grade II* listed Tudor building in Waltham Abbey, the museum tells the story of the district through its collections and displays. The newly redeveloped museum features six galleries, the opportunity to see behind the scenes, a lift making the entire building accessible and lovely new community space for all to use.

Charleston Farmhouse

The Bloomsbury group included some of the twentieth century’s most pioneering artists, writers and thinkers – people who believed in debate, creativity, beauty, innovation and truth and whose work was guided by a sense of fun, freedom and irreverence. At Charleston we aim to further the Bloomsbury group’s experimentalism, internationalism and anti-establishment approach, their new ideals for living and belief that the arts and freedom of expression are fundamental.

A visit to Charleston is a liberating experience. The presence of Charleston’s Bloomsbury group occupants is still palpable today, as is their art, and the ideas that, from the rural tranquillity of the South Downs, helped to shape our society.

The decorated interiors and artists’ garden are more than a museum. Charleston’s entire cultural programme remains true to its origins whilst encouraging contemporary creativity.

We offer a haven for curious minds to immerse themselves in new ideas and provide an open door to explore personal freedoms and engage in Charleston’s multi-faceted heritage. Our world-leading collection of Bloomsbury art and archives is a beacon of excellence in conservation and interpretation that is open to everyone. Today Charleston is both daring and accessible.

Our talented staff and volunteers use their own creativity and experience to make Charleston a living experience for all. We support community learning and engagement; we commission contemporary artists, writers and thinkers to share new ideas in the spirit of Charleston’s Bloomsbury group inhabitants; and we aim to provide a life-enhancing environment for debate, creativity and excitement.

Portsmouth Museum

You will find a wealth of collections in our museums illustrating all aspects of Portsmouth and a great day out for families, schools or anyone who wants to find out more about our city.

London Canal Museum

At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London’s canals, about the cargoes carried, the people who lived and worked on the waterways, and the horses that pulled their boats. Peer down into the unique heritage of a huge Victorian ice well used to store ice imported from Norway and brought by ship and canal boat to be stored. This unique waterways museum is housed in a former ice warehouse built in about 1862-3 for Carlo Gatti, the famous ice cream maker, and features the history of the ice trade and ice cream as well as the canals.

There are two themes in this unusual London museum. London’s canals have a fascinating past and you will learn not only how they came to be built but about the lives of the workers, the cargoes, horses and how canals work. We are a waterways museum first and foremost, but also an industrial museum telling the story of the ice industry in London. It is the only London museum of inland waterways and is situated at King’s Cross, an accessible central location. It is suitable for adults and children and it is fully accessible to all visitors.

Berkshire Yeomanry Museum

The museum contains a well displayed and comprehensive collection tracing the history of the Regiment since its beginnings in 1794.

Royal Naval Museum