British Commercial Vehicle Museum
VENTURE BACK IN TIME.
Admire horse-drawn vehicles from the 1880s and learn how they gave way first to steam driven, then petrol & diesel powered motor lorries & buses. Perhaps remember times when garages might have just a single fuel pump, and someone would come out to serve you petrol at less than 4 shillings a gallon!
WANDER AT WILL.
Take your time & enjoy being able to move easily between exhibits to inspect them from all sides.
– Walk freely around over 60 historic vehicles – walkways have few roped-off areas and are wheelchair friendly, enabling visitors to get really close to early steam wagons; vintage fire-engines; double-deck & single-deck buses.
CLIMB ABOARD.
We don’t expect you to just stand and observe from a distance!
– See how many improvements have been made to make life easier and safer on the roads today.
– Get behind the wheel of a vintage lorry or experience the comforts of a modern truck cab.
– Admire the Pope-mobile, a specially built vehicle for Pope Paul’s visit in 1982.
– And children love our vintage fire engines with their big brass bells.
LISTEN TO & WATCH.
We help bring to life times past, and create an entertaining atmosphere.
– Hear marching soldiers and then the boom of big guns from the World War 1 ‘Sound & Light’ display.
– A fairground organ pipes melodies which gets toes tapping and frequently brings back nostalgic memories.
– Bells ring out from fire-engines rushing to an emergency call.
– Relax in the cinema to watch films from our archives.
– And then, our guides too have many interesting tales to tell!
George Marshall Medical Museum
The George Marshall Medical Museum is situated in the Charles Hastings Education Centre, an education and training facility for health care staff in Worcestershire. The museum is free to enter. The Charles Hastings Education Centre can be found on the site of the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, WR5 1DD.
The Museum exhibits Mr. George Marshall’s fantastic collection of objects illustrating the way that medicine and health care have developed over the past 250 years. Visitors to the Museum will see the gory collection of death masks of hanged criminals, the reconstructed apothecary shop and Victorian operating theatre.
Read MoreHinckley and District Museum
The Hinckley and District Museum is housed in a row of restored thatched cottages dating from the mid-seventeenth century once used for framework knitting. Find out about the history of the Hinckley area from pre-historic to medieval times.
Read MoreCrawfordjohn Heritage Venture Trust
Crawfordjohn, a small village nestling in the hills of South Lanarkshire on the border of Dumfriesshire, is surrounded by farming and forestry and if you blink you will miss it.
The community of Crawfordjohn, up until recent years, made their living either by working on the local farms or by supplying goods and services to them. The village hall and churches were the centre of community life. As times have changed the occupations and needs of the resident community have also changed so a more diverse community now exists.
The old village hall has been replaced with a bright new modern building and the churches have closed. One of those churches dating back to the 18th century has now become our Heritage Venture.
Read MoreThe Museum of Military Medicine
The four collections of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RAVC), Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) and Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC) are held at the AMS Museum in Keogh Barracks, Mytchett, Surrey.
The Museum tells the story of army medicine and healthcare, human and animal, from the English Civil War to the current day as AMS personnel continue to serve across the globe as part of the British Army.
The collections on display include uniforms and insignia, medical, dental and veterinary equipment, ambulances and much more besides. The Museum not only houses a fantastic collection of artefacts, but also an extensive library and archive that records the many stories of those that have served and their achievements.
Currently there is a temporary exhibition on medicine during World War One which is updated during the year to reflect advances in battlefield medicine as the war progressed.
Read MoreNelson Museum
Welcome to the Nelson Museum, the only museum dedicated solely to telling the story of our national hero, Lord Horatio Nelson and the times in which he lived.
- Explore Nelson’s childhood in Norfolk, his career, famous battles and tragic, heroic death.
- Find out more about his mesmerising personality and complicated love life, the scandal of his day!
- Discover Life Below Decks
- Relax in the picnic area of the Maritime Courtyard and admire the Georgian herb garden.
‘Excellent content and presentation. Thought provoking. An experience to be long remembered.’
(Comment from our visitors)
- Relax on sofas and enjoy delicious coffee, tea and treats in our new ‘Galley’ tea room.
- Learn about ‘Nelson the man’ and the women he loved in our newly re-presented exhibition.
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Ken Hawley Collection
The Hawley Collection is an internationally important material record of tool making, cutlery manufacture and silversmithing from Sheffield, together with complementary material from Britain and the rest of the world.
This collection is unique in that it combines finished artefacts and work in progress to illustrate how things were made. Together with published catalogues, archival material, pictures, photographs, tapes and films, it records the development of many of Sheffield’s manufacturing processes and products and the skills of the workpeople involved.
Read MoreLiskeard and District Museum
The museum is housed in a Victorian Gothic Style stone building, that was the former East
Cornwall Savings Bank. Called Forester’s Hall, it was designed by one of Liskeard’s
foremost architects, Henry Rice. The building was built in 1835, a time when Liskeard was
becoming prosperous thanks to wealth from local mines. The history of the area is tied up
with the early extraction of tin and agriculture.
Museum of Design in Plastics
MoDiP houses three distinct collections: the MoDiP collection, consisting of predominantly 20th and 21st century mass-produced artefacts; the Plastics Historical Society collection, which includes examples of the very-first man-made plastics; and the Worshipful Company of Horners collection of artefacts made from horn, a natural plastic. Together they provide a comprehensive history of the use of natural and synthetic plastics in design.
Read MoreBallycastle Museum
Ballycastle Museum is housed in the listed 18th century courthouse and market building in the town centre. Visitors to the Accredited Museum can explore the permanent display of the fascinating history of the Irish Homes Industries Workshop, its role in the 1904 St Louis World Fair and the Arts and Crafts Revival in Ireland. Highlights also include Bronze Age archaeology, Boyds 18th century Ballycastle and the magnificent Taise Banner from the first Feis na nGleann in 1904.
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