Denny Abbey and the Farmland Museum in Cambridgeshire has a unique and fascinating history. Founded in 1159 as a Benedictine monastery, it then became a retirement home for elderly Knights Templars. After the Templars' suppression for alleged heresy ...
Few museums in the world contain on a single site collections of such variety and depth as the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridgeshire. Writing in his Foreword to the catalogue of the exhibition for Treasures from the Fitzwilliam which toured the United...
Museum of Technology in Cambridgeshire has exhibits and history about Cambridgeshire....
In 1999 the small Rupert Brooke Museum opened its door to the public. The museum sits on the left hand side of the car park to the Orchard Tea Garden. The museum houses photographs and text of a brief biography on Rupert Brooke. There are also some a...
The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridgeshire was built as a memorial to Adam Sedgwick and has examples given by high figures such as Charles Darwin and Mary Anning.
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The Museum of Zoology is home to a huge variety of recent and fossil animals.
Our collections rival those of the major university museums world-wide, and are used for academic study by researchers within and beyond the University....
Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridgeshire has on display important collections of scientific models and instruments, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Chatteris Museum in Cambridgeshire is a small museum which displays the history of Chatteris with artefacts and photographs....
Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire tells the history of the local area. We have on display an original prison cell, fossils, Roman remains and more....
Prickwillow Engine Museum in Ely Cambridgeshire, displays a collection of six large diesel pumping engines, all British built and rescued from Fenland pumping stations....
The Stained Glass Museum in Ely Cambridgeshire, the Stained Glass Museum offers a unique insight into the fascinating story of stained glass, an art-form that has been practised in Britain for at least thirteen hundred years. The Museum Trust was set...
The March and District Museum Society was established, initially as an Historical Society, by a group of prominent March people in 1972. The Museum building was erected in 1851 by March Consolidated Charities as a girls' grammar school to be known as...
St Neots Museum in Cambridgeshire also shares the buliding with the St Neots Tourist Information Centre. The museum tells the story of St Neots town and people, you can also find out about St. Neots himself and about the town's vanished Priory....
The Blackout Britain War Museum in Huntingdon Cambridgeshire is filled with everyday items from 1939-45. From evacuation to rationing, bus tickets to bombs, you will find it all here....
The Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon Cambridgeshire tells the history of the significance of Oliver Cromwell....
The Norris Museum is the museum of Huntingdonshire. It tells the story of this historic county from the earliest times to the present day. THE OLDEST OBJECTS IN THE MUSEUM are the remains of animals that lived here 160 million years ago, in th...
Ramsey Rural Museum in Huntingdon Cambridgeshire is set in a various 18th Century farm buildings. The collections are varied selection of agricultural implements and tools that were once used by local craftsmen. There are a lot of examples of restore...
The Taggart Tile Museum and Gallery in Huntingdon Cambridgeshire is NOW CLOSED....
Did you know there are over 200,000 objects in Peterborough Museum's collection? They range from the most amazing Napoleonic bone palace to the largest fossil fish. The collection covers a great range of objects of national and international importan...
Thorney Heritage Museum in Thorney, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire main aim is the preservation of the heritage of Thorney, and to be a point of contact for education, research and general interest....
Whittlesey Museum Peterborough Cambridgeshire is on the ground floor of the 19th Century Town Hall in Market Street and was opened in 1976. The Costumes Room was once used to stable the town's horse drawn fire engine. Other rooms in the museum are fo...
Wisbech and Fenland Museum in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, is one of the oldest museums in the Britain. The Museum also houses two historic libraries and a vast range of archives, holding diocesean and borough items....
Jacobean-style country house with collection of treasures, set in fine formal and informal gardens. The house, dating from 1600 and built on the site of a 12th-century Augustinian priory, houses a unique collection representing the tastes of one man,...
Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse are now the remains of a former Benedictine abbey. Fragments of Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse, built on an island in the Fens, include the richly carved late 15th-century gatehouse with its ornate oriel window....
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