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Herne Bay Museum and Gallery displays include local paintings, prints and photos, mammoth tucks and fossils from local beaches, coastal wildlife and a Barnes Wallis Bouncing Bomb prototype from World War Two. Among display themes are seaside holid...
At Hopewell Colliery Museum you can walk through a true Forest of Dean Freemine. See mine workings, some date to 1820's. See the old mine working tools on diplay and visit the Hopewell Colliery Museum cafe....
World renowned falconer Jemima Parry-Jones and her team look forward to welcoming you to the International Centre for Birds of Prey, near Newent in Gloucestershire. Described recently as a Hidden Gem, the Centre houses over 280 birds of prey, eagl...
The history of Sudeley Castle and its award-winning gardens spans over a thousand years and contains many varied tales of royal associations, wars and periods of neglect and subsequent restoration. The Castle has changed hands over a dozen times ...
The Edward Jenner Museum, in the historic town of Berkeley, is housed in the elegant Queen Anne house which was Dr Jenner's home from 1785 until his death. Displays celebrate the life and work of this world famous 18th century doctor who was also a m...
In 1898 the third Baron de Ferrieres, a former Mayor and MP for Cheltenham, gave 43 important paintings, mostly from Belgium and the Netherlands, to the town, together with £1000 towards the building of a gallery in which to house them. This was ope...
The Cotswold Motoring Museum is owned and run by CSMA Club.
CSMA Club is an organisation which was founded in 1923 and now has more than 460,000 members. The Museum was acquired in 1999 when the original owner retired. The Museum reflects the moto...
This is Cheltenham's musical gem - the Regency terrace house where Gustav Holst, composer of The Planets was born in 1874. The story of the man and his music is told alongside a fascinating display of personal belongings including his piano. The muse...
The Dean Heritage Centre has five galleries and a library to explore inside the Museum, numerous
displays and attractions to discover outside and a cafe overlooking the mill pond.
The Museum of the Forest comprises 5 galleries. These explore th...
The Great Western Railway Museum is housed in one of the last remaining permanent railway buildings in the Forest of Dean, on the original site of Coleford Railway Yard. It is the original GWR Goods Station of 1883. The Museum features a 7 1/4' gauge...
Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery is housed in a stunning Victorian building in the heart of the City, it contains many items of national and international importance. Among the spectacular collection are archaeological finds, fine and decorativ...
Gloucester Folk Museum is one of the oldest-established museums dedicated to social history. The collections have been drawn together through mainly gifts from Gloucestershire, and represent one of the most fascinating collections of such material. <...
Tailor of Gloucester Beatrix Potter Museum is a charming shop and museum is open to the public every day where you will be served by our enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers. The house, pictured left is the original building used by Beatrix Pott...
In the heart of Gloucester's historic docks, a museum that tells the fascinating story of Britain's 2000 miles of waterways and helps capture life in a working docks.
Displays cover many aspects of waterways from the ingenious engineering to home...
We encourage you to visit the Museum. There is no substitute for seeing the items in our magnificent collections first hand. There is something for everyone here from researchers to young children, from detailed archives and research facilities to ch...
Housed in a 17th century Cotswold cottage, this fine collection of local domestic, agricultural, trade and craft tools is one of Oxfordshire's oldest small museums, set up by George Swinford in the 1930s.
For 2010, the subjects covered will be 'Th...
The Old Mill at Lower Slaughter, Owned by Gerald Harris, a well Known Jazz Singer, is undergoing an ambitious restoration scheme which will continue into the millenium. At present the business is thriving as a museum gift and craft shop with riversid...
Some years ago Gerry Tyack opened his small museum dedicated to all those who served or who passed through RAF Moreton-in-Marsh, on one of the many training courses for RAF bomber command. Though the airfield is now a fire training station Gerry keep...
The Sutton collection of teddy bears, dolls and doll related items, many other Victorian and later toys, games and books. Also on show are textiles, lace, porcelain, pottery and other interesting collectables. Large shop selling items similar to thos...
The Museum in the Park is set in Stratford Park in the centre of Stroud, Gloucestershire.
The Museum is housed in a Grade II 17th century wool merchant's mansion. Objects and colourful displays combined with an exciting public programme combine t...
Tetbury Police Museum displays in cells, police office and the former magistrates court. Selection of uniforms, photo's, documents, equipment etc....
Our museum was created, by The Abbey Lawn Trust, in memory of the writer and naturalist John Moore, whose knowledge and love of the countryside was paramount.
John Moore was Gloucestershire's best-known and loved author of the Twentieth century - ...
A fun learning experience for children and adults alike.
DISCOVER, SEE, RUMMAGE, EXPLORE AND ENJOY!
Discover Tewkesbury's rich and diverse past from prehistory to the Victorians.
See the medieval battle scene and find out about the differe...
This unique museum in the Victorian Town Hall has two themes. The Folk Collection shows the history and heritage of the ancient town of Winchcombe and its people with displays, historic items and much local and family history information. The Police ...
Winchcombe Railway Museum and Garden displays of tools and equipment which show railway life in the days of steam. Signals and working models are visitor operated. Set in 1.5 acres of gardens....
An internationally acclaimed National Museum presenting the dramatic 500-year history of the rise and fall of the British Empire and the emergence of the modern Commonwealth.
The award-winning galleries are packed full of interactive exhibits, vid...
Bristol's major museum and art gallery houses an outstanding and diverse range of objects, from sea dinosaurs to magnificent art. A visit to the region's largest museum and art gallery is guaranteed to inspire you!
The City Museum & Art Gallery is...
Explore hundreds of weird and wonderful objects inside the museum that show how people used to live in the past. Gaze out of this 18th century mansion house over 400 acres of beautiful parkland and imagine that it all belongs to you and your family....
15th-century tithe barn. The barn, with its immense stone-tiled roof, is picturesquely located on the banks of the River Severn....
Nine rustic cottages around a green. The hamlet of nine different picturesque cottages was designed by John Nash in 1809 for Quaker banker and philanthropist John Harford, to accommodate Blaise Estate pensioners....
Large medieval threshing barn. The 14th-century barn is beautifully constructed of local Cotswold stone and noted for its dramatic aisled interior and unusual stone chimney cowling....
Remains of one of the largest Romano-British villas in the country. Set in a wooded Cotswold combe, the site was excavated in 1864 and retains a Victorian atmosphere. Over a mile of walls survives and there are several fine mosaics, two bathhouses, h...
Spectacular late 17th-century mansion, garden and deer park. Dyrham Park is a beautiful baroque country house set in 110 hectares (274 acres) of garden and parkland, designed by Talman for William Blathwayt, Secretary at War during the reign of Willi...
13th-century Cistercian abbey. Founded in 1246 and once a celebrated pilgrimage site, the abbey now lies in ruins. Remains of the dramatic cloister arches survive and there is a small museum....
Celebrated 20th-century garden in the beautiful North Cotswolds. One of England's great gardens, Hidcote was designed and created in the Arts & Crafts style by the horticulturist Major Lawrence Johnston. It is arranged as a series of outdoor rooms, e...
Rare 17th-century grandstand and Cotswold country estate. Situated on the picturesque Sherborne Estate in the Cotswolds, Lodge Park was created in 1634 by John 'Crump' Dutton. Inspired by his passion for gambling and banqueting, it is a unique surviv...
Tudor hunting lodge. This unusual and atmospheric property was built c.1550 as a hunting lodge and added to in the 1790s. It stands high on the edge of a 40ft cliff with outstanding views....
Cotswold manor house with eclectic collection and Arts and Crafts-style garden. Snowshill Manor contains Charles Paget Wade's extraordinary collection of craftmanship and design, including musical instruments, clocks, toys, bicycles, weavers' and spi...
Spectacular Victorian country house and estate. Situated on a ridge overlooking the beautiful Land Yeo Valley, Tyntesfield was inspired and remodelled by John Norton in 1864 for William Gibbs, a successful merchant. The mansion is an extraordinary Go...
15th-century gatehouse. This is the gatehouse of the College of Priests (founded in the 13th century), of which John Wyclif was prebend. There is an interesting church (not NT) nearby....
Dutch water garden - a rare and beautiful survival. Originally laid out in 1696-1705, this is the only restored Dutch water garden in the country. It was the National Trust's first garden restoration, undertaken in 1971, and is planted with species d...
Beautiful secluded Cotswold valley. The valley contains a 'lost garden' -- the remains of an 18th- and 19th-century landscape park with a chain of five lakes, fringed by woodland pasture. An unfinished Victorian mansion (not NT), is open to the publi...
One of England's finest and most complete Jacobean houses. Chastleton House is filled not only with a mixture of rare and everyday objects, furniture and textiles collected since its completion in 1612, but also with the atmosphere of 400 years of co...
Although Stanton Drew Circles is the third largest collection of prehistoric standing stones in England, the three circles and three-stone 'cove' of Stanton Drew are surprisingly little-known. Recent surveys have revealed that Stanton Drew Circles...
Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse is a 16th-century gatehouse, one of the latest monastic buildings in England. Kingswood Abbey Gatehouse displays a richly sculpted mullioned window. It is the sole survivor of this Cistercian abbey....
Odda's Chapel is one of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, this chapel was built in 1056 by Earl Odda, and rediscovered in 1865 subsumed into a farmhouse. Nearby is the equally famous Saxon parish church....
Nympsfield Long Barrow is a large Neolithic burial mound with spectacular vistas over the Severn Valley. Nympsfield Long Barrow internal burial chambers are uncovered for viewing....
Belas Knap Long Barrow is a good example of a Neolithic long barrow, with the mound still intact and surrounded by a stone wall. Belas Knap Long Barrow chamber tombs where the remains of 31 Stone Age people were found, have been opened up so that vi...
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