Acton Scott Historic Working Farm is one of Britain's leading working farm museums. We specialise in practical demonstrations of historic farming using traditional skills and period horse-drawn machines. Every day you can see milking by hand and butter-making in the dairy. There are weekly visits from the wheelwright, farrier and blacksmith. In the woodsman's hut rakes and gate hurdles are being made. In addition, our award winning craft programme offers wide ranging demonstrations, events focusing on rural life and craft skills which complete the picture of estate life a hundred years ago.
Avoncroft is a fascinating world of historic buildings covering seven centuries, rescued and rebuilt on a beautiful open-air site in the heart of the Worcestershire countryside. Since the successful preservation of the Merchant's House, Avoncroft Museum has rescued a further 24 important buildings and structures, including a 17th century cock pit, a Victorian Mission Church, a windmill and a 1946 Prefab.
The museum occupies a twenty six acre urban heritage park in the shadow of Dudley Castle in the centre of the Black Country conurbation of two million people. Electric tramcars and trolleybuses transport visitors from the entrance in a recreated factory to the village area with thirty buildings situated by the canal basin. Coal mine displays include underground workings, colliery surface buildings and a replica of the 1712 Newcomen steam engine. In all forty two separate displays have either been re-erected or built to old plans to create a living open air museum.
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park
Bosworth is a site of national historic significance, being the location of one of the three most important battles fought on British soil. It is the site where the Battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and infamous as the place where King Richard III lost his life and crown to Henry Tudor and thus where the Tudor dynasty was born.
Charnwood Museum features a wide range of exhibits reflecting the history, geology, archaeology and industries of Charnwood and the surrounding area. Permanent displays include 'Coming to Charnwood', 'The Natural World of Charnwood', 'Living off the Land' and 'Earning a Living'. Each contains exhibits from the past and present including interactive displays, computers and audio-visuals. Visitors can handle rocks from Charnwood's volcanic past, walk beneath the giant oak tree, investigate the 4,000 year old burial of the Cossington Boy, visit the Victorian grocers shop or zoom-in on a fly's eye with the video microscope.
The museum is based in a Medieval Manor House dating back to 1280. The house has a fascinating history and is now restored with fine oak furnishings. Visitors to the house can now see restored rooms and displays on medieval life as well as a series of temporary exhibitions on a wide range of subjects. The house is set in recently recreated 17th century style gardens with flower gardens, an orchard, herb gardens and a maze. The adjoining stone barn is home to the Classics Tea Room.
The award winning Museum of Law Trust: Galleries of Justice, based at the Lace Market in the heart of Nottingham City. Featuring the exciting interactive exhibitions and tours, incorporating the Citizen`s Zone, which provides an innovative national and regional Citizenship and Crime Reduction learning resource - covering social and moral rights and responsibilities, community involvement and legal literacy.
Find out about the historic town of Market Harborough and its surrounding area. The district's history is celebrated with displays including important collections of toys, the Symington Collection of Corsetry, a reconstruction of a local bootmaker's workshop, local archaeological finds and a programme of regularly changing exhibitions. The museum itself is located on the second floor of the council offices.
Scene of pioneering events which led to the Industrial Revolution. Stunning scenery, a recreated Victorian town, Coalport China and the world famous Iron Bridge are just some of the attractions
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, in the West Midlands houses 70 aircraft and is home to War Planes, Missiles, Transport & Training and Research & Development collections. The newly opened National Cold War Exhibition with its interactive kiosks and hotspots gives visitors a chance to see what life was like behind the Iron Curtain.
Discover the exciting story of William Shakespeare's early years, and see where he spent the first five years with his new wife. See where prominent writers including Charles Dickens, John Keats, Walter Scott and Thomas Hardy have visited the house and left their mark.
Snibston is set on the site of a former colliery and consists of an award winning interactive museum, scheduled ancient colliery buildings, the Century Theatre, and a one hundred acre country park and nature reserve. The museum displays a diverse and rich collection of historic objects telling the story of technology and design and how it has affected everyday life from the past to the present day, and the future.
The National Motorcycle Museum is recognised as the finest and largest motorcycle museum in the world. Our aim is to make it even better. Important and famous machines are forever being added to our collection. It is a place where 'Legends Live On' and it is a tribute to and a living record of this once great British industry that dominated world markets for some sixty years. It is a place where an older generation can once again view with nostalgia the machines they rode in days gone by, and younger generations can study the development of the motorcycle from its earlier days to the golden years of the 1930s-60s, when British motorcycles 'ruled the world'.
There are now three halls which accommodate one of the most significant collections of preserved buses in the country. It has the largest collection of preserved Midland Red buses and can probably make the same claim for Birmingham City Transport.
Whether you just like looking at beautiful objects or have a specialist interest. We are the home of one of the most interesting ceramic collections in the world. Our galleries tell the story of Josiah Wedgwood, his family, and the company he founded two-and-a-half centuries ago
