Museums & Art Galleries Bath

Radstock Museum
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Radstock Museum
Radstock Museum is home to the collection of the Radstock, Midsomer Norton and District Museum Society and celebrates the history and heritage of the former Somerset Coalfield. Dedicated areas demonstrate the coalface and the miners hard, dangerous working conditions. Shop at the Co-op as miners wives did over 70 years ago, re-live the...
The American Museum in Britain - Bath
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The American Museum in Britain - Bath
Discover the American way of life from colonial times, the joys and hardships of American children. Set in 30 acres of beautiful parkland. Regular events, Gift shop, tearoom, picnic area. Educational programme for schools. Tuesday to  Sunday, 12noon – 5pm ...
Fashion Museum - Bath
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Fashion Museum - Bath
We look forward to welcoming you to the Fashion Museum Study Facilities at the Assembly Rooms. The Fashion Museum is open every day except 25 & 26 December. January - February  10.30 - 16.00 March - October  10.30 - 17.00 November - December  10.30 - 16.00 Exit 1 hour after these times...
The Jane Austen Centre - Bath
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The Jane Austen Centre - Bath
The exhibition at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath has been created with the guidance of local members of the Jane Austen Society and authorities on Jane Austen. Open all year Summer 2nd April to 30th October Open every day 9.45am to 5.30pm Late opening July and August – Thursday to Saturday until 7pm Winter 1 November...
Bath Postal Museum
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Bath Postal Museum
From clay mail to email Bath Postal Museum tells the history of writing from its earliest incarnation. With something for everyone from colourful and frequently changing exhibitions to dressing up and arts and crafts activities. We all love a good story and Bath Postal Museum is full of them. Monday to Saturday 11.00am - 5.00pm (Summer)  ...
Bath Abbey Vaults Museum
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Bath Abbey Vaults Museum
Pilgrims and visitors have been made welcome at Bath Abbey for hundreds of years. As one of the most visited places in the South West, we welcome over 350,000 people through our doors each year, but are fully aware that every visitor comes with their own expectations, beliefs and purpose. Summer Opening Times: 01 April to 31 October ...
Roman Baths and Museum - Bath
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Roman Baths and Museum - Bath
Walk where Romans walked on 2000 year-old pavements beside the steaming pool. Opening Hours January - February 09:30 - 16:30, exit 17:30 March - June 09:00 - 17:00, exit 18:00 July - August 09:00 - 21:00, exit 22:00 ...
The Holburne Museum Of Art - Bath
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The Holburne Museum Of Art - Bath
One of the country's great small museums, the Holburne houses a wondefully rich collection of fine and decorative art including paintings by Breughel, Gainsborough, Stubbs & Turner, astonishing silver, beautiful porcelain and Renaissance bronzes. The Holburne runs a programme of art for all ages with events, lectures, workshops &...
Wookey Hole Caves - Wells
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Wookey Hole Caves - Wells
Wookey Hole Caves  is a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset. Wookey Hole cave was formed by the action of the River Axe on the limestone hills. Before emerging at Wookey Hole the water enters underground streams and passes through other caves such as...
Burcott Mill
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Burcott Mill
Burcott Mill is one of only 50 water powered flour mills that are still operating in the UK today. The origins of Burcott Mill date back over 1000 years to a recording in the Doomsday Book (1086)! The mill sells the flour it makes, meaning that is a commercial business as well as a museum. The flour that they produce is handcrafted, using the...
Kingswood Heritage Museum - Warmley
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Kingswood Heritage Museum - Warmley
William Champion's 18th Century brass works at Warmley represent an important milestone in industrial history. It was here that he developed the first commercial production of zinc in Europe. Housed within the main building, this "Museum for Kingswood " holds a variety of enjoyable displays of local industries and social...
Trowbridge Museum - Trowbridge
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Trowbridge Museum - Trowbridge
Our award-winning museum is one of Wiltshire's finest history museums and the county's only specialist textile museum. We have come a long way since opening in 1990, and now have nearly 19,000 objects including over 5,000 photographs in our collection and welcome 22,000 visitors and 3,000 schoolchildren a year. As a result of our success we need...
Brunel's SS Great Britain - Bristol
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Brunel's SS Great Britain - Bristol
Welcome to Brunel's ss Great Britain Winner of 10 major awards in 2006 including the Gulbenkian Prize for UK Museum of the Year and shortlisted for major awards in 2007. Step back in time on board Brunel’s ss Great Britain – the world’s first great ocean liner. Explore the beautifully recreated First Class Dining Saloon,...
British Empire & Commonwealth Museum - Bristol
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British Empire & Commonwealth Museum - Bristol
The award-winning galleries of the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum have been created with children firmly in mind. Numerous hands-on and interactive exhibits tell the story of the biggest empire the world has ever known. Sample exotic spices, learn morse code, dress up in period clothes and find out how our lives are shaped by this shared...
M Shed
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M Shed
M Shed is a museum dedicated to telling the story of the history of the city of Bristol in both war and peace time, with additional bonuses like buried treasure to dig up, a Thecodontosaurus to marvel at, plus their working exhibits of cranes, trains and boats can be ridden by guests! Their 3 galleries reveal the fascinating story of the city...
The Georgian House Museum
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The Georgian House Museum
The Georgian House Museum is set out as it might have looked in the 18th century, and gives an insight into life above and below stairs. Imagine the busy kitchen where servants prepared meals, taking a dip in the cold-water plunge pool and relaxing in the elegant upstairs rooms. There are 11 rooms spread over four floors to explore. There is...
Bristol City Museum Under 7s Gallery
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Bristol City Museum Under 7s Gallery
Younger visitors can tell stories in our crystal cave, act out a performance on stage, bring stories to life using puppets, make a pot or try the animuddle game- just some of the activities for you and your child to enjoy in their own mini-museum. The under 7s area is part of a larger gallery which invites visitors to explore...
The Clifton Observatory - Bristol
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The Clifton Observatory - Bristol
The Observatory stands on the site formerly occupied by a snuff grinding mill that was burnt out in 1777 through having been over-driven in a gale. In 1828 the site was rented to Mr. West, an artist. He constructed the Camera Obscura and cut the underground passage to St. Vincents Cave. Both remain and are open to visitors. The cave's visiting...
Haynes International Motor Museum - Yeovil
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Haynes International Motor Museum - Yeovil
The UK's largest exhibition of the greatest cars from around the world with over 400 amazing cars and bikes from nostalgic classics of the 50s and 60s glorious Bentleys and Rolls Royces to exciting super cars like the Jaguar XJ220. Opening Times 2nd March to 31st October Monday - Sunday 9:30am - 5:30pm (6:00pm in summer school holidays) 1st...
Somerset Rural Life Museum - Glastonbury
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Somerset Rural Life Museum - Glastonbury
The Somerset Rural Life Museum is based in Glastonbury.  In the Abbey Farmhouse the social and domestic life of Victorian Somerset is described in reconstructed rooms and there is a lively events programme as well as regular temporary exhibitions.  There is also a tea room and museum shop.   The magnificent...
Tyntesfield - Wraxall
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Tyntesfield - Wraxall
Spectacular Victorian Gothic Revival house with gardens and parkland A fine Victorian country house created by one of England’s richest commoners, William Gibbs, who built his fortune on fertiliser. Spiralling turrets and pinnacles adorn the roof, ornate stone carvings and church-like windows complete the Gothic look, giving...
Blaise Castle House Museum - Bristol
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Blaise Castle House Museum - Bristol
Situated in the beautiful parkland of the Blaise Estate at Henbury, the Museum is housed in a late eighteenth century mansion, and contains most of the Museums Service's social history collections. Here you can see all sorts of familiar - and not so familiar - items from homes through history, treasured...
Fleet Air Arm Museum - Ilchester
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Fleet Air Arm Museum - Ilchester
The Royal Navy operates on the sea, under the sea, on the land and in the air. Welcome to the Fleet Air Arm Museum - representing the flying arm of the Royal Navy. Opening Hours ...
Oakham Treasures - Bristol
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Oakham Treasures - Bristol
Oakham Treasures is one of the largest privately owned museums of retail and farming history in the UK. Opened to the public for the very first time since July 2008, it has already become an award winning major attraction, and guarantees to give you an amazing and uplifting trip down memory lane. Whether you are 8 or 80, you'll...
Fox Talbot Museum - Chippenham
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Fox Talbot Museum - Chippenham
Lacock Abbey was founded as a nunnery in 1232. After the Dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII the Abbey was closed and in 1539 sold to landowner William Sharington who converted the Abbey into a family home. Although he destroyed the church and added an octagonal tower and courtyard, he did retain the monastic cloisters which were used as...
The Helicopter Museum - Weston-super-mare
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The Helicopter Museum - Weston-super-mare
The Worlds largest helicopter museum. Collection includes the Queens helicopters, the World speed record holder, the Vietnam veterans, a Russian gunship and many more. Helicopter air experience flight days held throughout the year where visitors can take to the skies for a 15 mile flight around the local coastline. Other events include seasonal...
Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre
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Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre
Our museum and heritage centre tells the story of the people and history of Chippenham and the surrounding villages from prehistoric times up until the present day. As well as being able to explore the collections on display you are welcome to use our research room, using the collection for work, school or to explore the past (please call in...
Clevedon Pier
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Clevedon Pier
Welcome to the Clevedon Pier, the only fully intact, Grade 1 listed pier in the country. The pier has been beautifully restored and provides a lovely day out for all the family. There are wonderful views of the Severn Estuary, the islands Flat Holm & Steep Holm, the two Severn Bridges, and the best sunsets in the West...
Wiltshire Heritage Museum - Devizes
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Wiltshire Heritage Museum - Devizes
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum has an international reputation and attracts visitors from all over the world. The archaeology collections, which are among the finest in Britain, trace the history of people living in Wiltshire in a series of galleries - Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval. The collections on display...
Gold Hill Museum and Garden
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Gold Hill Museum and Garden
Gold Hill Museum and Garden Local life and history are portrayed here through artifacts, costume, photos, ceramics, tools, domestic items and the town’s first fire engine. Marvel at the intricate Dorset buttons on display, and the ‘Byzant’, a gold-coloured festival totem that played a central role in the town’s water...
Time Machine Museum - Weston-super-Mare
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Time Machine Museum - Weston-super-Mare
This friendly family museum caters for all ages. The displays range from the archaeology of the earliest inhabitants to the wildlife that you can find today. Other displays cover the local history of the area. The Seaside Holidays Gallery is a speciality of the museum, and the cottage next door is laid out as a landlady's lodging house of...
North Somerset Museum - Weston Super Mare
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North Somerset Museum - Weston Super Mare
This friendly family museum caters for all ages. The displays range from the archaeology of the earliest inhabitants to the wildlife that you can find today. Other displays cover the local history of the area. The Seaside Holidays Gallery is a speciality of the museum, and the cottage next door is laid out as a landlady's lodging house of...
Atwell Wilson Motor Museum - Caine
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Atwell Wilson Motor Museum - Caine
We are a small friendly museum situated in the heart of Wiltshire. The majority of our exhibits are cars from the 1920’s onwards. We also have a collection of motorcycles, mopeds and push bikes as well as interesting motoring memorabilia and a reconstructed 1930’s style garage complete with cars The...
Caldicot Castle and Country Park
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Caldicot Castle and Country Park
Visit Caldicot Castle in its beautiful setting of tranquil gardens and a wooded country park. Founded by the Normans, developed in royal hands as a stronghold in the Middle Ages and restored as a Victorian family home, the castle has a romantic and colourful history. Find out about its past with an audio tour, explore the medieval towers and take...
Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum
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Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum
Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum Like a Tardis, Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum opens up to display what is probably the largest collection of toys, books, annuals and games related to TV and radio programmes. Whatever your age you will find something from your favourite programmes. From the earliest childrens programmes such as Muffin the Mule,...
The Blake Museum
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The Blake Museum
The Blake Museum is dedicated to the historic market town and port of Bridgwater, first mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086! The museum is housed in a 16th century building on a quiet backstreet in Bridgwater that is reputed to be the birthplace of Robert Blake, who was Cromwell’s General at Sea. It is free to visit, making it an...
Athelstan Museum - Malmesbury
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Athelstan Museum - Malmesbury
Come on in. How are you? Sit down, make yourself comfortable. We had better introduce ourselves. I know you are probably an interesting person with an inquiring mind and enjoy history and heritage. Me? Well, I’m a small local museum, but not just any old small local museum you understand, because I live in Malmesbury. Malmesbury is a...
Edward Jenner Museum - Berkeley
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Edward Jenner Museum - Berkeley
The museum celebrates the life and work of Dr Edward Jenner, whose discovery of vaccination has saved more lives than the work of any other man. Housed in the beautiful Queen Anne house where Jenner lived, worked and died, the museum details Jenner's many other interests in the natural world and has interactive displays in the Immunology section.
Crewkerne and District Museum - Crewkerne
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Crewkerne and District Museum - Crewkerne
Crewkerne has a long and interesting history - its status as a Saxon royal Mint, its importance as a stopping place for travellers, and its prosperity based on the textile industry. The ancient Roman hill fort of Ham Hill is a few miles distant, and the town's more important buildings were constructed of stone quarried from the hill. There...
Boscombe Down Aviation Collection - Salisbury
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Boscombe Down Aviation Collection - Salisbury
The Boscombe Down Aviation Collection (BDAC) was formally opened by Air Commodore Colin Cruickshanks on 1st April 1999, but was behind the ‘wire’ until it moved to Old Sarum and opened to the public on the 1st of July 2012.  It became a Private Not For Profit Company limited by guarantee in May 2007, and then a registered Charity...
Newport Museum and Art Gallery
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Newport Museum and Art Gallery
Since 1888 Newport Museum and Art Gallery has been collecting evidence of Newport’s history, culture and environment. Archaeology The archaeology collections span over 100 years of collecting and represent thousands of years of human activity in and around Newport. The oldest objects date to the Prehistoric periods before people could...
Techniquest - Cardiff
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Techniquest - Cardiff
Hundreds of on hand exhibits - loads to see and learn in the fascinating world of science and technology. Techniquest is an educational charity, established in 1986 and based in Cardiff, Wales. Our mission is to engage people with science and to motivate them to learn more and we also address science-related areas such as maths, engineering...
Mompesson House - Salisbury
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Mompesson House - Salisbury
Elegant and spacious 18th-century house in the Cathedral Close. The house, featured in the award-winning film 'Sense and Sensibility', has magnificent plasterwork, period furniture and a fine oak staircase. Children's trail and activities. Outside, the delightful walled garden has a pergola and traditional herbaceous borders arranged around a...
The Wardrobe Military Museum - Salisbury
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The Wardrobe Military Museum - Salisbury
The Royal Berkshire Regiment, with its Museum in Brock Barracks, Oxford Road, Reading, and The Wiltshire Regiment whose Museum was in Le Marchant Barracks, London Road, Devizes, merged in 1959 to become the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment. However the 2 Museums continued on their separate sites for a number of years before the...
Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
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Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
Welcome to Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum You can find Salisbury Museum in the glorious setting of the Cathedral Close. The Museum houses extensive collections relating to the history of Salisbury, and the archaeology of south Wiltshire, including Old Sarum. You will be able to view the popular award-winning Stonehenge Gallery. You can also...
Somerset Cricket Museum
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Somerset Cricket Museum
Somerset Cricket Museum can be found at the County Ground, and housed in a 500 year old Grade II listed building that is the only remaining building of the Augustinian Tauton Priory, which was siezed by King Henry VIII in 1539! The Museum is within walking distance of the main rail and bus stations, and can be found behind the Ondaatje Pavillion. ...
Museum of Somerset
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Museum of Somerset
Museum of Somerset An under-floor Plesiosaur, the largest collection of Roman coins ever discovered in Britain and a chilling recreation of the infamous Bloody Assizes – you’ll find them all at the Museum of Somerset!  Set in the heart of Taunton, the Museum of Somerset tells the county's story from prehistoric times to the...
Millennium Stadium Tours - Cardiff
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Millennium Stadium Tours - Cardiff
Come and explore the magnificent facets and features that make the Millennium Stadium one of the most impressive icons of modern Wales. Join one of our experienced tour guides and visit the Press Conference Suite where the worlds of rugby and journalism meet. Experience the build up before the match in the Dragon's Lair, Wales's team dressing...
National Museum of Wales
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National Museum of Wales
Discover art, archaeology and the geological evolution of Wales. With a busy programme of exhibitions and events, we have something to amaze everyone, whatever your interest – and admission is free! Although not the oldest of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’s buildings, this is the first location of the National Museum...
Alexander Keiller Museum - Avebury
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Alexander Keiller Museum - Avebury
One of the most important prehistoric archaeological collections in Britain, housed in the Stables Gallery, and including many artefacts from the World Heritage Site (WHS) monuments. The admission fee includes access to both the Stables and Barn Galleries. The Barn Gallery (belonging to the National Trust) tells the story of the WHS, its ...
Chard Museum
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Chard Museum
Chard Museumin converted 16th century listed buildings and outbuildings, covering nearly an acre, with collections of exhibits about local history and displays related to the lives of notable local residents. You can also visit the horse powered apply crusher in The Cider Room, plus a collection of domestic items and plumbing equipment, more...
Sheppys Cider Farm and Museum - Taunton
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Sheppys Cider Farm and Museum - Taunton
Always living in Somerset, the Sheppy family still continues the ancient combination of farming with cider-making. The Museum contains many excellent farming and cider making exhibits, as well as tools from ...
Here you will find a comprehensive list of museums and art galleries and anything related to the history and arts of Bath, catering making a great day out for you and your family. This could include dinosaurs, human and natural history, and things in bygone times, or simply a stroll around the museums and art galleries browsing paintings cultures and history.