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UK Museums -- Geographical Order

Derbyshire
Crich, Shardlow
Devon
Exeter, Honiton, Merton, Torquay
Dorset
Blandford Forum, Bournemouth, Bovington, Weymouth
Durham
Durham, Beamish
East Sussex
Brighton, Hove, Newhaven, Seaford
Essex
Mistley, Stansted
Gloucestershire
Cheltenham, Bourton-on-the-Water, Filkins, Gloucester, Trigworth
Greater Manchester
Manchester, Salford, Stockport

Derbyshire

Crich - National Tramway Museum. Includes a searchable database of 2,500 photographic images.
Shardlow - Shardlow Heritage Centre. Local history of an 18th century canal transhipment port.

Devon

Exeter -
- The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture , University of Exeter. Displays on the history of cinema and its percursors - zoetropes, magic lanterns, panoramas and shadow puppets.
- Connections Discovery Centre. Educational resource centre for schools and groups. Hands-on fun, real objects that can be touch and try on, special displays and interpretive guides.
  [Part of: Exeter City Museums]
- Exeter City Museums.
  [Responsible for: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, St Nicholas Priory, Underground Passages, Connections Discovery Centre]
- Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Antiquities, ethnography, natural history, fine art, decorative arts.
  [Part of: Exeter City Museums]
Honiton - Allhallows Museum. Local museum including lace and pottery industry displays housed in the town's oldest building.
Merton - Barometer World and Museum.
Torquay - Torre Abbey Historic House & Gallery.
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Dorset

Blandford Forum - Royal Signals Museum, Blandford Camp,. Military museum.
Bournemouth - Centre for the History of Defence Electronics (CHiDE), Bournemouth University, Dorset. Includes a virtual museum plan.See also places to visit, listing UK military and naval museums, and an archive room plan.
Bovington - The Tank Museum.
Weymouth - Nothe Fort and Museum of Coast Defence.

Durham

Durham -
- Durham University Oriental Museum. Only museum in UK devoted to the art and archaeology of the 'Orient' - the civilisations of Asia, the Near East, and the Islamic cultures of North Africa.
- Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology.
Beamish - Beamish Open Air Museum. 300 acres recreating the life of the north of England in the early 1800s and 1900s.

East Sussex

Brighton -
- The Grange Art Gallery and Museum, Rottingdean Preservation Society. See the Rudyard Kipling Room, dolls and model railway.
Hove - The Regency Town House. Museum and Heritage Centre covering British life between the 1780s and 1850s, especially the history of the Brighton area.
Newhaven - Newhaven Local and Maritime Museum. Many thousands of photographs of local historical interest together with artefacts recovered from the areas of local shipwrecks
Seaford - Seaford Local History. Housed in a Napoleonic Martello tower.

Essex

Mistley - Essex Secret Bunker. The former Essex County nuclear war headquarters.
Stansted -
- Hill Toy Museum. The largest privately owned toy museum in Europe, with over 30,000 individual items.
- Montfitchet Castle. Recreation of a Norman castle on the original site.
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Gloucestershire

Cheltenham - Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. Local history.
[Responsible for: Holst Birthplace Museum ]
Bourton-on-the-Water - Cotswolds Motor Museum.
Filkins, (near Lechlade) - Cotswold Woollen Weavers. Historic working weaving mill, museum/gallery and shop.
Gloucester - National Waterways Museum. Tells the 200 year story of Britain's canals through the 'National Collection' of historic waterway vessels.
Trigworth - Nature in Art. The world's first museum exclusively to art inspired by nature, set in a Georgian mansion

Greater Manchester

Manchester -
- Manchester City Art Galleries. Paintings, sculpture, ceramics, silver, glass and furniture, especially by 19th and 20th century artists, including the Pre-Raphaelites.
- Manchester Jewish Museum.
- The Manchester Museum. Botany, Mediterranean, ethnology, mammal and Egyptology galleries.
- Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Includes Shockwave Flash, VRML, QTVR, streaming video and CD quality music.
- North West Film Archive, Manchester Metropolitan University. The Archive cares for over 24,000 items from the pioneer days of film in the mid 1890s to video production of the present day. The work of both the professional and the amateur is collected. The Site has a searchable on-line catalogue
- Pump House People's History Museum.
- Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester. Watercolours, drawings, textiles, prints, wallpapers, modern art. Includes a collections database.
Salford - Ordsall Hall Museum. Family home of the Radclyffes.
Stockport - Hatting Museum. Under construction, due to open 2000. History of the hatmaking industry Untitled

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