Leeds Museums & Galleries care for nine heritage sites, museums and galleries across the city including, Kirkstall Abbey. Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery, dating from 1147, in Kirkstall north-west of Leeds city centre. The abbey is surrounded by public park land on the banks of the River Aire.
Read More →Abergavenny Museum, founded in in 1959, is set in the grounds of a Norman castle. The museum is funded by Monmouthshire Country Council run as part of a group including three other local museums. “We are a small team with four permanent officers working across three museums. There’s lots of cuts and insecurity at the […]
Read More →Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth occupies a former theatre and cinema. The museum has a collection of some 60,000 objects relating to local craft and industry, the majority were made or used in the county between about 1850 and 1950. Ceredigion is also taking part in our 5-Year Study
Read More →Storiel (Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery) cares for objects and artworks collected by Bangor University. Now run by Gwynedd Council, the Museum and Gallery is located near the cathedral in a Grade II former Canonry.
Read More →Based in The Lambeth Workhouse (once home to Charlie Chaplin) the Cinema Museum invites local people to explore the museum’s international collection of cinema memorabilia to become ‘community curators’.
Read More →London Transport Museum explores the story of London and its transport system over the last 200 years, highlighting the powerful link between transport and the growth of modern London, culture and society since 1800.
Read More →As a university museum, the Manchester Museum uses its international collection of human and natural history for enjoyment and inspiration, working with people from all backgrounds to provoke debate and reflection about the past, present and future of the earth and its inhabitants. Manchester Museum are also participating in our 5 Year Study “We really […]
Read More →The Story Museum in Oxford celebrates story in all forms and explores their enduring power to teach and delight.
Read More →The Beaney is an art gallery, museum, library and Cafe situated in the heart of the historic city of Canterbury. The building takes its name from its benefactor, Dr James George Beaney, who died in 1891 and left money in his will to the city of Canterbury. The Beaney are also participating in our 5 […]
Read More →An open air museum with a collection of historic buildings and a working traditional farm situated in Newland Park, Buckinghamshire.
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