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  • Beck Isle Museum, Rural Life, Pickering - www.beckislemuseum.co.uk - AR
    Features the history of English rural life in the district of Ryedale North Yorkshire. The Beck Isle Museum web site featuring the largest collection of photographs by the late photographer Sidney Smith.

  • Bedes World - www.bedesworld.co.uk - AR
    The monastery at Jarrow was the home of the Venerable Bede where Bedes World explores the archaeological, religious and cultural setting of his life and times.

  • Black Country Living Museum - www.bclm.co.uk - AR
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  • Bolton Museums - www.boltonmuseums.org.uk - AR
    Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium comprehensive collections of Fine Art (particularly watercolours), ceramics, glass, furniture, costume, Egyptology, archaeology, industrial history, local history, birds, mammals, insects, shells, fossils.

  • Dewa Roman Experience - www.dewaromanexperience.co.uk - ODP
    Explore Roman, Saxon & Medieval remains buried beneath Chester & participate in hands-on activities. Includes virtual tour, opening times, prices, educational programs & directions.

  • Honister Slate Mine - www.honister-slate-mine.co.uk - ODP
    Comprehensive site describing England's only Slate Mine at Honister Pass, Keswick, where there are underground visits & a heritage centre. The history of the slate mine & general information about slate is given.

  • Jodrell Bank Observatory - www.jb.man.ac.uk - AR
    Jodrell Bank Observatory is home to the Lovell Telescope and the MERLIN & VLBI National Facility.

  • Manchester Art GalleryHome - www.cityartgalleries.org.uk - AR
    Visitor information for Manchester Art Gallery, Heaton Hall, Wythenshawe Hall and Gallery of Costume - four cultural attractions in Manchester

  • Museum of Lakeland Life - www.lakelandmuseum.org.uk - AR
    The Museum of Lakeland Life explains the history of the English Lake District from the Arts and Crafts movement to Swallows and Amazons and Postman Pat.

  • Museum of Transport, Manchester - www.gmts.co.uk - AR
    Detailing all about the museum and activities.

  • National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside - www.nmgm.org.uk - AR
    The eight National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside are Liverpool Museum, Walker Art Gallery, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Sudley House, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Conservation Centre, HM Customs & Excise National Museum and the Museum of Liverpool.

  • NRM - www.nrm.org.uk - AR
    Welcome to the National Railway Museums web site.

  • Peoples History Museum - www.peopleshistorymuseum.org.uk - AR
    The Peoples History Museum is the national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in Britain.

  • Ribchester Roman Museum - www.ribchestermuseum.org - AR
    A museum of Roman archaeology and antiquities in the picturesque village of Ribchester in Lancashire, England; known to the Romans as Bremetenacum Veteranorum, site of an auxiliary cavalry fort.

  • Richard III Museum York - www.richard3museum.co.uk - AR
    Visit York's most interesting museum and decide for yourself whether Richard III was a calculating murderer of a great and noble King.

  • Ryedale Folk Museum - Hutton Le Hole - North Yorkshire - www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk - AR
    ...take a step back to the 18th Century to find out both how and where, we used to live..

  • Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust - www.simt.co.uk - AR
    Operates three important museums dedicated to the Industrial and Social History of Sheffield, the City of Steel.

  • The Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port - www.boatmuseum.org.uk - AR
    Canal history comes alive through the worlds largest floating collection of river and canal craft based in a historic dock complex.

  • The Bowes Museum - www.bowesmuseum.org.uk - AR
    Search thousands of items in our collection, find out about all our exhibitions and events and shop online. We also run an impressive education service for all ages covering a wide variety of topics.

  • The Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness - www.dockmuseum.org.uk - AR
    An official website for the Dock Museum, Barrow-in-Furness, home to a wealth of information and objects relating to the social and industrial history of the Furness area.

  • Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum - www.threlkeld-mine.co.uk - ODP
    Heritage centre near Keswick telling the history & methods of Lake District quarrying & mining - lead, copper, zinc, baryte, tungsten, graphite, fluorite & coal. Brief description of the museum & the quarry.

  • Tullie House - museum and art gallery in Carlisle - www.tulliehouse.co.uk - AR
    Established by Carlisle Corporation in 1893, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery houses considerable collections of fine and decorative art, human history and natural sciences.

  • Windermere Steamboat Centre - www.steamboat.co.uk - AR
    A unique and historic collection of Steam and Motor Boats.

  • Woodhorn Colliery Museum - www.imadge.demon.co.uk - ODP
    Housed in the original colliery buildings at Ashington, the museum reflects on the coal-mining heritage of Northumberland. Brief visitor information.

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