List of museums in Warwickshire
This list of museums in Warwickshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
| Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Hathaway's Cottage |  | Shottery | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Tudor thatched farmhouse, childhood home of Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, gardens |
| Arbury Hall |  | Nuneaton | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Historic house | Mixture of Tudor and 18th-century Gothic architecture |
| Baddesley Clinton |  | Lapworth | Warwick | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Elizabethan manor house |
| Bedworth Heritage Centre | Bedworth | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Local | website, local history, culture | |
| British Motor Museum formerly Heritage Motor Centre |  | Gaydon | Stratford-on-Avon | Automotive | British cars, manufacturing history |
| Charlecote Park |  | Wellesbourne | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century country house in a deer park, Victorian interior |
| Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre | Nuneaton | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Local | website, local history, culture, Victorian schoolroom | |
| Compton Verney House |  | Compton Verney | Stratford-on-Avon | Art | Art gallery located in a Robert Adam mansion set in 120 acres (0.49 km2) of parkland, collections include Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800, Northern European medieval art, British portraits, Chinese bronzes, British folk art, and 20th-century textiles |
| Coughton Court |  | Alcester | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, grand Tudor country house reflecting six centuries of ownership |
| Hall's Croft |  | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 17th-century home of William Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susannah, and her husband Dr John Hall, features period rooms, furnishings, paintings, period doctor's consulting room with artefacts |
| Harvard House and the Museum of British Pewter |  | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Art | Elizabethan town house with exhibits of pewter dating back to the Roman era |
| Henley-in-Arden Heritage Centre |  | Henley-in-Arden | Stratford-on-Avon | Local | website, local history, social, business and domestic life |
| Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum |  | Kenilworth | Warwick | Local | History of St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth and local history, operated by the Kenilworth History and Archaeology Society[1][2] |
| Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan Garden |  | Kenilworth | Warwick | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, ruins of a large medieval fortress, Elizabethan gatehouse with exhibits about Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I, recreated Elizabethan garden |
| Lunt Roman Fort |  | Baginton | Warwick | Archaeology | Remains and artifacts of a Roman fort |
| Market Hall, Warwick |  | Warwick | Warwick | Multiple | Archaeology, geology, natural history, exhibits of art, history and culture |
| Mary Arden's Farm / Palmer's Farm |  | Wilmcote | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 16th-century period working Tudor farm and farmhouse, childhood home of William Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden |
| Midland Air Museum |  | Baginton | Warwick | Aviation | Historic military and civilian aircraft, Sir Frank Whittle Jet Heritage Centre with jet engines, area aviation history |
| Nash's House |  | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Local history up to William Shakespeare's time, located in the house next door to the ruins and gardens of Shakespeare's final residence, New Place |
| Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery |  | Nuneaton | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Multiple | Reconstruction of George Eliot's London drawing room of 1870 and personal items, social history, industry, art exhibits |
| Packwood House |  | Lapworth | Warwick | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, timber-framed Tudor manor house with tapestries and fine furniture, topiary yew garden |
| Queen's Own Hussars Museum | Warwick | Warwick | Military | Regimental uniforms, history and memorabilia | |
| Ragley Hall |  | Alcester | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 18th-century great house with fine paintings, ceramics and antique furniture, gardens, 400 acre (1.6 km2) grounds |
| Roman Alcester | Alcester | Stratford-on-Avon | Archaeology | website, area Roman artefacts, interpretations of life in Roman Britain | |
| Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) | Warwick | Warwick | Military | Memorabilia and history of the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers to today's Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | |
| Rugby Art Gallery and Museum |  | Rugby | Rugby | Multiple | Local history, art, Roman artefacts, social and industrial history, home to the World Rugby Hall of Fame |
| Rugby School Museum | Rugby | Rugby | Education | website, history and memorabilia of the Rugby School | |
| Shakespeare's Birthplace |  | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Restored 16th-century half-timbered house believed to be the childhood home of William Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare's Schoolroom and Guildhall | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic guild building | website, restored 13th-century guild building where, in the 1570s, William Shakespeare would have received the grammar school education observable in his plays | |
| St John's House |  | Warwick | Warwick | History | Town's social history, including costume and textiles, dolls and toys, domestic and working life artifacts, Victorian schoolroom and kitchen |
| Stoneleigh Abbey |  | Stoneleigh | Warwick | Historic house | 16th-century large country mansion |
| Stratford Armouries |  | Pathlow | Stratford-on-Avon | Military | Arms and armour from around the world |
| Tudor World | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | History | website, 16th-century period building with ties to William Shakespeare, demonstrations of Tudor life | |
| Upton House |  | Upton | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, late 17th-century country house with 1930s interior, important art and porcelain collections, 1930s period garden |
| Warwick Castle |  | Warwick | Warwick | Historic house | Medieval castle built by William the Conqueror, castle tours, artillery fort, recreated siege weaponry, separate dungeon themed experience |
| Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum |  | Rugby | Rugby | Sports | Also known as "The Rugby Museum", history and artefacts of rugby football |
| Wellesbourne Wartime Museum | Wellesbourne | Stratford-on-Avon | Aviation | History of aviation at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, now Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield | |
| Witchcraft and Wizardology Museum | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 16th-century Elizabethan inn with collection of about the history of witchcraft from pre-Christian times to the present day. Including the Bombay Manor Museum website |
Defunct museums
[edit]- George Eliot Hospital Museum,[3] Nuneaton
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum". Visit Heart of England. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
- ^ "Official site". Kenilworth History and Archaeology Society. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
- ^ "Local Attractions". Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2010. Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough - Local attractions