| Arbeia Roman Fort | Alex Croom Arbeia Roman Fort Baring Street
South Shields Tyne & Wear England NE33 2BB Tel : 0191-454-4093 Fax : (m) : Email : | |
| Ashmolean Museum, The | Beaumont Street
Oxford Oxfordshire England OX1 2PH Tel : 01865-278000 Fax : 01865 278018 (m) : Email : admin@ashmus.ox.ac.uk | The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is a museum of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1683, it is one of the oldest public museums in the world. |
| Bede's World | Church Bank
Jarrow Tyne & Wear England NE32 3DY Tel : 0191-489-2106 Fax : 0191-428-2361 (m) : Email : visitor.info@bedesworld.co.uk | The extraordinary life of the Venerable Bede created a rich legacy that is celebrated today at Bede's World, Jarrow, where Bede lived and worked 1300 years ago. |
| British Museum, The | Great Russell Street
London England WC1B 3DG Tel : 020 7323 8000 Fax : (m) : Email : visitorinformation@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk | The British Museum was founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through the arts, and it holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history. Access to the collections is free. |
| Canterbury Roman Museum | Longmarket Butchery Lane
Canterbury Kent England
Tel : 01227-785575 Fax : (m) : Email : | The Roman Museum is underground at the level of the Roman town. It's an exciting mix of excavated real objects: authentic reconstructions; and preserved remains of a Roman town house with its famous mosaics. |
| I Dig Sheffield | Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust Leader House Surrey Street
Sheffield Derbyshire England S1 2LH Tel : Fax : (m) : Email : | Welcome to 'I Dig Sheffield', an online guide to the archaeology around Sheffield and the Peak District. Explore Sheffield City Museum's collection, find out about archaeological sites and keep up to date with the latest archaeological news. |
| Koninklijke Bibliotheek | Prins William- Alexanderhof 5
The Hague
Nederlands 2509 BE Tel : 31-70-3140911 Fax : 31-70-3140450 (m) : Email : info@kb.nl | This is the mail site for the National Library of Nederlands and contains over 11,000 scans of mdieval manuscripts. A *must-see* |
| Meermanno | Prinsessegracht 30 2514 AP
Den Haag
Nederlands
Tel : 070-3462700 Fax : (m) : Email : | Museum Meermanno richt zich op het geschreven en gedrukte boek in het heden en verleden. De uiterlijke vorm en de ontwikkeling van de vormgeving van boeken staan hier centraal. |
| Musee National du Moyen Age | Thermes eo Hotel de Cluny 6, Place Paul Painle
Paris
France 75005 Tel : 01-44-78-45-81 Fax : (m) : Email : | Dans un panorama exceptionnel et dans un lieu unique, parcourez près de quinze siècles d'art et d'histoire de l'Europe |
| Museum of Childhood | Paul Gray Cambridge Heath Road Bethnal Green
London England E2 9PA Tel : 020-8983-5200 Fax : 020-8983-5225 (m) : Email : bgmc@vam.ac.uk | Welcome to the Museum of Childhood's website. Situated in the heart of London's East End, but only minutes from the West End, the Museum houses the UK's national collection of toys and games, children's costume, nursery furniture and baby equipment, all in an outstanding red-brick, grade II listed building. |
| Museum of Leathercraft, The | William Brown The Central Museum and Art Gallery Guildhall Road Northampton Northamptonshire England NN1 1DP Tel : 01604-238548 Fax : 01604-238720 (m) : Email : museums@northampton.gov.uk | |
| Museum of London | London Wall
London England EC2Y 5HN Tel : 0870 444 3852 Fax : 0870 444 3853 (m) : Email : info@museumoflondon.org.uk | Welcome to the Museum of London. We are the largest city museum in the world, telling the fascinating story of London from prehistoric times to the present day. We hope you enjoy this website. |
| National Army Museum | Jo Woolley Emily Wood Royal Hospital Road
Chelsea London England SW3 4HT Tel : 020 7730 0717 Fax : (m) : Email : pr@national-army-museum.ac.uk | |
| National Gallery, The | Trafalgar Square
London England WC2 5DN Tel : 020 7747 2885 Fax : 020 7747 2423 (m) : Email : information@ng-london.org.uk | The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free. |
| National Motor Museum, The | Montagu Ventures Limited John Montagu Building Beaulieu Brockenhurst Hampshire England SO42 7ZN Tel : 01590-612345 Fax : 01590-612624 (m) : Email : info@beaulieu.co.uk | Whether your interest is as an individual, a motor enthusiast, or as a member of an interest group or educational party, when it comes to cars, motorbikes, commercial vehicles, motoring eccentricities and memorabilia, the National Motor Museum is firmly in the driving seat. |
| Royal Armouries, The | Rob Stevens Royal Armouries Museum Armouries Drive Leeds West Yorkshire England LS10 1LT Tel : 0113-220-1978 Fax : (m) : Email : robert.stevens@armouries.org.uk | The Royal Armouries is one of the oldest museums in the world, and as the UK's national museum of arms and armour manages museums at its historic home HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson near Portsmouth and in Leeds. Its interpretation department has won international awards for the quality of its live displays and has been much copied by museums and attractions in the UK and overseas. These displays complement the historic breadth of the museum's collection which ranges from Greek Corinthian material to objects used in conflict today. |
| Sir John Soan's Museum | 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London England WC2A 3BP Tel : 020 7440 4263 Fax : (m) : Email : will.palin.soane3@ukgateway.net | Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837. Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife (1815), he lived here alone, constantly adding to and rearranging his collections. Having been deeply disappointed by the conduct of his two sons, one of whom survived him, he determined to establish the house as a museum to which 'amateurs and students' should have access. |
| Victoria & Albert Museum, The | Cromwell Road
South Kensington London England SW7 2RL Tel : 020 7942 2000 Fax : (m) : Email : vanda@vam.ac.uk | The V&A is the greatest museum of applied and decorative arts in the world. Explore the breathtaking permanent collections from the four corners of the globe including fashion and textiles, sculpture, ceramics and glass, metalwork, silver and jewellery, furniture, photography and paintings. |
| Wallace Collection, The | Hertford House Manchester Square
London England W1U 3BN Tel : 020-7563-9500 Fax : 020-7224-2155 (m) : Email : admin@the-wallace-collection.org.uk | The Wallace Collection is both a national museum and the finest private collection of art ever assembled by one family. It was bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, widow of Sir Richard Wallace, in 1897, and opened to the public just over three years later on 22 June 1900. Its first visitors were variously delighted, amazed and bemused. Among its treasures are one of the best collections of French 18th-century pictures, porcelain and furniture in the world, a remarkable array of 17th-century paintings and a superb armoury. |