British Museum
National musuem founded in 1753 and housing an enormous collection
of art and artifacts from prehistory to the present day. The
site search feature can be used to search for images of items
from the museum collection. |
The Imperial
War Museum
The I.W.M.’s collection covers all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first
century conflict involving Britain and the Commonwealth. The site provides information
about the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms and collection
overviews--short essays on major historical themes leads the user to selected
highlights from all the collections and a searchable
database with descriptions of over 160,000 items and online access to over
6,000 highlights from the collection, including photographs, works of art, audio
extracts, aircraft and vehicles, documents and library material. |
The
Museum of London
Public museum funded jointly by the Department
for Culture, Media and Sport and the Corporation of London. It collections
include over a million items relating to London from the prehistoric period to
the present day. |
The Museums, Libraries
and Archives Council (MLA)
Public entity sponsored by the Department
for Culture, Media and Sport. It acts as an advocate for museums, libraries,
and archives and contributes to government policy regarding these
institutions. |
National Museums and
Galleries of Northern Ireland (MAGNI)
This official portal includes links to the websites for the Ulster Museum with
Armagh Museum, the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and the Ulster American Folk
Park. |
Amguedda Cymru/National
Museum Wales
Provides links to Welsh collections of art, archaeology, geology, natural, social
and industrial history. |
National Museums of Scotland
This is the website for Scotland’s national museum service. The website
provides links to the Museum
of Scotland,
the Museum
of Flight, the Museum
of Rural Life, the National
Museum of Costume, the National
War Museum
of
Scotland, and the National Piping
Centre (which houses the piping collections
of the National Museum of Scotland). |
The Natural History Museum
The UK's national museum of nature with vast collections in botany, entomology,
mineralogy, paleontology, and zoology. |
The Northern Ireland
Museums Council
The Council is a company with charitable status principally funded by the Department
of Culture, Arts and Leisure for Northern Ireland. The site provides a full
list of the museums in Northern Ireland with information about each. |
Scottish
Museums Council
The Scottish Museums Council is the membership organization for local museums
and galleries in Scotland. The website provides information and links to museums
in Scotland by area or name. |
The 24 Hour
Museum
This "National Virtual Museum" functions as an online gateway to publicly
funded UK museums, galleries, and heritage attractions. Content includes daily
arts and museum news as well as exhibition reviews and in-depth online trails. |
Victoria and Albert Museum
This South Kensington museum of art and design, known as "the V&A," houses
collections from around the world and spanning 300 years, including ceramics,
furniture, fashion, glass, jewelry, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles
and paintings. The V&A is part of a family of museums consisting of The Museum
of Childhood at Bethnal Green, a collection one of the world's largest and
oldest collections of toys and childhood artifacts dating from the 16th century
to the present day, and the Theatre
Museum in Covent Garden. The Theatre Museum is the National Museum of the
Performing Arts and houses a collection of material relating to the British stage
representing all the live performing arts. |
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