This list of museums in Cambridgeshire, 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.

Museums

+ Name Image Town/City Type Summary Anglesey Abbey, Gardens and Lode Mill Lode Historic house Operated by the National Trust, 1930s period house featuring a collection of rare clocks, gardens, and working flour mill Blacked-Out Britain War Museum Huntingdon History , everyday life in Britain during World War II Bourn Windmll Bourn Mill open trestle post mill Burghley House Peterborough Historic house Grand 16th-century country house with gardens, collections of fine and decorative arts Burwell Museum Burwell History Themed building exhibits include agriculture, period rooms and household items, military life, blacksmith's shop, a Roman pottery, a Victorian school room, vintage vehicles, carts, farm equipment Cambridge Museum of Technology Cambridge Technology Located in an original sewage pumping station, includes equipment, information and artefacts from local industries Cambridge Science Centre Cambridge Science Hands-on science exhibitions, workshops, shows and talks Cambridge University Library Cambridge Library Changing exhibits of art, history and culture from its collections, part of the University of Cambridge Cambridge University Museum of Zoology Cambridge Natural history Specimens of fossil and living animals, part of the University of Cambridge Centre for Computing History Cambridge Computer Technology and the social, cultural and historical impact of the computing revolution Chatteris Museum Chatteris Local local history, culture Cromwell Museum Huntingdon Biographical Life of 17th century English military and political leader Oliver Cromwell Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey Waterbeach Multiple Agriculture, local history, and historic abbey dating to the 12th century Elton Hall Elton Historic house Baronial hall and gardens on a 3,800-acre (15 km2) estate Ely Museum Ely Local area history, culture, natural history, located in the Bishop's gaol Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Art Includes fine art, coins, Egyptian collections, antiquities, Near-Eastern and Asian art and artefacts, decorative art, part of the University of Cambridge Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre and Archaeology Park Peterborough Archaeology Open air reconstruction and finds from a Bronze Age settlement Hinchingbrooke House Huntingdon Historic house Tudor country house, ancestral home of the Cromwell and Sandwich families Houghton Mill Houghton Mill Operated by the National Trust, restored water mill Imperial War Museum Duxford Duxford Aviation Military aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels Kettle's Yard Cambridge Art Gallery of 20th century and 21st century art, part of the University of Cambridge Kimbolton Castle Kimbolton Historic house Final home of King Henry VIII's first queen, Catherine of Aragon, open for tours on a very limited basis Lawrence Room Cambridge Archaeology artefacts of Anglo-Saxon, Egyptian and Classical Mediterranean origin, at Girton College, Cambridge, part of the University of Cambridge Longthorpe Tower Longthorpe Historic house 14th century, three-story tower featuring mediæval wall paintings The Manor (Cambridgeshire) Hemingford Grey Historic house One of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain, made famous as the house of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston March and District Museum March Local Local history, culture Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge Multiple Archaeology and anthropology artefacts from England, Ancient Rome, Africa, the Pacific, and great works of African, Asian, and native American sculpture, part of the University of Cambridge Museum of Cambridge Cambridge Local Local history and culture, period room displays, artefacts of everyday life, formerly the Cambridge and County Folk Museum Museum of Classical Archaeology Cambridge Art Plaster casts of Greek & Roman sculpture, part of the University of Cambridge New Hall Art Collection Cambridge Art Works by women artists, part of Murray Edwards College, a women's college of University of Cambridge Norris Museum, Cambridgeshire St Ives Local local history, culture Octavia Hill's Birthplace House Wisbech Biographical home of 19th century British social reformer Octavia Hill, co-founder of the National Trust Oliver Cromwell's House Ely Biographical home of Oliver Cromwell, also tourist office. Peckover House & Garden Wisbech Historic house Operated by the National Trust, Georgian merchant's townhouse with Victorian walled garden People's Portraits Exhibition Cambridge Art long term exhibition of portraits of ordinary people from all walks of life created by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, at Girton College, Cambridge, part of the University of Cambridge Peterborough Museum Peterborough Multiple Local history, art, archaeology, natural history, Jurassic fossils Prickwillow Museum Prickwillow Technology History of the changing landscape of the Fens and the principles of drainage which created it, features restored diesel engines in a former pumping station Railworld Peterborough Railway Sustainable transport, model trains, railway locomotives, memorabilia Ramsey Rural Museum CIO Ramsey History history of rural Fenland life, period rooms and businesses, agriculture, trades Rupert Brooke Museum Grantchester Biographical life and works of poet Rupert Brooke, located adjacent to The Orchard tea garden Ruskin Gallery Cambridge Art Part of Anglia Ruskin University The Polar Museum Cambridge Science Part of the University of Cambridge, history and science of explorations of the Arctic and Antarctic Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Cambridge Natural history Geology, rocks, minerals, fossils, part of the University of Cambridge St Neots Museum St Neots Local Local history, culture, prison cells Stained Glass Museum Ely Art Historic and contemporary stained glass, located in Ely Cathedral Stretham Old Engine Stretham Technology Working steam engine Taggart Gallery and Museum Great Staughton Art Shop with museum featuring historic decorative tiles Thorney Heritage Museum Thorney Local local history, culture Tower Museum Bassingbourn Royston Military History of RAF Bassingbourn during World War II Waterbeach Military Heritage Museum Waterbeach Military History of RAF Waterbeach until 1966 and of Waterbeach Barracks Whipple Museum of the History of Science Cambridge Science Historic scientific instruments and items about the history of science, part of the University of Cambridge Whittlesey Museum Whittlesey Local Local history, culture Wimpole Hall Wimpole Historic house Operated by the National Trust, opulent mansion, gardens and grounds Wimpole Home Farm Arrington Agriculture Operated by the National Trust, 18th century working farm Wisbech Castle Wisbech Historic House Regency villa (built by Joseph Medworth) and grounds operated by Wisbech Town Council. Wisbech & Fenland Museum Wisbech Multiple Local history and culture, natural history, decorative arts Wysing Arts Centre Bourn Art Contemporary arts centre

Defunct museums

+ Name Image Town/City Type Summary Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum Wisbech Aviation website, military aviation, including the World War II, the Falklands conflict and Desert Storm - collection relocated to the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norfolk.

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