List of museums in Lancashire

This list of museums in Lancashire, 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 District Type Summary Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery Chorley Chorley Multiple Historic house with exhibits of local history, art gallery, period rooms Bacup Natural History Society Museum Bacup Rossendale Local local history, culture Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick Pendle Technology Working steam mill engine for a textile mill Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Blackburn Blackburn with Darwen Multiple Local and social history, fine art, decorative arts, South Asian culture, beetle collection, textile industry British Commercial Vehicle Museum Leyland South Ribble Transportation Automobiles, buses, lorries British In India Museum Nelson Pendle History history of the British in India, includes photographs, uniforms, swords, model soldiers, paintings, Indian army cap badges and buttons Brooks Collectables Toy Museum Blackpool Blackpool Toy YouTube article, die-cast model cars and vehicles, toys, model trains, cameras, toy soldiers Carnforth Heritage Visitor Centre Carnforth City of Lancaster Local local history, area railway heritage, filming of Brief Encounter; located in Carnforth railway station Chapel Gallery Ormskirk West Lancashire Art website, local public art gallery, contemporary art and craft from across the UK Clitheroe Castle Clitheroe Ribble Valley Multiple 12th-century motte and bailey castle with museum of local and social history, art, history of the castle, geology, archaeology, natural history, folklore and industry Colne Heritage Centre Colne Pendle Local local history Cottage Museum, Lancaster Lancaster City of Lancaster Historic house Webpage , Georgian period cottage Ditchburn Jukebox Museum St Anne's Fylde Local website, The history of the first British Jukebox, built on the Fylde Coast. Fleetwood Museum Fleetwood Wyre Local Local history, culture, maritime heritage, fishing industry Fylde Gallery Lytham Fylde Art Friends site, local art collection and exhibits gallery, located in Booths Supermarket Gawthorpe Hall Padiham Burnley Historic house Operated by the National Trust, Elizabethan house with 19th-century interiors, international collection of needlework, lace and costume Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool Blackpool Art Contemporary art exhibits, collections include Victorian oils and watercolours, modern British paintings, contemporary prints, jewellery, Asian ivories, ceramics, photographs and souvenirs of Blackpool Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Preston Free Public Library Preston Preston Multiple Local history, archaeology, fine art, decorative art including ceramics and glass, costumes, scent bottles Haworth Art Gallery Accrington Hyndburn Art Features collection of Art Nouveau Tiffany glass Helmshore Mills Textile Museum Helmshore Rossendale Industry Former textile mills for wool then cloth Heysham Heritage Centre Heysham City of Lancaster Local local history, located in a 17th-century long house Hoghton Tower Hoghton Chorley Historic house Fortified Tudor manor house, features galleried banqueting hall, period furniture and a doll house collection Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster Lancaster City of Lancaster Historic house Adjacent to Lancaster Castle, Georgian house with Gillow furniture displayed in Regency period room settings, fine art, and the Museum of Childhood with toys, dolls, games and playthings from the 18th century to the present King's Own Royal Regiment Museum Lancaster City of Lancaster Military Located in the Lancaster City Museum Lancashire Infantry Museum Preston Preston Military Located in Fulwood, regimental history and memorabilia Lancashire Police Museum Lancaster City of Lancaster Police Located in Lancaster Castle, museum of the Lancashire Constabulary Lancaster Castle Lancaster City of Lancaster History Medieval castle, court and prison Lancaster City Museum Lancaster City of Lancaster Local City's history, social history, King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, fine art Lancaster Maritime Museum Lancaster City of Lancaster Maritime Shipbuilding, harbour trades, merchant trading, fishing, social and natural history of the bay, local ports Leighton Hall Yealand Conyers City of Lancaster Historic house 18th-century Georgian house with 19th-century Gothic exterior, Gillow furniture, gardens Lytham Hall Lytham Fylde Historic house 18th-century Georgian country house and 78-acre parklands Lytham Heritage Centre Lytham Fylde Local local history and art exhibits, operated by Lytham Heritage Group Lytham Windmill Museum Lytham Fylde Mill 19th-century windmill with exhibits about the mill, millers, local history and culture Madame Tussauds Blackpool Blackpool Blackpool Wax Museum of Lancashire Preston Preston History County history, culture, life in World War II, military history Pendle Heritage Centre Barrowford Pendle Local Local and social history, culture, art, visitor centre Peter Scott Gallery Lancaster City of Lancaster Art website, art gallery of Lancaster University's Lancaster Institute for The Contemporary Arts, collections include 20th-century art, Pilkington's Tile and Pottery Company works, Chinese and Japanese art, and antiquities Platform Gallery Clitheroe Ribble Valley Art contemporary crafts gallery Queen Street Mill Textile Museum Burnley Burnley Industry Operational 19th-century steam-powered weaving mill Ribble Discovery Centre Lytham Fylde Natural history website, ecology and natural history of the Ribble and Alt Estuaries, operated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Ribble Steam Railway Preston Preston Railway Heritage railway, museum open on operating days Ribchester Roman Museum Ribchester Ribble Valley Archaeology website, area Romano-British history and artifacts Ripley's Believe It or Not!#United Kingdom Blackpool Blackpool Amusement Located at Pleasure Beach Blackpool Rufford Old Hall Rufford West Lancashire Historic house Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century Tudor great hall where young William Shakespeare once performed; collections of furniture, arms, armour and tapestries; gardens Ruskin Library Lancaster City of Lancaster Biographical Part of the University of Lancaster, exhibits from its collections of pictures, books, manuscripts and photographs relating to the Victorian writer and artist John Ruskin Samlesbury Hall Samlesbury South Ribble Historic house Restored medieval manor house South Ribble Museum and Exhibition Centre Leyland South Ribble Local , local history, culture, art exhibits, textile, rubber and motor industries Towneley Hall Burnley Burnley Multiple Exhibits include natural history, Egyptology, local history, textiles, decorative art and regional furniture, and an art gallery Turton Tower Chapeltown Blackburn with Darwen Historic house Tudor house reflecting Tudor and Victorian eras Weaver's Cottage Rawtenstall Rossendale Historic house 18th-century weaver's cottage with working hand looms, Victorian kitchen, operated by the Rossendale Civic Trust Weavers' Triangle Burnley Burnley Industry Includes the visitor center with Victorian schoolroom and weaver's dwelling, canal toll house, and Oak Mount Mill Engine House The Whitaker Rawtenstall Rossendale Multiple website, local history, fine art, natural history, period Victorian rooms, fashion and furniture, art exhibits; formerly the Rossendale Museum & Art Gallery Whitworth Museum Whitworth Rossendale Local local history, operated by the Whitworth Historical Society Woodend Mining Museum Reedley Hallows Pendle Mining information, area coal mining Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum - Earby Earby Pendle Mining lead mining artifacts

Defunct museums Lewis Textile Museum, Blackburn, closed in 2006, collections now part of Cottontown at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley, closed in 2010 National Football Museum, Preston, closed in 2010 and will reopen in 2011 in Manchester Steamtown Carnforth, Carnforth, closed in 1997

See also :Category:Tourist attractions in Lancashire

References

Lancashire County: Museums Service