# List of museums in Staffordshire

This list of museums in Staffordshire, 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.
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| Name | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
| AirSpace Gallery | Stoke-on-Trent | Stoke-on-Trent | Art | website, contemporary art gallery |
| Ancient High House | Stafford | Stafford | Historic house | Elizabethan timber-framed town house with different period room furnishings and displays, including the English Civil War, Edwardian and Victorian eras |
| Apedale Heritage Centre | Chesterton | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Mining | Coal mining history, artifacts, mine tours, Moseley Railway Trust's collection of narrow gauge industrial locomotives |
| Bratch Pumping Station | Bratch | South Staffordshire | Technology | Victorian pumping station with steam engine, not currently open |
| Brindley's Mill and the James Brindley Museum | Leek | Staffordshire Moorlands | Mill | 18th-century water-powered corn mill, exhibits about 18th-century canal builder James Brindley |
| Cheddleton Flint Mill | Cheddleton | Staffordshire Moorlands | Industry | Water mill built to grind flint for use in the pottery industry, miller's cottage, flint kilns, drying kiln and outbuildings |
| Chillington Hall | Brewood | South Staffordshire | Historic house | 18th-century Georgian country house, reflects 800 years of family ownership, landscape designed by Capability Brown |
| Claymills Pumping Station | Burton upon Trent | East Staffordshire | Technology | Restored Victorian sewage pumping station with beam engines |
| Dudson Museum | Stoke-on-Trent | Stoke-on-Trent | Industry | website, history of the Dudson ceramic tableware company and ceramic items collection |
| Erasmus Darwin House | Lichfield | Lichfield | Historic house | 18th-century-period home of poet and physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin, biographical, science and poetry exhibits |
| Etruria Industrial Museum | Etruria | Stoke-on-Trent | Industry | 19th-century bone and flint mill built to grind materials for the pottery industry, features working steam engine |
| Ford Green Hall | Smallthorne | Stoke-on-Trent | Historic house | 17th-century timber-framed yeoman farmer's house with 17th-century furnishings, textiles, ceramics, and a period garden |
| Gladstone Pottery Museum | Longton | Stoke-on-Trent | Industry | Victorian pottery factory for making bone china tableware, includes original equipment, kilns, period doctor's house, decorative tile gallery, collection of Victorian decorative toilets |
| Izaak Walton's Cottage | Stafford | Stafford | Historic house | website, 16th-century half-timbered cottage home of author Izaak Walton, exhibits on his life and the history of fishing |
| Keele University Art Gallery | Keele | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Art | website |
| Kinver Edge and the Rock Houses | Kinver | South Staffordshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, high sandstone ridge once home to Britain's last cave dwellers, features Holy Austin Rock Houses restored to Victorian appearance |
| Lichfield Museum | Lichfield | Lichfield | Local | Local history, features Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries with panels reflecting 1000 years of city history |
| Mill Meece Pumping Station | Millmeece | Stafford | Technology | Early-20th-century pumping station with steam engines |
| Moorcroft Heritage Visitor Centre | Burslem | Stoke-on-Trent | Industry | website, guided factory tour and museum with Moorcroft pottery |
| Moseley Old Hall | Fordhouses | South Staffordshire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century-period house and garden, famous as one of the hiding places of King Charles II after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651 |
| Museum of Cannock Chase | Hednesford | Cannock Chase | Multiple | website, local history, coal mining, turn-of-the-century miner's cottage, 1940s room, toys |
| National Brewery Centre | Burton upon Trent | East Staffordshire | Industry | History of brewing, brewing artifacts, vintage vehicle collection, working steam engine |
| Newcastle Museum & Art Gallery | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Multiple | website, also known as Borough Museum & Art Gallery, Victorian street scene including ironmonger, pawnbroker and chemist shops, doctor's office, toys, 1930s-1940s period house, exhibits of contemporary design and crafts |
| Nicholson Museum & Art Gallery | Leek | Staffordshire Moorlands | Art | website |
| Potteries Museum & Art Gallery | Hanley | Stoke-on-Trent | Multiple | Fine art, decorative arts including collection of Staffordshire ceramics, local history, natural history |
| Raven Mason Collection | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Art | website, operated by Keele University, collection of Mason ironstone and porcelain items, located in Keele Hall |
| Redfern’s Cottage: Museum of Uttoxeter Life | Uttoxeter | East Staffordshire | Local | website, local history |
| Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum | Lichfield | Lichfield | Biographical | Reconstructed rooms, life and work of author Samuel Johnson |
| Shire Hall Gallery | Stafford | Stafford | Art | Exhibits of visual art, crafts and photography, also restored 19th-century court room |
| Shugborough Hall | Milford | Cannock Chase | Living | Owned by the National Trust and operated by Staffordshire County Council, 18th-century-period country house, walled kitchen garden and working model farm including operating water mill and museum - "The Complete Working Historic Estate" |
| Spode Works Visitor Centre | Stoke-on-Trent | Stoke-on-Trent | Industry | History and examples of Spode pottery and porcelain |
| Stafford Castle | Stafford | Stafford | History | Ruined remains of a 19th-century recreation of a medieval castle, visitor centre exhibits about the original and current castles, medieval life displays |
| Staffordshire County Museum | Milford | Cannock Chase | Local | Located in the Servants' Quarters of Shugborough Hall |
| Staffordshire Regiment Museum | Whittington | Lichfield | Military | Regimental history, uniforms, weapons, medals, regalia, replica World War I trench, armoured vehicles |
| Staffordshire Yeomanry Museum | Stafford | Stafford | Military | Located in the attic floor of the Ancient High House, history and memorabilia of the Staffordshire Yeomanry |
| Tamworth Castle | Tamworth | Tamworth | Historic house | 11th-century Norman motte-and-bailey castle with late medieval Great Hall, Tudor chambers and Victorian suit of receptions rooms |
| Letocetum / Wall Roman Site | Wall | Lichfield | Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, owned by the National Trust as "Letocetum Roman Baths and Museum", remains of a Roman settlement and museum of artifacts |
| Wedgwood Museum | Barlaston | Stafford | Art | History and displays of Wedgwood ceramics, founder Josiah Wedgwood, process of making the ceramics |
| Weston Park | Weston-under-Lizard | South Staffordshire | Historic house | 17th-century-period grand house and gardens, estate with landscape designed by Capability Brown, art gallery in a restored 17th-century granary |
| Whitmore Hall | Whitmore | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Historic house | 17th-century house open on a limited basis |

## Defunct museums

* Ceramica, Burslem, closed in 2011
* Coors Visitor Centre, collections now part of the National Brewery Centre, Burton upon Trent