# List of museums in Cambridgeshire

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

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| Name | 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 | information, everyday life in Britain during World War II |
| Bourn Windmll | Bourn | Mill | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, local history, culture |
| Octavia Hill's Birthplace House | Wisbech | Biographical | website, home of 19th century British social reformer Octavia Hill, co-founder of the National Trust |
| Oliver Cromwell's House | Ely | Biographical | website, 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 | website, 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 | website 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 | website, history of rural Fenland life, period rooms and businesses, agriculture, trades |
| Rupert Brooke Museum | Grantchester | Biographical | website, 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 | website, 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. |