# 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.
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| Name | 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 | website, 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 | information, 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 | website, YouTube article, die-cast model cars and vehicles, toys, model trains, cameras, toy soldiers |
| Carnforth Station Heritage Centre | Carnforth | City of Lancaster | Local | website, local history, area railroad heritage, 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 | information, local history |
| Cottage Museum, Lancaster | Lancaster | City of Lancaster | Historic house | Webpage , early Victorian period cottage |
| Fleetwood Museum | Fleetwood | Wyre | Local | Local history, culture, maritime heritage, fishing industry |
| Fylde Gallery | Lytham | Fylde | Art | information, 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 | website, 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 |
| 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 | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, 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 | website, local history, operated by the Whitworth Historical Society |
| Woodend Mining Museum | Reedley Hallows | Pendle | Mining | website, information, area coal mining |
| Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum - Earby | Earby | Pendle | Mining | website, 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