# List of museums in Lincolnshire

This list of museums in Lincolnshire, 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 |
| 20-21 Visual Arts Centre | Scunthorpe | North Lincolnshire | Art | website, visual arts centre |
| 50 and 61 Squadron Museum | Lincoln | Lincoln | Military | History of No. 50 Squadron RAF and No. 61 Squadron RAF and RAF Skellingthorpe in World War II |
| Alford Manor House | Alford | East Lindsey | Historic house | 17th-century thatched manor house, gardens, art gallery |
| Anderby Drainage Museum | Anderby | East Lindsey | Technology | website Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, located in a drainage board pumping station, includes engines and tools |
| Ayscoughfee Hall Museum | Spalding | South Holland | Historic house | 15th-century medieval Tudor merchant's house, includes an art gallery, gardens |
| Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre | Coningsby | East Lindsey | Aviation | Tours of historic World War II aircraft used in flight shows |
| Baysgarth House Museum | Barton-upon-Humber | North Lincolnshire | Local | Local history, culture |
| Belton House | Belton | South Kesteven | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century Restoration style country house with opulent decor, silverware, paintings, gardens |
| Boston Guildhall | Boston | Boston | Local | History of the medieval guildhall, courtroom and the town, also art exhibits |
| Bourne Heritage Centre | Bourne | South Kesteven | Local | Located at Baldock's Mill, local history, culture, auto racing driver Raymond Mays, fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth |
| Browne's Hospital | Stamford | South Kesteven | History | Medieval almshouse, tours by appointment |
| Bubble Car Museum | Cranwell | North Kesteven | Transportation | website, collection of bubble cars and microcars, 1950s memorabilia, Bakelite items |
| Burgh le Marsh Heritage Centre | Burgh Le Marsh | East Lindsey | Mill | website, also known as Dobson's Mill, early-19th-century tower windmill, exhibits of local history |
| Burgh Museum | Burgh Le Marsh | East Lindsey | Local | website Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, local history |
| Burton Fen Collection | Pinchbeck | South Holland | Music | website, music hall with pipe organ collection, movie posters and old advertisements |
| Caistor Arts & Heritage Centre | Caistor | West Lindsey | Local | website, local history, includes the Caistor Library, exhibition space |
| Chain Bridge Forge | Spalding | South Holland | Technology | , living museum that provides blacksmithing demonstrations, local history, innovation 3D printing and scanning |
| Cleethorpes Discovery Centre | Cleethorpes | North East Lincolnshire | Art | website, art exhibition gallery |
| Cogglesford Mill | Sleaford | North Kesteven | Mill | Late-18th-century working watermill |
| Cottage Museum | Woodhall Spa | East Lindsey | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Cranwell Aviation Heritage Centre | Cranwell | North Kesteven | Aviation | website, history of Royal Air Force College Cranwell |
| Discover Stamford | Stamford | South Kesteven | Local | website, heritage display in Stamford Library |
| Doddington Hall & Gardens | Doddington | Lincoln | Historic house | Late-17th-century house with Georgian interiors, collections of furniture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, porcelain, household objects, gardens |
| Dogdyke Steam Drainage Station | Tattershall | East Lindsey | Technology | Restored steam drainage engine and museum |
| Epworth Old Rectory | Epworth | North Lincolnshire | Historic house | website, early-18th-century Queen Anne rectory, birthplace of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of Methodism |
| Gainsborough Old Hall | Gainsborough | West Lindsey | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, timber-framed and brick medieval manor house |
| Gayton Engine Pumping Station | Theddlethorpe | East Lindsey | Technology | website Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, 1930s pumping station with engine and exhibits about land drainage |
| Gordon Boswell Romany Museum | Spalding | South Holland | Transportation | Collection of Romani wagons |
| Grantham House | Grantham | South Kesteven | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, townhouse reflecting different eras, open by appointment and on a limited basis, gardens |
| Grantham Museum | Grantham | South Kesteven | Local | Local history, culture, Sir Isaac Newton, Margaret Thatcher and the World War II raid Dambusters |
| Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre | Grimsby | North East Lincolnshire | Maritime | Area 1950s fishing industry, also art exhibits |
| Grimsby Town Hall Time Trap Museum | Grimsby | North East Lincolnshire | Prison | website, local history and prison, located in town hall |
| Grimsthorpe Castle | Bourne | South Kesteven | Historic house | Large country estate with paintings, furniture, tapestries and objets d'art, gardens, parklands designed by Capability Brown |
| Haywain Farm Museum | Epworth | North Lincolnshire | Agriculture | information |
| Heckington Railway and Heritage Museum | Heckington | North Kesteven | Railway | Preserved Victorian railway station with artifacts, working model railways, local history displays, operated by Heckington Village Trust |
| Heckington Windmill | Heckington | North Kesteven | Mill | 8-sailed tower windmill |
| Immingham Museum | Immingham | North East Lincolnshire | Railway | website, Great Central Railway, LNER and British Rail exhibits, building of the Immingham Dock, local history |
| Lincoln Castle | Lincoln | Lincoln | Multiple | Medieval castle, courtroom and prison, exhibition about Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest |
| Lincoln Medieval Bishop's Palace | Lincoln | Lincoln | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, remains of the medieval palace with visitor centre and audio tour |
| Lincoln Museum | Lincoln | Lincoln | Multiple | Archaeology, fine and decorative arts, contemporary visual arts in the Usher Gallery |
| Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre | East Kirkby | East Lindsey | Aviation | History of the RAF Bomber Command in World War II |
| Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum | North Hykeham | North Kesteven | Transportation | website, vintage cars, buses and commercial vehicles, road transport history and memorabilia, model vehicles, 1950s/60s village garage workshop |
| Lincolnshire Wolds Railway | Ludborough | East Lindsey | Railway | Heritage railway and museum |
| Louth Museum | Louth | East Lindsey | Local | website, local history, culture, archaeology, geology, natural history |
| Magdalen College Museum | Wainfleet All Saints | East Lindsey | Local | website, information, local history, culture |
| Maud Foster Windmill | Boston | Boston | Mill | Seven story, five sail working windmill |
| Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre | Metheringham | North Kesteven | Aviation | History of the World War II RAF 106 Bomber Squadron at RAF Metheringham |
| Moulton Windmill | Moulton | South Holland | Mill | Early-19th-century tower windmill |
| Mrs Smith's Cottage | Navenby | North Kesteven | Historic house | Early Victorian brick built cottage with few modern amenities |
| Museum of Lincolnshire Life | Lincoln | Lincoln | Local | Local and social history, Victorian rooms, period shop displays, exhibits about the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry, agriculture equipment and tools |
| Museum of RAF Firefighting | RAF Scampton | Lincoln | Military, Transportation | website Museum containing Military Fire Engines, Civilian Fire Engines and various kinds of pumps. Museum with over 40+ vehicles dating back to wartime. |
| Museum of Technology | Throckenholt | South Holland | Technology | Evolution of electrical, electronic and warfare technology between the period 1850 and 1980 (Reopening anticipated in 2015 moved from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire) |
| National Centre for Craft & Design | Sleaford | North Kesteven | Art | Contemporary craft and design centre, formerly The Hub |
| Natural World Centre | Thorpe on the Hill | North Kesteven | Natural history | Nature discovery centre for Whisby Nature Park |
| Navigation House | Sleaford | North Kesteven | Transportation | Development and heritage of the Sleaford Navigation, a 12.5 mile (20.1 km) canalisation of the River Slea |
| Normanby Hall Museum and Country Park | Burton upon Stather | North Lincolnshire | Multiple | Early-19th-century Regency mansion with a farming museum, Victorian walled garden, stableyard, duck ponds, deer sanctuary, miniature railway |
| North Ings Farm Museum | Dorrington | North Kesteven | Technology | Tractors, agricultural machinery, commercial vehicles, a narrow gauge railway, portable steam pumps, a fairground organ |
| North Lincolnshire Museum | Scunthorpe | North Lincolnshire | Local | Local history, culture |
| Owston Ferry Smithy | Owston Ferry | North Lincolnshire | Local | website, local history, blacksmith shop |
| Pinchbeck Engine | Pinchbeck | South Holland | Technology | Steam powered drainage engines |
| RAF Digby Sector Ops Room Museum | Digby | North Kesteven | Military | Restored World War II Sector Operations headquarters |
| RAF Scampton Museum | Scampton | West Lindsey | Military | website, history of RAF Scampton |
| RAF Skellingthorpe Heritage Room | Skellingthorpe | North Kesteven | Military | History of RAF Skellingthorpe |
| RAF Waddington Heritage Centre | Lincoln | Lincoln | Military | website, history and memorabilia of RAF Waddington, open by appointment |
| RAF Wickenby Memorial Collection | Langworth | West Lindsey | Military | website, history and memorabilia of RAF Wickenby |
| The Ropewalk | Barton-upon-Humber | North Lincolnshire | Art | Arts centre with four exhibit galleries, artist studios, museum about the former rope factory, theatre |
| Scawby Hall | Scawby | North Lincolnshire | Historic house | website, early Jacobean manor house |
| Sibsey Trader Mill | Sibsey | East Lindsey | Mill | Late-19th-century six-story windmill, owned by English Heritage |
| South Lincolnshire Military Museum | Gosberton | South Holland | Military | information |
| Spalding Flower Bulb Museum | Pinchbeck | South Holland | Agriculture | website, local flower bulb growing industry |
| St Katherine’s Heritage and Cultural Centre | Lincoln | Lincoln | Local | Local heritage and culture exhibits and programs of St Catherine's, Lincoln |
| St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber | Barton-upon-Humber | North Lincolnshire | Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, remains and artifacts from the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon church |
| Tattershall Castle | Tattershall | East Lindsey | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 15th-century medieval castle |
| Thornton Abbey | Thornton Curtis | North Lincolnshire | Religious | Operated by English Heritage, gatehouse and remains of a medieval priory |
| Thorpe Camp Visitor Centre | Thorpe Park | East Lindsey | Military | History and artifacts of RAF Woodhall Spa in World War II and after, includes aircraft and missiles, models, dioramas, photos |
| Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft | Sandtoft | North Lincolnshire | Transportation | Preserved trolleybuses, 1950s/1960s street scene and period home |
| The Village Church Farm | Skegness | East Lindsey | Open air | Local history, agriculture tools and equipment, traditional indigenous buildings including a cottage, 18th-century farmhouse, 19th-century stable block and cowshed |
| Waltham Windmill | Waltham | North East Lincolnshire | Mill | Late-19th-century six-sailed windmill |
| Welbourn Forge | Welbourn | North Kesteven | History | information, information, working forge and blacksmith shop |
| Wilderspin National School | Barton-upon-Humber | North Lincolnshire | Education | website, life and works of education pioneer Samuel Wilderspin, recreation of his mid-19th-century classroom and a late Victorian classroom |
| Woolsthorpe Manor | Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth | South Kesteven | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton, 17th-century yeoman's farmhouse, hands-on science activities |
| Wrawby Windmill | Wrawby | North Lincolnshire | Mill | Mid-18th-century four-sailed windmill |
| Ye Olde Curiosity Museum | Mablethorpe | East Lindsey | History | information, collectibles include lampshades, old Christmas decorations and lights, kitchen and brewery memorabilia |

## Defunct museums

* Mawthorpe Museum, Mawthorpe
* Bomber County Aviation Museum, Hemswell Cliff
* Stamford Museum, Stamford, closed in 2011