list of museums in lancashire
Table:
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
information, information, local history, culture

Bancroft Mill Engine

Barnoldswick
Pendle
Technology
website, 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
website, history of the British in India, includes photographs, uniforms, swords, model soldiers, paintings, Indian army cap badges and buttons

Chapel Gallery

Ormskirk
West Lancashire
Art
website, local public art gallery

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, Wallace Hartley memorabilia of the bandleader on the RMS Titanic

Cottage Museum

Lancaster
City of Lancaster
Historic house
website, early Victorian period cottage

Fleetwood Museum

Fleetwood
Wyre
Local
Local history, culture, maritime heritage, fishing industry

Fylde Gallery

Lytham
Fylde
Art
information, information, 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, information, local history

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

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
website, 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 Heritage Centre

Lytham
Fylde
Local
website, local history and art exhibits

Lytham Windmill Museum

Lytham
Fylde
Mill
website, 19th-century windmill with exhibits about the mill, millers, local history and culture

Mid Pennine Gallery

Burnley
Burnley
Art
website

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

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

Queen's Lancashire Regiment Museum

Preston
Preston
Military
Located in Fulwood, regimental history and memorabilia

Ribble Discovery Centre

Lytham
Fylde
Natural history
website, ecology and natural history of the Ribble and Alt Estuaries

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!

Blackpool
Blackpool
Amusement
Located at Pleasure Beach Blackpool

Rossendale Museum

Rawtenstall
Rossendale
Multiple
website, local history, fine art, natural history, period Victorian rooms, fashion and furniture, art exhibits

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
information, website, 18th-century weaver's cottage with working hand looms, Victorian kitchen

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

Whitworth Heritage Museum

Whitworth
Rossendale
Local
information, local history

Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum - Earby

Earby
Pendle
Mining
information, lead mining artifacts, currently closed for refurbishment

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