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rachel_weller

Please can you add Horsham Museum & Art Gallery to your listings.

Open Monday- Saturday 10am-5pm. Closed Bank holidays with the exception of Good Friday and Easter Monday.

Description: Admission to Horsham Museum and Art Gallery is free. With more than 26 galleries covering subjects from local trades to fashion, and prehistory to the poet Percy B. Shelley, the museum has been described as the Victoria & Albert in miniature. With ever changing temporary exhibitions, award winning gardens and 26 galleries there is always something different to see every time you pop in. Whether you can visit for 15 minutes or two hours there is always something new to discover. The Museum has been awarded a Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence in 2018.

Harry0

Museum of Communication

We mount themed exhibitions throughout the summer months

Although the exhibition is closed from October to April each year, you can still come and meet us! You will find our volunteers at work on various projects every Wednesday and Saturday between 11 am and 4 pm. Just ring the doorbell!
If you wish to visit at other times, please phone 01592 874836 or email us at enquiries@mocft.co.uk to make arrangements.

We run a very popular series of monthly lectures on a wide variety of subjects. We are also developing an education programme, aimed at encouraging young people to consider careers in science and engineering.

We specialise in communications technology from the pre-electric optical telegraph used in the Napoleonic Wars to the latest state-of-the-art webcams and cameras for mobile phones, currently featured in the Guinness Book of World Records!
The Museum has a major collection — over 40 tonnes — of artefacts covering electrostatics, telegraphy, telephony, audio, radio, television and video and IT... as well as some early experimental radar, satellite, photographic and printing equipment plus a technical library of scientific literature and related documentation.
We mount themed exhibitions throughout the summer months, which are designed to stimulate, entertain and educate the public. In order to display the many different facets of our collection, we change our exhibitions at regular intervals (please see our Exhibition and News pages).
We run a very popular series of monthly lectures on a wide variety of subjects. We are also developing an education programme, aimed at encouraging young people to consider careers in science and engineering.

Harry0

Additional information! The Museum is based at the address below..
thank you

Museum of Communication Foundation Trust
131 High Street
BURNTISLAND
KY3 9AA
Scotland, UK

Amy_Washington

The Museum of Gloucester is now free and is open Monday Saturday 10am-5pm. It's a great little place for all the family, with lots of different events going on, things to see and touch and great exhibitions. They have an up to-date events section on their Facebook page.

Mary_Bowers

If you're in the Inverness area, visit: Cromarty Courthouse Museum
Free entrance and open 7 days a week between Easter and mid October (12.00-16.00)
Fascinating permanent and temporary exhibitions about our town including a courtroom audio re-enactment of a trial that took place there (with life-like figures and dressing up clothes!) Also visit the prisoner in the cell!

Dymphna60

I don’t see Bankfield museum in Halifax.
Free to enter much to interest for locals and visitors.
Not a push button interactive place though if that’s your thing .

barney_rabbit

Hi Martin,

Unfortunately the National Football Museum in Manchester is not free
Admission for adults is £10
Children 5-15 is £5
Under 5's are free.

Rgds

HB202020

The Beaney
18 High Street Canterbury Kent CT1 2RA
01227 862162
canterburymuseums.co.uk/beaney

Museum & Galleries
Monday Closed
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm
Sunday 11am to 4pm

The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge is an Art Gallery, Library and Visitor Information Centre situated in the heart of historic Canterbury.
This award winning facility provides state-of-the-art exhibition galleries, excellent educational facilities and a varied programme of events for all ages.
A cultural hub in East Kent, praised for its welcoming atmosphere, providing a range of services under one roof, uniting art, heritage, books, ideas, information and collections.
Whether you are a frequent Library user, a teacher on a Schools Workshop, a parent enjoying the perfect cup of coffee in our Caf! or an inquisitive explorer studying our treasures from the Ancient worlds; The Beaney is a building for everyone.


Canterbury Roman Museum
Butchery Lane Canterbury CT1 2JR
01227 785575
canterburymuseums.co.uk/romanmuseum

Open Monday to Sunday 10am to 5pm
FREE for Canterbury District Residents only with a My Town My City card.
Admission for accompanying children is £1.50 per child.
(Cards can be purchased at any of our museums)

Canterbury Roman Museum’s story began on what appeared to be a rather unremarkable day in 1868. When workmen, digging trenches for a new drainage system, reached eight feet below street level they unwittingly unearthed a beautifully preserved Roman floor mosaic. Fast-forward to the aftermath of the Second World War, when excavations began under the cellars of shops destroyed by bombing, and another startling discovery was made.

Archaeologists had just revealed an under-floor heating system, wall paintings, and a dazzling mosaic corridor. The site was no longer an isolated floor mosaic, but the remains of a very large, and no doubt very costly, Roman Town House.

Over time a museum arose to encompass the remains and preserve what is now known to be one of the UK’s only remaining in situ Roman pavement mosaics and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Canterbury Roman Museum is Kent’s only Roman Museum; providing a fascinating and family-friendly insight into life in Roman Britain. Visitors can explore Canterbury’s history, wander through the marketplace and discover hidden treasures as they step back, and down, to the streets of Roman Canterbury…

chipleyfields

I'd like to see Museum of Somerset in Taunton added to the list of free museums and galleries in the South West of England. It's excellent to visit, and has visiting exhibitions as well as its permanent collection, plus special events, education projects, and a well run cafe and gift shop.
Here is some information about the Museum of Somerset:

swheritage.org.uk/museum-of-somerset/ 

Where: Taunton, Som

Open: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Tuesday to Saturday.

Open Good Friday and Easter Monday

Description: Discover 400 million years of history at the Museum of Somerset. Housed in Taunton’s historic castle, the Museum of Somerset tells the county’s fascinating story from prehistoric times to the present day. Within the 12th century castle walls you’ll find contemporary gallery spaces and great family visitor facilities, all situated within the town centre. With an amazing nine themed galleries, each with its own distinctive character, there’s something for everyone to discover. The Museum is also home to Somerset Military Museum.

sefer

Hi,

Big recommend for Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Rd, Manchester (opposite Manchester Royal Infirmary), about 10 minutes walk from Manchester Museum and set in a park. Sometimes has free activities for children, some drop in, some you have to book. There are colouring in sheets, crayons and 2 Minecraft machines available. Free highlights tour at 2pm. I’d post the link, but I’m not allowed!