Free Museums and Galleries deals page discussion / Report top spots

ellio100

The Museum of London is free, and from April 1st the Museum of London Docklands will also be free!
Both great with loads for kids... New galleries at Museum of London opening in a couple of months, will be a must-see!

Kromlov

This is a great list!

I´ve found on my travels most galleries have a few hours which are free every week, usually from 5 - 8pm on a Thursday or something.

Have to check out a lot of these, I had no idea some were free!!

cavie78

Museum of Brands is listed in as a free museum in London but according to their website an adult ticket is £5.80. Also the entry for Leeds Art Gallery is in the North West England list rather than Yorkshire and Humber and the description bizarrely reads "Coventry is the birthplace of the British cycle and motor industry. Discover the fascinating story behind the development of road transport from the earliest cycles to land speed record breakers."

annedonnelly

In Tyne and Wear most of the venues managed by the T&W Museums service are free:

Great North Museum
Hatton Gallery
Laing Art Gallery
Discovery Museum
Sunderland Museum & Winter Garden
Shipley Art Galley
Arbeia Roman Fort
Monkwearmouth Station Museum
South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Stephenson Railway Museum
Washington 'F' Pit


In Ashington, Northumberland Woodhorn Colliery Museum is free - although there's a parking charge.

cavie78

The London list seems to be missing the V&A, Natural History Museum and National Portrait Gallery. I'd also recommend Sir John Soane's house which is based in a house he built for himself at Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn soane.org

WRA

Signal Box, Leeming Bar Station, Wensleydale Railway

The Signal Box at Leeming Bar dates from 1901. For most of its life it was located at North Wootton on the King’s Lynn to Hunstanton line. It was bought by the local Scouts following the line’s closure in 1969. By 2007 it had become life-expired and was donated to the Wensleydale Railway Trust. With the help of a Heritage Lottery Grant of £21,500, it was completely restored at Leeming Bar over a period of twelve months and was re-opened on 2 May 2009.

The researching of the history of the signal box has been rewarding in itself. In particular it has helped us to restore it with greater certainty where detail has been missing from the original drawings. The testimony of those who know and worked these boxes is as much part of the heritage as the building itself. The Information Point opposite the signal box is very modern but provides a window on this past world. We think that this blend of old and new makes the signal box more accessible, in particular for young people who visit the railway.

There is a page on the Signal Box on the Railway's website (wensleydalerailway.com)

Ring 08454 50 54 74 for information on access times.

ipswichblade

In Leeds:

Leeds City Museum
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/cityMuseum/

Royal Armouries
http://www.royalarmouries.org/home

Leeds Art Gallery
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/

The Henry Moore Institute
http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/hmi

birminghamcathedral

The Burne-Jones Windows, Birmingham Cathedral

One of the amazing exhibits at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is The Star of Bethlehem, 1887 - 1891 by Edward Burne-Jones.

Close to the Museum is Birmingham Cathedral, a church dating from 1715, which houses four magnificent windows by Burne-Jones: the Nativity, Ascension, Crucifixion, and the Last Judgement.

The Cathedral is open Monday to Friday from 7am to 7pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am to 5pm. Please be respectful of the services which take place in this wonderful building.

More information on the Cathedral's website (birminghamcathedral.com) or by ringing 0121 262 1840

northern_munky

The Museum of Transport in Manchester is listed as being free, but only kids are free, adults have to pay.

MagMag

For the East of England, the Visit East of England website lets you filter on which attractions offer free entry and there are 76 in the Museum category.
As a new user I am not allowed to post the link.

I imagine the regional equivalents of Visit East of England offer the same facility.