List of museums in Dorset
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This list of museums in Dorset , 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 | Image | Town/City | Type | Summary |
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Anvil Point Lighthouse | Swanage | Maritime | Lighthouse open for tours, located within Durlston Country Park | |
Athelhampton | Dorchester | Historic house | 15th-century manor house and gardens | |
Beaminster Museum | Beaminster | Local | website , local history, archaeology, agriculture | |
Bennetts Water Gardens | Chickerell | Multiple | 8-acre (32,000 m 2 ) garden, collection of water lilies, local history museum | |
Blandford Fashion Museum | Blandford | Fashion | website , costumes and accessories from the 1730s to the 1970s | |
Blandford Town Museum | Blandford | Local | website , local history, trades, archaeology, military, railway | |
Bridport Museum | Bridport | Local | website , local history, textiles, fossils, art | |
Bournemouth Aviation Museum | Hurn | Aviation | Airplanes, engines, cockpits, a double-decker bus | |
Bournemouth Natural Science Society | Bournemouth | Natural history | website , open for events and open house days, includes preserved plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, eggs and shells, fossils, rocks and minerals, archaeological artifacts and an Egyptology collection | |
Bournemouth University Atrium Gallery | Bournemouth | Art | website , works by both university students and contributing artists | |
Castletown D-Day Centre | Isle of Portland | Military | History of Portland Harbour 's role in the Normandy landings [1] | |
Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre | Charmouth | Natural history | Fossils and rocks of the Jurassic Coast | |
Chettle House | Chettle | Historic house | information , 18th century Queen Anne house and gardens | |
Clouds Hill | Wareham | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust , former home of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") | |
Corfe Castle Town Museum | Corfe Castle | Local | website , local history, geology, marble industry | |
Dinosaur Museum | Dorchester | Natural history | Dinosaurs, full size models, fossils of the Jurassic Coast | |
Dinosaurland Fossil Museum | Lyme Regis | Natural history | Local Jurassic marine fossils, dinosaurs, geology of the Jurassic Coast , shells, evolution | |
Dorset County Museum | Dorchester | Multiple | Local history, natural history, art, archaeology, agriculture, author Thomas Hardy , fossil and dinosaurs | |
Dorset Teddy Bear Museum | Dorchester | Toy | Teddy bears | |
The Etches Collection | Kimmeridge | Natural history | Fossils | |
Fiddleford Manor | Sturminster Newton | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage , medieval small stone manor house | |
Forde Abbey | Chard | Historic house | Former Cistercian monastery, house and gardens | |
TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth | Bournemouth | Art | website , contemporary art gallery | |
Gillingham Museum | Gillingham | Local | website , local history, trades, geology, industry | |
Gold Hill Museum | Shaftesbury | Local | website , local history, culture, industry | |
Grove Prison Museum | Isle of Portland | Prison | History of HM Prison Portland [2] | |
Highcliffe Castle | Highcliffe | Historic house | 19th century Romantic and Picturesque style castle, grounds laid out by Capability Brown | |
Keep Military Museum | Dorchester | Military | History of the regiments of Dorset and Devon | |
Kingston Lacy | Wimborne Minster | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust , 17th-century house with fine art, Egyptian artifacts, lavish interiors, gardens | |
Langton Matravers Museum | Langton Matravers | Local | website , local history, geology, limestone industry | |
Lulworth Castle | East Lulworth | Historic house | 17th century mock castle manor house | |
Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium | Lyme Regis | Natural history | website , local fish and marine life of the Jurassic coast, history of The Cobb harbour wall | |
Lyme Regis Museum | Lyme Regis | Multiple | Fossils, geology, Jane Austen , local history, maritime heritage, writers and artists, formerly known as the Philpot Museum | |
Mangerton Mill | Bridport | Mill | information , 3 story watermill | |
Mapperton House | Beaminster | Historic house | Elizabethan manor house and gardens | |
Max Gate | Dorchester | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust , home of author Thomas Hardy | |
Museum of Design in Plastics | Bournemouth | Art | website , collection of the library of the Arts University Bournemouth , international, historical and contemporary design examples of plastic items and uses | |
Nothe Fort | Weymouth | Military | 19th-century fort with important role in World War II , memorabilia, vehicles | |
Place Mill | Christchurch | Mill | website , restored Anglo-Saxon watermill, art gallery | |
Poole Museum | Poole | Local | Local history, ceramics and Poole Pottery , archaeology, maritime and social history, local trades and industries, costume and textiles; formerly known as the Waterfront Museum | |
Poole Old Lifeboat Museum and Shop | Poole | Maritime | Former lifeboat station and historic lifeboat | |
Portland Bill Lighthouse | Isle of Portland | Maritime | Lighthouse open for tours | |
Portland Castle | Weymouth | Military | Operated by English Heritage , 16th century armed castle fort | |
Portland Museum | Isle of Portland | Local | Local history, geology, maritime heritage, archaeology | |
Priest's House Museum | Wimborne Minster | Historic house | Rooms furnished in different periods, local history, archaeology | |
Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum | Corfe Castle | Mining | Located at the Norden railway station , history and equipment for ball clay mining | |
Red House Museum, Dorset | Christchurch | Local | information , information , local and social history, natural history, geology, archaeology, costumes | |
Royal Signals Museum | Blandford Forum | Military | National museum of army communications | |
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum | Bournemouth | Art | Fine art and Japanese art in a Victorian mansion | |
Scaplens Court Museum | Poole | History | website , medieval building used for education programs, special domestic life demonstrations in August | |
Shaftesbury Abbey Museum | Shaftesbury | Religious | Artifacts from the ruins of a 15th-century Benedictine nunnery | |
Sherborne Castle | Sherborne | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage , 16th-century Tudor mansion and gardens | |
Sherborne House Arts | Bridport | Art | website , art gallery of the Bridport Arts Centre | |
Sherborne Museum | Sherborne | Local | Local history, trades, industry, household items | |
Sherborne Steam & Waterwheel Centre | Sherborne | Technology | website , restored 19th century waterwheel used to deliver town's water, formerly known as the Castleton Waterwheel Museum | |
Shire Hall Dorset | Dorchester | Prison | website , also known as Old Crown Court and Cells, courtroom, cells and stocks restored to appear as during the trial of the Tolpuddle Martyrs in 1834 | |
Stock Gaylard | Sturminster Newton | Historic house | website , small Georgian country house, gardens and estate | |
Sturminster Newton Mill | Sturminster Newton | Mill | website , working watermill | |
Sturminster Newton Museum | Sturminster Newton | Local | website , local history, culture | |
Sutton Poyntz Water Supply Museum | Weymouth | History | website , history of water supplying, natural history of watersheds, operated by Wessex Water Services | |
Swanage Museum | Swanage | Local | website , local history, geology and history of the Jurassic Coast , stone industry, local development of early radar in the UK during World War II | |
Swanage Railway | Corfe Castle | Railway | Heritage railway and museum located in the converted Goods Shed in Corfe Castle railway station | |
The Tank Museum | Wool | Military | Tanks and armoured vehicles | |
Terracotta Warriors Museum | Dorchester | History | website , replicas of warriors of the Terracotta Army found in China in 1974 | |
Thomas Hardy's Cottage | Higher Bockhampton | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust , birthplace of author Thomas Hardy | |
Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum | Tolpuddle | History | Trade union history of 19th-century English agricultural labourers who were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers | |
Town Mill, Lyme Regis | Lyme Regis | Mill | website , restored working watermill, complex also houses art galleries, a café/restaurant, craft studios and workshops, a bakery, a mill shop and the Miller's garden | |
Tudor House | Weymouth | Historic house | Early 17th century period merchant's house, operated by the Weymouth Civic Society | |
Tutankhamun Exhibition | Dorchester | History | Re-creation of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun | |
Wareham Town Museum | Wareham | Local | Local history, T. E. Lawrence , archeology, local pottery | |
West Bay Discovery Centre | West Bay | Local | Visitor centre covering the history of West Bay, housed in a former Methodist chapel [3] | |
Weymouth Museum | Weymouth | Local | Part of Brewers Quay, local history, culture, maritime history | |
White Mill, Sturminster Marshall | Sturminster Marshall | Mill | website , operated by the National Trust , part of the Kingston Lacy estate, restored watermill | |
Wolfeton House | Charminster | Historic house | Early Tudor and Elizabethan manor house |
Defunct museums
- Discovery, interactive hands-on science exhibits, formerly part of Brewers Quay
- Museum of Electricity, Christchurch, closed indefinitely in 2012 [4]
- Timewalk , formerly located in Brewers Quay , exhibits on 600 years of local history and the brewing heritage of the building. Closed in 2010.
See also
References
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- ↑ "Portland dockside D-Day museum opens - BBC News" . Bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 16 July 2018 .
- ↑ "Grove Prison Museum" . Portland History . Retrieved 9 March 2015 .
- ↑ "West Bay Discovery Centre - Bridport & West Bay" . Bridportandwestbay.co.uk . Retrieved 16 July 2018 .
- ↑ "Spark of hope for Christchurch electricity museum" . Daily Echo. 13 March 2013 . Retrieved 9 March 2015 .
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