List of museums in Cambridgeshire

See also: List of museums in Cambridge

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This list of museums in Cambridgeshire, 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.

## Museums

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Anglesey Abbey, Gardens and Lode Mill |  | Lode | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 1930s period house featuring a collection of rare clocks, gardens, and working flour mill
Blacked-Out Britain War Museum |  | Huntingdon | History | information, everyday life in Britain during World War II
Bourn Windmll |  | Bourn | Mill | website, open trestle post mill
Burghley House |  | Peterborough | Historic house | Grand 16th-century country house with gardens, collections of fine and decorative arts
Burwell Museum |  | Burwell | History | Themed building exhibits include agriculture, period rooms and household items, military life, blacksmith's shop, a Roman pottery, a Victorian school room, vintage vehicles, carts, farm equipment
Cambridge Museum of Technology |  | Cambridge | Technology | Located in an original sewage pumping station, includes equipment, information and artefacts from local industries
Cambridge Science Centre |  | Cambridge | Science | Hands-on science exhibitions, workshops, shows and talks
Cambridge University Library |  | Cambridge | Library | Changing exhibits of art, history and culture from its collections, part of the University of Cambridge
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology |  | Cambridge | Natural history | Specimens of fossil and living animals, part of the University of Cambridge
Centre for Computing History |  | Cambridge | Computer | Technology and the social, cultural and historical impact of the computing revolution
Chatteris Museum |  | Chatteris | Local | website, local history, culture
Cromwell Museum |  | Huntingdon | Biographical | Life of 17th century English military and political leader Oliver Cromwell
Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey |  | Waterbeach | Multiple | Agriculture, local history, and historic abbey dating to the 12th century
Elton Hall |  | Elton | Historic house | Baronial hall and gardens on a 3,800-acre (15 km2) estate
Ely Museum |  | Ely | Local | website, area history, culture, natural history, located in the Bishop's gaol
Fitzwilliam Museum |  | Cambridge | Art | Includes fine art, coins, Egyptian collections, antiquities, Near-Eastern and Asian art and artefacts, decorative art, part of the University of Cambridge
Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre and Archaeology Park |  | Peterborough | Archaeology | Open air reconstruction and finds from a Bronze Age settlement
Hinchingbrooke House |  | Huntingdon | Historic house | Tudor country house, ancestral home of the Cromwell and Sandwich families
Houghton Mill |  | Houghton | Mill | Operated by the National Trust, restored water mill
Imperial War Museum Duxford |  | Duxford | Aviation | Military aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels
Kettle's Yard |  | Cambridge | Art | Gallery of 20th century and 21st century art, part of the University of Cambridge
Kimbolton Castle |  | Kimbolton | Historic house | Final home of King Henry VIII's first queen, Catherine of Aragon, open for tours on a very limited basis
Lawrence Room |  | Cambridge | Archaeology | website, artefacts of Anglo-Saxon, Egyptian and Classical Mediterranean origin, at Girton College, Cambridge, part of the University of Cambridge
Longthorpe Tower |  | Longthorpe | Historic house | 14th century, three-story tower featuring mediæval wall paintings
The Manor (Cambridgeshire) |  | Hemingford Grey | Historic house | One of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain, made famous as the house of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston
March and District Museum |  | March | Local | Local history, culture
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |  | Cambridge | Multiple | Archaeology and anthropology artefacts from England, Ancient Rome, Africa, the Pacific, and great works of African, Asian, and native American sculpture, part of the University of Cambridge
Museum of Cambridge |  | Cambridge | Local | Local history and culture, period room displays, artefacts of everyday life, formerly the Cambridge and County Folk Museum
Museum of Classical Archaeology |  | Cambridge | Art | Plaster casts of Greek & Roman sculpture, part of the University of Cambridge
New Hall Art Collection |  | Cambridge | Art | Works by women artists, part of Murray Edwards College, a women's college of University of Cambridge
Norris Museum, Cambridgeshire |  | St Ives | Local | website, local history, culture
Octavia Hill's Birthplace House |  | Wisbech | Biographical | website, home of 19th century British social reformer Octavia Hill, co-founder of the National Trust
Oliver Cromwell's House |  | Ely | Biographical | website, home of Oliver Cromwell, also tourist office.
Peckover House & Garden |  | Wisbech | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Georgian merchant's townhouse with Victorian walled garden
People's Portraits Exhibition |  | Cambridge | Art | website, long term exhibition of portraits of ordinary people from all walks of life created by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, at Girton College, Cambridge, part of the University of Cambridge
Peterborough Museum |  | Peterborough | Multiple | Local history, art, archaeology, natural history, Jurassic fossils
Prickwillow Museum |  | Prickwillow | Technology | website History of the changing landscape of the Fens and the principles of drainage which created it, features restored diesel engines in a former pumping station
Railworld |  | Peterborough | Railway | Sustainable transport, model trains, railway locomotives, memorabilia
Ramsey Rural Museum CIO |  | Ramsey | History | website, history of rural Fenland life, period rooms and businesses, agriculture, trades
Rupert Brooke Museum |  | Grantchester | Biographical | website, life and works of poet Rupert Brooke, located adjacent to The Orchard tea garden
Ruskin Gallery |  | Cambridge | Art | Part of Anglia Ruskin University
The Polar Museum |  | Cambridge | Science | Part of the University of Cambridge, history and science of explorations of the Arctic and Antarctic
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences |  | Cambridge | Natural history | Geology, rocks, minerals, fossils, part of the University of Cambridge
St Neots Museum |  | St Neots | Local | Local history, culture, prison cells
Stained Glass Museum |  | Ely | Art | Historic and contemporary stained glass, located in Ely Cathedral
Stretham Old Engine |  | Stretham | Technology | Working steam engine
Taggart Gallery and Museum |  | Great Staughton | Art | Shop with museum featuring historic decorative tiles
Thorney Heritage Museum |  | Thorney | Local | website, local history, culture
Tower Museum Bassingbourn |  | Royston | Military | History of RAF Bassingbourn during World War II
Waterbeach Military Heritage Museum |  | Waterbeach | Military | History of RAF Waterbeach until 1966 and of Waterbeach Barracks
Whipple Museum of the History of Science |  | Cambridge | Science | Historic scientific instruments and items about the history of science, part of the University of Cambridge
Whittlesey Museum |  | Whittlesey | Local | Local history, culture
Wimpole Hall |  | Wimpole | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, opulent mansion, gardens and grounds
Wimpole Home Farm |  | Arrington | Agriculture | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century working farm
Wisbech Castle |  | Wisbech | Historic House | Regency villa (built by Joseph Medworth) and grounds operated by Wisbech Town Council.
Wisbech & Fenland Museum |  | Wisbech | Multiple | Local history and culture, natural history, decorative arts
Wysing Arts Centre |  | Bourn | Art | Contemporary arts centre

## Defunct museums

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Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum |  | Wisbech | Aviation | website, military aviation, including the World War II, the Falklands conflict and Desert Storm \- collection relocated to the City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norfolk.[1]

## References

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1. ^ "Fenland Aviation Museum's collection coming to Norwich!". City of Norwich Aviation Museum. Retrieved 11 August 2024.

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