Best of West Midlands
The 20 best museums in West Midlands
Our curated top 20 museums in West Midlands, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 780 museums see the full museums index for West Midlands.
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Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is an industrial heritage organisation which runs ten museums and manages multiple historic sites within the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site in Shropshire, Engla
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Darby Houses
The Darby Houses museum is one of ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums administered by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. It is based in the town of Coalbrookdale in the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, Engla
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78 Derngate
78 Derngate is a Grade II* listed Georgian house in the Cultural Quarter of Northampton, England, originally built in 1815. Its interior was extensively remodelled in 1916 and 1917 by the architect Ch
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River Blythe
Warwickshire
The River Blythe flows through the English Midlands from central Warwickshire, through the Borough of Solihull and on to Coleshill in north Warwickshire. It runs along the Meriden Gap in the Midlands
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Malvern, Worcestershire
Worcestershire
Malvern (, locally also: ) is a spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England. It lies at the foot of the Malvern Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The centre of Malvern,
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Birmingham Assay Office
The Birmingham Assay Office, one of the four assay offices in the United Kingdom, is located in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. The development of a silver industry in 18th century Birmingham was h
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Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Worcestershire
Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings — local independent museum in Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom.
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Hunsbury Hill
Hunsbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort two miles (3 km) south-west of the centre of the town of Northampton in the county of Northamptonshire. It is also known as Danes Camp. It is probable that defen
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Ascott, Buckinghamshire
Ascott is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Wing, Buckinghamshire, England. The hamlet lies completely within the boundary of the Ascott Estate; it is home to many of the estate and house st
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Berkhamsted ( BUR-kəm-sted) is a market town in Hertfordshire, England. Located in the Bulbourne Valley, it is 26 miles (42 km) north-west of London and had a population of 21,245 at the 2021 census.
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Acton, Cheshire
Acton is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burland and Acton, lying immediately west of the town of Nantwich, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremon
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Princes Risborough
Princes Risborough () is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England; it is located about 8 miles (13 km) south of Aylesbury, 9 miles (14 km) northwest of High Wycombe, and 7 miles (11
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Abingdon-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
Abingdon-on-Thames ( AB-ing-dən), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The histor
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Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (, abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the east, Greater
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Cotswolds
Gloucestershire
The Cotswolds ( KOTS-wohldz, KOTS-wəldz) is a region of South West and South Central England, along a range of wolds or rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper River Thames to an escarpm
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Crewe Works
Crewe Works is a railway engineering facility located in the town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. It was opened originally by the Grand Junction Railway in March 1843 and employed 7-8,000 workers at i
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Dean Forest Railway
Gloucestershire
The Dean Forest Railway is a 4+1⁄4-mile (6.8 km) long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The route was part of the former Severn and
