Weird & wonderful · North West England
Britain's strangest museums
Pencils, lawnmowers, dog collars, mustard, marbles, and 4 million seashells.
Britain takes museums seriously enough to have ten dedicated to a single subject that would not justify even a paragraph elsewhere. The world's largest pencil. A 4-million-shell underground passage of unknown origin. A museum of historic dog collars in a working castle.
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★ Iconic📷 4Weird & wonderful · North West England
Derwent Pencil Museum
The story of the pencil, told in Keswick where graphite was first discovered.
📷 3Museums · North West England
British Lawnmower Museum
British Lawnmower Museum — museum in Southport, England.
📷 5Museums · South East England
Dog collar museum
Dog collar museum — a museum in South East England, United Kingdom.
Flagship📷 3Weird & wonderful · South West England
House of Marbles
The UK's only working marble factory, with a free 200,000-marble museum.
★ Iconic📷 10Weird & wonderful · South East England
Shell Grotto
A 4.6-million-shell underground passage of unknown origin, discovered in 1835.
2 additional places are mentioned in this guide but not yet in our main database.