Name
|
Image
|
Town/City
|
Type
|
Summary
|
Abbey Pumping Station |
|
Leicester |
Technology |
Science and technology museum, housed in a Victorian sewage pumping station with beam engines restored to working order, and exhibitions on light and optics, historic transport and public health, including an 'interactive toilet'.
|
Ashby de la Zouch Museum |
|
Ashby-de-la-Zouch |
Local |
website, local history, culture
|
Armourgeddon Military Museum |
|
Husbands Bosworth |
Military |
website, military vehicles, guns, cannons and military paraphernalia
|
Belgrave Hall |
|
Leicester |
Historic house |
Victorian period house showing the contrasting lifestyles of an upper-middle-class family and domestic servants
|
Belvoir Castle |
|
Grantham |
Historic house |
Castle with gardens
|
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park |
|
Sutton Cheney |
Military |
History of the 1485 Battle of Bosworth during the War of the Roses, and the search for the site of the battle.
|
Charnwood Museum |
|
Loughborough |
Local |
Area history, geology, archaeology and industries
|
Castle Donington Museum |
|
Castle Donington |
Local |
website, local history
|
Conkers |
|
Moira |
Natural history |
website, nature, woodlands, visitor centre of The National Forest
|
Donington le Heath Manor House Museum |
|
Coalville |
Historic house |
16th-century medieval period house
|
De Montfort University Heritage Centre |
|
Leicester |
Education & Medieval |
Housed in the Hawthorne Building, it covers the history of The Newarke & Church of the Annunciation, Trinity Hospital building, DMU History and special exhibitions[1]
|
East Midlands Aeropark |
|
Castle Donington |
Aviation |
Includes complete airframes on external display, engines, aircraft components, photographs
|
Foxton Canal Museum |
|
Foxton |
Transportation |
History of the Foxton Locks, lives of the canal workers and other aspects of the local canal
|
Fleckney Museum |
|
Fleckney |
Local |
website, local history
|
Guru Nanak Sikh Museum |
|
Leicester |
Religious |
website, Sikh art, history, culture; by appointment only.
|
Hallaton Museum |
|
Hallaton |
Local |
website, local history
|
Harborough Museum |
|
Market Harborough |
Local |
Local history, culture, industry, Hallaton Treasure
|
Hinckley and District Museum |
|
Hinckley |
Local |
website, local history, framework knitter`s cottage with 1740s knitting frame.
|
Jewry Wall Museum |
|
Leicester |
Archaeology |
Alongside Jewry Wall and site of Roman baths. The museum houses Roman mosaics and artifacts alongside archaeological material from prehistoric to medieval Leicester, including the history of archaeology in Leicester.[2]
|
John Taylor & Co |
|
Loughborough |
Music |
Collection of bells used in clock towers, change ringing peals, chimes, and carillons
|
Kegworth Museum |
|
Kegworth |
Local |
local history, archaeology.[3]
|
King Richard III: Dynasty, Death and Discovery |
|
Leicester |
Archaeology |
Visitor Centre at the Greyfriars burial site, with exhibitions on the life and death of Richard III and the archaeological investigation on his remains.[4]
|
Leicester Guildhall |
|
Leicester |
Medieval |
Medieval half-timbered building with Victorian prison cells, and since 2015, galleries on Medieval Leicester[5]
|
Loughborough Carillon & War Memorial |
|
Loughborough |
Military |
World War I memorial, carillon, military museum
|
Loughborough Central Station |
|
Loughborough |
Railway |
1950s period station museum on the Great Central Railway heritage railroad
|
Lutterworth Museum |
|
Lutterworth |
Local |
website, local history, Sir Frank Whittle display
|
Measham Museum |
|
Measham |
Local |
website. Local history. Since 2009 it is housed in part of the disused railway station.
|
Melton Carnegie Museum |
|
Melton Mowbray |
Local |
Local history and culture, including area Stilton cheese and pork pies. Museum in 1977, in former Andrew Carnegie Library.
|
Moira Furnace |
|
Moira |
Industry |
19th-century iron-making blast furnace, with short boat rides on the restored canal.
|
National Gas Museum Leicester |
|
Leicester |
Industry |
Gas industry museum, on production and supply of gas, and gas related artifacts and domestic appliances.
|
National Space Centre |
|
Leicester |
Science |
Space science and astronomy
|
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery |
|
Leicester |
Multiple |
Dinosaurs, geology, art, Ancient Egypt, natural history, world art
|
Newarke Houses Museum |
|
Leicester |
Multiple |
Local history, room settings from the 17th century and the 1950s and 70s, toys, history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, period street scene
|
Old Rectory Museum |
|
Loughborough |
Local |
website, operated by the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society
|
Retro Computer Museum |
|
Thurmaston |
Technology |
preservation, display, and public experience of computer and console systems
|
Shackerstone Railwayana Museum |
|
Shackerstone |
Railway |
Station and museum for the Battlefield Line Railway
|
Sir John Moore Heritage Centre |
|
Appleby Magna |
Education |
website, 1891 Victorian life in the then Sir John Moore Church of England School
|
Stanford Hall |
|
Lutterworth |
Historic house |
William and Mary period house
|
Stonehurst Family Farm and Motor Museum |
|
Mountsorrel |
Multiple |
Family farm and automobile museum
|
Stoneygate Tram Depot |
|
Leicester |
Transport Heritage |
website explores the history of public transport in Leicester and the surrounding areas, and provides bus rides on historic buses
|
Stoneywell |
|
Ulverscroft |
Historic house |
Operated by the National Trust, summer home designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Ernest Gimson
|
Swannington Hough Mill |
|
Swannington |
Mill |
Operated by Swannington Heritage Trust
|
Wigston Framework Knitters Museum |
|
Wigston Magna |
Industry |
website, workshop with stocking frame equipment, hand frames for making gloves, mitts and fancy ribbed tops for golf hose
|
William Carey Museum |
|
Leicester |
Biographical |
website, located at the Central Baptist Church, life and works of pioneer missionary William Carey
|