English Museums

Barley Hall is a unique survival in York, a city of wonderful buildings. It is a medieval building in the centre of the city, forgotten until a few years ago, concealed as it was under a jumble of run-down derelict offices and workshops. Excavation in the 1980s revealed that under this jumble was a surviving example of a medieval townhouse, originally the town house of the Priors of Nostell but later to be the townhouse of its best known inhabitant, Alderman William Snawsell, goldsmith and Mayor of York. It has been restored to how it looked at the time of Alderman Snawsell, towards the end of the 15th century, and it is now possible to tour the hall and see how people lived then.

Additional information and more photos are available at http://www.r3.org/barley_hall/

Includes online versions of several of their better-known medieval manuscripts.

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom.

Use the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts to find and view descriptions and images of a selection of the items in one of the richest collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the world.

For instant access to thousands of images from the British Library's collections, see Images Online .

Cotswold Museum Service cares for around one and a half million archaeolog ical and social history objects in the Council&#3 9;s collection s. Many of the objects are displayed at the recently refurbishe d and extended Corinium Museum, Cirenceste r.

See The Collection s to search for items.

Dover Museum is a local history and archaeology museum situated in the town centre of Dover, Britain's historic port town.

English Heritage exists to protect and promote England's spectacular historic environment and ensure that its past is researched and understood.

The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University.

Discover what life was really like over 1000 years ago, meet our Viking residents, see over 800 items uncovered here, and journey through a reconstruc tion of actual Viking-Age streets.

Includes the Dog Collar Museum, with a unique collection of historic and fascinating dog collars.

The Museum preserves the artifacts from the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545.

The Museum of London Group represents a quarter of a million years of history, and contains over a million items. Many of these can be discovered on their website.

Includes the world's largest collection of astrolabes.

The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world.

To search, download and license images from their world-renowned fine art collection, see the National Gallery Picture Library .

Collecting the likenesses of famous British men and women.

The database is now a living resource, constantly updated by our staff with several hundred new objects each day. The objects recorded by the Scheme, are known as "porta ble antiquitie s" and are found by members of the public. These objects range from the Palaeolith ic to around the 18th Century, and include items recorded in the Annual Treasure Report published by the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The Portable Antiquitie s Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeolog ical objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.

Queen Elizabeth& #39;s Hunting Lodge was originally called the Great Standing. It was built for King Henry VIII in 1543 and was used as a grandstand to watch the hunting of deer or possibly from which to shoot deer, with crossbows. It is the only remaining timber-fra med Standing in England.

The UK's national museum of arms and armor.

Home of the Stonehenge Gallery, fascinating displays of history of Salisbury, costume, ceramics, pictures and changing temporary exhibitions.

One of the world's finest collections of fashionable dress and accessories.

The museum aims to challenge perception s about rural England by revealing the historical and contempora ry relevance of country life.

The Museum houses archaeological material, mostly from North East England, but also from the Swiss Lakes and from the Classical lands of Ancient Greece and Rome. Historically, the collections reflect Durham University academic interests and excavations.

Where can you find calligraphy and graffiti, Medici and Gucci, stained glass and fibre glass? Where else but the V&A, the world's greatest museum of applied and decorative arts.

Set in 50 acres of beautiful Sussex countryside is a very special place to wander amongst a fascinating collection of nearly 50 historic buildings dating from the 13th to the 19th century, many with period gardens, together with farm animals, woodland walks and a picturesque lake. Rescued from destruction, the buildings have been carefully dismantled, conserved and rebuilt to their original form and bring to life the homes, farmsteads and rural industries of the last 500 years.

The Whipple Museum holds an internationally important collection of scientific instruments and models, dating from the Middle Ages to the present, part of Cambridge University.

The Trust is well known for its investigations of the deeply stratified and well-preserved urban archaeological deposits of historic York.