See also: List of museums in Cambridge. 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.
| Image | Town/City | Type | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | History | information, everyday life in Britain during World War II | ||
| Mill | website, open trestle post mill | |||
| Historic house | Grand 16th-century country house with gardens, collections of fine and decorative arts | |||
| 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 | |||
| Technology | Located in an original sewage pumping station, includes equipment, information and artefacts from local industries | |||
| Cambridge | Science | Hands-on science exhibitions, workshops, shows and talks | ||
| Cambridge | Library | Changing exhibits of art, history and culture from its collections, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Cambridge | Natural history | Specimens of fossil and living animals, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Cambridge | Computer | Technology and the social, cultural and historical impact of the computing revolution | ||
| Chatteris Museum | Local | website, local history, culture | ||
| Biographical | Life of 17th century English military and political leader Oliver Cromwell | |||
| Multiple | Agriculture, local history, and historic abbey dating to the 12th century | |||
| Historic house | Baronial hall and gardens on a 3,800-acre (15 km2) estate | |||
| Local | website, area history, culture, natural history, located in the Bishop's gaol | |||
| Cambridge | Art | Includes fine art, coins, Egyptian collections, antiquities, Near-Eastern and Asian art and artefacts, decorative art, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Peterborough | Archaeology | Open air reconstruction and finds from a Bronze Age settlement | ||
| Historic house | Tudor country house, ancestral home of the Cromwell and Sandwich families | |||
| Mill | Operated by the National Trust, restored water mill | |||
| Aviation | Military aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels | |||
| Cambridge | Art | Gallery of 20th century and 21st century art, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Historic house | Final home of King Henry VIII's first queen, Catherine of Aragon, open for tours on a very limited basis | |||
| Cambridge | Archaeology | website, artefacts of Anglo-Saxon, Egyptian and Classical Mediterranean origin, at Girton College, Cambridge, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Historic house | 14th century, three-story tower featuring mediæval wall paintings | |||
| Historic house | One of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain, made famous as the house of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston | |||
| Local | Local history, culture | |||
| 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 | ||
| Local | Local history and culture, period room displays, artefacts of everyday life, formerly the Cambridge and County Folk Museum | |||
| Cambridge | Art | Plaster casts of Greek & Roman sculpture, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Cambridge | Art | Works by women artists, part of Murray Edwards College, a women's college of University of Cambridge | ||
| Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Biographical | website, home of 19th century British social reformer Octavia Hill, co-founder of the National Trust | |||
| Ely | Biographical | website, home of Oliver Cromwell, also tourist office. | ||
| Wisbech | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Georgian merchant's townhouse with Victorian walled garden | ||
| 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 | Multiple | Local history, art, archaeology, natural history, Jurassic fossils | ||
| 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 | |||
| Peterborough | Railway | Sustainable transport, model trains, railway locomotives, memorabilia | ||
| History | website, history of rural Fenland life, period rooms and businesses, agriculture, trades | |||
| Biographical | website, life and works of poet Rupert Brooke, located adjacent to The Orchard tea garden | |||
| Cambridge | Art | Part of Anglia Ruskin University | ||
| Cambridge | Science | Part of the University of Cambridge, history and science of explorations of the Arctic and Antarctic | ||
| Cambridge | Natural history | Geology, rocks, minerals, fossils, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Local | Local history, culture, prison cells | |||
| Art | Historic and contemporary stained glass, located in Ely Cathedral | |||
| Technology | Working steam engine | |||
| Taggart Gallery and Museum | Art | Shop with museum featuring historic decorative tiles | ||
| Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Military | History of RAF Bassingbourn during World War II | |||
| Military | History of RAF Waterbeach until 1966 and of Waterbeach Barracks | |||
| Cambridge | Science | Historic scientific instruments and items about the history of science, part of the University of Cambridge | ||
| Local | Local history, culture | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, opulent mansion, gardens and grounds | |||
| Agriculture | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century working farm | |||
| Wisbech | Historic House | Regency villa (built by Joseph Medworth) and grounds operated by Wisbech Town Council. | ||
| Wisbech | Multiple | Local history and culture, natural history, decorative arts | ||
| Art | Contemporary arts centre | |||
| Image | Town/City | Type | Summary | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum | 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] |