This list of museums in Gloucestershire, 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.
| Name | Image | Town/City | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historic house | Conserved Tudor house built for the pleasure of Henry VIII, gardens and grounds | ||||
| South Gloucestershire | Historic house | Medieval castle, gardens, butterfly house | |||
| Gloucester | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, medieval friary later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory | |||
| Historic house | Elizabethan manor house | ||||
| Archaeology | Operated by the National Trust, artifacts and remains of a large Roman villa | ||||
| Mining | Former iron ore mine | ||||
| Forest of Dean | Railway | Includes a former goods shed, a GWR signal box, miniature railway, locomotive | |||
| Cotswold | Archaeology | Artifacts found locally from Roman Britain, Neolithic and Victorian eras | |||
| Cotswold | Transportation | Cars, motorcycles, bicycles, caravans and motoring memorabilia of the twentieth century, also toy collection | |||
| Cotswold | Art | website, craft and design, including contemporary crafts and Arts and Crafts movement pieces | |||
| Forest of Dean | Railway | Heritage railway and museum at Norchard railway station | |||
| Forest of Dean | Local | Local history, trades, industry | |||
| South Gloucestershire | Historic house | Home of Edward Jenner, the originator of vaccination | |||
| South Gloucestershire | Industry | website, operated by the Stroudwater Textile Trust, former textile mill with massive working water wheel and other machinery | |||
| Dursley Heritage Centre | Local | website, local history, culture, operated by Dursley Town Trust | |||
| South Gloucestershire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Baroque mansion with Dutch paintings, furniture and decorative arts, gardens and grounds | |||
| Frenchay Village Museum | South Gloucestershire | Local | website, history of the non-conformist Quakers and Unitarians who founded the village | ||
| Gardens Gallery | Cheltenham | Art | website, community art gallery | ||
| South Gloucestershire | Industry | website, operated by the Stroudwater Textile Trust, textile weaving shed demonstrating changing technologies from a simple handloom to flying shuttle to power loom | |||
| Gloucester | Gloucester | Multiple | Local history, archaeology, fine and decorative arts, natural history, Roman and Mediaeval displays, dinosaurs | ||
| Gloucester | Gloucester | Multiple | Crafts, trades, industries, toys, household items, model trains, appliances, period classroom, dairy, wheelwright, carpenter and ironmonger's shops, | ||
| Gloucester | Gloucester | Transportation | History of area canals, canal boats, equipment, natural history | ||
| Religious | Operated by English Heritage, ruins of a 13th-century Cistercian abbey, excavated artifacts | ||||
| Cheltenham | Cheltenham | Historic house | website, birthplace of composer Gustav Holst, his life and works | ||
| Hopewell Colliery Museum | Forest of Dean | Mining | website, former coal mine | ||
| Tewkesbury | Aviation | Restored historic aircraft, aero engines, cockpits and other related exhibits, area history in the development of jet engines | |||
| Tewkesbury | Natural history | website, mammals and birds of the local countryside, museum named after conservationist John Moore | |||
| Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music | Cheltenham | Music | website, antique music boxes, automata and mechanical musical instruments in a 17th-century wool merchant's house | ||
| South Gloucestershire | Local | website, local history, culture, industry, religion | |||
| Forest of Dean | Multiple | 17th-century country estate with Roman temple complex and artifacts, gardens | |||
| Tewkesbury | Tewkesbury | Historic house | website, 15th century Tudor house by Tewkesbury Abbey | ||
| Stroud | Local | Local history, archaeology, art exhibits, culture | |||
| Gloucester | Gloucester | Art | Art inspired by nature in all forms, styles and media | ||
| Cotswold | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Tudor country house reflecting over 450 years of inhabitants, gardens | |||
| Stroud | Historic house | Manor house reflecting medieval, Tudor and 18th century periods, and Arts and Crafts movement restorations, gardens | |||
| Prema | Stroud | Art | website, arts centre | ||
| Cotswold | Historic house | Early 20th-century house with interior, decorations and furniture built house built according to Arts and Crafts movement ideals | |||
| Cotswold | Historic house | 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century Mughal architecture, gardens | |||
| Cotswold | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, features eclectic collection over 22,00 items including paintings, sculpture, toys, Japanese armor and swords, costumes, musical instruments, butter stamps, cow bell, locks, bicycles and more | |||
| Gloucester | Gloucester | Military | History of the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars | ||
| St. Mary's Mill | South Gloucestershire | Industry | website, operated by the Stroudwater Textile Trust, c.1820 mill with a large waterwheel and a steam engine | ||
| Tewkesbury | Historic house | Jacobean manor house, 18th century water garden | |||
| Tewkesbury | Historic house | Elizabethan castle, ruins, 10 gardens, exhibits of Queen Katherine Parr, textiles, Victorian memorabilia, adventure playground | |||
| Tailor of Gloucester Beatrix Potter Museum and Shop | Gloucester | Gloucester | Media | website, located in the original building used by author Beatrix Potter in her story The Tailor of Gloucester | |
| Cotswold | Law enforcement | website, Victorian police station and courtroom, history of the Gloucestershire Constabulary, collection of restraint equipment | |||
| Tewkesbury | Tewkesbury | Local | Local history, archaeology, culture, 1950s model fair | ||
| Tewkesbury Heritage Centre | Tewkesbury | Tewkesbury | Local | 17th century period glovemaker's shop and period local history exhibits | |
| South Gloucestershire | Local | website, local history, culture, archaeology | |||
| Cotswold | Military | website, history and artifacts from RAF Moreton-in-Marsh | |||
| Cheltenham | Cheltenham | Multiple | Art, decorative arts, local history, archaeology, ethnographic artefacts from Africa and Asia | ||
| Tewkesbury | Multiple | website, local history, culture, police uniforms, equipment and artifacts | |||
| Stroud | Historic house | Unfinished 19th-century Gothic revival mansion house | |||
| Stroud | Local | website, local history, industries and crafts, culture | |||
| South Gloucestershire | Local | website, local history, culture | |||