This list of museums in Hampshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Military | History of the British Army in Aldershot | |||||
| Allen Gallery | Art | website, ceramics collection of English, continental and oriental pottery, porcelain and tiles | ||||
| Local | website, local history, natural history, archaeology, art exhibits, culture, industry | |||||
| Aldershot | Rushmoor | Military | website, photos, militaria and gymnastic equipment used by the Army Physical Training Corps for physically training in the British Army | |||
| Art | website, contemporary visual art centre | |||||
| Portsmouth | Art | Contemporary art gallery, located in Gunwharf Quays | ||||
| Southampton | Art | website, contemporary art gallery | ||||
| Historic house | Remains of a Tudor palace, museum displays about the archaeology of Basing House, Tudor and Elizabethan life at Basing, the Civil War and the downfall of Basing | |||||
| New Forest | Multiple | Includes admission to Beaulieu Abbey, Beaulieu Palace House, National Motor Museum, World of Top Gear, James Bond Experience, Secret Army Exhibition, gardens | ||||
| New Forest | Religious | Remains and artefacts from the 13th century Cistercian abbey | ||||
| Beaulieu | New Forest | Historic house | Former 13th-century Great Gatehouse of Beaulieu Abbey with Victorian additions, gardens | |||
| New Forest | Multiple | Elizabethan manor house known for paintings and furniture, Breamore Countryside Museum with open air shops and homes, steam powered farm machinery | ||||
| New Forest | Open air | 18th-century Georgian village, includes a maritime museum, historic cottage displays, shipbuilding history, Admiral Horatio Nelson artefacts, World War II efforts | ||||
| Industry | Victorian brickworks with steam engine, and working machinery. | |||||
| Mill | Early 19th-century windmill | |||||
| East Hampshire | Agriculture | Working replica of an Iron Age farmstead including simulated pre-Roman roundhouses and a Roman villa | ||||
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Historic house | 1809 period house where author Charles Dickens was born | |||
| East Hampshire | Historic house | Restored Elizabethan manor house and garden, home of author Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight, houses the Chawton House Library and Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600–1830 | ||||
| Portsmouth | Natural history | website, also known as Portsmouth Natural History Museum, wildlife found in the local riverbank, marshes, woods and urban areas, geology displays, seasonal butterfly house | ||||
| East Hampshire | Local | Local history, prehistoric tools, Roman and Saxon history and artefacts, toys, culture | ||||
| Southsea | Portsmouth | Military | History of Operation Overlord during the Normandy D-Day landings, features the Overlord Embroidery | |||
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Technology | Victorian sewage pumping house with two 150 hp James Watt & Co. beam engines | |||
| New Forest | Mill | Tide-driven watermill dating back to the Middle Ages | ||||
| Local | website, local history, maritime heritage, culture, author P.G. Wodehouse | |||||
| Military | History of naval firepower from gunpowder to the present | |||||
| Rushmoor | Aviation | Historic aircraft, jet engines and helicopter rotors, research models of the Concorde, demonstrations of a working wind tunnel, history and science of military and civilian aviation | ||||
| Petersfield | East Hampshire | Art | Works by local artist Flora Twort, historic costumes, changing exhibits of local art | |||
| New Forest | Archaeology | website, local history, culture, artist Augustus John, | ||||
| Gosport | Gosport | Military | Operated by English Heritage, mid-19th-century fort with exhibits of stonework, textiles, jewellery and furniture from many periods from their collections | |||
| Military | 1860s fort, features the artillery collection of the Royal Armouries | |||||
| New Forest | Multiple | website, gardens, art gallery, restored 16th-century thatched forest cottage | ||||
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Religious | Creation science display of dinosaurs and dioramas | |||
| Gilbert White's House | East Hampshire | Historic house | website, home and garden of 18th-century naturalist Gilbert White, also the Oates Collections about Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates and his uncle explorer Frank Oates, display of Central American birds | |||
| Gliding Heritage Centre | Lasham Airfield | East Hampshire | Aviation museum | web-site Collection of 42 vintage gliders Tours available at Lasham Airfield club-house on Sundays at 2:00pm only | ||
| Gosport | Multiple | website, local library, museum of local history, geology, local history, maritime and military heritage, culture, art gallery | ||||
| City of Winchester | Military | History and memorabilia of the Gurkha service to the British crown, part of Winchester's Military Museums | ||||
| Historic house | Large Elizabethan country house, park designed by Capability Brown, features Egyptian artefacts from the 5th Earl of Carnarvon | |||||
| City of Winchester | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, country house known for its early 20th-century gardens, collection of Georgian and Regency furniture, Italian pictures and objets d'art | ||||
| East Hampshire | Multiple | Collection of steam-powered vehicles, fairground rides, a display farm and three railways | ||||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Military | History and memorabilia of the King's Royal Hussars, part of Winchester's Military Museums | |||
| Gosport | Transportation | Hovercraft vehicles | ||||
| New Forest | Military | One of Henry VIII's Device Forts, features lighthouse museum, coastal gun batteries and searchlights from World War II, military exhibits | ||||
| East Hampshire | Historic house | 17th-century house where author Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion | ||||
| Art | Part of the University of Southampton, contemporary visual art gallery | |||||
| Gosport | Living | Recreated mid-17th-century rural village | ||||
| Bursledon | Eastleigh | Living | Victorian period farmstead, schoolroom, wheelwright's shop, blacksmith's forge and 13th-century church | |||
| Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, 14th-century period merchant's house | |||||
| Living | Recreated covered network of Victorian and 1930s streets and shops, farm, Thornycroft vehicles, steam and agriculture equipment | |||||
| Test Valley | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, includes the Gothic remains of the original 13th-century Augustinian priory with a collection of 20th-century art, gardens | ||||
| Test Valley | Military | History of flying in the British Army | ||||
| Test Valley | Archaeology | website, artefacts and recreations of the Danbury hill fort | ||||
| Test Valley | Military | Located in Amport House, history and memorabilia of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department | ||||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Military | History and memorabilia of the Adjutant General's Corps, part of Winchester's Military Museums | |||
| New Forest | Transportation | Automobiles, motorcycles, 1930s garage, motoring history and memorabilia, World of Top Gear, James Bond Experience, other movie vehicles | ||||
| New Forest | Multiple | website, includes the New Forest Museum with exhibits about New Forest Park local history, natural history, culture, geology, forestry, and the New Forest Gallery; | ||||
| Petersfield | East Hampshire | Local | Local history, culture | |||
| History | Operated by English Heritage, remains of a medieval castle and former Roman fort, exhibits about history of the castle, Portchester village, and recovered artefacts | |||||
| Portsmouth | Multiple | Local history, culture, period rooms displays, life of author Arthur Conan Doyle and the creation of Sherlock Holmes, fine and decorative arts, art gallery | ||||
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Maritime | Includes the National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth, HMS Victory, HMS Warrior (1860), Mary Rose Museum, Dockyard Apprentice Exhibition, Trafalgar Experience, Trafalgar Sail | |||
| New Forest | Archaeology | Excavated Roman villa and museum with recovered artefacts | ||||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Military | History and artefacts of the Royal Green Jackets regiment, part of Winchester's Military Museums | |||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Military | History and memorabilia of the Royal Hampshire Regiment, part of Winchester's Military Museums | |||
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Military | History of the Royal Marines | |||
| City of Winchester | Law enforcement | website, history of the Royal Military Police, open by appointment only | ||||
| Gosport | Gosport | Military | International history of submarine development | |||
| New Forest | Transportation | Restored motorcycles | ||||
| Art | Operated by the National Trust, features large-scale paintings by acclaimed artist Stanley Spencer that reflect his experiences in World War I | |||||
| Southampton | Multiple | Local history, archaeology, permanent Titanic exhibition | ||||
| Southampton | Southampton | Transportation | History of aviation in Southampton, the Solent area and Hampshire, special focus on the Supermarine aircraft company | |||
| Southampton | Southampton | Art | Collection covers six centuries of European art history | |||
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth | Military | One of Henry VIII's Device Forts | |||
| City of Winchester | Military | Important site for planning of the D-Day operations, open by appointment only | ||||
| Havant | Multiple | website, arts centre, local history and culture exhibits | ||||
| New Forest | Multiple | website, local and coastal maritime history, including smugglers, salt makers and boat builders, art gallery | ||||
| Stansted House | East Hampshire | Historic house | Located on the Hampshire/West Sussex border, early 20th-century Edwardian country house and chapel | |||
| Multiple | Historic estate house with paintings and furniture collections, home of the Dukes of Wellington since 1817, exhibit of military artefacts and history of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |||||
| New Forest | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
| Southampton | Historic house | Tudor-style house dating back to the 12th century | ||||
| Basingstoke and Deane | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century country house with an eclectic mix of fine furniture, portraits, textiles and sculpture from over three centuries, gardens | ||||
| City of Winchester | Industry | Former pumping station and waterworks, with working steam engines, narrow-gauge railway and other associated equipment | ||||
| Fareham | Local | Local history, culture | ||||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Military | Fortified medieval gateway to the city, later used as a prison and debtor's gaol, features collection of pre-Imperial weights and measures | |||
| Basingstoke and Deane | Industry | Former textile mill with waterwheel | ||||
| Basingstoke and Deane | Local | Local history, art gallery | ||||
| City of Winchester | Historic house | Features the Great Hall, a 13th-century hall and medieval round table | ||||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Religious | Includes historic bibles, art and artefacts | |||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Mill | Operated by the National Trust, restored water mill | |||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Local | website, local history, archaeology, reconstructed Victorian and Edwardian shops | |||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Multiple | website, city's library with galleries for local history, culture, art | |||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Science | Hands-on interactive science and technology centre, planetarium | |||
| Winchester | City of Winchester | Military | Complex including five independent regimental museums of the King's Royal Hussars, Royal Hampshire Regiment, Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, The Gurkha Museum and Adjutant General's Corps | |||