This list of museums in Herefordshire, 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 | Type | Summary |
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Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, late 18th-century country house with period furniture, below stairs rooms, grounds, gardens | |||
Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, medieval manor house, woods, parkland | |||
Bromyard & District Local History Centre | Bromyard | Local | website, local history | |
Local | website, Victorian life and local history | |||
Hereford | Art | Arts centre with theatres and an art gallery | ||
Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, stone manor house dating back to the 11th century, Georgian interiors, woodland trails, walled garden | |||
Eardisland Dovecote | Local | information | ||
Ledbury | Historic house | 19th century mock castle with fine art and furnishings, gardens, maze, woodland trails | ||
Historic house | Visitor center with exhibits and audio tours of the ruinous Norman medieval castle | |||
Historic house | Castle country house and gardens | |||
Historic house | Tudor style house | |||
Hereford | Multiple | Local history, art, decorative arts | ||
Hereford Society of Model Engineers | Hereford | Railroad | website, model train layouts | |
Hereford | Military | Open by appointment, artifacts and history of the Herefordshire Light Infantry | ||
Local | website, local history | |||
Ledbury Heritage Centre | Ledbury | Local | Local history[1] | |
Local | Local history | |||
Hereford | History | Medieval map of the world and Hereford Cathedral Library, located at Hereford Cathedral | ||
Market House Heritage Centre | Local | website, local history | ||
Mill | Restored water mill | |||
Food | website, former cider making factory, equipment and history of cider making | |||
Hereford | Historic house | 17th century Jacobean period house | ||
St John Medieval Museum & Coningsby Hospital | Hereford | Religious | Site of the Blackfriars Monastery, which was a Dominican monastery home of crusaders of the Order of St. John and an ex-serviceman's hospital | |
Bromyard | Media | website, exhibition of Doctor Who series props, monsters and costumes, also from Star Wars, puppets from Gerry Anderson television shows including Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet, teddy bears | ||
Violette Szabo Museum | Biographical | website, life of World War II secret agent Violette Szabo | ||
Hereford | Industry | website, Victorian water pumping station with steam engines, history of drinking water | ||
Weobley Museum | Local | website, local history | ||
Ross-on-Wye | Historic house | 12th-century Norman castle fortification mostly in ruins, partially restored, gardens | ||