This list of museums in Nottinghamshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local | website, local history, art, archaeology, decorative arts, agriculture, costume and textiles, industry, rural life, coal mining | ||||
| History | History of the Holocaust and other 20th-century genocides | ||||
| Newark and Sherwood | Horology | Located at Upton Hall, collection of historic clocks, watches, tools and other horological artifacts, open on special occasions to non-members | |||
| Calverton Folk Museum | Local | Period furniture and clothing, fossils, framework knitting history, Victorian kitchen, living room and bedroom[1] | |||
| Bassetlaw | Archaeology | Limestone gorge and caves with flint tools and other Stone Age artifacts | |||
| Historic house | 19th century working class house, birthplace of author D. H. Lawrence | ||||
| Dukes Wood Oil Museum | Newark and Sherwood | Industry | website, site and story of the UK’s first oilfield | ||
| Broxtowe | Multiple | Includes late 19th century social history exhibits and context of author D. H. Lawrence's life in town, also an art gallery | |||
| Flintham Museum | Newark and Sherwood | History | website, 20th century period shop reflecting rural life | ||
| Industry | |||||
| Prison | Historic courthouse and gaol | ||||
| Nottingham | Multiple | Restored and working 19th century tower windmill, hands-on science exhibits | |||
| Bassetlaw | Art | Located at Welbeck Abbey, features contemporary arts and crafts | |||
| Rushcliffe | Historic house | Medieval hall and garden, open to the public on a limited basis | |||
| Lakeside Arts Centre | Nottingham | Nottingham | Art | website, performing and visual arts centre of the University of Nottingham | |
| Multiple | Art, local history, culture | ||||
| Bassetlaw | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 1920s period family house | |||
| Nottingham | Nottingham | History | website, local social history, period room and shop settings, reconstructed Victorian schoolroom, wartime life | ||
| Museum of The Horse | Bassetlaw | History | website, walk through 2000 years of equestrian history | ||
| Newark and Sherwood | History | website, focuses solely on the British Civil War | |||
| Nottingham | Nottingham | Amusement | Historic videogames, history of British videogame culture | ||
| Nottingham | Nottingham | Art | website, visual art gallery for culturally diverse contemporary artists | ||
| Newark-on-Trent | Newark and Sherwood | Aviation | Located on part of the former World War II airfield of Winthorpe, historic civilian and military aircraft | ||
| Newark-on-Trent | Newark and Sherwood | History | Ruins of the medieval castle, exhibits about the castle's history and Newark's Civil War heritage | ||
| Newark Town Hall Museum & Art Gallery | Newark-on-Trent | Newark and Sherwood | Art | website, collection of paintings, furniture, ceremonial silver and civic gifts | |
| Gedling | Historic house | Medieval house that was the ancestral home of Lord Byron, Victorian rooms | |||
| Nottingham | Nottingham | Multiple | Fine and decorative art, local history, archaeology, regimental museum of the Sherwood Foresters | ||
| Nottingham | Nottingham | Art | Contemporary art centre | ||
| Nottingham | Nottingham | Industry | Eclectic collection of regionally significant industrial objects, including steam and diesel engines | ||
| Rushcliffe | Transportation | Northern terminus of the Great Central Railway heritage railway, includes locomotives, carriages and stock, buses, road transport vehicles | |||
| Gedling | Technology | Victorian water pumping station with steam engines | |||
| Ruddington Village Museum | Ruddington | Rushcliffe | History | website, recreated period shops, schoolroom, telephone exchange and farm implements | |
| Bassetlaw | Mill | website, early 19th century windmill | |||
| Walks of Life | Bassetlaw | Agriculture | Collection of handcarts and hand-powered agricultural machinery[2] | ||
| William Booth Birthplace Museum | Nottingham | Nottingham | Biographical | Facebook site, birthplace home of William Booth, Methodist preacher who founded the Salvation Army, open by appointment | |
| Wollaton Village Dovecote Museum | Nottingham | Local | 17th century dovecote with local history exhibits[3] | ||
| Wollaton | Nottingham | Multiple | Includes the historic house, the Nottingham Natural History Museum, and Nottingham Industrial Museum with textile, transport and technology from Nottingham's past, including steam engines | ||
| Newark and Sherwood | History | Operated by the National Trust, 19th century workhouse | |||