This list of museums in Warwickshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Tudor thatched farmhouse, childhood home of Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, gardens | |||
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | Historic house | Mixture of Tudor and 18th-century Gothic architecture | |||
| Warwick | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Elizabethan manor house | |||
| Bedworth Heritage Centre | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Local | website, local history, culture | ||
| British Motor Museum formerly Heritage Motor Centre | Stratford-on-Avon | Automotive | British cars, manufacturing history | ||
| Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century country house in a deer park, Victorian interior | |||
| Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre | Nuneaton | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Local | website, local history, culture, Victorian schoolroom | |
| Stratford-on-Avon | Art | Art gallery located in a Robert Adam mansion set in 120acres of parkland, collections include Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800, Northern European medieval art, British portraits, Chinese bronzes, British folk art, and 20th-century textiles | |||
| Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, grand Tudor country house reflecting six centuries of ownership | |||
| Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 17th-century home of William Shakespeare's eldest daughter Susannah, and her husband Dr John Hall, features period rooms, furnishings, paintings, period doctor's consulting room with artefacts | |||
| Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Art | Elizabethan town house with exhibits of pewter dating back to the Roman era | ||
| Henley-in-Arden Heritage Centre | Stratford-on-Avon | Local | website, local history, social, business and domestic life | ||
| Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum | Warwick | Local | History of St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth and local history, operated by the Kenilworth History and Archaeology Society[1] [2] | ||
| Kenilworth | Warwick | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, ruins of a large medieval fortress, Elizabethan gatehouse with exhibits about Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth I, recreated Elizabethan garden | ||
| Warwick | Archaeology | Remains and artifacts of a Roman fort | |||
| Warwick | Multiple | Archaeology, geology, natural history, exhibits of art, history and culture | |||
| Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 16th-century period working Tudor farm and farmhouse, childhood home of William Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden | |||
| Baginton | Warwick | Aviation | Historic military and civilian aircraft, Sir Frank Whittle Jet Heritage Centre with jet engines, area aviation history | ||
| Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Local history up to William Shakespeare's time, located in the house next door to the ruins and gardens of Shakespeare's final residence, New Place | ||
| Nuneaton | Nuneaton and Bedworth | Multiple | Reconstruction of George Eliot's London drawing room of 1870 and personal items, social history, industry, art exhibits | ||
| Lapworth | Warwick | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, timber-framed Tudor manor house with tapestries and fine furniture, topiary yew garden | ||
| Warwick | Warwick | Military | Regimental uniforms, history and memorabilia | ||
| Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 18th-century great house with fine paintings, ceramics and antique furniture, gardens, 400 acre (1.6 km2) grounds | |||
| Roman Alcester | Stratford-on-Avon | Archaeology | |||
| Warwick | Warwick | Military | Memorabilia and history of the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers to today's Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | ||
| Rugby | Rugby | Multiple | Local history, art, Roman artefacts, social and industrial history, home to the World Rugby Hall of Fame | ||
| Rugby School Museum | Rugby | Rugby | Education | website, history and memorabilia of the Rugby School | |
| Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Restored 16th-century half-timbered house believed to be the childhood home of William Shakespeare | ||
| Shakespeare's Schoolroom and Guildhall | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic guild building | website, restored 13th-century guild building where, in the 1570s, William Shakespeare would have received the grammar school education observable in his plays | |
| Warwick | Warwick | History | Town's social history, including costume and textiles, dolls and toys, domestic and working life artifacts, Victorian schoolroom and kitchen | ||
| Warwick | Historic house | 16th-century large country mansion | |||
| Stratford-on-Avon | Military | Arms and armour from around the world | |||
| Tudor World | Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | History | website, 16th-century period building with ties to William Shakespeare, demonstrations of Tudor life | |
| Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, late 17th-century country house with 1930s interior, important art and porcelain collections, 1930s period garden | |||
| Warwick | Warwick | Historic house | Medieval castle built by William the Conqueror, castle tours, artillery fort, recreated siege weaponry, separate dungeon themed experience | ||
| Rugby | Rugby | Sports | Also known as "The Rugby Museum", history and artefacts of rugby football | ||
| Stratford-on-Avon | Aviation | History of aviation at RAF Wellesbourne Mountford, now Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield | |||
| Stratford-upon-Avon | Stratford-on-Avon | Historic house | 16th-century Elizabethan inn with collection of about the history of witchcraft from pre-Christian times to the present day. Including the Bombay Manor Museum website | ||