Surgeons’ Hall Museums: Edinburgh’s Medical Curiosities
Edinburgh, Scotland Run by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, this is one of the oldest surgical collections in […]
The Devil’s Porridge Museum: Scotland’s WWI Munitions Story
Eastriggs, near Gretna, Scotland During the First World War, HM Factory Gretna was briefly the largest munitions factory in the
The Tower Museum: Derry’s Walled City Story
Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland Built into a 16th-century tower on Derry’s still-intact city walls — one of the few completely walled
The Ulster American Folk Park: Emigration Made Physical
Omagh, Northern Ireland This open-air museum reconstructs the emigrant experience physically — original and replica buildings from 18th- and 19th-century
The Pitt Rivers Museum: Oxford’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Oxford, England Tucked behind Oxford’s grander Natural History Museum, the Pitt Rivers is organized by object type rather than geography
Dennis Severs’ House: London’s Time-Machine Museum
Spitalfields, London Dennis Severs’ House isn’t a museum in any conventional sense — there are no placards, no roped-off rooms,
Big Pit National Coal Museum: Wales’s Underground History
Blaenavon, Wales Big Pit is a real, working colliery until 1980, and the museum’s centerpiece is exactly what it sounds
The Egypt Centre: A University Museum’s Surprising Collection
Swansea, Wales Swansea University’s Egypt Centre holds one of the largest Egyptology collections in Wales, built almost entirely from a