Museums & Galleries
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Over three-quarters of Titanic’s crew gave a Southampton address, and this museum in the city’s Civic Centre tells their story. Here is what to see, what it costs and how to fit it into a day from London.
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A Victorian painter, a pioneering potter and a village with clay on its hands: the Surrey gallery built so that art could belong to everyone.
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Two musicians, two centuries apart, and one wall between their front doors: Handel’s Georgian home and Hendrix’s 1960s flat on Brook Street, visited on a single ticket.
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Free entry to a Victorian cast-iron cathedral of a building, Dolly the Sheep, and a chess set fought over by two governments — Edinburgh’s biggest free attraction rewards a proper visit, not a rushed one.
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The most important collection of slate quarrying heritage in Britain, housed in the actual Victorian workshops of the world’s second-largest slate quarry — currently mid-way through a major redevelopment, so here’s what’s actually open right now.
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A real Welsh coal mine, closed in 1980 and reopened as a free museum three years later, where former miners still take visitors 300 feet underground into the original workings.
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Nearly 2,000 years old and still fed by a natural hot spring, the Roman Baths in Bath let you walk the same paved edges Roman bathers once stood on — just don’t be tempted to dip a toe in, the water hasn’t been safe to touch since 1978.
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Free to enter, home to 80 million specimens and the blue whale skeleton known as Hope — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, earthquake simulator included.
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The world’s first national public museum, free to enter since 1759, and home to the Rosetta Stone — here’s the deep history and everything you need to actually plan a visit, including the once-in-a-millennium Bayeux Tapestry exhibition.
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Step inside a recreated Cavern Club, cross Abbey Road’s zebra crossing and follow four Liverpool lads from the Casbah to the world stage — The Beatles Story is Liverpool’s essential Beatles museum.