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There are a multitude of museums in Cambridgeshire, from archeaology to space, from local life to technology.   Take a look through the list, there is something here for everyone.  




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Bassingbourn Control Tower Museum
Bassingbourn Control Tower Museum
Bassingbourn Control Tower Museum is a WW2 Tower preserved as a museum to the 91st Bomb Group.  Located in Brassingbourn Airfield, which is still used by the Army for infantry training, so...
Blacked Out Britain War Museum
Blacked Out Britain War Museum
Although probably Britain's smallest war museum located in Huntingdon, Blacked-Out Britain War Museum is packed with everyday items from life during 1939-45. From evacuation to rationing, bus...
Burwell Museum
Burwell Museum
Burwell Museum Trust was formed in Burwell, Cambridgeshire in 1982 by a small group of like minded people with an interest in local history, to set up a museum providing the public a glimpse of...
Cambridge & County Folk Museum
Cambridge & County Folk Museum
The Cambridge & County Folk Museum has been open to the public for over 60 years, providing a fascinating insight into the history of Cambridge for local people and tourists alike. The...
Cambridge American Military Cemetery
Cambridge American Military Cemetery
The Cambridge American Military Cemetery is located about 3 miles west of the famous university city of Cambridge. The site, donated by the University of Cambridge, covers about 30.5 acres,...
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Cambridge Museum of Technology
The Cambridge Museum of Technology , in addition to the original equipment from the pumping station, holds many examples of products made by Pye of Cambridge and The Cambridge Instrument...
Chatteris Museum
Chatteris Museum
The Chatteris Museum is a community museum that hosts permanent exhibitions featuring local history of the town and its immediate surroundings.  Temporary exhibitions of arts, crafts...
Cromwell Museum
Cromwell Museum
The Cromwell Museum is set in the town's old Grammar School, where both Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys were educated.  The purpose of the Cromwell Museum is to interpret his life and legacy...
Denny Abbey & Farmland Museum
Denny Abbey & Farmland Museum
At Denny Abbey & Farmland Museum you can learn about rural life with hands-on displays and inter-active exhibits.  Discover the story of the Benedictine monks, Knights Templar and...
Downfield Windmill
Downfield Windmill
Downfield Windmill in Soham was built in 1726 as a smock mill, it was destroyed by gales and rebuilt in 1890 as an octagonal tower mill.  It still grinds corn and produces a range of flours and...
Duxford Imperial War Museum
Duxford Imperial War Museum
Duxford Imperial War Museum  is Europe's premier aviation museum - as well as having one of the finest collections of tanks, military vehicles and naval exhibits in the country. This famous...
Ely Museum
Ely Museum
Ely Museum , a bright and friendly local history museum, located in the Bishop's Gaol in the centre of the historical city of Ely. The Museum is the history centre for the Isle of Ely & the Fens...
Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum
Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum
The Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum  in West Walton, Wisbech houses aircraft, including the cockpit from a MIG 29, a Boeing 747 and a Jumbo Jet cock-pit simulator , uniforms...
Fitzwilliam Museum
Fitzwilliam Museum
The  Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge owes its foundation to Richard, VII Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion who, in 1816, bequeathed to the University of Cambridge his works of art and library,...
Houghton Mill
Houghton Mill
Houghton Mill is a working watermill on an island in the Great Ouse since AD 974 and you can discover how flour is made at this National Trust property.  In its heyday it ran 10...
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard Cambridge  was founded by H.S. 'Jim' Ede as a place where visitors would 'find a home and a welcome, a refuge of peace and order, the visual arts and music.'  The collection...
March & District Museum
March & District Museum
March & District Museum holds a large collection of domestic and agricultural crafts and materials that tells the story of the people and the history of March and the surrounding...
Museum of Classical Archaeology
Museum of Classical Archaeology
The Museum of Classical Archaeology Cambridge is one of the few surviving collections of casts of Greek & Roman sculpture in the world. The public collection of the Museum is made up of over...
Norris Museum
Norris Museum
The Norris Museum in St Ives is also known as the Huntingdonshire Museum.  The Norris Museum tells the story of the history and life in this ancient county.  This is a...
Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum
Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum
The Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum in Wisbeach commemorates Octavia Hill's life and work, as social reformer, and co-founder of the National Trust.  The Musuem documents her achievements...
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