Berkshire Museums

Household Cavalry Museum

The collection relates to The Life Guards (1st and 2nd), Horse Grenadier Guards, Royal Horse Guards (Blues), 1st Royal Dragoons (Royals) and The Blues and Royals, covering over three hundred years of the history of the Sovereign's mounted bodyguard. 

Combermere Barracks, Windsor  SL4 3DN Tel: 01753 - 755112 Email
 
Museum of English Rural Life

The Museum is about life and work in the countryside over the last 200 years and presents its entire collection of over 22,000 objects in a new and innovative display and open store 

The University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX Tel:  0118 378 8660  Email 

Maidenhead Heritage Centre

From the stone age to the age of aviation and computers. In our exhibitions the centre celebrates the past and helps visitors to understand how and why Maidenhead and the surrounding villages developed. 

The centre is also Maidenhead's community memory bank, collecting and preserving artefacts, photographs, documents and tape recordings which all illustrate our local history. The centre also has an excellent reference library and the shopsells a range of local books and heritage gifts.

90 Moorbridge Road, Maidenhead, SL6 9NZ. Tel: 01628 780555

REME Museum of Technology

The main museum displays reflect the development of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer's (REME) trades and training since 1942. The Prince Philip Hall displays 20 specialist vehicles. The Corps technical, documentary and pictorial Archives, is a designated Place of Deposit for the Public Record Office.

Isaac Newton Road, Arborfield Garrison, off Biggs Lane, Arborfield,  RG2 9NJ   Tel: 0118 976 3375   Email

Thames Valley Police Museum

The museum includes information and artefacts relating to the history of Thames Valley Police and its five predecessor forces of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Oxford City and Reading Borough. The museum's collections include items relating to the Great Train Robbery of 1963, uniforms, equipment, medals, photographs and scenes of crime evidence as well as occurence and charge books.

Sulhamstead House  Sulhamstead  Reading  RG7 4DU  Tel: 0118 932 5748

Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology

The site contains information about the collections and services offered, including schools services. The Museum is recognised as the fourth largest collection of Greek ceramics in Britain. The collection primarily consists of material from the Greek and Græco-Roman civilisations of the Mediterranean, most notably Greek and Etruscan ceramics and terracottas. Other artifacts include prehistoric pottery, as well as metal and stone artifacts of Greek and Roman date. There is also an important collection of Egyptian antiquities, ranging from the Pre-dynastic to the Roman period.

University of Reading  Whiteknights  Reading RG6 6AA Telephone: 0118 378 6990  Email

West Berkshire Museum

A thriving local Museum, and in 2004 celebrated its centenary year. Situated on The Wharf in the heart of Newbury the Museum is housed within the Grade I 17th century Cloth Hall and the Grade II 18th century Granary. The Cloth Hall was completed in 1627 by Richard Ernmes, a local carpenter, and it was originally used as a work house for the cloth trade. It was restored in memory of Queen Victoria and in 1904 the "Museum of Antiquities" (as it was then known) took up residence there.

The Wharf, Newbury, RG14 5AS   Tel: 01635 30511   Email

Windsor & Royal Borough Museum Collection

Provides the local history collection for the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead. It is housed in a store, with a new display arm in the local studies area at Windsor Library.  There are also small display cases around the borough showing a selection of artefacts. Amongst the museum collection's 6000 items are archaeological finds, paintings, prints, drawings, maps, books, dioramas, costume and a wide variety of social history objects, all relating to Windsor, Maidenhead and the surrounding area.

Bachelors Acre, Windsor, SL4 1ER  Tel: 01753 743940