Lancashire Museums

Astley Hall Museum & Art Gallery

Tudor / Stuart Building, Leeds Pottery, 17th Century Glass.

Astley Park Chorley PR7 1NP Tel: 01257 515555    Email

Bancroft Mill Engine Museum

A mill engine running on steam with ancillary equipment, including Cornish and Lancashire boilers and looms.

Gillians Lane (off Colne Road)  Barnoldswick  BB18 5QR Tel: 01282 865626

British Commercial Vehicle Museum

The exhibition is the largest of its kind in Europe, ranging from the horse-drawn era through to steam wagons and early petrol vehicles up to the present day.

King Street Leyland PR25 2LE   Tel: 01772 451011   Email

British Lawnmower Museum

Enter the fascinating world of this internationally famous Museum and have a unique experience, it marks the culmination of a dream by Ex-Racing champion Brian Radam. The Museum is now one of the Worlds leading authorities on vintage lawnmowers and is now the largest import & export specialists in antique garden machinery, supplying parts, archive conservation of manuscript materials and valuing machines from all over the world. The Museum retains a character not often seen in these modern times.

106 - 114 Shakespeare Street, Southport  PR8 5AJ  Tel: 01704 501336  Email

British in India Museum

The museum contains a collection of model soldiers, dioramas, postage stamps, picture postcards, paintings and uniforms.

Newtown Street Colne  BB8 0JJ  Tel: 01282 613129

Clitheroe Castle Museum

Houses the county's geological collections. This includes collections transferred from other Museums in the North West such as Blackburn and the Harris Museum.

Castlegate,  Clitheroe   BB7 1BA   Tel: 01200 424568    Email

Fleetwood Museum

Victorian Fleetwood, Victorian fishing industry and tourism. Virtual voyaging on ICT systems in galleries from April 2001.

Queen's Terrace Fleetwood  FY7 6BT  Tel: 01253 876621   Email

Harris Museum & Art Gallery

Collections of British fine art including contemporary work; decorative art including glass, ceramics, textiles and the largest collection of perfume bottles in the country; social history artefacts relating to Preston, including a major collection of Preston Guild memorabilia.

Market Square Preston PR1 2PP Tel: 01772 258248   Email

Helmshore Textile Museums

Unique displays of textile machinery including Arkwight`s Water Frame, working Carding Engines and Spinning Mules, water powered Fulling Stocks in an historic mill environment.

Holcombe Road Rossendale  BB4 4NP  Tel: 01706 226459  Email

Judges' Lodgings

An impressive collection of Gillow furniture presented in period rooms, restored to their Regency splendour.

Church Street,  Lancaster LA1 1YS Tel: 01524 32808   Email

The Lancashire Queens Regiment Museum

Tells the story of the Lancashire Lads who came to from Preston and the towns of Lancashire to serve in their regiment and still do to this day. The extensive regimental collections, archive and library combine to produce the largest military heritage centre in the North West. Hear the compelling story of the Lancashire soldier and what he achieved is lavishly illustrated and warmly told. This research and education centre is located in Fulwood Barracks which are still in use by the British Army today. Admission Free.

Fulwood Barracks, Preston, PR2 8AA  Tel:  01772 260362   Email

The Museum of Lancashire

Offers a real family day out. Housed in Preston’s Old Court House the museum allows you to experience days gone by. Take a stroll along a 1940’s street, take cover in the Anderson shelter when you hear the air raid siren and watch out for the unexploded bomb! Learn about the role of women during the war, ration books and evacuation. Sit in a Victorian classroom or experience life under gunfire as a world war to solider in the frontline trenches.
In addition to a programme of touring and temporary exhibitions there are also special holiday events and family days that will both inform and entertain.

Stanley Street, Preston, PR1 4YP   Tel: 01772 264075

Lancaster City Museum

Local prehistoric, Roman and medieval archaeology

Market Square Lancaster LA1 1HT  Tel: 01524 64637  Email

Lancaster Maritime Museum

The former Custom House of 1764, designed by Richard Gillow, contains displays on the history of the Port of Lancaster and the local fishing industry, with a gallery for exhibitions.
In the adjacent warehouse are displays on the Lancaster Canal and the ecology of Morecambe Bay.  Several preserved vessels are also displayed, including 'Sir William Priestley' and 'Coronation Rose'.

St George's Quay Lancaster LA1 1RB Tel: 01524 64637   Email

Model Transport Museum

Collection of model ships, trains and aircrafts.

Black Bull Inn Rimmington (Nr Clitheroe) BB7 4DS Tel: 01200 445220

National Football Museum

Home to the world's greatest football collections.

Tom Finney Way Deepdale Preston, PR1 6RU Tel: 01772 908442    Email

Queen Street Mill

The last commercial steam powered textile mill in Europe. It offers a unique experience to relive the days when steam ran the world.

Harle Syke,  Burnley BB10 2HX Tel: 01282 412555   Email

Ribchester Roman Museum

History and heritage of the area in Roman times.

Riverside  Ribchester Preston PR3 3XS  Tel: 01254 878261   Email
 
Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum

The Hall has an excellent collection of paintings, ceramics, glass and furniture which are on display around the house and a programme of changing exhibitions takes place throughout the year covering all aspects of contemporary art and history.

Towneley Park,  Burnley, BB11 3RQ Tel: 01282 424213    Email

Turton Tower

The period rooms display a magnificent collection of decorative woodwork, paintings and furniture, including items loaned form the Victoria and Albert Museum. The surrounding gardens offer further interest with Victorian follies, a Victorian tennis court, a traditional English country garden and an unusual castellated railway bridge.

Chapeltown Road,  Turton, Near Bolton  BL7 0HG Tel: 01204 852203  Email

Cottage Museum

The Cottage Museum faces Lancaster Castle and is part of a 1739 house, subdivided in about 1820 and furnished as an artisan's house of that date

Cottage Museum 15 Castle Hill Lancaster Tel: 01524 64637

Toy and Teddy Bear Museum

Situated in Lytham St Annes, it houses toys from the past and childhood memorabilia. Treasures include model trains, cars, games, books, an extensive collection of dolls and dolls houses, children's costumes and a superb collection of children's photographs. The Museum is open at Easter, May Bank Holiday and Spring Bank until October.

373 Clifton Drive North, Lytham St Annes  FY8 2PA  Tel: 01253 713705 / 734890