Lincolnshire Museums

Baysgarth House Museum

Contains the skeleton of an Anglo-Saxon warrior, superb Georgian and Victorian Period rooms and a fine collection of 18th and 19th century English and Oriental pottery and porcelain

Baysgarth Leisure Park  Caistor Road  Barton-upon-Humber DN18 6AH  Tel:01652  632318

Boston Guildhall Museum

Housed in a 15th century guildhall, this is the site where the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned in 1607. Downstairs is the original 16th Century kitchen. The museum exhibits examples of archaeology, weaponry, fine, decorative and applied art, coins and medals, andrural and maritime history.

South Street  Boston  PE21 6HT  Tel: 01205 365954   Email

Bourne Heritage Centre

Special exhibition of famous local motor racing driver Raymond Mays, plus a display of local history, old farm implements. Two working waterwheels

21 South Street Bourne  PE10 9LY Tel: 01778  422775

Burgh le Marsh Museum

A milling museum which includes a Blackstone Diesel engine

High Street, Burgh le Marsh, Skegness PE24  Tel: 01754 810474

Cranwell Aviation Heritage Centre

The exhibition tells the history of the college which became the first military air academy in the world when it opened on 5th February 1920. Since then, many distinguished aviators have graduated from the college including Sir Frank Whittle, pioneer of the jet engine

Heath Farm North Rauceby  Sleaford NG34 8QR Tel: 01529 488490

Dorrington North Ings Farm Museum & Railway

The museum has a collection of tractors, agricultural machinery, commercial vehicles and a narrow gauge railway.

North Ings Farm Dorrington Lincoln LN4 3QB Tel: 01526  833100   Email

East Kirkby Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

The authentic restoration of the original World War II airfield at East Kirkby by the Panton Family and their dedicated team of aviation enthusiasts; living tribute to Pilot Officer Christopher Panton.

East Kirkby Airfield ,East Kirkby, Nr Spilsby, PE23 4DE Tel: 01790 763207   Email

Grantham Museum

The museum interprets the archaeology and history of this market town and includes Sir Isaac Newton, the Dambusters and Margaret Thatcher

St Peter's Hill  Grantham  NG31 6PY   Tel: 01476  568783   Email

Grimsby Time Trap Museum

Exhibits include construction of the Royal Dock, the deprivation of the poor in the 19th-century, and the struggles against crime. Also recalled are the former glories of Grimsby Town FC and a theatre performance from 1890

Town Hall Town Hall Square Grimsby DN31 1HX Tel: 01472 324109  Email

Heckington Railway Museum

Restored buildings now house a small but comprehensive railway museum. There are artefacts relating to the Great Northern Railway, London and North Eastern Railway and many other railway companies.

Railway Station,  Station Road,  Heckington,  Sleaford NG34 9JJ  Tel: 01529 460177

Immingham Museum

A collection of local objects with small exhibitions on the Pilgrim Fathers, Great Central Railway and the Docks, upon which modern Immingham was founded. There are also exhibitions about the life and times of Immingham during the earliest part of the Twentieth Century

Margaret Street  Immingham  DN40 1LE Tel: 01469  577066

Lincoln Museum of Lincolnshire Life

The museum contains large and significant collections covering all aspects of social history, including domestic community and commercial life, crafts, agriculture, industry and the collection belonging to the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Burton Road  Lincoln LN1 3LY Tel: 01522 528448   Email

Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum

The museum houses a collection of over 65 vintage cars, buses and commercial vehicles spanning 77 years of road transport history. There are also many interesting displays of transport history including a traditional workshop

Whisby Road North Hykeham  LN6 3QT Tel: 01522 500566   Email

Louth Museum

The museum houses many exhibits, memorabilia and paintings which illustrate the history and development of Louth. These include: abbey and archaeology, domestic bygones, Louth carpets, Louth flood, Louth panorama, paintings and sketches, printing machine, natural history, spanish connection, local worthies, Wallis sculptures, weights and measures.

4 Broadbank  Louth   LN11 0EQ  Tel: 01507 601211

Normanby Hall Country Park & Farming Museum

Regency mansion with Victorian Walled Garden, Farming Museum, deer park, costume galleries, themed rooms, plant nursery and 300 acres of gardens and parkland

Normanby  Scunthorpe  DN15 9HU  Tel: 01724 720588   Email

North Lincolnshire Museum

Collections representing the cultural heritage of North Lincolnshire, from the earliest rocks to the present day.

Oswald Road, Scunthorpe, DN15 7BD  Tel: 01724 843533

Pinchbeck Engine & Pinchbeck Land Drainage Museum

The Pinchbeck Engine is a unique survival of the steam powered pumping stations which maintained the drainage system in the Southern Fenland. Built in 1833, it continued working until 1953 and has now been restored to working order. The Drainage Museum graphically illustrates the remarkable story of keeping water off the land. 

Off West Marsh Road Spalding PE11 3UW Tel: 01775 725468

RAF Digby Ops Museum

the wartime OPERATIONS ROOM now restored as a Museum in a tribute to all the men and women who served at RAF Digby during World War II.

RAF Digby, near Sleaford  Tel: 01526 327503   Email

Skegness Church Farm Museum

Open air museum with original 1760's farmhouse furnished to the period 1900 – 1910 with exhibitions of earlt farm life.

Church Road South, Skegness, PE25 2HF  Tel: 01754 766658   Email

Sleaford Virtual Museum

A museum that has no permanent site but exists on the internet only. You can browse the full selection of artefacts by clicking on the link.

c/o 15 Castle Street  Sleaford  NG34 7QE  Tel: 01529 415964   Email

Spalding Gordon Boswell Romany Museum

Unique collection of superb traditional Romany horse-drawn Vardos (caravans), carts and harness etc. (all horse-drawn), photographs, fortune telling & romany carriage rides.

Clay Lake  Spalding   PE12 6BL   Tel: 01775 710599

Stamford Brownes Hospital

A building of outstanding medieval almshouses founded in 1483 by a wealthy wool merchant William Browne of Stamford, and his wife Margaret. Its purpose was to house twelve paupers

Broad Street, Stamford,  PE9 1PF.    Tel: 01780 763153

The Trolleybus Museum

The museum has a working trolleybus system and many displays and exhibits from the heyday of the trolleybus - the 1950s and 1960s. There are nostalgic 1960s shop window displays and a 1950s prefab decked out with the furniture of the period. New for 2003 is a cycle and lawnmower museum

Belton Road, Sandtoft, Doncaster DN8 5SX   Tel: 01724 711391   Email

Wainfleet Magdalen College Museum

A medieval brick building, founded in 1484 by William of Wainfleet,is the setting for changing displays showing the social history, environment & hobbies of this area. On loan from Magdalen College, Oxford is the original Royal Charter of 1458

St. John Street  Wainfleet   PE24 4DL   Tel: 01754 881548