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Your personal favourite Museum (apart from Charlton)
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Tenement Museum in New York is brilliant. It's a walking tour round a dilapidated building that housed Irish immigrants coming to America for the first time. Really well done and different to any other museum I have ever been to before.
Favourite Museum in London is the Robert Opie Museum or the Museum of Brands and Packaging. Displays the change in different branded products over time. Such as a Mars Bar for example.1 -
National Maritime Museum has always been a favourite of mine, I may be biased as I worked there for a long time, Natural History Museum is superb, further afield I have visited Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia and the Killing Fields, found the Killing Fields very disturbing, had a headset on as we went round after about an hour I had to turn it off, horrific, a hugely emotional place especially when it occurred in my lifetime.0
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Best Museum - Manchester Science Museum
Best Art Gallery - Either Tate Modern or National Gallery depending on my mood
Best Mixed Collections - Fitzwilliam and Ashmolean Museums
Best Corporate Museum - The Wellcome Collection - Their current 'Being Human' exhibition is very good
Best of the Biggies - Can't decide between NHM, Science Museum and British Museum. All cracking, but never go in during the school holidays
Best museum in an otherwise dull town - The Harris Gallery, Preston
The 'Don't Bang Your Head Award' for Smallest Museum - The Dutch Cottage, Canvey Island
The 'Why is every exhibit the bloody same' award - National Coach Museum, Lisbon. I visited in 1969, and am only just getting over it
Best specially constructed exhibit in a museum - WW1 trenches at Bovington Tank Museum
Best Overseas Museum - well, perhaps not the best but the one I enjoyed it the most: Luxemburg Museum of Art & History
Strangest contrast between an exhibition and its related shop - The Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas. The exhibits were all fibreglass models, but in the shop you could buy genuine Egyptian mummies!
The one that got away - V&A - not sure why, but I've never been
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This was really good, the Sunday spent at the museum was a lot more enjoyable than the afternoon spent at the Wigan match!killerandflash said:Outside of Central London can recommend
RAF Museum in Hendon
The Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford which has a weird collection of stuff
The Coventry Transport Museum (sadly no longer free)
Duxford
Imperial War Museum North (in Salford) which is much more about the human experience of war, and the nearby Lowry gallery if you like his paintings
Manchester Science and Industry Museum (though a major section is shut at the moment)
National Railway Museum in York obviously
Just off the A303 the Haynes Motor Museum (for car lovers) and Fleet Air Arm Museum (navy aircraft)
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - so many ships and exhibits to see
Planning to visit the British Motor Museum in Gaydon on the way back from Wigan0 -
My underclothing museum.
Visitors welcome, but by appointment only.0 -
Oslo military museum is very good, loads of connections to our armed forces particularly pre and during WW2.1
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Museum of London0
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The old Rotunda Museum up at Woolwich Barracks. I'd be up there all the time with me dad or mates as a kid. Apparently it all got taken due to Firepower and the Arsenal, but got knows where it all is now that's closed. Is there a similar place in Birmingham???
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They have a storage facility out in the West Country from memory so I think the SPG’s and everything else was moved down there..i_b_b_o_r_g said:The old Rotunda Museum up at Woolwich Barracks. I'd be up there all the time with me dad or mates as a kid. Apparently it all got taken due to Firepower and the Arsenal, but got knows where it all is now that's closed. Is there a similar place in Birmingham???0 -
Museum of barbed wire in Kansas.0
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I know there's a few plane enthusiasts in CL
I didn't know where to post this, but a special event in the free museum comes highly recommended.
Chats with aircrew from the Vulcans and able to sit in the cockpits of cold war planes.
£50
RAF Museum
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/events/the-vulcan-and-cold-war-experience/
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I live about an hour from York and we’ve been there twice in the last year as my almost three year old is obsessed with trains (proper Charlton). Must admit, I quite enjoy it too. Lovely city too.Addickted said:Is this a Charlton site FFS?
York of course.
IWM was always a favourite of mine when I was at Southbank. Design Museum used to be worth a visit (not free).2 -
two I've visited while on long football away weekends
Manchester Science .. from very early ingenious cotton spinning machines to the very recent development of Graphene
Sunderland Glass .. all you need to know about the material that is all around us, from windows to beer mugs
Also, when in the Smoke, I always visit the V&A and Science, cheap day out
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People’s history museum in Manchester0
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Anyone remember the small but brilliant one in the old Plumstead Library ? Would shoot up there when Dad spent an age looking for books.0
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Hope you discarded the needles responsibly.charlton4ever said:Anyone remember the small but brilliant one in the old Plumstead Library ? Would shoot up there when Dad spent an age looking for books.5 -
I wouldn't say it was worth a special trip, it's too compact for that but the Bank of England Museum is good. And free. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum
The current main exhibit is on the BoE and slavery.
There used to be the opportunity to lift a gold bar - 12.4 kg - but not sure if they still do that. (If nothing else, it used to give you an idea of quite how implausible some movies are. Yes The Italian Job, both versions, I'm looking at you! And gold bars are invariably shown upside down in movies.)0 -
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin is well worth a visit; great use of video and personal histories.
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My new absolute favourite is the Kent Battle Of Britain Museum in Hawkinge. It’s the largest museum dedicated to the Battle of Britain in the world without doubt the most complete collection of histories of all the pilots who took part.Well worth a visit on the old airfield and hopefully next year, they’ll purchase an extra parcel of land (more of the old airfield) to extend even more.1
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I always wondered why Scrooge McDuck didn't get hurt diving into a massive pile of gold.cafcfan said:I wouldn't say it was worth a special trip, it's too compact for that but the Bank of England Museum is good. And free. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum
The current main exhibit is on the BoE and slavery.
There used to be the opportunity to lift a gold bar - 12.4 kg - but not sure if they still do that. (If nothing else, it used to give you an idea of quite how implausible some movies are. Yes The Italian Job, both versions, I'm looking at you! And gold bars are invariably shown upside down in movies.)0 - Sponsored links:
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Science Museum.
I remember loving the Museum of Moving Images when I was a kid as well before it closed.1 -
Over the river from my brother's gaff in Ballycasey is a great museum I have visited twice, and it covers a short and specialist time in aviation history.
Pre WW2 and pre radar and pre pressurised cabins there used to be transatlantic passenger flights to and from America to points very west in Europe. Namely France and Ireland.
They were essentially flying boats.
In Foynes hard by the runway that was the river Shannon, you have this excellent specialised museum that is well worth visiting if you're in the area.
https://www.flyingboatmuseum.com/
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Do they still stop you taking photos in there? Wasn’t the most visitor friendly place when I went.cafckev said:My new absolute favourite is the Kent Battle Of Britain Museum in Hawkinge. It’s the largest museum dedicated to the Battle of Britain in the world without doubt the most complete collection of histories of all the pilots who took part.Well worth a visit on the old airfield and hopefully next year, they’ll purchase an extra parcel of land (more of the old airfield) to extend even more.0 -
War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh and Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.0
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The National Brewery Centre in Burton is well worth a visit if you want to make an overnight stop of our game up there0
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Unfortunately they still don’t allow photos and you have to leave your phone either in your car or at the front desk. They have lots of volunteers wandering around to help answering questions and a very nice cafe tooDaveMehmet said:
Do they still stop you taking photos in there? Wasn’t the most visitor friendly place when I went.cafckev said:My new absolute favourite is the Kent Battle Of Britain Museum in Hawkinge. It’s the largest museum dedicated to the Battle of Britain in the world without doubt the most complete collection of histories of all the pilots who took part.Well worth a visit on the old airfield and hopefully next year, they’ll purchase an extra parcel of land (more of the old airfield) to extend even more.0 -
WTF... Why the hell not?cafckev said:
Unfortunately they still don’t allow photos and you have to leave your phone either in your car or at the front desk. They have lots of volunteers wandering around to help answering questions and a very nice cafe tooDaveMehmet said:
Do they still stop you taking photos in there? Wasn’t the most visitor friendly place when I went.cafckev said:My new absolute favourite is the Kent Battle Of Britain Museum in Hawkinge. It’s the largest museum dedicated to the Battle of Britain in the world without doubt the most complete collection of histories of all the pilots who took part.Well worth a visit on the old airfield and hopefully next year, they’ll purchase an extra parcel of land (more of the old airfield) to extend even more.0 -
The old Rotunda up the barracks. Got fond memories of riding up through the deer park on our bikes to look round in there.2
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They cite security reasons but it’s quite frankly ridiculous.ForeverAddickted said:
WTF... Why the hell not?cafckev said:
Unfortunately they still don’t allow photos and you have to leave your phone either in your car or at the front desk. They have lots of volunteers wandering around to help answering questions and a very nice cafe tooDaveMehmet said:
Do they still stop you taking photos in there? Wasn’t the most visitor friendly place when I went.cafckev said:My new absolute favourite is the Kent Battle Of Britain Museum in Hawkinge. It’s the largest museum dedicated to the Battle of Britain in the world without doubt the most complete collection of histories of all the pilots who took part.Well worth a visit on the old airfield and hopefully next year, they’ll purchase an extra parcel of land (more of the old airfield) to extend even more.1 -
My old man used to take me there, great place. Just looked it up and it’s no longer used for anything and is classed as at risk. Real shame.Gribbo said:The old Rotunda up the barracks. Got fond memories of riding up through the deer park on our bikes to look round in there.1
