This list of museums in Buckinghamshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
| Name | Image | Town/City | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local | Local history, culture, toys, fossils, archaeology, garden | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, half-timbered Jacobean farmhouse, transformed by the de Rothschild family towards the end of the 19th century, features collection of paintings, fine furniture and superb oriental porcelain, gardens | |||
| Bletchley (Milton Keynes) | Military | Site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment in World War II, also includes National Museum of Computing, exhibits of toys, Winston Churchill, vintage cinema equipment, automobiles, 1940s secret post office | ||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 14th-century moated gatehouse and gardens | |||
| Local | Local history, culture, rural life, prison cells, Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry | |||
| Multiple | Local history, art, geology, costume, agriculture and industry. The museum includes the Roald Dahl Children's Gallery which uses characters and themes from Roald Dahl's books to stimulate children's interest in science, history and literature | |||
| Railway | Includes vintage steam and diesel locomotives | |||
| Historic house | Tudor manor house and gardens | |||
| Local | Local history, culture, industry | |||
| Open-air | Includes over 30 buildings | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century rococo manor house and parkland | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, part is open for tours, gardens with sculpture | |||
| Multiple | Home of 18th-century poet William Cowper, local history exhibits, lace, and preacher John Newton | |||
| Historic house | Early Tudor manor house and gardens | |||
| Haddenham | Local | Local history, culture, farming, industry | ||
| History of chair-making | ||||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, medieval coaching inn | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 15th-century two-story timber frame building | |||
| Historic house | Home of 17th-century poet John Milton | |||
| Local | Local history, culture, agriculture, memorabilia of the Wolverton railway works, historic telephones and switchboards, Post Office and British Telecom vehicles | |||
| Art | website, contemporary art | |||
| Bletchley (Milton Keynes) | Technology | Located at Bletchley Park, historic computer systems | ||
| Historic house | Grand medieval manor house | |||
| History | website, exhibits include farming, country life, trades and professions, model railways, engines, vintage wireless equipment, photographic and electrical apparatus, WWII military aviation | |||
| Mill | Operated by the National Trust, corn grinding windmill | |||
| Mill | Early 19th-century tower mill | |||
| Biographical | Home of children's author Roald Dahl | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century palatial house | |||
| Halton | Military history museum | Operated by RAF Halton | ||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 19th-century mansion owned by the de Rothschild family, features French 18th century decorative arts, English portraits, Dutch Golden Age paintings, 18th century books, drawings, textiles, 16th century limoges, enamel, majolica, silver | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Italianate decorated mansion and gardens | |||
| Local | Local history, culture, chair-making and area furniture industry, displays of Windsor chairs, lace, and natural history | |||