This list of museums in Devon, 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 | Region | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, late 18th century sixteen-sided house with unusual decorations and collections | ||||
| East Devon | Local | website, local history, Honiton lace collection, Honiton pottery, palaeontology, toys, war memorabilia | |||
| Ariel Centre | Art | website, art centre with gallery and theatre, part of King Edward VI Community College | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, early 19th-century country house with collection of antique furniture and an eclectic collection of family memorabilia, National Trust Carriage Museum, gardens | ||||
| Ashburton Museum | Local | website, local history, culture, collection of Native American artifacts | |||
| East Devon | Local | Local history, culture, industry, agriculture | |||
| Local history | Devon County Council | ||||
| Science & Technology | Shop (sells, repairs and restores Barometers) and Museum collection which houses the famous Tempest Prognosticator. | ||||
| South Hams | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, ruins of a large late-medieval fortified house and castle | |||
| Bicclescombe Watermill | North Devon | Mill | information, late 18th century mill | ||
| Railway | |||||
| Media | History of film and visual media, media memorabilia, part of the University of Exeter | ||||
| Bishopsteignton Museum of Rural Life | Teignbridge | Local | information, local history, agriculture, geology | ||
| Local History | Small museum showing the story of a large bomb that didn't destroy the village.[1] | ||||
| Bovey Tracey Heritage Centre | Teignbridge | Local | information, local history, culture, located in the Bovey railway station | ||
| Teignbridge | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, medieval manor house, riverside meadows and woodland | |||
| Braunton and District Museum | North Devon | Local | information, local history, agriculture, maritime heritage, industry, railway | ||
| Braunton Countryside Centre | North Devon | Natural history | website, environment of the coastal and farmed landscapes surrounding Braunton, farming and Braunton Marshes | ||
| Bridge Mill | Torridge | Mill | website, restored 19th century watermill | ||
| Britannia Museum | South Hams | Maritime | website, history of the Britannia Royal Naval College, open by pre-booked tour | ||
| Military | Local World War II military history, gun battery, pill box, tours of battery garden | ||||
| Brixham | Torbay | Local | website, local history, fishing and ship building industries | ||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, abbey estate and grounds with exhibits about explorers Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake | ||||
| East Devon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, website, 1950s period cottage post office, near Killerton | |||
| Torridge | Art | website, watercolours, oil paintings, prints and drawings, decorative arts, contemporary crafts, Napoleonic ship models, also local history | |||
| Torbay | Multiple | website, Victorian period shop and room displays, model railway and memorabilia, military displays, 1940s and 50s shopping arcade, amusement machines, model buildings, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company memorabilia | |||
| East Devon | Historic house | Elizabethan manor house and gardens | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, early 20th-century castle house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, gardens | ||||
| North Devon | Historic house | Norman manor house with period furniture ranging from Elizabethan to Victorian times | |||
| North Devon | Historic house | Historic fishing village that includes the childhood home of the Victorian author and social reformer Charles Kingsley, 1930s fisherman's cottage | |||
| East Devon | Mill | Operated by the National Trust, website, water-powered corn mill, near Killerton | |||
| North Devon | Military | website, military artifacts, most from World War II | |||
| Industry | Working spinning mill textile museum, historic steam engines (run on Bank Holidays), dolls house exhibition, model railway, schools education programme | ||||
| South Hams | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 1920s Arts and Crafts style country home for Rupert D'Oyly Carte, gardens | |||
| Colyton Heritage Centre | East Devon | Local | website, local history | ||
| North Devon | Local | website, local history | |||
| South Hams | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, medieval fortress house | |||
| Mid Devon | Local | website, local history, operated by the Crediton Area History and Museum Society | |||
| Exeter | Mill | website, 19th-century watermill, headquarters and visitor centre for the Devon Wildlife Trust | |||
| Military | Victorian era fort with artillery, operated by Landmark Trust | ||||
| West Devon | Prison | History of Dartmoor Prison | |||
| South Hams | Military | Operated by the English Heritage, coastal fortress with gun battery | |||
| Dartmouth | South Hams | Local | Located in a 1640 merchant's house, maritime and local history, several local and maritime history collections, also houses The Henley Collection and the Dawe Collection of ships in bottles | ||
| Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre - Princetown | West Devon | Multiple | website, one of three visitor centres for Dartmoor National Park, exhibits on local history, culture, wildlife, art | ||
| Teignbridge | Local | information, local history, culture, industry, porcelain, natural history, dolls and toys | |||
| Mid Devon | Railway | 2 ft 610mm) gauge passenger railway, narrow gauge collection, miniature railway, model railway layouts | |||
| Plymouth | Plymouth | Maritime | Artifacts from the Royal Navy, open by appointment | ||
| West Devon | Amusement | website, fairground art and memorabilia, vintage rides, stalls and shows, industrial and road steam engines, vintage vehicles, roadsigns, vintage machinery | |||
| Elizabethan House | Plymouth | Historic House | website | ||
| Dunkeswell Airfield Heritage Centre | East Devon | Military | website, history of RAF Dunkeswell in World War II, | ||
| Exeter | Exeter | History | website, medieval underground passages built for supplying drinking water | ||
| East Devon | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| East Devon | Multiple | website, housed in an early 19th-century house with a thatched roof, local history, costumes and lace collection, archeology, geology | |||
| West Devon | Technology | Operated by the National Trust, water-powered forge | |||
| Mid Devon | Historic house | website, farming estate dating back over 700 years, costume collection, garden | |||
| Torbay | Maritime | website, museum ship replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship Golden Hind | |||
| Great Torrington Heritage Museum | Torridge | Local | website, local history | ||
| Torbay | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Georgian house owned by author Agatha Christie, 1950s decor with collections of archaeology, Tunbridgeware, silver, botanical china and books, gardens | |||
| Torridge | Historic house | Former medieval monastery, country home with collections of pictures, furniture and porcelain, gardens | |||
| Hartland Quay Museum | Torridge | Maritime | website, shipwrecks, natural history, coastal trades, geology and history of Hartland Quay, located in the Hartland Quay Hotel | ||
| North Devon | Mill | website, 16th century working watermill, tea room and shop | |||
| Mid Devon | Historic house | Open on Bank Holidays, medieval manor house ruins | |||
| Torridge | Local | website, local history, period rooms | |||
| Teignbridge | Art | website, working glass and games factory set in an historic pottery, exhibits of glass, games, marbles, and Bovey Pottery | |||
| North Devon | Multiple | website, local history, natural history, Victoriana, maritime artifacts, minerals, archaeology, maps, paintings, photos, military items and costumes | |||
| West Devon | Historic house | Georgian country house & Bed & Breakfast currently under restoration | |||
| Teignbridge | Mining | Former iron mine with equipment and mill with Californian stamps | |||
| East Devon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century estate and garden, costume collection | |||
| South Hams | Local | website, local history, social history, trades and crafts, William Cookworthy porcelain, Victorian kitchen, costumes, agriculture | |||
| Torbay | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, late medieval stone house | |||
| Mid Devon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Victorian country house designed by William Burges, garden | |||
| North Devon | Local | Local history, natural history, culture | |||
| East Devon | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, website, medieval cob cottage with a thatched roof, near Killerton | |||
| Plymouth | Plymouth | Historic house | website, 17th-century house, home to three Plymouth mayors, includes antique artifacts, prison equipment, Victorian school room, an entire chemist's shop | ||
| North Devon | Local | website, local history, maritime heritage, agriculture | |||
| West Devon | Open air | Restored 19th century village, docks and quays, a restored ship, copper mine tour by train, Victorian farm, nature reserve | |||
| North Devon | Multiple | website, local history, natural history, culture, Royal Devon Yeomanry and Devonshire Regiment, archaeology, decorative arts; also known as Barnstaple Museum | |||
| North Devon | Sports | website, surfing in the UK, surfboard collection | |||
| North Devon | Multiple | Local history, culture, industry, trades, period rooms, art | |||
| Dartmouth | South Hams | Technology | Newcomen steam engine and history of Thomas Newcomen | ||
| Teignbridge | Multiple | website, local history, Great Western Railway, art | |||
| North Devon | Maritime | History of shipbuilding and seafaring in the village | |||
| East Devon | Historic site | Operated by the National Trust, restored bakery, water-powered forge and forge | |||
| East Devon | Mill | 19th century water mill, bakery, shop | |||
| South Hams | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Edwardian house with collections of stuffed animals, model ships, nautical tools and photos, doll houses | |||
| Torridge | Art | Includes visual art gallery, theatre and cinema | |||
| Plymouth | Multiple | Local history, natural history, art, archaeology, decorative arts | |||
| Exeter | Historic house | Medieval castle, home of the Earl of Devon, Victorian kitchen, deer park, gardens | |||
| Exeter | Multiple | Art, natural history, local history, decorative arts, archaeology, coins, costumes, world culture | |||
| South Hams | Maritime | History of the RNLI lifeboat station in Salcombe | |||
| Salcombe | South Hams | Maritime | website, ship portraits, shipwreck and rescue, shipbuilding, local history | ||
| Plymouth | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Robert Adam-designed Georgian house with original decor, plasterwork and furnishings | |||
| East Devon | Historic house | website, Elizabethan manor house, garden | |||
| East Devon | Local | website, also known as Axe Valley Heritage Museum, local history, archaeology, natural history, geology | |||
| East Devon | Local | website, local history, natural history of the Jurassic Coast | |||
| Plymouth | Maritime | 18th century former lighthouse | |||
| Teignbridge | Railway | Headquarters and museum for the South Devon Railway, steam locomotive depot and workshops | |||
| North Devon | Multiple | website, local history, trades, agriculture, culture, archaeology, toys, household items, railway | |||
| Exeter | Historic house | Furnished as an Elizabethan town house in 1602 | |||
| South Hams | Maritime | Lighthouse open for tours | |||
| West Devon | Railway | Victorian railway station with equipment, rolling stock and memorabilia | |||
| West Devon | Local | website, local history | |||
| Teignbridge | Multiple | website, maritime and local history, art, area railway and air transport | |||
| Mid Devon | Historic house | Medieval castle manor house, garden | |||
| Tiverton | Mid Devon | Multiple | Local history, railroads, transport, social history, agriculture | ||
| Exeter | Multiple | website, maritime and local history, 17th century period rooms, natural history, local trades, memorabilia of film star Vivien Leigh | |||
| Torbay | Multiple | website, local history, Agatha Christie, artifacts from Kents Cavern, archaeology, replica farmhouse interior, Ancient Egypt, and world jewellery | |||
| Torbay | Multiple | Former abbey and country house, art gallery, collections of fine and decorative art, gardens | |||
| South Hams | Military | Operated by English Heritage, preserved Norman motte-and-bailey castle | |||
| South Ham] | Historic house | 1575 Tudor house with period rooms, local history including computer inventor Charles Babbage, Saxon coins | |||
| Totnes | South Hams | Fashion | Located in Bogan House, clothing and accessories from the 18th to 20th centuries from the Devonshire Collection of Period Costume | ||
| Totnes | South Hams | Historic site | 16th century Tudor guild hall, magistrate's court and prison | ||
| Totnes | South Hams | Photography | website, changing exhibits of historic area photographs from its collections, cameras and photography equipment, located in the town watermill | ||
| Teignbridge | Historic house | Estate dating to the 12th century, house and grounds remodeled in the 18th century by Robert Adam and Capability Brown | |||
| University of Exeter Galleries | Exeter | Exeter | Art | website, part of the University of Exeter, galleries in Northcote House and Queen's Building | |
| Upottery Heritage Centre | East Devon | Military | website, operated by the South West Airfields Heritage Trust, history of RAF Upottery in World War II | ||
| Teignbridge | Historic house | website, information, 1960s period pub and home | |||
| North Devon | Amusement | Theme park with collection of Victorian antiques, domestic tools, amusement machines, mechanical instruments, toys, model trains | |||
| West of England Transport Collection | Torridge | Transportation | website, private collection of transport vehicles open to the public once a year | ||
| William Pengelly Cave Studies Trust Museum | Teignbridge | Natural history | website, caves, geology, fossils, conservation | ||