This list of museums in Lancashire, 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 | District | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple | Historic house with exhibits of local history, art gallery, period rooms | ||||
| Bacup Natural History Society Museum | Local | website, local history, culture | |||
| Technology | Working steam mill engine for a textile mill | ||||
| Multiple | Local and social history, fine art, decorative arts, South Asian culture, beetle collection, textile industry | ||||
| Transportation | Automobiles, buses, lorries | ||||
| British In India Museum | History | information, history of the British in India, includes photographs, uniforms, swords, model soldiers, paintings, Indian army cap badges and buttons | |||
| Brooks Collectables Toy Museum | Toy | website, YouTube article, die-cast model cars and vehicles, toys, model trains, cameras, toy soldiers | |||
| Carnforth Station Heritage Centre | Local | website, local history, area railroad heritage, located in Carnforth railway station | |||
| Art | website, local public art gallery, contemporary art and craft from across the UK | ||||
| Multiple | 12th-century motte and bailey castle with museum of local and social history, art, history of the castle, geology, archaeology, natural history, folklore and industry | ||||
| Colne Heritage Centre | Local | information, local history | |||
| Historic house | Webpage https://www.lancaster.gov.uk/museums/, early Victorian period cottage | ||||
| Local | Local history, culture, maritime heritage, fishing industry | ||||
| Fylde Gallery | Art | information, Friends site, local art collection and exhibits gallery, located in Booths Supermarket | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Elizabethan house with 19th-century interiors, international collection of needlework, lace and costume | ||||
| Art | Contemporary art exhibits, collections include Victorian oils and watercolours, modern British paintings, contemporary prints, jewellery, Asian ivories, ceramics, photographs and souvenirs of Blackpool | ||||
| Multiple | Local history, archaeology, fine art, decorative art including ceramics and glass, costumes, scent bottles | ||||
| Art | |||||
| Industry | Former textile mills for wool then cloth | ||||
| Heysham Heritage Centre | Local | website, local history, located in a 17th-century long house | |||
| Historic house | Fortified Tudor manor house, features galleried banqueting hall, period furniture and a doll house collection | ||||
| Historic house | Adjacent to Lancaster Castle, Georgian house with Gillow furniture displayed in Regency period room settings, fine art, and the Museum of Childhood with toys, dolls, games and playthings from the 18th century to the present | ||||
| Military | Located in the Lancaster City Museum | ||||
| Military | Located in Fulwood, regimental history and memorabilia | ||||
| History | Medieval castle, court and prison | ||||
| Local | City's history, social history, King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, fine art | ||||
| Maritime | Shipbuilding, harbour trades, merchant trading, fishing, social and natural history of the bay, local ports | ||||
| Historic house | 18th-century Georgian house with 19th-century Gothic exterior, Gillow furniture, gardens | ||||
| Historic house | 18th-century Georgian country house and 78-acre parklands | ||||
| Lytham Heritage Centre | Lytham | Fylde | Local | website, local history and art exhibits, operated by Lytham Heritage Group | |
| Lytham | Fylde | Mill | 19th-century windmill with exhibits about the mill, millers, local history and culture | ||
| Wax | |||||
| History | County history, culture, life in World War II, military history | ||||
| Local | Local and social history, culture, art, visitor centre | ||||
| Art | website, art gallery of Lancaster University's Lancaster Institute for The Contemporary Arts, collections include 20th-century art, Pilkington's Tile and Pottery Company works, Chinese and Japanese art, and antiquities | ||||
| Platform Gallery | Art | website, contemporary crafts gallery | |||
| Industry | Operational 19th-century steam-powered weaving mill | ||||
| Natural history | website, ecology and natural history of the Ribble and Alt Estuaries, operated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds | ||||
| Railway | Heritage railway, museum open on operating days | ||||
| Archaeology | website, area Romano-British history and artifacts | ||||
| Amusement | Located at Pleasure Beach Blackpool | ||||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century Tudor great hall where young William Shakespeare once performed; collections of furniture, arms, armour and tapestries; gardens | ||||
| Biographical | Part of the University of Lancaster, exhibits from its collections of pictures, books, manuscripts and photographs relating to the Victorian writer and artist John Ruskin | ||||
| Historic house | Restored medieval manor house | ||||
| Local | website, local history, culture, art exhibits, textile, rubber and motor industries | ||||
| Multiple | Exhibits include natural history, Egyptology, local history, textiles, decorative art and regional furniture, and an art gallery | ||||
| Historic house | Tudor house reflecting Tudor and Victorian eras | ||||
| Weaver's Cottage | Historic house | website, 18th-century weaver's cottage with working hand looms, Victorian kitchen, operated by the Rossendale Civic Trust | |||
| Industry | Includes the visitor center with Victorian schoolroom and weaver's dwelling, canal toll house, and Oak Mount Mill Engine House | ||||
| Multiple | website, local history, fine art, natural history, period Victorian rooms, fashion and furniture, art exhibits; formerly the Rossendale Museum & Art Gallery | ||||
| Whitworth Museum | Local | website, local history, operated by the Whitworth Historical Society | |||
| Woodend Mining Museum | Pendle | Mining | website, information, area coal mining | ||
| Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum - Earby | Mining | website, lead mining artifacts | |||