This list of museums in Leicestershire, 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technology | Science and technology museum, housed in a Victorian sewage pumping station with beam engines restored to working order, and exhibitions on light and optics, historic transport and public health, including an 'interactive toilet'. | ||||
| Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
| Armourgeddon Military Museum | Military | website, military vehicles, guns, cannons and military paraphernalia | |||
| Historic house | Victorian period house showing the contrasting lifestyles of an upper-middle-class family and domestic servants | ||||
| Historic house | Castle with gardens | ||||
| Military | History of the 1485 Battle of Bosworth during the War of the Roses, and the search for the site of the battle. | ||||
| Local | Area history, geology, archaeology and industries | ||||
| Castle Donington Museum | Local | website, local history | |||
| Natural history | website, nature, woodlands, visitor centre of The National Forest | ||||
| Historic house | 16th-century medieval period house | ||||
| Leicester | Education & Medieval | Housed in the Hawthorne Building, it covers the history of The Newarke & Church of the Annunciation, Trinity Hospital building, DMU History and special exhibitions[1] | |||
| Aviation | Includes complete airframes on external display, engines, aircraft components, photographs | ||||
| Transportation | History of the Foxton Locks, lives of the canal workers and other aspects of the local canal | ||||
| Local | website, local history | ||||
| Religious | website, Sikh art, history, culture; by appointment only. | ||||
| Hallaton Museum | Local | website, local history | |||
| Local | Local history, culture, industry, Hallaton Treasure | ||||
| Hinckley and District Museum | Local | website, local history, framework knitter`s cottage with 1740s knitting frame. | |||
| Archaeology | Alongside Jewry Wall and site of Roman baths. The museum houses Roman mosaics and artifacts alongside archaeological material from prehistoric to medieval Leicester, including the history of archaeology in Leicester.[2] | ||||
| Music | Collection of bells used in clock towers, change ringing peals, chimes, and carillons | ||||
| Kegworth Museum | Local | local history, archaeology.[3] | |||
| King Richard III: Dynasty, Death and Discovery | Leicester | Archaeology | Visitor Centre at the Greyfriars burial site, with exhibitions on the life and death of Richard III and the archaeological investigation on his remains.[4] | ||
| Medieval | Medieval half-timbered building with Victorian prison cells, and since 2015, galleries on Medieval Leicester[5] | ||||
| Military | World War I memorial, carillon, military museum | ||||
| Railway | 1950s period station museum on the Great Central Railway heritage railroad | ||||
| Local | website, local history, Sir Frank Whittle display | ||||
| Measham Museum | Local | website. Local history. Since 2009 it is housed in part of the disused railway station. | |||
| Local | Local history and culture, including area Stilton cheese and pork pies. Museum in 1977, in former Andrew Carnegie Library. | ||||
| Industry | 19th-century iron-making blast furnace, with short boat rides on the restored canal. | ||||
| Industry | Gas industry museum, on production and supply of gas, and gas related artifacts and domestic appliances. | ||||
| Science | Space science and astronomy | ||||
| Multiple | Dinosaurs, geology, art, Ancient Egypt, natural history, world art | ||||
| Multiple | Local history, room settings from the 17th century and the 1950s and 70s, toys, history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, period street scene | ||||
| Old Rectory Museum | Local | website, operated by the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society | |||
| Technology | preservation, display, and public experience of computer and console systems | ||||
| Railway | Station and museum for the Battlefield Line Railway | ||||
| Sir John Moore Church of England Primary School | Sir John Moore Heritage Centre | Education | website, 1891 Victorian life in the then Sir John Moore Church of England School | ||
| Historic house | William and Mary period house | ||||
| Multiple | Family farm and automobile museum | ||||
| Stoneygate Tram Depot | Transport Heritage | website explores the history of public transport in Leicester and the surrounding areas, and provides bus rides on historic buses | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, summer home designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Ernest Gimson | ||||
| Mill | Operated by Swannington Heritage Trust | ||||
| Wigston Framework Knitters Museum | Industry | website, workshop with stocking frame equipment, hand frames for making gloves, mitts and fancy ribbed tops for golf hose | |||
| William Carey Museum | Biographical | website, located at the Central Baptist Church, life and works of pioneer missionary William Carey | |||