This list of museums in Lincolnshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-21 Visual Arts Centre | Art | website, visual arts centre | |||
| Lincoln | Military | History of No. 50 Squadron RAF and No. 61 Squadron RAF and RAF Skellingthorpe in World War II | |||
| Historic house | 17th-century thatched manor house, gardens, art gallery | ||||
| Anderby Drainage Museum | East Lindsey | Technology | website, located in a drainage board pumping station, includes engines and tools | ||
| Historic house | 15th-century medieval Tudor merchant's house, includes an art gallery, gardens | ||||
| East Lindsey | Aviation | Tours of historic World War II aircraft used in flight shows | |||
| North Lincolnshire | Local | Local history, culture | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century Restoration style country house with opulent decor, silverware, paintings, gardens | ||||
| Local | History of the medieval guildhall, courtroom and the town, also art exhibits | ||||
| South Kesteven | Local | Located at Baldock's Mill, local history, culture, auto racing driver Raymond Mays, fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth | |||
| South Kesteven | History | Medieval almshouse, tours by appointment | |||
| Transportation | website, collection of bubble cars and microcars, 1950s memorabilia, Bakelite items | ||||
| Burgh le Marsh Heritage Centre | East Lindsey | Mill | website, also known as Dobson's Mill, early-19th-century tower windmill, exhibits of local history | ||
| Burgh Museum | East Lindsey | Local | website, local history | ||
| Burton Fen Collection | South Holland | Music | website, music hall with pipe organ collection, movie posters and old advertisements | ||
| Caistor Arts & Heritage Centre | Local | website, local history, includes the Caistor Library, exhibition space | |||
| Chain Bridge Forge | Technology | http://www.southhollandlife.com, living museum that provides blacksmithing demonstrations, local history, innovation 3D printing and scanning | |||
| Cleethorpes Discovery Centre | Art | website, art exhibition gallery | |||
| North Kesteven | Mill | Late-18th-century working watermill | |||
| Cottage Museum | East Lindsey | Local | website, local history, culture | ||
| North Kesteven | Aviation | website, history of Royal Air Force College Cranwell | |||
| Discover Stamford | South Kesteven | Local | website, heritage display in Stamford Library | ||
| Lincoln | Historic house | Late-17th-century house with Georgian interiors, collections of furniture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, porcelain, household objects, gardens | |||
| East Lindsey | Technology | Restored steam drainage engine and museum | |||
| North Lincolnshire | Historic house | website, early-18th-century Queen Anne rectory, birthplace of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of Methodism | |||
| West Lindsey | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, timber-framed and brick medieval manor house | |||
| Gayton Engine Pumping Station | East Lindsey | Technology | website, 1930s pumping station with engine and exhibits about land drainage | ||
| South Holland | Transportation | Collection of Romani wagons | |||
| South Kesteven | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, townhouse reflecting different eras, open by appointment and on a limited basis, gardens | |||
| Grantham | South Kesteven | Local | |||
| North East Lincolnshire | Maritime | Area 1950s fishing industry, also art exhibits | |||
| Grimsby Town Hall Time Trap Museum | Grimsby | North East Lincolnshire | Prison | website, local history and prison, located in town hall | |
| South Kesteven | Historic house | Large country estate with paintings, furniture, tapestries and objets d'art, gardens, parklands designed by Capability Brown | |||
| Haywain Farm Museum | North Lincolnshire | Agriculture | information | ||
| North Kesteven | Railway | Preserved Victorian railway station with artifacts, working model railways, local history displays, operated by Heckington Village Trust | |||
| North Kesteven | Mill | 8-sailed tower windmill | |||
| North East Lincolnshire | Railway | website, Great Central Railway, LNER and British Rail exhibits, building of the Immingham Dock, local history | |||
| Lincoln | Lincoln | Multiple | |||
| Lincoln | Lincoln | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, remains of the medieval palace with visitor centre and audio tour | ||
| Lincoln | Lincoln | Multiple | Archaeology, fine and decorative arts, contemporary visual arts in the Usher Gallery | ||
| East Lindsey | Aviation | History of the RAF Bomber Command in World War II | |||
| North Kesteven | Transportation | website, vintage cars, buses and commercial vehicles, road transport history and memorabilia, model vehicles, 1950s/60s village garage workshop | |||
| East Lindsey | Railway | Heritage railway and museum | |||
| Louth Museum | East Lindsey | Local | website, local history, culture, archaeology, geology, natural history | ||
| Magdalen College Museum | East Lindsey | Local | website, information, local history, culture | ||
| Mill | Seven story, five sail working windmill | ||||
| North Kesteven | Aviation | History of the World War II RAF 106 Bomber Squadron at RAF Metheringham | |||
| South Holland | Mill | Early-19th-century tower windmill | |||
| North Kesteven | Historic house | Early Victorian brick built cottage with few modern amenities | |||
| Lincoln | Lincoln | Local | Local and social history, Victorian rooms, period shop displays, exhibits about the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry, agriculture equipment and tools | ||
| Museum of RAF Firefighting | Lincoln | Military, Transportation | website Museum containing Military Fire Engines, Civilian Fire Engines and various kinds of pumps. Museum with over 40+ vehicles dating back to wartime. | ||
| Throckenholt | South Holland | Technology | Evolution of electrical, electronic and warfare technology between the period 1850 and 1980 (Reopening anticipated in 2015 moved from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire) | ||
| North Kesteven | Art | Contemporary craft and design centre, formerly The Hub | |||
| North Kesteven | Natural history | Nature discovery centre for Whisby Nature Park | |||
| North Kesteven | Transportation | ||||
| North Lincolnshire | Multiple | Early-19th-century Regency mansion with a farming museum, Victorian walled garden, stableyard, duck ponds, deer sanctuary, miniature railway | |||
| North Kesteven | Technology | Tractors, agricultural machinery, commercial vehicles, a narrow gauge railway, portable steam pumps, a fairground organ | |||
| North Lincolnshire | Local | Local history, culture | |||
| Owston Ferry Smithy | North Lincolnshire | Local | website, local history, blacksmith shop | ||
| South Holland | Technology | Steam powered drainage engines | |||
| North Kesteven | Military | Restored World War II Sector Operations headquarters | |||
| West Lindsey | Military | website, history of RAF Scampton | |||
| North Kesteven | Military | History of RAF Skellingthorpe | |||
| RAF Waddington Heritage Centre | Lincoln | Lincoln | Military | website, history and memorabilia of RAF Waddington, open by appointment | |
| West Lindsey | Military | website, history and memorabilia of RAF Wickenby | |||
| Barton-upon-Humber | North Lincolnshire | Art | Arts centre with four exhibit galleries, artist studios, museum about the former rope factory, theatre | ||
| North Lincolnshire | Historic house | website, early Jacobean manor house | |||
| East Lindsey | Mill | Late-19th-century six-story windmill, owned by English Heritage | |||
| South Lincolnshire Military Museum | South Holland | Military | information | ||
| Spalding Flower Bulb Museum | South Holland | Agriculture | website, local flower bulb growing industry | ||
| Lincoln | Lincoln | Local | Local heritage and culture exhibits and programs of St Catherine's, Lincoln | ||
| Barton-upon-Humber | North Lincolnshire | Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, remains and artifacts from the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon church | ||
| East Lindsey | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 15th-century medieval castle | |||
| North Lincolnshire | Religious | Operated by English Heritage, gatehouse and remains of a medieval priory | |||
| East Lindsey | Military | History and artifacts of RAF Woodhall Spa in World War II and after, includes aircraft and missiles, models, dioramas, photos | |||
| North Lincolnshire | Transportation | Preserved trolleybuses, 1950s/1960s street scene and period home | |||
| East Lindsey | Open air | Local history, agriculture tools and equipment, traditional indigenous buildings including a cottage, 18th-century farmhouse, 19th-century stable block and cowshed | |||
| North East Lincolnshire | Mill | Late-19th-century six-sailed windmill | |||
| Welbourn Forge | North Kesteven | History | information, information, working forge and blacksmith shop | ||
| Barton-upon-Humber | North Lincolnshire | Education | website, life and works of education pioneer Samuel Wilderspin, recreation of his mid-19th-century classroom and a late Victorian classroom | ||
| South Kesteven | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton, 17th-century yeoman's farmhouse, hands-on science activities | |||
| North Lincolnshire | Mill | Mid-18th-century four-sailed windmill | |||
| Ye Olde Curiosity Museum | East Lindsey | History | information, collectibles include lampshades, old Christmas decorations and lights, kitchen and brewery memorabilia | ||