This list of museums in Northumberland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple | Tours of the castle with state rooms, military museum about the Napoleonic Wars, Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, collection of British and Irish archaeology, collection of vehicles from the 19th century | |||
| Armstrong's Household and Farming Museum | History | website, antique household and farming items in room displays, including a nursery with toys, World War II memorabilia, milking parlour, washing room, agriculture tools and display, local needlework | ||
| Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, 13th-century manor house castle | |||
| Local | Local history, culture, fishing, agriculture, railways, mining, art exhibits | |||
| Historic house | Inhabited castle dating back to the Normans, includes museum with engines, technology and history of industrialist William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong | |||
| Local | website, local history, Border Counties Railway, the Border Reivers, mining, farming, recreated smithy, photographs of rural life | |||
| Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, 14th century medieval castle | |||
| Belsay | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, 19th century unfurnished country mansion, gardens and park | ||
| Art | website, contemporary art installations by Berwick Visual Arts, located in Berwick Barracks | |||
| Multiple | website, fine art, Asian porcelain and historic glass, medieval Berwick and the castle, local and social history, trades, mining, fishing, located in Berwick Barracks | |||
| Blyth Battery | Military | website, World War I and II coastal defence buildings, military and local history exhibits | ||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, birthplace of artist and ornithologist Thomas Bewick, exhibits on his life and engravings | |||
| Historic house | Medieval castle with state rooms | |||
| Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, preserved Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts | |||
| Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, preserved Roman fort south of Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 19th-century country home of Lord Armstrong, features many technological innovations | |||
| Military | Located in Alnwick Castle | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century stone cottage home of rail pioneer George Stephenson, railway exhibits | |||
| Biographical | website, operated by the RNLI, history and memorabilia of Grace Darling, a Victorian heroine who, along with her father, saved 13 people from the SS Forfarshire in 1838 | |||
| Mill | 19th century water-driven corn mill | |||
| Prison | Medieval prison, crimes and punishment, Border Reivers | |||
| Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, excavated Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts | |||
| Multiple | Management of Kielder Forest, its natural history and wildlife including red squirrels, history of Kielder castle, art gallery | |||
| Kielder Salmon Centre | Natural history | website, salmon fish hatchery and visitor centre | ||
| Military | Regimental history and memorabilia, located in Berwick Barracks | |||
| Art | website, collection of 19th century watercolour murals depicting biblical scenes painted by Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, exhibits about her life | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century castle with early 20th-century interiors by Edwin Lutyens, walled garden planned by Gertrude Jekyll | |||
| Local | website, island's history and culture, facsimile of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Viking contact | |||
| Religious | Operated by English Heritage, ruins of the 7th century monastery and museum about its history as a center of early Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England | |||
| Maritime | Lighthouse museum, accessible by boat | |||
| Museum of Classic Sci-Fi | Media | Collection includes artefacts from Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Star Trek, Flash Gordon, Thunderbirds and the Marvel universe.[1] [2] | ||
| Music | Historic bagpipes | |||
| Military | Medieval pele tower with period guard room and prison | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century great house with gardens | |||
| Archaeology | Roman auxiliary fort south of Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts and the Roman army | |||
| Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Palladian house with fine furnished interior, collection of dollhouses | |||
| Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, remains of a medieval castle with some preserved rooms, summer visitation to Warkworth Hermitage | |||
| Watch House Museum | Local | website | ||
| Wylam Railway Museum | Railway | information, history of are railway development and local railway pioneers George Stephenson, Timothy Hackworth and William Hedley | ||
| Mining | Former colliery with original equipment, buildings, exhibits about the mine and the life of a miner, collection of art created by miners, changing exhibits of art, science and history, 2 ft narrow gauge railway | |||