List of museums in Staffordshire explained

This list of museums in Staffordshire, 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	Town/City	Region	Type	Summary
			Art	website, contemporary art gallery
			Historic house	Elizabethan timber-framed town house with different period room furnishings and displays, including the English Civil War, Edwardian and Victorian eras
			Mining	Coal mining history, artifacts, mine tours, Moseley Railway Trust's collection of narrow gauge industrial locomotives
		South Staffordshire	Technology	Victorian pumping station with steam engine, not currently open
			Mill	18th-century water-powered corn mill, exhibits about 18th-century canal builder James Brindley
		Staffordshire Moorlands	Industry	Water mill built to grind flint for use in the pottery industry, miller's cottage, flint kilns, drying kiln and outbuildings
		South Staffordshire	Historic house	18th-century Georgian country house, reflects 800 years of family ownership, landscape designed by Capability Brown
			Technology	Restored Victorian sewage pumping station with beam engines
	Stoke-on-Trent	Stoke-on-Trent	Industry	website, history of the Dudson ceramic tableware company and ceramic items collection
			Historic house	18th-century-period home of poet and physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin, biographical, science and poetry exhibits
		Stoke-on-Trent	Industry	19th-century bone and flint mill built to grind materials for the pottery industry, features working steam engine
		Stoke-on-Trent	Historic house	17th-century timber-framed yeoman farmer's house with 17th-century furnishings, textiles, ceramics, and a period garden
		Stoke-on-Trent	Industry	Victorian pottery factory for making bone china tableware, includes original equipment, kilns, period doctor's house, decorative tile gallery, collection of Victorian decorative toilets
	Stafford	Stafford	Historic house	website, 16th-century half-timbered cottage home of author Izaak Walton, exhibits on his life and the history of fishing
Keele University Art Gallery		Newcastle-under-Lyme	Art	website
		South Staffordshire	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, high sandstone ridge once home to Britain's last cave dwellers, features Holy Austin Rock Houses restored to Victorian appearance
	Lichfield	Lichfield	Local	Local history, features Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries with panels reflecting 1000 years of city history
		Stafford	Technology	Early-20th-century pumping station with steam engines
Moorcroft Heritage Visitor Centre		Stoke-on-Trent	Industry	website, guided factory tour and museum with Moorcroft pottery
		South Staffordshire	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, 17th-century-period house and garden, famous as one of the hiding places of King Charles II after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651
			Multiple	website, local history, coal mining, turn-of-the-century miner's cottage, 1940s room, toys
		East Staffordshire	Industry	History of brewing, brewing artifacts, vintage vehicle collection, working steam engine
		Newcastle-under-Lyme	Multiple	website, also known as Borough Museum & Art Gallery, Victorian street scene including ironmonger, pawnbroker and chemist shops, doctor's office, toys, 1930s-1940s period house, exhibits of contemporary design and crafts
		Staffordshire Moorlands	Art	website
		Stoke-on-Trent	Multiple	Fine art, decorative arts including collection of Staffordshire ceramics, local history, natural history
Raven Mason Collection	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Art	website, operated by Keele University, collection of Mason ironstone and porcelain items, located in Keele Hall
Redfern’s Cottage Museum of Uttoxeter Life		East Staffordshire	Local	website, local history
	Lichfield	Lichfield	Biographical	Reconstructed rooms, life and work of author Samuel Johnson
	Stafford	Stafford	Art	Exhibits of visual art, crafts and photography, also restored 19th-century court room
		Cannock Chase	Living	Owned by the National Trust and operated by Staffordshire County Council, 18th-century-period country house, walled kitchen garden and working model farm including operating water mill and museum - "The Complete Working Historic Estate"
	Stoke-on-Trent	Stoke-on-Trent	Industry	History and examples of Spode pottery and porcelain
	Stafford	Stafford	History	Ruined remains of a 19th-century recreation of a medieval castle, visitor centre exhibits about the original and current castles, medieval life displays
		Cannock Chase	Local	Located in the Servants' Quarters of Shugborough Hall
		Lichfield	Military	Regimental history, uniforms, weapons, medals, regalia, replica World War I trench, armoured vehicles
	Stafford	Stafford	Military	Located in the attic floor of the Ancient High House, history and memorabilia of the Staffordshire Yeomanry
			Historic house	11th-century Norman motte-and-bailey castle with late medieval Great Hall, Tudor chambers and Victorian suit of receptions rooms
		Lichfield	Archaeology	Operated by English Heritage, owned by the National Trust as "Letocetum Roman Baths and Museum", remains of a Roman settlement and museum of artifacts
		Stafford	Art	History and displays of Wedgwood ceramics, founder Josiah Wedgwood, process of making the ceramics
		South Staffordshire	Historic house	17th-century-period grand house and gardens, estate with landscape designed by Capability Brown, art gallery in a restored 17th-century granary
		Newcastle-under-Lyme	Historic house	17th-century house open on a limited basis

Defunct museums

Ceramica, Burslem, closed in 2011
Coors Visitor Centre, collections now part of the National Brewery Centre, Burton upon Trent