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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alnwick Castle | | Alnwick | 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 | North Charlton | 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 | |
Aydon Castle | ![]() | Aydon | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, 13th-century manor house castle |
Bailiffgate Museum | ![]() | Alnwick | Local | Local history, culture, fishing, agriculture, railways, mining, art exhibits |
Bamburgh Castle | ![]() | Bamburgh | Historic house | Inhabited castle dating back to the Normans, includes museum with engines, technology and history of industrialist William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong |
Bellingham Heritage Centre | ![]() | Bellingham | Local | website, local history, Border Counties Railway, the Border Reivers, mining, farming, recreated smithy, photographs of rural life |
Belsay Castle | ![]() | Belsay | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, 14th century medieval castle |
Belsay Hall | ![]() | Belsay | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, 19th century unfurnished country mansion, gardens and park |
Berwick Gymnasium Gallery | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Art | website, contemporary art installations by Berwick Visual Arts, located in Berwick Barracks | |
Berwick Museum & Art Gallery | ![]() | Berwick-upon-Tweed | 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 | Blyth | Military | website, World War I and II coastal defence buildings, military and local history exhibits | |
Cherryburn | ![]() | Mickley | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, birthplace of artist and ornithologist Thomas Bewick, exhibits on his life and engravings |
Chillingham Castle | ![]() | Chillingham | Historic house | Medieval castle with state rooms |
Chesters Roman Fort | ![]() | Walwick | Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, preserved Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts |
Corbridge Roman Site | ![]() | Corbridge | Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, preserved Roman fort south of Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts |
Cragside | ![]() | Rothbury | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 19th-century country home of Lord Armstrong, features many technological innovations |
Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland | | Alnwick | Military | Located in Alnwick Castle |
George Stephenson's Birthplace | ![]() | Wylam | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century stone cottage home of rail pioneer George Stephenson, railway exhibits |
Grace Darling Museum | ![]() | Bamburgh | 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 |
Heatherslaw Mill | ![]() | Etal | Mill | 19th century water-driven corn mill |
Hexham Old Gaol | ![]() | Hexham | Prison | Medieval prison, crimes and punishment, Border Reivers |
Housesteads Roman Fort | ![]() | Housesteads | Archaeology | Operated by English Heritage, excavated Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts |
Kielder Castle Visitor Centre | ![]() | Kielder | Multiple | Management of Kielder Forest, its natural history and wildlife including red squirrels, history of Kielder castle, art gallery |
Kielder Salmon Centre | Kielder | Natural history | website, salmon fish hatchery and visitor centre | |
King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum | ![]() | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Military | Regimental history and memorabilia, located in Berwick Barracks |
Lady Waterford Hall | ![]() | Ford | Art | website, collection of 19th century watercolour murals depicting biblical scenes painted by Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, exhibits about her life |
Lindisfarne Castle | ![]() | Holy Island | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 16th-century castle with early 20th-century interiors by Edwin Lutyens, walled garden planned by Gertrude Jekyll |
Lindisfarne Centre | Holy Island | Local | website, island's history and culture, facsimile of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Viking contact | |
Lindisfarne Priory | ![]() | Holy Island | 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 |
Longstone Lighthouse | ![]() | Farne Islands | Maritime | Lighthouse museum, accessible by boat |
Museum of Classic Sci-Fi | ![]() | Allendale | Media | Collection includes artefacts from Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Star Trek, Flash Gordon, Thunderbirds and the Marvel universe. [1] [2] |
Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum | ![]() | Morpeth | Music | Historic bagpipes |
Preston Tower | ![]() | Chathill | Military | Medieval pele tower with period guard room and prison |
Seaton Delaval Hall | ![]() | Seaton Sluice | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th-century great house with gardens |
Vindolanda | ![]() | Hexham | Archaeology | Roman auxiliary fort south of Hadrian's Wall and museum of artifacts and the Roman army |
Wallington Hall | ![]() | Cambo | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Palladian house with fine furnished interior, collection of dollhouses |
Warkworth Castle | ![]() | Warkworth | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage, remains of a medieval castle with some preserved rooms, summer visitation to Warkworth Hermitage |
Watch House Museum | Seaton Sluice | Local | website | |
Wylam Railway Museum | Wylam | Railway | information, history of are railway development and local railway pioneers George Stephenson, Timothy Hackworth and William Hedley | |
Woodhorn Museum | ![]() | Ashington | 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 |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. In 2022 it welcomed 3,208,832 visitors, ranking it the third most visited U.S museum, and eighth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately 2-million-square-foot (190,000 m2) building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in 1937 for the American people by a joint resolution of the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a substantial art collection and funds for construction. The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
Norham is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England, It is located 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Berwick on the south side of the River Tweed where it is the border with Scotland.
North Shields is a town in the Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Newcastle upon Tyne and borders nearby Wallsend and Tynemouth.
The Burrell Collection is a museum in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. It houses the art collection of Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell. The museum opened in 1983 and reopened on 29 March 2022 following a major refurbishment. It was announced as the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year in July 2023. It is the only non-national museum to be the outright winner twice.
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Kruger's artistic mediums include photography, sculpture, graphic design, architecture, as well as video and audio installations.
The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is an art museum located in South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. It complements the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) building, situated only 150 metres (490 ft) away.
Art UK is a cultural, education charity in the United Kingdom, previously known as the Public Catalogue Foundation. Since 2003, it has digitised more than 300,000 paintings, sculptures and other artworks by more than 53,700 artists.
Norham Castle is a castle in Northumberland, England, overlooking the River Tweed, on the border between England and Scotland. It is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The castle saw much action during the wars between England and Scotland.
Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The museum had 525,144 visitors in 2021, an increase of 34 percent from 2020 but still well below pre- COVID-19 pandemic levels. In 2021 it ranked 50th on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.
Qatar Museums is a Qatari government entity that oversees the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, MIA Park, QM Gallery at the Katara Cultural Village, ALRIWAQ DOHA Exhibition Space, the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre, and archaeological projects throughout Qatar, as well as the development of future projects and museums that will highlight its collections across multiple areas of activity including Orientalist art, photography, sports, children's education, and wildlife conservation.
The SeaCity Museum is a museum in Southampton, England, which opened on 10 April 2012 to mark the centenary of RMS Titanic's departure from the city. It is housed within a part of the Grade II* listed civic centre building which previously housed the magistrates' court and police station. The museum contains two permanent exhibitions, one dedicated to Southampton's connection with RMS Titanic, and the other to the city's role as gateway to the world. A third space for temporary exhibitions is housed in a purpose-built pavilion extension to the civic centre. Further phases of development may yet add to the exhibition space.
Percy Main is a small village absorbed into North Shields, North East England. Historically in Northumberland, it is now part of Tyne and Wear.
Norham Castle, Sunrise is an oil-on-canvas painting by English painter J. M. W. Turner, created around 1845. The painting depicts Norham Castle, overlooking the River Tweed, the border between England and Scotland. The painting was bequeathed to the National Gallery of British Art as part of the Turner Bequest in 1856. It remains in the collection to this day. It was one of the artist's last paintings, and falls within his "Modernist" period. This piece is well known for Turner's attentiveness to dawn light, and the softened silhouette it brings.