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National Maritime Museum And The Queen's House

In 1616 James I's wife Anne of Denmark commissioned Inigo Jones to design her a new pavilion at Greenwich. It would become the first fully Classical ...

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Filed Under: London Tagged With: Art Galleries, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

National Maritime Museum Cornwall

The Museum's Collections consist of a range of objects, boats, art, books and archives in support of its mission to promote an understanding of small ...

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Filed Under: Cornwall Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

National Coal Mining Museum

The Museum opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and much of the collections came to the site in the late 1980s and early 1990s when many pits ...

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Filed Under: Yorkshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

National Army Museum

Visit the National Army Museum and find out how Britain’s past has helped to shape our present and future. Discover the impact our Army has had on the ...

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Filed Under: London Tagged With: Military, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Museum Of Science And Industry

Located on the historic site of the world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station, housed in five listed buildings, MOSI’s amazing galleries and ...

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Filed Under: Lancashire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Museum Of Kent Life

Kent Life is a 28 acre, premier heritage farm attraction that encompasses a wonderful farmyard with a family of friendly animals ranging from donkeys, ...

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Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: Houses, Industrial History, Museums

Museum Of The Jewellery Quarter

When the proprietors of the Smith & Pepper jewellery manufacturing firm decided to retire in 1981 they ceased trading and locked the door, unaware ...

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Filed Under: West Midlands Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Museum Of Brewing

CLOSED - Announcement The National Brewery Centre will be opening in Burton Upon Trent next Spring (2010). Following the closure of the Coors ...

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Filed Under: Staffordshire Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Morwellam Quay

An award-winning, evocative museum and visitor centre in the heart of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site and Tamar ...

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Filed Under: Devon Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Manchester Jewish Museum

The Museum is located in a former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road. It is the oldest surviving synagogue building in Manchester, ...

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Filed Under: Lancashire Tagged With: Museums, Sandford Award Winners

Lullingstone Roman Villa

Among the most outstanding Roman villa survivals in Britain, Lullingstone has been vividly re-displayed, providing a unique - and all-weather - ...

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Filed Under: Kent Tagged With: English Heritage, Museums, Roman, Sandford Award Winners

London Canal Museum

At the London Canal Museum you can see inside a narrowboat cabin, learn about the history of London's canals, about the cargoes carried, the people ...

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Filed Under: London Tagged With: Industrial History, Museums, Sandford Award Winners

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