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The Valley Gardens at Windsor Great Park Natural History Museum, London British Museum, London This article lists the most-visited attractions in the United Kingdom , including art galleries , gardens , zoos , theatres , libraries and museums .
This list of museums in West Yorkshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, 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.
The national museums of the UK are funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) of the British government, and are all located in England. There are 14 national museums, all established by Acts of Parliament, as well as another eight which are sponsored by the DCMS.
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [ 3 ]
Birla Science Museum, Hyderabad; Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad; Birla Planetarium, Chennai; Hakim Karam Hussain Museum on History of Medicine and Sciences; Kerala Science and Technology Museum, Thiruvananthapuram; National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) National Science Centre, Delhi; Nehru Museum of Science and Technology, Kharagpur
This list of museums in South Yorkshire, 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.
Museum of British Transport, Clapham (collections now at the National Railway Museum (York) and the London Transport Museum) [32] Museum of Mankind (collections now returned to the British Museum) Museum of the Moving Image (London) Nature Study Museum, 1904–1942 in the old mortuary of St George in the East church [33] [34]
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...