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Name | Image | Town/City | Type | Summary | Abbey Pumping Station | Leicester | Technology | Science and technology museum, housed in a Victorian sewage pumping station with beam engines restored to working order, and exhibitions on light and optics, historic transport and public health, including an 'interactive toilet'. |
Ashby de la Zouch Museum | Ashby-de-la-Zouch | Local | website, local history, culture |
Belgrave Hall | Leicester | Historic house | Victorian period house showing the contrasting lifestyles of an upper-middle-class family and domestic servants |
Belvoir Castle | Grantham | Historic house | Castle with gardens |
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park | Sutton Cheney | Military | History of the 1485 Battle of Bosworth during the War of the Roses, and the search for the site of the battle. |
Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome Aircraft Museum | Bruntingthorpe | Aviation | Cold War jet collection |
Charnwood Museum | Loughborough | Local | Area history, geology, archaeology and industries |
Castle Donington Museum | Castle Donington | Local | website, local history |
Conkers | Moira | Natural history | website, nature, woodlands, visitor center of The National Forest |
Donington Grand Prix Exhibition | Castle Donington | Automobile | Based at the Donington Park motor racing circuit, focus is Grand Prix and Formula One race cars |
Donington le Heath Manor House Museum | Coalville | Historic house | 16th century medieval period house |
De Montfort University Heritage Centre | Leicester | Education & Medieval | Housed in the Hawthorne Building, it covers the history of The Newarke & Church of the Annunciation, Trinity Hospital building, DMU History and special exhibitions[1] |
East Midlands Aeropark | Castle Donington | Aviation | Includes complete airframes on external display, engines, aircraft components, photographs |
Foxton Canal Museum | Foxton | Transportation | History of the Foxton Locks, lives of the canal workers and other aspects of the local canal |
Fleckney Museum | Fleckney | Local | website, local history |
Guru Nanak Sikh Museum | Leicester | Religious | [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110341/http://www.thesikhmuseum.co.uk/home.htm website], Sikh art, history, culture |
Hallaton Museum | Hallaton | Local | website, local history |
Harborough Museum | Harborough | Local | Local history, culture, industry, Hallaton Treasure |
Hinckley and District Museum | Hinckley | Local | website, local history, framework knitter`s cottage with 1740s knitting frame. |
Jewry Wall Museum | Leicester | Archaeology | Alongside Jewry Wall and site of Roman baths. The museum houses Roman mosaics and artifacts alongside archaeological material from prehistoric to medieval Leicester, including the history of archaeology in Leicester.[2] |
John Taylor & Co | Loughborough | Music | Collection of bells used in clock towers, change ringing peals, chimes, and carillons |
Kegworth Museum | Kegworth | Local | local history.[3] |
King Richard III: Dynasty, Death and Discovery | Leicester | Archaeology | Visitor Centre at the Greyfriars burial site, with exhibitions on the life and death of Richard III and the archaeological investigation on his remains.[4] |
Leicester City Fire Brigade Museum | Leicester | Firefighting | website, open by appointment, collection of fire vehicles, equipment |
Leicester Guildhall | Leicester | Medieval | Medieval half-timbered building with Victorian prison cells, and since 2015, galleries on Medieval Leicester[5] |
Loughborough Carillon & War Memorial | Loughborough | Military | World War I memorial, carillon, military museum |
Loughborough Central Station | Loughborough | Railway | 1950s period station museum on the Great Central Railway heritage railroad |
Lutterworth Museum | Lutterworth | Local | website, local history, Sir Frank Whittle display |
Measham Museum | Measham | Local | website. Local history. Since 2009 it is housed in part of the disused railway station. |
Melton Carnegie Museum | Melton Mowbray | Local | Local history and culture, including area Stilton cheese and pork pies. Museum in 1977, in former Andrew Carnegie Library. |
Moira Furnace | Moira | Industry | 19th century iron-making blast furnace |
National Gas Museum Leicester | Leicester | Industry | Gas industry museum, on production and supply of gas, and gas related artifacts and domestic appliances. |
National Space Centre | Leicester | Science | Space science and astronomy |
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery | Leicester | Multiple | Dinosaurs, geology, art, Ancient Egypt, natural history, world art |
Newarke Houses Museum | Leicester | Multiple | Local history, room settings from the 17th century and the 1950s and 70s, toys, history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, period street scene |
Old Rectory Museum | Loughborough | Local | website, operated by the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society |
Rockingham Castle | Market Harborough | Historic house | Also listed under Northamptonshire, former royal castle and hunting lodge with gardens |
Shackerstone Railwayana Museum | Shackerstone | Railway | Station and museum for the Battlefield Line Railway |
Sir John Moore Heritage Centre | Appleby Magna | Education | [https://web.archive.org/web/20140621054533/http://www.sirjohnmoore.org.uk/index.php/heritage-centre-and-community-gallery website], 1891 Victorian life in the then Sir John Moore Church of England School |
Stanford Hall | Lutterworth | Historic house | William and Mary period house |
Stonehurst Family Farm and Motor Museum | Mountsorrel | Multiple | Family farm and automobile museum |
Stoneywell | Ulverscroft | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, summer home designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Ernest Gimson |
Swannington Hough Mill | Swannington | Mill | Operated by Swannington Heritage Trust |
Wigston Framework Knitters Museum | Wigston Magna | Industry | website, workshop with stocking frame equipment, hand frames for making gloves, mitts and fancy ribbed tops for golf hose |
William Carey Museum | Leicester | Biographical | [https://web.archive.org/web/20150314140253/http://www.central-baptist.org.uk/Carey_Exhibition.html website], located at the Central Baptist Church, life and works of pioneer missionary William Carey |
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1. ^De Montfort University Heritage Centre, DMU website, accessed 20 April 2015
2. ^Museum Service site for Jewry Wall Museum, accessed 7 March 2015
3. ^Kegworth Museum website
4. ^Dynasty Death and Discovery: About the Centre, accessed 7 March 2015
5. ^Leicester City Council Museums: Leicester Guildhall
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