On our drive home from Devon tomorrow me, my lad and my FiL have hatched a cunning plan to drop in at RAF Cosford for our picnic.

It is the third year running that we have managed to do this.

There will be complaints from my daughter. Tough.

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/

It is our favourite museum. What is yours?

Museum of packing in London. Small but brilliant

Either the surprisingly awesome one at Montrose (of which I’m currently in one of the exhibitions) or New Walk museum In Leicester.

They are not the biggest or but they are both very important to me.

Really enjoyed this one

http://www.scotfishmuseum.org

Beamish

Crich tram museum

Cosford is great.

So is Duxford

But my favourite museum is much smaller

The former Bede’s World in Jarrow. Hands down.

York Rail Museum

This one.

https://airandspace.si.edu/node/73198

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. We only had a couple of hours there but I could have spent all day. Second favourite is the Darfield Museum.

Pitt Rivers, Oxford. Especially the occasional torchlight evening visits.

The British Lawnmower Museum, Southport.

http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/

Reviting.

Had a long list then realised they were all galleries rather than museums. Except for this one Highland Folk Museum

Love York Railway Museum.

Quite keen on Foxton Locks Canal Museum, but only because I used to volunteer there.

http://antiquevibratormuseum.com/

Love York Railway Museum.

Agreed, great place – and free! (although voluntary donations are probably expected…)

@km79 Never come across that one 😆

BMNH in the UK

The British Bicycle Museum, Camelford, Cornwall. More of a huge personal collection than a museum. Sadly closed now I believe 🙁

Technik Museums Speyer & Sinsheim in Germany.

Minjasafn Egils Ólafssonar að Hnjóti in Iceland. Bonkers.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Minjasafn+Egils+%C3%93lafssonar+a%C3%B0+Hnj%C3%B3ti/@65.5625347,-24.1585279,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xdf5cfffedfa65c1b!8m2!3d65.5625347!4d-24.1585279

Some of you will particularly enjoy Flushed with Pride at the Gladstone Museum in Smoke on Stench the Potteries.

Flushed with Pride is a remarkable gallery dedicated to the history of the toilet and lifts the lid on the role that potters played in it’s development. Follow the story of the WC from the time of Queen Elizabeth 1 through to the toilet of our future.
A fun noisy, touchy feely display, for kids of all ages. The gallery features the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian slum and encourages you to discover some of the unusual historical alternatives to toilet paper. from 1970’s avocado bathroom suites to interactive exhibits and quizzes.

Forgot this one. Also excellent.

http://aviationmuseum.net/

The Museum of Everything:
[video]https://youtu.be/Xy69qrJSDxs[/video]

the toilet of our future

Three seashells?

Land of Lost Content in Shropshire is fascinating, if you are “of a certain age”.

Lady G, that bike museum sounds very similar to The Cycle Museum at Walton Gardens in north Cheshire.
Edit: Facebook page

Mind you, I reckon quite a few STW-ers could open their man-sheds as bike museums 🙄

The British Bicycle Museum, Camelford, Cornwall. More of a huge personal collection than a museum. Sadly closed now I believe

Yep. Planned to cycle there one day a few years ago as it was marked on my (paper) map but had no internet connection to research it, only to discover en route that it was closed. I read somewhere that collection was shipped out to a Romanian buyer?

Museum Insel Hombroich near Neuss/Düsseldorf, Germany

http://www.inselhombroich.de/museum-insel-hombroich/sammlungsammlung/

Bovington Tank Museum, Dorset

I grew up a stone’s throw from it and used to go a lot as a kid. Back than it was little more than a warehouse full of tanks which kids could crawl all over

Live a couple of hours away now but still get down there, with my kids, probably 3 or 4 times a year.

Despite the obvious ‘violence’ of the subject matter I find it a very calming and reflective place

Vasa museum in Stockholm. Stunning.

Pencil museum keswick.

Kelham Island.

Home of the Mighty River Don engine. 12000 HP, 50 ton flywheel, but the really clever bit is full ahead to full reverse with the throttles wide open.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lW0PJu8wUg[/video]

And The Fat Cat’s right next door!

Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum in the Lakes, just bonkers in a good way.

Royal College of Surgeons London

I’d forgotten about the Royal College of Surgeons museum. Awfully fascinating.

Naples Archaeological Museum, for this and watching people’s reaction to it

Orkney Wireless Museum, for an exhibit which is a model of the first TV in Orkney built by two brothers called (IIRC) Jim and Jeff Twatt. The curator was telling me about it and how the Twatts built the TV and what other things the Twatts got up to. The TV itself isn’t the original built by the Twatts, but a model built by one of the Twatts’ daughter whose name, fortunately, isn’t Emma.

Another vote here for the Pitt Rivers in Oxford. Fantastic building in some ways more interesting than the exhibits it contains. I’ve always thought it would be a great place to build an H. G. Wells type time machine in.

Honourable second comes the Natural History Museum. Also an incredible piece of architecture.

Beamish. I used to enjoy Killhope Wheel Lead Mining Museum as a kid too, years since I’ve been there.