Very small museums
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Wings museum near Ardingly in West Sussex is good:
http://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/
Gatwick Aviation Museum has some good stuff too:
http://www.gatwick-aviation-museum.co.uk/
http://www.wingsmuseum.co.uk/
Gatwick Aviation Museum has some good stuff too:
http://www.gatwick-aviation-museum.co.uk/
Despite living about 20 mins from Stratford we had never done the touristy thing, so we took a day off to look around and in the middle of a monsoon ended up in here for shelter:
http://themadmuseum.co.uk/
I'm not an arty person but this was an art/engineering mash up and they seemed to encourage you to play and interact with all the exhibits. Recommended, and we don't even have any children!
http://themadmuseum.co.uk/
I'm not an arty person but this was an art/engineering mash up and they seemed to encourage you to play and interact with all the exhibits. Recommended, and we don't even have any children!
KAgantua said:
some great 'first date' ideas here chaps 
I went to the Orkney Wireless Museum in Kirkwall on my Honeymoon. I remember complaining to my new wife that they had run out of the certificates they hand out for tapping out your name in Morse Code. Amazingly I am still married to her over 9 years later!
gshughes said:
KAgantua said:
some great 'first date' ideas here chaps
I went to the Orkney Wireless Museum in Kirkwall on my Honeymoon. I remember complaining to my new wife that they had run out of the certificates they hand out for tapping out your name in Morse Code. Amazingly I am still married to her over 9 years later!
Wacky Racer said:
Taking her to the Orkney Wireless Museum on her honeymoon I'm surprised....
In my defence rain started bucketing down (in Orkney, what a surprise?!) and it was the nearest place to shelter. I redeemed myself later on when we got to the castle hotel we were staying in on a small island, she liked that surprise better!Grant Museum of Zoology, Gower St, London: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology (free!)
A single room stuffed full of stuffed and pickled animals along with skeletons - very, very interesting. Even includes a pickled penis worm!
A single room stuffed full of stuffed and pickled animals along with skeletons - very, very interesting. Even includes a pickled penis worm!
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (With Shrunken heads and all kinds of bizarre things in glass displays)
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ (It is stretching the definition of small a touch, but feels very compact and absolutely fascinating)
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ (It is stretching the definition of small a touch, but feels very compact and absolutely fascinating)
The Old Operating Theatre in London is well worth a visit.
'Highlights' include a very vivid description of an operation from when the theatre was being used, and a leather wrapped cane that they used to put in your mouth to bite on when you were being operated on (you can still see the teeth marks hundred of years later).
'Highlights' include a very vivid description of an operation from when the theatre was being used, and a leather wrapped cane that they used to put in your mouth to bite on when you were being operated on (you can still see the teeth marks hundred of years later).
Langham Dome in North Norfolk is a dome used for training anti-aircraft gunners in WW2, it's a 40ft wide dome on an abandoned airbase with a museum in it. Everyone I know who has gone has said it's very interesting
https://langhamdome.org/
https://langhamdome.org/
Croydon airport is worth a visit, open on the first Sunday of the month http://www.croydonairportsociety.org.uk
Despite living on the door step for over 50 years, I had never gone there untill this year. Well worth a good look around, no entrance fee just a donation
Despite living on the door step for over 50 years, I had never gone there untill this year. Well worth a good look around, no entrance fee just a donation
Doug Phillips said:
Croydon airport is worth a visit, open on the first Sunday of the month http://www.croydonairportsociety.org.uk
Despite living on the door step for over 50 years, I had never gone there untill this year. Well worth a good look around, no entrance fee just a donation
Thanks. I'm on the doorstep of Shoreham and had never gone until a week ago. I'm close to Croydon too so will pop along.Despite living on the door step for over 50 years, I had never gone there untill this year. Well worth a good look around, no entrance fee just a donation
mad4amanda said:
Matt Harper said:
Back in the mid 80's I lived in East Sussesx and used to travel across Romney Marsh to Folkestone from time to time.
I can't remember exactly where it was, but there was this really quirky, home-spun aviation museum in a couple of old sheds. It was full of really interesting WW2 era bits and pieces and several aero-engines, including a barnacle-encrusted Wright Cyclone that had been fished out of the Channel presumably from a B17 that never made it home.
It was a really fascinating little place - I wonder if it still exists.
Sounds like Hawkinge? http://www.kbobm.org/I can't remember exactly where it was, but there was this really quirky, home-spun aviation museum in a couple of old sheds. It was full of really interesting WW2 era bits and pieces and several aero-engines, including a barnacle-encrusted Wright Cyclone that had been fished out of the Channel presumably from a B17 that never made it home.
It was a really fascinating little place - I wonder if it still exists.
www.brenzettaero.co.uk
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