Very small museums

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Randy Winkman

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16,145 posts

190 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Anyone been to any good small museums lately? In the last few weeks I've been to the the Shoreham Aircraft Museum (that's Shoreham between Orpington and Sevenoaks) and the Morgan 3 wheeler car museum in Rolvenden, Kent. Both great places and with particularly nice staff.


http://www.shoreham-aircraft-museum.co.uk/

http://www.morganmuseum.org.uk/

ApOrbital

9,964 posts

119 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Nope are they for dwarfs ?

markmullen

15,877 posts

235 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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The Jewish museum in Dubrovnik is good, and tiny.

bucksmanuk

2,311 posts

171 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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bigandclever

13,792 posts

239 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Suppose it depends on what interests you, but the Petrie Museum at UCL in Euston is great for Egyptology. By great I mean arguably the best in the world.

FredClogs

14,041 posts

162 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Cumberland Pencil Museum in the lakes, has the biggest pencil in the world, its massive!

Athlon

5,017 posts

207 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Holyhead maritime museum is a great little place to visit!

Holyhead museum


Edited by Athlon on Wednesday 27th July 18:15

PositronicRay

27,034 posts

184 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum

http://www.visitheartofengland.com/newdetail.aspx?...

It opens (I think) every 2nd sunday of the month 1.30-4.30 pm

It's small but quality, staffed by enthusiastic volunteer(s) I've only seen one.

Iva Barchetta

44,044 posts

164 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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I went to a car museum in Luxembourg few years ago.

It was small.

Luxembourg is small.

glazbagun

14,280 posts

198 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Birmingham Pen Museum. Brum ised to make three out of every four pens in the world. Sadly I've never been despite living nearby for years, but friends have and confirmed that it was indeed small.

http://jewelleryquarter.net/visit/museums/the-pen-...

Iva Barchetta

44,044 posts

164 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Piaggio museum is quite small too.

You don't need huge floor space for c100 scooters n bikes and a few Apes.
Free to enter too,bonus.

anonymous-user

55 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2013/07...

This is where the worlds largest tree piles were infused in Creosote before being shipped to be used in buildings and harbour docks. The town where the process took place was called creosote.

The museum in the Alamo is quite small. http://www.thealamo.org/


jingars

1,094 posts

241 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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The Wellington Aviation Museum in Moreton-in-Marsh is a very, very small museum.

Athlon

5,017 posts

207 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Like music? Love SKA? fancy Hazel O'Conner?

I give you the small but perfect Coventry Music Museum

Music Goodness

Great day out,gets a great score on Trip advisor as well!

Wacky Racer

38,167 posts

248 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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The Laurel & Hardy museum in Ulverston near Barrow.

(Stan was born there, before moving to America)

http://www.laurel-and-hardy.co.uk

Mercury00

4,103 posts

157 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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I've been to this one, very interesting. Only £2.50 entry if I remember rightly:

http://www.aworldinminiature.com

dudleybloke

19,845 posts

187 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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http://www.dudley.gov.uk/see-and-do/museums/dudley...

Free entry and its got animatronic dinosaurs too.

Randy Winkman

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16,145 posts

190 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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Thanks folks. I'm getting some good tips and am especially attracted to the ones that cost about £3. That's what the ones I've been to cost. The Egyptian one looks good too. Similar to that I've also been to the Vrolik Museum near Amsterdam.

http://www.amsterdam.info/museums/museum-vrolik/

Seriously weird though and not for everyone.

N Dentressangle

3,442 posts

223 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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I thoroughly enjoyed this one:

http://www.bcrailway.co.uk/museum.htm

but Mrs D was bored, which must be a good sign. smile

williamp

19,262 posts

274 months

Wednesday 27th July 2016
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A big...er... small-up for my favourite museum

http://www.harringtonmuseum.org.uk/CarpetbaggerMus...

not very small, but small enough, and fascinating