The Most Unusual British Museums
The British Museum, the Tower, Madame Tussaud’s museum, the Tate Gallery are among top tourist destinations in Britain. What about visiting the most quirky museums that will make your tour more interesting and memorable?
Let’s start our adventure vacation with a visit to Dog Collar Museum in Leeds Castle, Maidstone. A tradition to decorate four-legged pets has a long history, and exhibits of Leeds Castle Museum are obvious testimony to that. More than 100 collars and related accessories illustrate the history of canine decoration from the Middle Ages to Victorian epoch.
If you happen to have an inexplicable fascination for mysticism, don’t miss an opportunity of visiting Witchcraft museum, one of the most weird museums in the UK. It is situated in a tiny village of Boscastle, Cornwall. There you can find the largest collection of artifacts related to witchcraft.
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum at Picadilly Circus should by all means be included in the top tourist destinations in London. More than 800 unique and unbelievable exhibits collected from all over the world are spread over its 5 floor. Many of them were brought by the founder of the museum Robert Ripley. There you can find world-famous Mini-Cooper encrusted with Swarovski crystals, The Tower Bridge made from nearly 300.000 matchsticks, animated Tirannozaurus Rex, astonishing Mirror Maze, 75 million year old dinosaur eggs and a large number of other items.
As you know the Teddy Bear is very popular in Great Britain. That’s why it’s not strange that this famous toy has its own museum. Situated in Polka Theater it houses a charming collection. There you’ll see toys which belonged to outstanding persons and celebrities.
The next stop of our adventure vacation is the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick, Cumbria. In 17-19 centuries it was the only place in England where graphite was mined. The famous Seathwaite mine was recreated to show all the stages required to make pencils. In this museum you can also see the longest color pencil in the world. Its length is 26 feet.
Pram Museum with its collection of vintage baby carriages, Lock Museum, Museum of Mental Health, Colman’s Mustard Shop and Museum, Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising are also included in the list of the unusual British museums.
Let’s start our adventure vacation with a visit to Dog Collar Museum in Leeds Castle, Maidstone. A tradition to decorate four-legged pets has a long history, and exhibits of Leeds Castle Museum are obvious testimony to that. More than 100 collars and related accessories illustrate the history of canine decoration from the Middle Ages to Victorian epoch.
If you happen to have an inexplicable fascination for mysticism, don’t miss an opportunity of visiting Witchcraft museum, one of the most weird museums in the UK. It is situated in a tiny village of Boscastle, Cornwall. There you can find the largest collection of artifacts related to witchcraft.
Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum at Picadilly Circus should by all means be included in the top tourist destinations in London. More than 800 unique and unbelievable exhibits collected from all over the world are spread over its 5 floor. Many of them were brought by the founder of the museum Robert Ripley. There you can find world-famous Mini-Cooper encrusted with Swarovski crystals, The Tower Bridge made from nearly 300.000 matchsticks, animated Tirannozaurus Rex, astonishing Mirror Maze, 75 million year old dinosaur eggs and a large number of other items.
As you know the Teddy Bear is very popular in Great Britain. That’s why it’s not strange that this famous toy has its own museum. Situated in Polka Theater it houses a charming collection. There you’ll see toys which belonged to outstanding persons and celebrities.
The next stop of our adventure vacation is the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick, Cumbria. In 17-19 centuries it was the only place in England where graphite was mined. The famous Seathwaite mine was recreated to show all the stages required to make pencils. In this museum you can also see the longest color pencil in the world. Its length is 26 feet.
Pram Museum with its collection of vintage baby carriages, Lock Museum, Museum of Mental Health, Colman’s Mustard Shop and Museum, Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising are also included in the list of the unusual British museums.
