Top rated Historical place museums in Blackpool, United Kingdom to elevate your visit (Updated May, 2024)

Top rated Historical place museums in Blackpool

Experience the best that Blackpool has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 81 places from Historical place museum category.

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We'll Meet Again: WW2 Museum: Freiston

Historical place museum

👍 Very friendly, and helpful staff of the museum! It have some nice variety of unique and interesting WW2 historical exhibits/pieces. From: guns of WW2 (you can touch them and inspect them in person, plus there is some friendly and helpful historical museum guides which gladly help you), military unif...

4.90 (211 reviews) (~227.69 km from centre)

Friends of Williamson's Tunnels - FoWT

Historical place museum

👍👍 breathtaking place, you cannot believe people did it more than a century ago! Very nice guide

4.90 (126 reviews) (~46.95 km from centre)

Big Pit National Coal Museum

Historical place museum

Former colliery with interactive displays on mining life and trips underground guided by ex-miners.

4.80 (5K reviews) (~228.22 km from centre)

Harvington Hall

Historical place museum

Elizabethan and Georgian mansion with surviving priest holes and wall paintings, plus a malt house.

4.80 (840 reviews) (~171.77 km from centre)

The Govan Stones

Historical place museum

👍👍 An easy 5 stars. Superb display of genuinely fascinating and important historical artefacts. The volunteer guides are incredibly knowledgeable and friendly and took time to make sure my kids enjoyed themselves. This is a superb and free family destination and feels like a Glasgow essential.

4.80 (61 reviews) (~241.07 km from centre)

Pleasley Pit Coal Mining Museum

Museum

👍👍 This is well worth a visit. Very informative about our mining history. The staff great and its all dog friendly and all they ask for is a small donation because its run by volunteers.

4.80 (51 reviews) (~138.27 km from centre)

The Museum of Carpet

Museum

Museum with history exhibits on the town's carpet industry, plus workshops, events & a gift shop.

4.80 (41 reviews) (~168.59 km from centre)

British Motor Museum

Museum

Lively destination with over 300 classic cars on display, plus interactive features & tours.

4.70 (7.8K reviews) (~209.63 km from centre)

National Trust - Erddig

Historical place museum

Massive 18th-century manor offering tours of the family house & its ornate 12,000-acre garden.

$$ $$

4.70 (4.4K reviews) (~88.7 km from centre)

National Trust - Speke Hall, Garden and Estate

Historical place museum

Riverside estate house with over 400 years of history, extensive serene grounds and woodland.

$$ $$

4.70 (4.1K reviews) (~55.3 km from centre)

Vindolanda

Museum

An archaeological site and museum around an excavated Roman fort and village, with bath-house ruins.

4.70 (3.1K reviews) (~136.91 km from centre)

Ulster Folk Museum

Open air museum

19th-century buildings, with recreators in period dress, plus festivals, courses and workshops.

4.70 (2K reviews) (~201.48 km from centre)

Stokesay Castle

Castle

Fine English Heritage medieval fortified manor, chapel, garden and moat walk with free audio tour.

4.70 (1.8K reviews) (~155.65 km from centre)

HMS Caroline

Museum

Hands-on exhibits & restored quarters & engine rooms on a navy C-class light cruiser built in 1914.

4.70 (1.2K reviews) (~205.9 km from centre)

Western Approaches

Historical place museum

Restored, former secret underground HQ for directing the Battle of the Atlantic war effort.

4.70 (1.1K reviews) (~46.47 km from centre)

Norton Priory Museum & Gardens

Historical place museum

Museum tracing 900 years of history and boasting an 18th-century walled garden, all set in woodland.

4.70 (712 reviews) (~58.56 km from centre)

National Trust - Brockhampton

Tourist attraction

Traditionally farmed estate and medieval manor house with open parkland, nature trails and tours.

$$ $$

4.70 (491 reviews) (~184.68 km from centre)

Bishops' House

Museum

Educational museum in a half-timbered house with rooms depicting Elizabethan and Jacobean styles.

4.70 (279 reviews) (~116.04 km from centre)

Clifton House

Tourist attraction

👍👍 Just returned from our amazing tour which included the graveyard, This place is a must see and not just for tourists, it always surprises me what interesting things are right there in front of us. Niail and Jason great guides even with the corny jokes very friendly and amazing knowledge. Need to...

4.70 (158 reviews) (~207.39 km from centre)

Hooton Park Trust

RV storage facility

👍 A great former RAF airfield and aerodrome in Hooton. It is enriched with history dating back to the 1st World War. There are frequent fundraising events throughout the year to help restore the former aeroplane hangars.

4.70 (92 reviews) (~58.33 km from centre)

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Top rated Historical place museums in Blackpool, United Kingdom