Best places: Museums in Leicester, United Kingdom

👍👍 A birthday present from two years ago. We finally made it and well worth the wait? I'll say. Our guide, Pete, was very knowledgeable about the bikes and building them but also about casting, machining, tolerances and processes. He talked about Triumph with great enthusiasm, not just as an employee....

16th-century, English Renaissance style mansion housing natural history museum, set in parkland.

State-of-the-art museum covering public transportation, the auto industry, cycling and eco concerns.

Water-features fill the 300-acre grounds of this dissolved monastery and home of Byron's ancestors.

Nonprofit museum with computers & gaming consoles from the 1960s onward, plus a library & an arcade.

👍👍 We bought our youngest son a tank driving experience at Armourgeddon for his birthday. The experience consisted of three drives a tank (actually an armoured personnel carrier) an army truck and an airport fire engine. He thoroughly enjoyed the experience and we paid extra to accompany him as passeng...

Church saved from the water, open to public on selected dates, available for weddings and concerts.

Unrestored NT property vividly showing an estate in decline, with walled gardens and orangery.

Medieval building, centred on Great Hall, celebrating Richard III, whose remains were found nearby.

Small showcase of local aviation history inside a Quonset hut, with some vintage planes outside.

Large exhibition hall filled with hundreds of fully restored British motorcycles, plus a restaurant.

Independent museum with interactive exhibits on local music history, with a focus on 2-Tone Records.

👍👍 Love this farm. This is definitely our regular. Lots to see and do. We love cuddle corner and the pony and tractor rides. The staff are all so friendly and engaging with my toddler. There are a good range of animals and they seem well kept. There is a lovely marked farm walk around the back dotted w...

Penal system history tracing local legal institutions back to the 1780s, with interactive tours.

Local museum featuring historical military objects, a replica WWI trench & armored vehicles.

Free entry to modern space with collections on regional natural and military history and fine art.

Hub celebrating the late-1970s ska music genre 2-tone, with a museum, gift shop & restaurant.

Restored Victorian-era sewage pumping station with tours, adjacent to a modern sewage plant.

Open-air museum, with special bit for jet planes, including a MIG 21, Vulcan bomber and Sea Harrier.

👍 This is a lovely little museum about the life of Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin). I'd never heard of him before going to Lichfield, and had no idea that so many of Charles' theories of evolution were potentially based on his grandfather's ideas and theories. Erasmus it seems was a qui...