Top rated Local history museums in Lisburn, United Kingdom to elevate your visit (Updated July, 2023)

Top rated Local history museums in Lisburn

Experience the best that Lisburn 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 18 places from Local history museum category.

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Ulster Folk Museum

Open air museum

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

4.70 (2K reviews) (~22.19 km from centre)

Museum of Liverpool

Local history museum

Striking modern purposebuilt building opened in 2011, with interactive displays on city's heritage,

4.60 (10.7K reviews) (~234.54 km from centre)

Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

Museum

👍👍 My favourite library. I have visited so many libraries in my lifetime and I cannot seem to find a better one than this. The staff are lovely, building is fantastic and there is a very wide range of books. I love that the childrens' section is in a separate area to the main library as it makes studyi...

4.60 (94 reviews) (~238.37 km from centre)

Stewartry Museum

Local history museum

Free museum open since 1893 displaying regional artefacts, archives & photography.

4.60 (83 reviews) (~133.24 km from centre)

Museum on the Mound

Museum

Museum tracing the design and history of money, with exhibits including Scotland's oldest banknote.

4.50 (672 reviews) (~241.49 km from centre)

Kelvin Hall Open Collections

Museum

National Library digital & moving image archives, plus varied museum exhibits in a 1926 building.

4.50 (527 reviews) (~187.55 km from centre)

Ruthin Gaol Museum - Amgueddfa Carchar Rhuthun

Local history museum

👍👍 Absolute gem of place. Friendly staff, informative boards as well as a free audio tour. We visited after a food festival in the courtyard and enjoyed our time.

4.50 (284 reviews) (~237.32 km from centre)

Auld Kirk Museum

Local history museum

👍 Good little museum with good information about the towns past and connections to the Romans.

4.50 (45 reviews) (~198.96 km from centre)

Maryhill Burgh Halls

Museum

Restored Victorian building, community & events space with an on-site museum & cafe

$ $$$

4.50 (40 reviews) (~189.55 km from centre)

Newry and Mourne Museum

Local history museum

4.50 (39 reviews) (~42.03 km from centre)

Museum of Edinburgh

Local history museum

Reproductions of the city's social and industrial history in a cluster of fine historic buildings.

4.40 (2.7K reviews) (~242.24 km from centre)

The People's Story Museum

Local history museum

The 16th-century Tolbooth houses a social history museum tracing city life since the late 1700s.

4.40 (553 reviews) (~242.23 km from centre)

Keswick Museum

Museum

Charming museum featuring an offbeat collection, including Napoleon's teacup & other oddities.

4.40 (447 reviews) (~188.15 km from centre)

Lakeland Museum

Local history museum

Museum devoted to the region's industrial history, with a period-furnished farmer's Victorian home.

4.40 (77 reviews) (~214.64 km from centre)

Old Gala House

Local history museum

😐 The grounds are lovely great to sit in eating peace watching fountain. Inside is alot of steps so sadly I couldn't go up to see all there was a chair but it was to much for me to do a chair at 39 I'm still dealing with my mobility issues. The man working there .made me uncomfortable on arrival a h...

4.40 (75 reviews) (~239.84 km from centre)

Provan Hall

Heritage museum

👍 Architect unknown Category A listed This was the country seat of the medieval prebend (a sort of large parish) of Barlanark. The priest who lived here would spend six months each year preaching at Glasgow Cathedral and the other six here. Two buildings sit across a courtyard with whinstone walls co...

4.40 (45 reviews) (~194.07 km from centre)

Hunterston Castle

Historical landmark

👍 Lovely countryside here with views across the sea to Isle of Arran and the Cumbraes. The original castle looks like a traditional square keep with other parts added on in later years. There's also a large mansion house nearby and a garden feature called a Ha-Ha wall. The area is popular with walkers...

4.40 (45 reviews) (~153.83 km from centre)

John Knox House

Local history museum

Puritan reformer's home dating from 1470 now hosting storytelling tours and historic exhibits.

4.20 (379 reviews) (~241.92 km from centre)

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Top rated Local history museums in Lisburn, United Kingdom