Top rated History museums in Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom to elevate your visit (Updated May, 2024)

Top rated History museums in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Experience the best that Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 117 places from History museum category.

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Within Newcastle-under-Lyme

Grant WW2 Museum

History museum

👍👍 EXCELLENT!! We booked ahead and visited whilst on holiday from North Wales with our 7 year old, a friendly family man who is an expert at WW2 knowledge with an incredible room FULL of breathtaking equipment, clothes, old weapons and countless other historic items. Truly learnt a great deal through...

5.00 (35 reviews) (~81.12 km from centre)

Bath Walking Tours

Tour agency

👍👍 Fantastic walking tour! Fred was my tour guide, and he is a consummate professional. Punctual, funny, knowledgeable, you can tell he absolutely knows everything about, and loves everything about, this fantastic city. I didn't want this tour to end, it was that good.

4.90 (133 reviews) (~184.67 km from centre)

Chatterley Whitfield Colliery Heritage Centre - First Saturday Of Month (not restricted buildings)

History museum

👍👍 The guys are really friendly and knowledgeable sharing there own experiences with you. The site is fascinating and fully of history not only about the site but mining In itself. This site is a real gem and it is important to ensure that it is preserved for future generations to learn about the impor...

4.90 (92 reviews) (~6.83 km from centre)

Spitfire Visitor Centre

War museum

👍👍 Amazing place to go and spend some time. The volunteers are all incredible, they really know their stuff and are really friendly and genuinely love their roles. We spent a good 3.5 hours here and still didn't get to see everything (or even visit the Naafi which we are gutted about, looked like good...

4.80 (347 reviews) (~96.95 km from centre)

Migration Museum

Museum

👍 Migration Museum Is located in Lewisham Shopping Centre, London SE13 7HB, UK. Impressive visit a small Museum for Migration living in London.

4.80 (339 reviews) (~232.83 km from centre)

RNLI Henry Blogg Museum

History museum

Compact museum with interactive exhibits telling the story of decorated RNLI volunteer Henry Blogg.

4.80 (319 reviews) (~238.72 km from centre)

Wortley Top Forge

History museum

👍👍 This place was an old engineering factory but it’s now a museum. There are some massive steel features around the area. It’s open to the public and I’ve been there twice for a fashion shoot. So much character and some of the machines do work. It’s set in acres of land and has many rooms to visit. My...

4.80 (207 reviews) (~68.63 km from centre)

The Gainsborough Heritage Centre

Heritage museum

👍 A nice little place full of history and news about Gainsborough, especially the old Marshalls tractor factory and Roses packaging company. These two displays take up most of the ground floor and if you were to read and study all the information on display about them you'd need an hour or two. Upstai...

4.80 (66 reviews) (~106.57 km from centre)

Moorforge Viking Settlement

History museum

👍👍 Moorforge Viking Settlement is a rare place where you can experience the Viking way of living through events, like minded people and through visiting the traditionally built longhouse and blacksmiths forge. The owner is a very friendly and knowledgeable guy who is more than happy to help with any qu...

4.80 (65 reviews) (~200.95 km from centre)

Pleasley Pit Visitor Centre & Mining Museum (view website for museum opening times)

Visitor center

👍👍 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 (56 reviews) (~68.51 km from centre)

The Merchant's House

History museum

👍👍 This tour is extremely detailed and well worth the fee. It took about 1.5 hrs but really that depends on questions and discussion. The painted details are amazing. Enjoy the gardens at the end as well.

4.80 (47 reviews) (~183.65 km from centre)