List of museums in Herefordshire facts for kids

This list of museums in Herefordshire, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Name	Town/City	Type	Summary
Berrington Hall	Leominster	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, late 18th-century country house with period furniture, below stairs rooms, grounds, gardens
Brockhampton Estate	Bromyard	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, medieval manor house, woods, parkland
Bromyard & District Local History Centre	Bromyard	Local	website, local history
Butchers Row House Museum	Ledbury	Local	website, Victorian life and local history
Cider Museum Hereford	Hereford	Food	website, former cider making factory, equipment and history of cider making
Courtyard, Hereford	Hereford	Art	Arts centre with theatres and an art gallery
Croft Castle	Yarpole	Historic house	Operated by the National Trust, stone manor house dating back to the 11th century, Georgian interiors, woodland trails, walled garden
Eardisland Dovecote	Eardisland	Local	information
Eastnor Castle	Ledbury	Historic house	19th century mock castle with fine art and furnishings, gardens, maze, woodland trails
Goodrich Castle	Goodrich	Historic house	Visitor center with exhibits and audio tours of the ruinous Norman medieval castle
Hampton Court, Herefordshire	Hope under Dinmore	Historic house	Castle country house and gardens
Hellens	Much Marcle	Historic house	Tudor style house
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery	Hereford	Multiple	Local history, art, decorative arts
Hereford Society of Model Engineers	Hereford	Railroad	website, model train layouts
Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum	Hereford	Military	Open by appointment, artifacts and history of the Herefordshire Light Infantry
Kington Museum	Kington	Local	website, local history
Ledbury Heritage Centre	Ledbury	Local	Local history
Leominster Museum	Leominster	Local	Local history
Mappa Mundi & Chained Library	Hereford	History	Medieval map of the world and Hereford Cathedral Library, located at Hereford Cathedral
Market House Heritage Centre	Ross-on-Wye	Local	website, local history
Mortimer's Cross Water Mill	Leominster	Mill	Restored water mill
Old House, Hereford	Hereford	Historic house	17th century Jacobean period house
St John Medieval Museum & Coningsby Hospital	Hereford	Religious	Site of the Blackfriars Monastery, which was a Dominican monastery home of crusaders of the Order of St. John and an ex-serviceman's hospital
Time Machine Museum	Bromyard	Media	website, exhibition of Doctor Who series props, monsters and costumes, also from Star Wars, puppets from Gerry Anderson television shows including Thunderbirds, Stingray and Captain Scarlet, teddy bears
Violette Szabo Museum	Wormelow Tump	Biographical	website, life of World War II secret agent Violette Szabo
Waterworks Museum	Hereford	Industry	website, Victorian water pumping station with steam engines, history of drinking water
Weobley Museum	Weobley	Local	website, local history
Wilton Castle	Ross-on-Wye	Historic house	12th-century Norman castle fortification mostly in ruins, partially restored, gardens

Defunct museums

Churchill House Museum, Hereford