Cultural lineage

Museums

One of the through-lines connecting these venues — part of what each of them is known for, not just what's on this week.

8 venues in London working in this tradition

Venues

Salford Museum & Art Gallery

Peel Park

Salford Museum & Art Gallery pairs a Victorian-era art collection with Lark Hill Place, a recreated 19th-century street built inside the museum, plus a local…

Ordsall Hall

322 Ordsall Lane

Ordsall Hall is a timber-framed Tudor manor house with roots as far back as the 12th century, run by Salford City Council as a free historic-house museum with…

The Burrell Collection

2060 Pollokshaws Road

The Burrell Collection houses Sir William Burrell's gift of around 9,000 objects to Glasgow — decorative arts, medieval artefacts, tapestries and paintings…

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Argyle Street

Kelvingrove is one of Scotland's most-visited museums, its 22 galleries spanning natural history, arms and armour, Scottish art and European Old Masters —…

Riverside Museum

100 Pointhouse Place

Riverside Museum is Zaha Hadid's Clyde-side building for Glasgow's transport and travel history — trams, cars, ships and locomotives — and berths the Tall Ship…

The Hunterian

University Avenue

The Hunterian is Scotland's oldest public museum, founded in 1807, spanning the University of Glasgow's museum, art gallery, Mackintosh House reconstruction,…

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Queens Road

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is the city's civic museum and gallery, holding fine and decorative art, natural history, archaeology and world-cultures…

M Shed

Princes Wharf

M Shed occupies a former dockside transit shed on Bristol's Floating Harbour, telling the story of the city and its people through social, industrial and…

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