History, Museums and Archives


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24 Hour Museum

The 24 Hour Museum is the UK’s National Virtual Museum, offering a unique mix of dynamic content including daily arts and museum news as well as exhibition reviews and in-depth online trails.

The British Museum

Official website of the famous museum including Compass and Children’s Compass – a virtual guide to the collections. Children’s Compass can be searched by Key Stage.

EnrichUK

A lottery-funded portal to 150 sites of museums and archives.

The Learning Curve

Learning Curve is a free online teaching and learning resource from the National Archives, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5.

The National Gallery

The National Gallery, London houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world.

National Museum of Science and Industry

The site for the Science Museum, the NMSI Wroughton, the National Railway Museum and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.

National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women. This online database contains information on 64,720 works, 43,628 of which are illustrated.

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum promotes the discovery, understanding, enjoyment and responsible use of the natural world. This web site allows you to explore their world class collections.

People’s War

The People’s War is a national BBC project which aims to record the memories of people who lived through World War II on a special website which will then be available as an archive for future generations.

The Science Museum

The national museum dedicated to all aspects of science and technology.

The Tate Galleries

A guide to all of the Tate galleries in the UK

Victoria and Albert Museum

The V&A is the greatest museum of art and design, a world treasure house with collections of fabulous scope and diversity. The Museum holds over 3000 years worth of artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures.

The Virtual Museum

See some of the treasures of The National Archives, collected over a 1000 years of British history.









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