Victorians is a very popular subject for authors and writers. Your local library will probably have a good selection of books (and maybe CD-ROMs) to choose from. Your school library is also a good place to look. If you are looking for good sources of information, which are not too difficult to read, why not print out the list from the Resources page?

Museums and Victorian Buildings

Many museums, even small local ones, have some Victorian artifacts often donated by local people. However, while there are some museums - a few are listed - there are also many superbly preserved Victorian houses, some of which are listed below, which you could visit to see how people used to live in Victorian times.

Places to visit

There are lots of museums and sites of Victorian interest to visit some are listed below.
Contact your local Tourist Office for information about places in your area.

The Argory County Tyrone Northern
A Victorian house with a excellent collection of furniture.
Biddulph Grange Stoke-on-Trent
Rare example of a Victorian garden in the process of restoration
Bluebell Line Horsted Keynes
A working railway and steam locomotives.
Buckingham Palace London
First modernised by Queen Victoria.
Calke Abbey Derby
Almost unchanged since Victorian times many artefacts from daily life.
Carlow County Museum
Carlow Eire - Nineteenth-century exhibits.
Castle Museum York
There is a reconstruction of a Victorian parlour.
Fox Talbot Museum
Lacock Wiltshire - In memory of W.H. Fox Talbot museum of photography.
Gondola Steam Yacht
Coniston Water Cumbria - Launched in 1859 still used to carry sightseers.
Great Britain Bristol
Brunel's great iron ship being restored.
Hardy's Cottage
Bockhampton Dorset - Thomas HardyÕs birthplace.
Highland Folk Museum, Kingussie Scotland
features a copy of a turf-roofed hut lived in the 19th-century.
Hughenden Manor High Wycombe
The home of Disraeli.
Knightshayes Court Tiverton Devon
House with Victorian decoration
Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh
Victorian toys and games.
Museum of English Rural Life, Reading
Photographs and tools from the Victorian countryside.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
The Cutty Sark is moored here.
National Railway Museum, York
A massive collection of old steam railway engines and rolling stock.
Natural History Museum, London
One of the museums planned by Prince Albert.
North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish County Durham
A reconstruction of a Victorian school room and miner's cottage.
Port Sunlight, Merseyside
Houses built for factory workers in the 1880s

Royal Museum of Scotland,
The design of the main hall is based on the design for the Crystal Palace.
St Gastayn Church, Llangasty Powys
'Gothic Revival' style church fashionable in the early 1800s.
St Pancras Station, London
A wonderful building.
Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum, Cardiff
Has many relics of the industrial revolution.
Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are buried here.

Costume

The Museum of Costume
The Assembly Rooms
Bennett Street
Bath BA1 2QH
Tel. 01225 461111

City Museum and Art Gallery
Chamberlain Square
Birmingham B3 3DH
Tel. 0121 235 2834

Devonshire Collection of Costume
Bogan House
High Street
Totnes TQ9 5RY
Tel. 01803 862423

Paulise de Bush Collection
National Trust Collection of Costume
Killerton House
Broadclyst
Exeter EX5 3LE
Tel. 01392 881691

Rougemont House Museum of Costume and Lace
Castle Street
Exeter EX4 3PU
Tel. 01392 265858

Wygston's House Museum of Costume
Applegate
Leicester
Tel. 01533 554100

Victoria & Albert Museum
South Kensington
SW7 2RL
Tel. 0171 938 8500

The Gallery of English Costume
Platt Hall
Rusholme
Manchester M14 5LL
Tel. 0161 224 5217

Strangers' Hall Museum
4 Charing Cross
Norwich NR2 4AL
Tel. 01603 667229

Museum of Costume and Textiles
Castle Gate
Nottingham NG1 6AF
Tel. 01602 422881

Castle Howard Costume Galleries
Castle Howard
Malton
York YO6 7DA
Tel. 01653 84333

Scotland

Shambellie House Museum of Costume
New Abbey
Dumfries DG2 8HG
Tel. 01387 85375

Paisley Museum and Art Gallery
High Street
Paisley PA1 2BA
Tel. 0141 889 3151

Wales

Welsh Folk Museum
St Fagan's Castle
Cardiff CF5 6XB
Tel. 01222 569441

Northern Ireland

Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens
Belfast BT9 5AB
Tel. 0232 381251

Transport

England

Bristol Industrial Museum
PrinceÕs Wharf
Prince Street
Bristol BS1 4RN
Tel: 01272 251470

Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry
Newhall Street
Birmingham B3 1RZ
Tel: 0121 235 1661

Birmingham Railway Museum
670 Warwick Road
Tyseley
B11 2HL
Tel: 0121 707 4696

The Boat Museum
Dockyard Road
Ellesmere Port
South Wirral L65 4EF
Tel: 0151 355 5017

The National Tramway Museum
Crich
Matlock DE4 5DP
Tel: 01773 852565

Exeter Maritime Museum
The Haven
Exeter EX2 8DT
Tel: 01392 58075

Morwellham Quay Open Air Museum
Morwellham
Near Tavistock Pl19 8JL
Tel: 01822 832766

Bournemouth Transport and Rural Museum
Transport Depot
Mallard Road
Bournemouth

National Waterways Museum
Llanthony Warehouse
The Docks
Gloucester GL1 2EH
Tel: 01452 307009

National Motor Museum
John Montagu Building
Beaulieu
Brockenhurst SO4 7ZN

National Cycle Museum
Brayford Wharf
North Lincoln LN1 1YW
Tel: 01522 545091

National Maritime Museum
Romney Road
Greenwich SE10 9NF
Tel: 0181 858 4422

Science Museum
Exhibition Road
South Kensington SW7 2DD
Tel: 0171 938 8000

Transport Museum
39 Wellington Street
Covent Garden WC2E 7BB
Tel: 0171 379 6344

City of Liverpool Museums
William Brown Street
Liverpool L3 8EN
Tel: 0151 355 5017

Southport Railway Centre
Derby Road
PR9 0TY
Tel: 01704 530693

Bressingham Steam Museum
Bressingham
Diss IP22 2AB
Tel: 001379 88 382

Maritime Museum for East Anglia
25 Marine Parade
Great Yarmouth NR20 2EN
Tel: 011493 842267

The Thursford Collection
Thursford Green
Near Fakenham NR21 0AS
Tel: 01328 878477

Hull Transport and Archaeology Museum
36 High Street
Hull HU1 1NQ
Tel: 01482 593902

Hull Maritime Museum
Pickering Park
Hessle Road
Hull

The Canal Museum
Stoke Bruerne
near Towcester NN12 7SE
Tel: 01604 862229

The Canal Museum
Canal Street
Nottingham
Tel: 01602 983835

Ironbridge Gorge Museum
Southside
Church Hill
Ironbridge
Telford

East Anglian Transport Museum
Chapel Road
Carlton Colville
Lowestoft NR33 8Bl
Tel: 01502 518459

Black Country Museum
Tipton Road
Dudley DY1 4SQ
Tel: 01215579643

National Railway Museum
Leeman Road
York YO2 4XJ
Tel: 01904 621261

Bradford Industrial Museum and Horses at Work
Moorside Road
Eccleshill
Bradford BD2 3HP
Tel: 01274 631756

West Yorkshire Transport Museum
Ludlam Street Depot
Mill Lane
off Manchester Road
Bradford BD5 0HG
Tel: 01274 736006

Scotland

Linlithgow Union Canal Society Museum
Manse Road EH 49 6HQ
Tel: 01506 842289

Glasgow Museum of Transport
Kelvin Hall
1 Bunhouse Road
Glasgow G3 8PZ
Tel: 0141 357 3929