| Name |
Image |
Town/City |
Type |
Summary |
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| Abbey Pumping Station |  | Leicester | Technology | Science and technology museum, housed in a Victorian sewage pumping station with beam engines restored to working order, and exhibitions on light and optics, historic transport and public health, including an 'interactive toilet'. |
| Ashby de la Zouch Museum | | Ashby-de-la-Zouch | Local | website, local history, culture |
| Belgrave Hall |  | Leicester | Historic house | Victorian period house showing the contrasting lifestyles of an upper-middle-class family and domestic servants |
| Belvoir Castle |  | Grantham | Historic house | Castle with gardens |
| Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park |  | Sutton Cheney | Military | History of the 1485 Battle of Bosworth during the War of the Roses, and the search for the site of the battle. |
| Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome Aircraft Museum | .jpg) | Bruntingthorpe | Aviation | Cold War jet collection |
| Charnwood Museum |  | Loughborough | Local | Area history, geology, archaeology and industries |
| Castle Donington Museum |  | Castle Donington | Local | website, local history |
| Conkers |  | Moira | Natural history | website, nature, woodlands, visitor center of The National Forest |
| Donington Grand Prix Exhibition |  | Castle Donington | Automobile | Based at the Donington Park motor racing circuit, focus is Grand Prix and Formula One race cars |
| Donington le Heath Manor House Museum |  | Coalville | Historic house | 16th century medieval period house |
| De Montfort University Heritage Centre |  | Leicester | Education & Medieval | Housed in the Hawthorne Building, it covers the history of The Newarke & Church of the Annunciation, Trinity Hospital building, DMU History and special exhibitions[1] |
| East Midlands Aeropark |  | Castle Donington | Aviation | Includes complete airframes on external display, engines, aircraft components, photographs |
| Foxton Canal Museum |  | Foxton | Transportation | History of the Foxton Locks, lives of the canal workers and other aspects of the local canal |
| Fleckney Museum | | Fleckney | Local | website, local history |
| Guru Nanak Sikh Museum | | Leicester | Religious | website, Sikh art, history, culture |
| Hallaton Museum | | Hallaton | Local | website, local history |
| Harborough Museum |  | Harborough | Local | Local history, culture, industry, Hallaton Treasure |
| Hinckley and District Museum |  | Hinckley | Local | website, local history, framework knitter`s cottage with 1740s knitting frame. |
| Jewry Wall Museum |  | Leicester | Archaeology | Alongside Jewry Wall and site of Roman baths. The museum houses Roman mosaics and artifacts alongside archaeological material from prehistoric to medieval Leicester, including the history of archaeology in Leicester.[2] |
| John Taylor & Co |  | Loughborough | Music | Collection of bells used in clock towers, change ringing peals, chimes, and carillons |
| Kegworth Museum | | Kegworth | Local | local history.[3] |
| King Richard III: Dynasty, Death and Discovery |  | Leicester | Archaeology | Visitor Centre at the Greyfriars burial site, with exhibitions on the life and death of Richard III and the archaeological investigation on his remains.[4] |
| Leicester City Fire Brigade Museum | | Leicester | Firefighting | website, open by appointment, collection of fire vehicles, equipment |
| Leicester Guildhall |  | Leicester | Medieval | Medieval half-timbered building with Victorian prison cells, and since 2015, galleries on Medieval Leicester[5] |
| Loughborough Carillon & War Memorial |  | Loughborough | Military | World War I memorial, carillon, military museum |
| Loughborough Central Station |  | Loughborough | Railway | 1950s period station museum on the Great Central Railway heritage railroad |
| Lutterworth Museum | | Lutterworth | Local | website, local history, Sir Frank Whittle display |
| Measham Museum |  | Measham | Local | website. Local history. Since 2009 it is housed in part of the disused railway station. |
| Melton Carnegie Museum |  | Melton Mowbray | Local | Local history and culture, including area Stilton cheese and pork pies. Museum in 1977, in former Andrew Carnegie Library. |
| Moira Furnace |  | Moira | Industry | 19th century iron-making blast furnace |
| National Gas Museum Leicester |  | Leicester | Industry | Gas industry museum, on production and supply of gas, and gas related artifacts and domestic appliances. |
| National Space Centre |  | Leicester | Science | Space science and astronomy |
| New Walk Museum and Art Gallery |  | Leicester | Multiple | Dinosaurs, geology, art, Ancient Egypt, natural history, world art |
| Newarke Houses Museum |  | Leicester | Multiple | Local history, room settings from the 17th century and the 1950s and 70s, toys, history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, period street scene |
| Old Rectory Museum | | Loughborough | Local | website, operated by the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society |
| Rockingham Castle |  | Market Harborough | Historic house | Also listed under Northamptonshire, former royal castle and hunting lodge with gardens |
| Shackerstone Railwayana Museum |  | Shackerstone | Railway | Station and museum for the Battlefield Line Railway |
| Sir John Moore Heritage Centre | | Appleby Magna | Education | website, 1891 Victorian life in the then Sir John Moore Church of England School |
| Stanford Hall |  | Lutterworth | Historic house | William and Mary period house |
| Stonehurst Family Farm and Motor Museum | | Mountsorrel | Multiple | Family farm and automobile museum |
| Stoneywell |  | Ulverscroft | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, summer home designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Ernest Gimson |
| Swannington Hough Mill |  | Swannington | Mill | Operated by Swannington Heritage Trust |
| Wigston Framework Knitters Museum |  | Wigston Magna | Industry | website, workshop with stocking frame equipment, hand frames for making gloves, mitts and fancy ribbed tops for golf hose |
| William Carey Museum |  | Leicester | Biographical | website, located at the Central Baptist Church, life and works of pioneer missionary William Carey |
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