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post updated 4 February 2025

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English Museum Building Designs

3 Jan 2022
The Newt, Somerset, southwest England
Architect: benjamin + beauchamp architects

photo courtesy of the Brick Awards
The Newt in Somerset Buildings and Landscape
The original Grade II* listed manor, Hadpsen House, now open to the public for the first time in its history, has been sensitively repaired and converted into a hotel. The remainder of the Estate has been restored and transformed to give a unique outdoor experience with 300 acres of gardens, woodland, farmland, deer parks, cider orchards and productive gardens.

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26 Aug 2017
Gateway Buildings, Weald & Downland Living Museum, Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, southeast England
Design: ABIR architects

photo : Jim Stephenson
Weald & Downland Living Museum Building
Weald & Downland Living Museum boasts a collection of over 50 vernacular buildings spanning 950 years, all rescued from destruction and re-erected in the Grade II* registered South Downs National Park.

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2011
Leighton House Museum, London W14, southeast England
2011
Design: Purcell Miller Tritton

photograph © Will Pryce
Leighton House Museum
Designed in 1864 to display Lord Leighton’s collection of Islamic tiles, the house’s centrepiece is a two storey opulent domed Arab Hall with a central fountain. The whole interior of the house is richly decorated, with ceramic tiles, rich paintwork and gilded ceilings.

2011
Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre, Worksop, central England
2011
Design: OMI Architects

image : Daniel Hopkinson
Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre
Creswell Crags is one of Britain’s most important archaeological and geological sites and is currently shortlisted for World Heritage Status. A dramatic magnesium limestone gorge, fractured by a series of fissures and deep-cut caves the crags has provided evidence of human and animal activity dating back more than 50,000 years.

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English Museum Building Designs Archive

English Museum Designs, chronological:

American Air Museum, Duxford, southeast England
Design: Foster + Partners

photo : Nigel Young_Foster Partners
American Air Museum

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, southern England
Design: Rick Mather Architects

image from architect
Ashmolean Museum extension

Chichester Regional Museum, south England
Design: Keith Williams Architects

image from architect
Chichester District Museum

Darwin Centre Phase 2, London
Design: C. F. Møller Architects

photograph : Torben Eskerod
Darwin Centre Building

Design Museum, London
Design: Conran Roche

photo © Adrian Welch
Shad Thames Buildings

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Design: George Basevi

picture © Adrian Welch
Fitzwilliam Museum Building

Museum of Liverpool, northwest England
Design: 3XN Architects

image from architect
Museum of Liverpool Building

National Maritime Museum, London
Design: C. F. Møller Architects

photo © National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum London

Natural History Museum, London
Design: Alfred Waterhouse Architect

photo © Adrian Welch
Natural History Museum London

Soane Museum, London
Design: Sir John Soane Architect

photo © Adrian Welch
Soane Museum Building

More English Museum Buildings welcome.

Location: England, UK, north west Europe.

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English Architecture

English Architecture Design – chronological list

English Architect : list of English architectural offices

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Museum Buildings

Museum Buildings : A-F

Contemporary Museum Buildings : G-L

Museum Building Designs : M-N

Museum Designs : O-Z

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New English Buildings

English Houses

English Office Buildings

English Library Buildings

English School Buildings

Contemporary English Architecture – Selection:

Millfield House Visitors’ Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne
Mosedale Gillatt Architects Ltd

photo © Iona Owen
Millfield House Visitors’ Centre

Additions / photos for the English Museum Buildings page welcome.