English Museum Buildings Designs
Museum Developments in England, UK Architecture Designs.
post updated 19 October 2026
English Architecture Design – chronological list
English Museum Building Designs
24 May 2023
Leighton House Museum, London W14, southeast England – building shortlisted for Art Fund Museum Of The Year £120,000 prize
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.
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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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English Museum Buildings News in 2017
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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England Museum Architecture Designs, Property images, UK architects projects in 2011
19 May 2011
Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre, Worksop, central England
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 District 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-Z
Contemporary Museum Buildings : Archive
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New English Buildings
Contemporary English Architecture – Selection:
No. 1 Smithery, Chatham, Kent
van Heyningen and Haward
photo © James Brittain
No. 1 Smithery
Marshland Discovery Zone, Purfleet
Peter Beard_LANDROOM
photo © Sue Barr
Marshland Discovery Zone
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.
