Canal Museums & Waterways Museums

Gloucester and Sharpness Canal

Gloucester Waterways Museum. The Gloucester Waterways Museum is housed in a Grade II listed warehouse at the heart of Gloucester's docks and beside the Gloucester and Sharpness Ship Canal and River Severn.

Trent and Mersey Canal

Shardlow Heritage Centre. Shardlow has a unique place in the history of this country. The 18th century canal port, with all its associated wharves and warehouses is clearly to be seen.

Grand Union Mainline

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum. The Canal Museum provides an excellent overview of the history of Britain's canals. Together with the audio guide that is free with museum entry, it is the key to understanding the rich heritage of the Grand Union Canal.

Birmingham Canal Navigations

The Black Country Living Museum. The World’s First Industrial Landscape celebrated at the Black Country Living Museum. The museum tells the story of the industrial revolution through the everyday lives of the people whose skills shaped the modern world.

Regents Canal

The London Canal Museum. The London Canal Museum is housed in a building that was built in the 1860s as an ice warehouse adjoining Battlebridge basin on the Regent's Canal.

Shropshire Union Canal

The National Waterways Museum. The National Waterways Museum has one of the world's largest floating collections of traditional canal craft. They include narrowboats, canal barges, river barges, canal and river tugs, icebreakers and a coaster.