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This list of museums in Cumbria, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Name	Town/City	Type	Summary
The Beacon, Whitehaven	Whitehaven	Multiple	website, local history, art, industry, natural history, maritime heritage
Cars of the Stars Motor Museum	Keswick	Automotive	Celebrity television and film vehicles (Currently closed - 2010)
Cumberland Pencil Museum	Keswick	Industry	Pencil making
Dock Museum	Barrow-in-Furness	Local	Local history, shipbuilding, steel industry, World War II bombings
Haig Colliery Mining Museum	Whitehaven	Mining	Coal mining
Helena Thompson Museum	Workington	Multiple	website, period rooms, costumes, decorative arts, local history, industry, culture, agriculture
Heron Corn Mill	Beetham	Mill	website, restored watermill
Hub of the North Pennines Museum	Alston	Multiple	website, vintage cars, motorbikes, bicycles, local history, agriculture, model railroad
Hutton in the Forest	Penrith	Historic house	Medieval manor house and gardens
James Bond Museum	Keswick	Automotive	website, vehicles and props used in the James Bond films, sister museum to the Cars of the Stars Motor Museum
Keswick Mining Museum	Keswick	Mining	website, mining in the region, rocks and minerals
Lakeland Motor Museum	Backbarrow	Automotive	Classic automobiles and memorabilia
Levens Hall	Kendal	Historic house	Manor house, topiary garden, steam vehicle and engine collection
Maryport Maritime Museum	Maryport	Maritime	website, Maryport's maritime and painting history, also industry, social and political history
Millom Heritage Museum And Visitor Centre	Millom	History	Period store displays, iron mining, rural trades, 19th century miner's cottage, agriculture, archaeology, poet Norman Nicholson, local history
Museum of Lakeland Life	Kendal	Multiple	Llocal history, period rooms, agriculture, mining, Arts & Crafts movement, costumes
Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre	Nenthead	Mining	website, mineral mining past of the North Pennines, lead and zinc mine, equipment, buildings
Penrith and Eden Museum	Penrith	Local	website, local history, geology, archaeology
RAF Millom Aviation & Military Museum	Millom	Military	World War II British Royal Air Force bombing and gunnery school, airplanes, engines, military vehicles, weapons, artifacts
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway	Ravenglass	Railway	Heritage railway and museum at the station
Solway Aviation Museum	Carlisle	Aviation	Located at the Carlisle Lake District Airport, World War II aviation and local aviation history
Stott Park Bobbin Mill	Newby Bridge	Industry	Operated by English Heritage, former bobbin mill with preserved steam engines
Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum	Threlkeld	Mining	website, former microgranite quarry, exhibits, tools and artifacts from area mines. Includes the Vintage excavator collection
Windermere Steamboat Museum	Windermere	Maritime	Boat collection, museum under development