List of museums in Essex

This list of museums in Essex, 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	Region	Type	Summary
Aythorpe Roding Windmill	Aythorpe Roding	Uttlesford	Mill	Late 18th century windmill
Barleylands Farm Museum	Billericay	Basildon	Agriculture	Early farm machinery and tractors, tools, household implements, farm and animals
Bocking Windmill	Bocking	Braintree	Mill	Early 18th century windmill
Bourne Mill, Essex	Colchester	Colchester	Mill	website, operated by the National Trust, Elizabethan water mill
Bragg's Mill	Ashdon	Uttlesford	Mill	Mid 18th century windmill
Burnham-on-Crouch & District Museum	Burnham-on-Crouch	Maldon	Local	website, local history, maritime, agricultural, industrial and social history
Castle Point Transport Museum	Canvey Island	Castle Point	Transportation	website, automobiles, buses, commercial, military and emergency vehicles, public road transport artifacts
Coalhouse Fort	East Tilbury	Thurrock	Military	19th century Victorian coastal defence fort open on specified days, includes military museums and vehicles
Coggeshall Grange Barn	Coggeshall	Colchester	Agriculture	website, operated by the National Trust, 14th century barn built for Coggeshall Abbey, collection of farm tools and equipment
Coggeshall Museum	Coggeshall	Colchester	Local	website, local history, industry, agriculture, culture, lace
Colne Valley Railway	Sible Hedingham	Braintree	Railway	Heritage railway, 7¼" miniature railway, exhibit centre with history and artefacts, rare breed farm, located at Castle Hedingham Station
Combined Military Services Museum	Maldon	Maldon	Military	website, combat equipment and weaponry used by the British armed forces from medieval times to the present, lifestyles of the troops, uniforms, Secret Service, artifacts, vehicles
Duck End Mill	Finchingfield	Braintree	Mill	Mid 18th century windmill
East Anglian Railway Museum	Chappel	Colchester	Railway	Heritage railway and museum, includes equipment, station buildings, signal boxes, goods shed and restoration shed
East Essex Aviation Society and Museum	Point Clear	Tendring	Military	website
Essex Fire Museum	Grays	Thurrock	Firefighting	website
Essex Police Museum	Chelmsford	Chelmsford	Law enforcement	website, history of Essex Police from 1840 to present day, Victorian jail cell
Great Dunmow Museum	Great Dunmow	Uttlesford	Local	website, local history, industry, culture
Halstead Heritage Museum	Halstead	Braintree	Local	website, local history, culture, transport
Harwich Lifeboat Museum	Harwich	Tendring	Maritime	website, operated by the Harwich Society, information, located in a former lifeboat station with exhibits about sea rescues
John Webb's Mill	Thaxted	Uttlesford	Mill	Early 19th century windmill
Maldon District Agricultural & Domestic Museum	Maldon	Maldon	History	information, vintage farm machinery and equipment, agriculture tools, household items
Mangapps Railway Museum	Burnham-on-Crouch	Maldon	Railway	Heritage railway and museum, includes rolling equipment, memorabilia, buildings
Mountnessing Windmill	Mountnessing	Brentwood	Mill	Early 19th century windmill
Museum of Power	Langford	Maldon	Technology	Located in a water pumping station, features working examples of steam engines, machinery, equipment and tools, miniature railway
North Weald Airfield Museum	North Weald Bassett	Epping Forest	Military	History of the former military airfield
Purfleet Heritage & Military Centre	Purfleet	Thurrock	Military	website, located in a former Royal magazine for gunpowder, artifacts and memorabilia from all the armed forces
Rayleigh Windmill	Rayleigh	Rochford	Mill	Early 19th century windmill
Ridgewell Airfield Commemorative Museum	Ridgewell	Braintree	Military	website, uniforms, artifacts, medals, memorabilia of the World War II airfield, the 381st Bomb Group and the No. 90 Squadron RAF
Royal Gunpowder Mills	Waltham Abbey	Epping Forest	Multiple	Complex includes science of gunpowder exhibits, history of the site, exhibits of weapons and military artifacts, transportation, rockets, 1940s street scene, history of the Gunpowder Plot, narrow gauge railway, woodlands
Southend Pier Museum	Southend-on-Sea	Southend-on-Sea	Amusement	website, history of the Southend Pier, working penny slot machines
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill	Stansted Mountfitchet	Uttlesford	Mill	Late 18th century windmill
Stock Windmill	Stock	Chelmsford	Mill	Early 19th century windmill
Walton Hall Museum	Stanford-le-Hope	Thurrock	History	website, includes militaria, motoring, household bygones, dairy and nursery items, wheel-wrights, printing shop, blacksmith, old village bakery, toys, household items, road rollers