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<h2 id="designated-collections">Designated collections</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Holding Organisation</th><th>Collection Name</th><th>Arts Council England (ACE) Area</th><th>Year Granted</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Ashmolean_Museum/zRl83sQY">Ashmolean Museum</a> (<a href="/facts/Divisions_of_the_University_of_Oxford/d0261RcJ">Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) - University of Oxford</a>), <a href="/facts/Oxford/kHvWDTXW">Oxford</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ashmolean_Museum/zRl83sQY">Ashmolean Museum Collections</a></td><td><a href="/facts/South_East_England/d6ucBvDb">South East</a></td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Barber_Institute_of_Fine_Arts/aLPC4jmL">The Barber Institute of Fine Arts</a> (<a href="/facts/University_of_Birmingham/b2YEFk2X">University of Birmingham</a>), <a href="/facts/Birmingham/lNd1h81V">Birmingham</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Barber_Institute_of_Fine_Arts/aLPC4jmL">The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Collection</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Midlands/8mgY3qAe">Midlands</a></td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Barings_Bank/sLo10yKG">The Baring Archive</a>, <a href="/facts/City_of_London/Psl9khal">City of London</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Barings_Bank/sLo10yKG">The Baring Archive</a></td><td><a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a></td><td>2009</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bath_and_North_East_Somerset_Council/zuWY5ela">Bath and North East Somerset Council - Heritage Services</a>, <a href="/facts/Bath,_Somerset/mHppKuoG">Bath</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Fashion_Museum,_Bath/0V5WJEQ2">Bath Fashion Museum Collection</a></td><td><a href="/facts/South_West_England/eqmprlh4">South West</a></td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td>Bath and North East Somerset Council - Heritage Services, Bath</td><td><a href="/facts/Roman_Baths_(Bath)/Pgoqg2EB">Roman Baths Museum Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bath_Record_Office/IcpkqCqu">Bath Record Office</a>, Bath</td><td><a href="/facts/Bath_Record_Office/IcpkqCqu">Bath Record Office Archive Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Beamish_Museum/3LgWExwm">Beamish, the Living Museum of the North</a>, <a href="/facts/Beamish,_County_Durham/z9HVbUeN">Beamish</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Beamish_Museum/3LgWExwm">Beamish, the Living Museum of the North Collection</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Northern_England/t8vE0yXq">North</a></td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Library_of_Birmingham/4SGmxfpt">Birmingham Libraries</a>, <a href="/facts/Birmingham/lNd1h81V">Birmingham</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Library_of_Birmingham/4SGmxfpt">Photography Collection Held by Birmingham Libraries</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Libraries, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Library_of_Birmingham/4SGmxfpt">Archive Held by Birmingham Libraries</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Libraries, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Library_of_Birmingham/4SGmxfpt">Early and Fine Printing Held by Birmingham Libraries</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Libraries, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Library_of_Birmingham/4SGmxfpt">Literature Collections Held by Birmingham Libraries</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Libraries, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Library_of_Birmingham/4SGmxfpt">Music Collections Held by Birmingham Libraries</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Libraries, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Library_of_Birmingham/4SGmxfpt">The Birmingham Collection</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Birmingham_Museums_Trust/rpnx7MoW">Birmingham Museums Trust</a>, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Birmingham_Museums_Trust/rpnx7MoW">Fine & Decorative Arts Collections Held by Birmingham Museums Trust</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Birmingham_Museums_Trust/rpnx7MoW">Science Collections Held by Birmingham Museums Trust</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Birmingham_Museums_Trust/rpnx7MoW">Birmingham History and Numismatics Collections Held by Birmingham Museums Trust</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Birmingham_Museums_Trust/rpnx7MoW">The Pinto Collection Held by Birmingham Museums Trust</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Black_Country_Living_Museum/6Cbj13qH">Black Country Living Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Dudley/FXLQwPGd">Dudley</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Black_Country_Living_Museum/6Cbj13qH">Black Country Living Museum Collections</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2012</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bodleian_Libraries/2nSNd2EL">Bodleian Libraries</a> (Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) - University of Oxford), Oxford</td><td><a href="/facts/Bodleian_Library/wxknaMJk">Special Collections at the Bodleian Library</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bowes_Museum/8uLrqzCq">The Bowes Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Durham,_England/JDWrbJG9">Durham</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Bowes_Museum/8uLrqzCq">The Bowes Museum Collection</a>, <a href="/facts/Barnard_Castle/pzBSnRdm">Barnard Castle</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bradford_Industrial_Museum/f4SIAYJa">Bradford Industrial Museum (Bradford Museums and Galleries)</a>, <a href="/facts/City_of_Bradford/IG8ywm76">Bradford</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Bradford_Industrial_Museum/f4SIAYJa">Worsted Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2009</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bristol_Museum_%26_Art_Gallery/cJaMXIbf">Bristol City Museums</a>, <a href="/facts/Bristol/nLwyoDTG">Bristol</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Bristol_Museum_%26_Art_Gallery/cJaMXIbf">Bristol City Museums Collection of Applied Art</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Bristol City Museums, Bristol</td><td><a href="/facts/Bristol_Museum_%26_Art_Gallery/cJaMXIbf">Bristol City Museums Far East Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Bristol City Museums, Bristol</td><td><a href="/facts/Bristol_Museum_%26_Art_Gallery/cJaMXIbf">Bristol City Museums Geology Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Bristol City Museums, Bristol</td><td><a href="/facts/Bristol_Museum_%26_Art_Gallery/cJaMXIbf">City of Bristol Collections</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bristol_Archives/GBuULByk">Bristol City Record Office</a> and <a href="/facts/Bristol_Central_Library/g802y6lv">Bristol Central Library's Local Studies Service</a>, Bristol</td><td><a href="/facts/Bristol_Archives/GBuULByk">The Archive, History and Literacy Collection Relating to the History and Development of the City of Bristol</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/British_Motor_Museum/x3Xrwp2E">British Motor Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Gaydon/j7KkQVdf">Gaydon</a></td><td><a href="/facts/British_Motor_Museum/x3Xrwp2E">British Motor Museum Collection</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2014</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Britten_Pears_Arts/Dkj0H3Qn">Britten-Pears Foundation</a>, <a href="/facts/Aldeburgh/vQP1qqoV">Aldeburgh</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Britten_Pears_Arts/Dkj0H3Qn">The Britten-Pears Library</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>BT Archives, London</td><td><a href="/facts/BT_Archives/fgszqCa1">BT Archives</a></td><td>London</td><td>2012</td></tr><tr><td>Cambridge University Herbarium, <a href="/facts/Cambridge/gNRdbmwK">Cambridge</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Sainsbury_Laboratory_Cambridge_University/rSFkPBdN">Cambridge University Herbarium</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></td><td>South East</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Cambridge_University_Library/oLLPHbsC">Cambridge University Library</a>, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/Cambridge_University_Library/oLLPHbsC">Special Collections at Cambridge University Library</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2019</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Canal_Museum/MY1rlN3M">Canal Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Stoke_Bruerne/9zfQVkWS">Stoke Bruerne</a></td><td><a href="/facts/The_Canal_Museum/MY1rlN3M">The Collections at Canal Museum Stoke Bruerne</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Vindolanda/1oHmwQTp">Chesterholm Museum (Vindolanda)</a>, <a href="/facts/Bardon_Mill/MsdoFonW">Bardon Mill</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Vindolanda_Trust/1oHmwQTp">The Vindolanda Trust Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2016</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Chetham%27s_Library/TPCan8K4">Chetham's Library</a>, <a href="/facts/Manchester/2Do01QHs">Manchester</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Chetham%27s_Library/TPCan8K4">Chetham's Library Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2011</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Churchill_College,_Cambridge/1PEP8f0S">Churchill College, University of Cambridge</a>, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/Churchill_Archives_Centre/KoGycSP7">Churchill Archives Centre</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/City_of_London_Corporation/Dweba7MW">City of London Corporation</a>, City of London</td><td><a href="/facts/Guildhall_Library/8NcvxUNl">History of London Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>Colchester and Ipswich Museums, <a href="/facts/Colchester/BSShn2dU">Colchester</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Colchester_Castle/84SfySR4">Colechester Castle Museum's Archaeology Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Compton_Verney_Art_Gallery/wJaKGzNd">Compton Verney</a>, <a href="/facts/Compton_Verney/jy44xkHV">Compton Verney</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Compton_Verney_Art_Gallery/wJaKGzNd">Archaic Chinese Bronzes</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2008</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Co-operatives_UK/usa0C9Qj">Co-operative Archive Trust</a>, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/Holyoake_House/mJngaVep">Co-operative Archive Trust Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>2007</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Cornwall_Record_Office/faIzBBgF">Cornwall Record Office</a>, <a href="/facts/Redruth/eJ0688vs">Redruth</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cornwall_Record_Office/faIzBBgF">Archives Relating to Cornwall's Hard-Rock Mining Industry</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Courtauld_Institute_of_Art/xPpcBN8z">Courtauld Institute of Art</a>, <a href="/facts/City_of_Westminster/8pvuYHq2">City of Westminster</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Courtauld_Gallery/SWbqP1hs">The Courtauld Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Culture_Coventry/2q3JLbFX">Culture Coventry</a>, <a href="/facts/Coventry/GwmQPDIp">Coventry</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Coventry_Transport_Museum/vaJrdAjb">Coventry Transport Museum Collection</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Derby_City_Council/1JFTIz98">Derby Museums</a>, <a href="/facts/Derby/kMYgyqNA">Derby</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Derby_Museum_and_Art_Gallery/bDBfkvzK">Joseph Wright of Derby Collection</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2011</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Dulwich_Picture_Gallery/FeGYK7aW">Dulwich Picture Gallery</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Dulwich_Picture_Gallery/FeGYK7aW">Dulwich Picture Gallery Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Durham_University_Library/9bP9SHqg">Durham University Library</a>, <a href="/facts/Durham,_England/JDWrbJG9">Durham</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Bishop_Cosin%E2%80%99s_Library/aMI6lzTA">The Bishop Cosin's Library</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>Durham University Library, Durham</td><td><a href="/facts/Durham_University_Library/9bP9SHqg">The Sudan Archive</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Durham_University_Oriental_Museum/2111KLX2">Durham University Oriental Museum</a>, Durham</td><td><a href="/facts/Durham_University_Oriental_Museum/2111KLX2">Chinese Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>2008</td></tr><tr><td>Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham</td><td><a href="/facts/Durham_University_Oriental_Museum/2111KLX2">Ancient Egyptian Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>2008</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/English_Folk_Dance_and_Song_Society/keF2sPSU">English Folk Dance and Song Society</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Vaughan_Williams_Memorial_Library/SJxgjHmC">Vaughan Williams Memorial Library</a></td><td>London</td><td>2011</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Hampshire_Record_Office/PNJXY92u">Hampshire Record Office</a>, <a href="/facts/Winchester/ed9fIArJ">Winchester</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hampshire_Record_Office/PNJXY92u">The Records Held by the Hampshire Record Office</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Harewood_House/Vu9B4u8F">Harewood House Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Harewood,_West_Yorkshire/YrPBBxlN">Harewood</a>, <a href="/facts/City_of_Leeds/EAoK6BXH">Leeds</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Harewood_House/Vu9B4u8F">Harewood House Trust Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Historic_Royal_Palaces/LsuxR5j1">Historic Royal Palaces</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Hampton_Court_Palace/jLMSwzMh">Hampton Court Palace</a></td><td>London</td><td>2009</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Horniman_Museum/h1bepTxK">Horniman Museum and Gardens</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Horniman_Museum/h1bepTxK">Ethnographic Collections at the Horniman Museum</a></td><td>London</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers/DUHe5gLE">Institution of Civil Engineers</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers/DUHe5gLE">Library, Archive and Works of Art</a></td><td>London</td><td>2009</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Institution_of_Engineering_and_Technology/jNmTe0zD">Institution of Engineering and Technology</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Institution_of_Engineering_and_Technology/jNmTe0zD">Collections of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, that is the Rare Books, the Archives and the Library</a></td><td>London</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Ipswich_Museum/MXNusU1d">Ipswich Museum, Ipswich Borough Council</a>, <a href="/facts/Ipswich/nyGbLBJa">Ipswich</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ipswich_Museum/MXNusU1d">Post-Cretaceous Geology Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2023</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Ironbridge_Gorge_Museum_Trust/36gBQaj3">Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Coalbrookdale/wb6aPFfJ">Coalbrookdale</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Ironbridge_Gorge_Museum_Trust/36gBQaj3">The Ironbridge Gorge Trust Collections</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Jewish_Museum_London/XzA7Tjbh">Jewish Museum London</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Jewish_Museum_London/XzA7Tjbh">Religious Life (Judaica) Collection at the Jewish Museum London</a></td><td>London</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/John_Rylands_University_Library/fof3qEJD">John Rylands University Library (University of Manchester)</a>, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/John_Rylands_University_Library/fof3qEJD">Special Collections at John Rylands University Library</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>John Rylands University Library (University of Manchester), Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/John_Rylands_University_Library/fof3qEJD">Manchester Medical Society Library</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/King%27s_College_London/6qy3Y2hY">King's College London</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Liddell_Hart_Centre_for_Military_Archives/muoe1tx2">Liddell Hart Military Archives</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Hull_City_Council/uHQaLXer">Kingston upon Hull City Museums and Art Galleries</a>, <a href="/facts/Kingston_upon_Hull/8yMvTEcM">Kingston upon Hull</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hull_City_Council/uHQaLXer">Hull Museums Collections Relating to the City and Region</a></td><td>North</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Lambeth_Palace/61r4lDSM">Lambeth Palace Library</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Lambeth_Palace/61r4lDSM">The Manuscripts, Archives and Printed Books Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Lancashire_County_Council/zW1g6dry">Lancashire County Museum Service</a>, <a href="/facts/Preston,_Lancashire/vcppAdEw">Preston</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Helmshore_Mills_Textile_Museum/XjJ0Fgyp">Textile</a> <a href="/facts/Queen_Street_Mill/otG5WIX0">Industry</a> <a href="/facts/Lancashire_Archives/9vGJm38j">Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Lapworth_Museum_of_Geology/pvKnAmaK">Lapworth Museum of Geology (University of Birmingham)</a>, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/Lapworth_Museum_of_Geology/pvKnAmaK">Lapworth Museum of Geology Collections</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2008</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Leeds_Museums_%26_Galleries/2h1sWz50">Leeds Museums and Galleries</a>, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/Leeds_Art_Gallery/sHmr2Tq1">Leeds Museums and</a> <a href="/facts/Temple_Newsam/sTjU07Az">Galleries Fine and</a> <a href="/facts/Lotherton_Hall/t9bI0RUu">Decorative Arts Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/Leeds_City_Museum/KP7hlw2X">Leeds Museums and Galleries</a> <a href="/facts/Leeds_Discovery_Centre/Cr7toDbn">Natural Sciences Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Leeds Museums and Galleries, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/Leeds_Industrial_Museum_at_Armley_Mills/dpjkwNeh">Leeds Museums and Galleries Industrial Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">Leeds University Special Collections Centre</a>, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">The English Literature Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">Leeds University Special Collections Centre</a>, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/Leeds_University_Library%27s_Gypsy,_Traveller_and_Roma_Collections/Q2lYPYJC">Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">Leeds University Special Collections Centre</a>, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/Leeds_University_Library%27s_Cookery_Collection/xe7SF3yv">The Cookery Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">Leeds University Special Collections Centre</a>, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">The Leeds Russian Archive</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">Leeds University Special Collections Centre</a>, Leeds</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Leeds/XxFJF9Qh">The Liddle Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Freemasons%27_Hall,_London/SFWApUDu">Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemasons Hall</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Freemasons%27_Hall,_London/SFWApUDu">Library and Museum of Freemasonry Collections</a></td><td>London</td><td>2007</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Lincolnshire_Archives/rlgbvUbW">Lincolnshire Archives</a>, <a href="/facts/Lincoln,_England/3gwo2aMl">Lincoln</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Lincolnshire_Archives/rlgbvUbW">Lincoln Episcopal Rolls and Registers</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Linnean_Society_of_London/fqoxNBjx">Linnean Society of London</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Linnean_Society_of_London/fqoxNBjx">Library, Archive and Biological Specimen Collections</a></td><td>London</td><td>2014</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Liverpool_and_Merseyside_Record_Offices/dmlptgXr">Liverpool and Merseyside Record Offices</a> <a href="/facts/Liverpool/kTqATlxg">Liverpool</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Liverpool_Central_Library/WCWsJMoM">Photographic Image Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/London_School_of_Economics/L8SkGefj">London School of Economics and Political Science</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/British_Library_of_Political_and_Economic_Science/cSQ9l3Xb">British Library of Political and Economic Science</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>London School of Economics and Political Science (Applied as <a href="/facts/London_Metropolitan_University/sFhC4rJW">London Metropolitan University</a>), London</td><td><a href="/facts/Women%27s_Library/NjUeWa1n">The Women's Library</a></td><td>London</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/London_Transport_Museum/UjgDjwqg">London Transport Museum</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/London_Transport_Museum/UjgDjwqg">London Transport Museum Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Manchester_City_Council/fSMHL5GJ">Manchester City Galleries</a>, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/Manchester_Art_Gallery/BPGD67Iz">Manchester City Galleries Fine and Decorative Art Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Manchester City Galleries, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/Manchester_Art_Gallery/BPGD67Iz">Manchester City Galleries Costume and Textile Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Manchester_Museum/BPbotAxh">Manchester Museum, University of Manchester</a>, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/Manchester_Museum/BPbotAxh">Manchester Museum Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Mary_Rose_Trust/MJv03FL3">Mary Rose Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Portsmouth/JxMGK6jC">Portsmouth</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Mary_Rose_Museum/lWNnTugm">Mary Rose Museum Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Middlesex_University/Fy8X9Rez">Middlesex University</a>, <a href="/facts/Museum_of_Domestic_Design_and_Architecture/on9yv04b">Museum of Design and Domestic Architecture</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Silver_Studio/t3LSnTHH">Silver Studio Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>2008</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Modern_Records_Centre,_University_of_Warwick/utQSc27V">Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick</a>, Coventry</td><td><a href="/facts/Modern_Records_Centre,_University_of_Warwick/utQSc27V">Modern Records Centre Collections</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Museum_of_Design_in_Plastics/Yp2jkrpb">Museum of Design in Plastics, Arts University Bournemouth</a>, <a href="/facts/Bournemouth/1luGnWFx">Bournemouth</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Museum_of_Design_in_Plastics/Yp2jkrpb">Museum of Design in Plastics Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2021</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Museum_of_London/xMLueky9">Museum of London</a>, City of London</td><td><a href="/facts/Museum_of_London/xMLueky9">Museum of London Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Oxford_University_Museum_of_Natural_History/Rn76zlEc">Museum of Natural History</a> (Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) - University of Oxford), Oxford</td><td><a href="/facts/Oxford_University_Museum_of_Natural_History/Rn76zlEc">Museum of Natural History Collections</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Museum_of_the_History_of_Science/A1ynPqIl">Museum of the History of Science</a> (Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM) - University of Oxford), Oxford</td><td><a href="/facts/History_of_Science_Museum,_Oxford/A1ynPqIl">History of Science Museum Collections</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Museums_Sheffield/rnrjj6Bc">Museums Sheffield</a>, <a href="/facts/Sheffield/rp05rhlH">Sheffield</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Millennium_Gallery/3FDSmoCs">Sheffield Museums Metalwork Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/National_Football_Museum/p7MRwAHn">National Football Museum</a>, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/National_Football_Museum/p7MRwAHn">National Football Museum Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>2013</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/National_Motor_Museum,_Beaulieu/YJMgBVvc">National Motor Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Beaulieu,_Hampshire/mkhkJtkR">Beaulieu</a></td><td><a href="/facts/National_Motor_Museum,_Beaulieu/YJMgBVvc">National Motor Museum Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/National_Tramway_Museum/mYNUY0y7">National Tramway Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Crich/EdMkq2yM">Crich</a></td><td><a href="/facts/National_Tramway_Museum/mYNUY0y7">National Tramway Museum Collection</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Norfolk Museums Service, <a href="/facts/Norwich/WM3Tj7h5">Norwich</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Norwich_Castle/F2aetVnu">Norwich Castle Museum Collections</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Norfolk_Record_Office/Ws1uKzYD">Norfolk Record Office</a>, Norwich</td><td><a href="/facts/Norfolk_Record_Office/Ws1uKzYD">History of Norfolk Archive</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Northampton_Museum_and_Art_Gallery/PVswnfq5">Northampton Museum and Art Gallery</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Northampton_Museum_and_Art_Gallery/PVswnfq5">Boot and Shoe Collection at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Nottingham_City_Council/6Uh4w5gl">Nottingham Museums (Heritage)</a>, <a href="/facts/Nottingham/7NmKsSUg">Nottingham</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Nottingham_Industrial_Museum/R8IuqNVw">Lace and Lace Machinery Collections</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2014</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/People%27s_History_Museum/f6V7IN5B">People's History Museum</a>, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/People%27s_History_Museum/f6V7IN5B">People's History Museum Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Pitt_Rivers_Museum/pP9WsJWl">Pitt Rivers Museum</a> (Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM) - University of Oxford), Oxford</td><td><a href="/facts/Pitt_Rivers_Museum/pP9WsJWl">Pitt Rivers Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Academy_of_Arts/9a5Uhj9K">Royal Academy of Arts</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Academy_of_Arts/9a5Uhj9K">Royal Academy of Arts Collections, Library and Archives</a></td><td>London</td><td>2011</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Academy_of_Music/wQNnm4mk">Royal Academy of Music</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Academy_of_Music/wQNnm4mk">Special Collections and Archives of the Royal Academy of Music Library</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Albert_Memorial_Museum/AtGC8pEP">Royal Albert Memorial Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Exeter/yTQmILuj">Exeter</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Albert_Memorial_Museum/AtGC8pEP">World Cultures Collections at Royal Albert Memorial Museum</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter</td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Albert_Memorial_Museum/AtGC8pEP">George Montagu Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2019</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_College_of_Music/tUrrcMDA">Royal College of Music</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_College_of_Music/tUrrcMDA">Royal College of Music, Museum and Library Collections</a></td><td>London</td><td>2020</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_College_of_Surgeons_of_England/W8gMPxua">Royal College of Surgeons of England</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Hunterian_Museum_(London)/ufhBSD04">Hunterian Museum Collection and the Archive and Library Collections</a></td><td>London</td><td>2013</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Engineers_Museum/qGTstaly">Royal Engineers Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Gillingham,_Kent/VVSNelCz">Gillingham</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Engineers_Museum/qGTstaly">Royal Engineers Museum</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Geographical_Society/hqVnM4Ln">Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Geographical_Society/hqVnM4Ln">Geographical Material Held by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Horticultural_Society/QrtXmlUo">Royal Horticultural Society</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Lindley_Library/6o7XJE9p">Lindley Library Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>2011</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects/grdupR5D">Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects/grdupR5D">British Architecture Library</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Brighton_and_Hove_City_Council/30BJLasm">Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton & Hove</a>, <a href="/facts/Brighton_and_Hove/u8VXRP79">Brighton and Hove</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Booth_Museum_of_Natural_History/3SlAAWAB">Booth Museum Natural History Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Brighton_and_Hove_City_Council/30BJLasm">Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton & Hove</a>, Brighton and Hove</td><td><a href="/facts/Brighton_Museum_%26_Art_Gallery/WLqcFHh4">Decorative Arts Collections</a> <a href="/facts/Hove_Museum_of_Creativity/jgejHHy7">Held by Royal Pavilion and</a> <a href="/facts/Preston_Manor,_Brighton/xWxj2DmF">Museums Brighton & Hove</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Brighton_and_Hove_City_Council/30BJLasm">Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton & Hove</a>, Brighton and Hove</td><td><a href="/facts/Brighton_and_Hove_City_Council/30BJLasm">World Art and Anthropology Collections Held by Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton & Hove</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Shakespeare_Birthplace_Trust/9QoQ6lFw">Shakespeare Birthplace Trust</a> and the <a href="/facts/Royal_Shakespeare_Company/CK2wrr7h">Royal Shakespeare Company</a>, <a href="/facts/Stratford-upon-Avon/4dD6Gnnv">Stratford-upon-Avon</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Shakespeare_Birthplace_Trust/9QoQ6lFw">The Shakespeare Collection</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Sir_John_Soane%27s_Museum/UfNukSHU">Sir John Soane's Museum</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Sir_John_Soane%27s_Museum/UfNukSHU">Sir John Soane's Museum Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Southampton_City_Council/F78w1bNr">Southampton City Council Arts & Heritage</a>, <a href="/facts/Southampton/LbJP1fIt">Southampton</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Southampton_City_Art_Gallery/DpcYR0Jf">Fine Art Collections Held by Southampton City Council Arts & Heritage</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Southampton City Council Arts & Heritage, Southampton</td><td><a href="/facts/SeaCity_Museum/g6e5KJYx">Archaeology Collections Held by Southampton</a> <a href="/facts/Tudor_House_and_Garden/mKYPmPgL">City Council Arts & Heritage</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/SS_Great_Britain/DDlSv9sS">SS Great Britain</a>, Bristol</td><td><a href="/facts/SS_Great_Britain/DDlSv9sS">The SS Great Britain Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2014</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge/NRRfwkfh">St John's College, University of Cambridge</a>, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/St_John%27s_College_Old_Library,_Cambridge/LHpCyfCD">The Old Library Collection Cambridge</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Staffordshire_and_Stoke-on-Trent_Archive_Service/9DmdlvvE">Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service</a>, <a href="/facts/Stafford/95BJ5Cm6">Stafford</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Staffordshire_and_Stoke-on-Trent_Archive_Service/9DmdlvvE">Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service Collections</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2011</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Stoke-on-Trent_City_Council/T01uzPmy">Stoke-on-Trent Museums</a>, <a href="/facts/Stoke-on-Trent/h5p04uev">Stoke-on-Trent</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Stoke-on-Trent_City_Council/T01uzPmy">The Stoke Museums Service Collections</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Telegraph_Museum_Porthcurno/duHLDNMW">Telegraph Museum Porthcurno</a>, <a href="/facts/Porthcurno/UHtKbMjC">Porthcurno</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Telegraph_Museum_Porthcurno/duHLDNMW">Core Collection of Submarine Telegraphy Objects & the Historic Archive Collections of Key International Telegraph Cable Companies</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2009</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Box,_Plymouth/jka9HJwx">The Box (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)</a>, <a href="/facts/Plymouth/FhYcrnqf">Plymouth</a></td><td><a href="/facts/The_Box,_Plymouth/jka9HJwx">The Cottonian Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Bront%C3%AB_Parsonage_Museum/0LkDc1rm">The Brontë Society</a>, <a href="/facts/Haworth/mUDkqUEH">Haworth</a>, Bradford</td><td><a href="/facts/Bront%C3%AB_Parsonage_Museum/0LkDc1rm">The Brontë Parsonage Museum Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>2023</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Canal_%26_River_Trust/bagFFgWf">The Canal and River Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Ellesmere_Port/sH7lUhVJ">Ellesmere Port</a></td><td><a href="/facts/National_Waterways_Museum/BRVjIzCN">Canal and River Trust Collections at National Waterways Museum - Ellesmere Port</a> <a href="/facts/Gloucester_Waterways_Museum/7sJlfE7u">and National Waterways Museum Gloucester</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Cheltenham_Trust/NmL1xIdQ">The Cheltenham Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Cheltenham/edrNxGtF">Cheltenham</a></td><td><a href="/facts/The_Wilson_(Cheltenham)/P5mKJfR6">Arts and Craft Collection at The Wilson</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Etches_Collection/d3hz8KL2">The Kimmeridge Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Kimmeridge/BTMCqQWy">Kimmeridge</a></td><td><a href="/facts/The_Etches_Collection/d3hz8KL2">The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2020</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Mass-Observation/nlhIuzDc">The Mass Observation Archive</a>, Brighton and Hove</td><td><a href="/facts/Mass-Observation/nlhIuzDc">The Mass Observation Archive</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Postal_Museum,_London/KPU1J4zM">The Postal Heritage Trust</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Postal_Museum,_London/KPU1J4zM">The Records Relating to the Operation, Policy, Development and Social Impact of the British Post Office from 1636 to the resent Day (Held By the Royal Mail Archive)</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Royal_Artillery_Museum/V3xBhd71">The Royal Artillery Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Salisbury/NJoAdBsG">Salisbury</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Royal_Artillery_Museum/V3xBhd71">The Royal Artillery Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1999</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Salisbury_Museum/gu80478A">The Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Trust</a>, Salisbury</td><td><a href="/facts/The_Salisbury_Museum/gu80478A">The Salisbury Museum Archaeology Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/The_Tank_Museum/RgYQozXL">The Tank Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Bovington_Camp/nSxh7Dfz">Bovington Camp</a></td><td><a href="/facts/The_Tank_Museum/RgYQozXL">The Tank Museum Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Wiener_Holocaust_Library/ByIgXTER">The Weiner Holocaust Library</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Wiener_Holocaust_Library/ByIgXTER">The Weiner Holocaust Library Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>2017</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Wordsworth_Trust/G3DUc0dL">The Wordsworth Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Grasmere_(village)/eAdsj3Sv">Grasmere</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Wordsworth_Trust/G3DUc0dL">The Wordsworth Trust Collection</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Torquay_Museum/zdTTNWcc">Torbay Museums Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/Torquay/LlCqQg6q">Torquay</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Torquay_Museum/zdTTNWcc">Quaternary Cave Collection & Archive</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2016</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Tullie_House_Museum_and_Art_Gallery/jfmyh5zx">Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery</a>, <a href="/facts/Carlisle/Luso8yVY">Carlisle</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tullie_House_Museum_and_Art_Gallery/jfmyh5zx">The Natural Science Collections at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery</a></td><td>North</td><td>2018</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Tyne_%26_Wear_Archives_%26_Museums/3WzD9QyK">Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums</a>, <a href="/facts/Newcastle_upon_Tyne/vfHwdn5F">Newcastle upon Tyne</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tyne_%26_Wear_Archives_%26_Museums/3WzD9QyK">Shipbuilding, Maritime & Maritime Trade Archive Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td>Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and <a href="/facts/Sunderland_City_Council/A8NKlI3e">Sunderland Museums & Heritage Service</a>, Newcastle and <a href="/facts/Sunderland/BJFnB8xo">Sunderland</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Tyne_%26_Wear_Archives_%26_Museums/3WzD9QyK">Science and</a> <a href="/facts/Sunderland_City_Council/A8NKlI3e">Technology Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and Sunderland Museums & Heritage Service, Newcastle and Sunderland</td><td><a href="/facts/Tyne_%26_Wear_Archives_%26_Museums/3WzD9QyK">Fine and Decorative</a> <a href="/facts/Sunderland_City_Council/A8NKlI3e">Art Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and Sunderland Museums & Heritage Service, Newcastle and Sunderland</td><td><a href="/facts/Tyne_%26_Wear_Archives_%26_Museums/3WzD9QyK">Natural</a> <a href="/facts/Sunderland_City_Council/A8NKlI3e">Sciences Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Unilever/9dnFaVFR">Unilever Art, Archives & Records Management</a>, <a href="/facts/Port_Sunlight/wq789hEN">Port Sunlight</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Unilever/9dnFaVFR">The Archive of the</a> <a href="/facts/United_Africa_Company/DA2MwPnz">United Africa Company</a></td><td>North</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_College_London/7dmHhCf5">University College London Culture</a>, <a href="/facts/Petrie_Museum_of_Egyptian_Archaeology/rAwgVaIB">Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Petrie_Museum_of_Egyptian_Archaeology/rAwgVaIB">Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Birmingham/b2YEFk2X">University of Birmingham Libraries, Special Collection</a>, Birmingham</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Birmingham/b2YEFk2X">Mingana Collection</a> <a href="/facts/Mingana_Collection/5EyQ7Yz7">of Middle Eastern Manuscripts</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Cambridge_Museums/Mef6P18X">University of Cambridge Museums</a> & <a href="/facts/Cambridge_University_Botanic_Garden/d9ahCIzS">Botanic Garden</a>, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/Fitzwilliam_Museum/4Qwv35cx">Fitzwilliam Museum Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>University of Cambridge Museums & Botanic Garden, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/Museum_of_Archaeology_and_Anthropology,_University_of_Cambridge/j4tISE3h">Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Collections</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>University of Cambridge Museums & Botanic Garden, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/Whipple_Museum_of_the_History_of_Science/3yIpFoFK">Whipple Museum of the History of Science Collections</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>University of Cambridge Museums & Botanic Garden, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/Cambridge_University_Museum_of_Zoology/koIwUzo5">Cambridge University Museum of Zoology Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td>University of Cambridge Museums & Botanic Garden, Cambridge</td><td><a href="/facts/Sedgwick_Museum_of_Earth_Sciences/9D9lVvnl">Sedgwick Museum Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Nottingham/PR8osn19">University of Nottingham Libraries (Manuscripts & Special Collections)</a>, Nottingham</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Nottingham/PR8osn19">The Portland (London) Collection; Portland of Welbeck Collection and Newcastle of Clumber Papers</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>University of Nottingham Libraries (Manuscripts & Special Collections), Nottingham</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Nottingham/PR8osn19">DH Lawrence Collection</a></td><td>Midlands</td><td>2008</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Reading/nohWeG6A">University of Reading (Special Collections)</a>, <a href="/facts/Reading,_Berkshire/QH9uGAJY">Reading</a></td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Reading/nohWeG6A">The Beckett Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td>University of Reading (Special Collections), Reading</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Reading/nohWeG6A">Archive of British Publishing and Printing</a></td><td>South East</td><td>2006</td></tr><tr><td>University of Reading, <a href="/facts/Museum_of_English_Rural_Life/pFwsLsD4">Museum of English Rural Life</a>, Reading</td><td><a href="/facts/Museum_of_English_Rural_Life/pFwsLsD4">The Museum of English Rural Life Archive, Library and Object Collections</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Bristol/naU7Gvlc">University of Bristol</a>, Bristol</td><td><a href="/facts/University_of_Bristol_Theatre_Collection/KTDH9BlD">University of Bristol Theatre Collection</a></td><td>South West</td><td>2019</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Weald_and_Downland_Living_Museum/5QNcrt8T">Weald and Downland Living Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Singleton,_West_Sussex/mfDjPqgR">Singleton</a>, <a href="/facts/Chichester/hwuE5byt">Chichester</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Weald_and_Downland_Living_Museum/5QNcrt8T">Weald and Downland Living Museum Collection</a></td><td>South East</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Wellcome_Trust/fBtPWxvj">Wellcome Trust</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/Wellcome_Library/Amj7feYn">The Wellcome Library</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Westminster_City_Archives/eYNwhAEQ">Westminster City Archives</a>, City of Westminster</td><td><a href="/facts/City_of_Westminster_Archives_Centre/eYNwhAEQ">Art and Design Collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>2005</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Whitworth_Art_Gallery/5tvSN9GD">Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester</a>, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/Whitworth_Art_Gallery/5tvSN9GD">Whitworth Art Gallery Collection of Textiles and Wallpaper</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td>Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester</td><td><a href="/facts/Whitworth_Art_Gallery/5tvSN9GD">Whitworth Art Gallery Collection of Fine Art</a></td><td>North</td><td>1998</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/William_Morris_Gallery/DjmIfyqP">William Morris Gallery</a>, London</td><td><a href="/facts/William_Morris_Gallery/DjmIfyqP">William Morris and Morris & Co. collection</a></td><td>London</td><td>2017</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Wiltshire_Museum/fovkSQIF">Wiltshire Museum</a>, <a href="/facts/Devizes/I2uY5lfV">Devizes</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Wiltshire_Museum/fovkSQIF">Wiltshire Museum Collections</a></td><td>South West</td><td>1997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/York_Museums_Trust/dwY3D7XA">York Museums Trust</a>, <a href="/facts/York/yzCEPtHz">York</a></td><td><a href="/facts/York_Art_Gallery/pMPbfAUv">York</a> <a href="/facts/York_Castle_Museum/tzWGvhTf">Museums</a> <a href="/facts/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Castlegate,_York/lbPqY8Dy">Trust</a> <a href="/facts/Yorkshire_Museum/lRlqFtKJ">Collections</a></td><td>North</td><td>1997</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Designated_landmark/gSl4aEdv">Designated landmark</a> (US)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Designated_place/nqLkqfxJ">Designated place</a> (Canada)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Arts Council - Designation Scheme". Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120718222932/http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/raising-standards/designation-scheme/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120718222932/http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/raising-standards/designation-scheme/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Designated Collections | Arts Council England". www.artscouncil.org.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2023. <a href="https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/publication/designated-outstanding-collections" target="_blank">https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/publication/designated-outstanding-collections</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>The first stately museum of England, The Independent. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-first-stately-museum-of-england-1196544.html" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-first-stately-museum-of-england-1196544.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Arts Council - Museums and libraries formally transfer to Arts Council England". Archived from the original on 9 January 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130109211657/http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/news/arts-council-news/museums-and-libraries-formally-transfer-arts-counc/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20130109211657/http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/news/arts-council-news/museums-and-libraries-formally-transfer-arts-counc/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Cambridge University plant collection awarded Designated status". BBC News - Cambridgeshire. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-61653919" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-61653919</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Garget, Jacqueline (31 May 2022). "Cambridge University Herbarium gains national significance accolade". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 October 2022. <a href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-herbarium-awarded-designated-status" target="_blank">https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-herbarium-awarded-designated-status</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>