Kenilworth Castle

Kenilworth Castle is a castle in the town of Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England, managed by English Heritage; much of it is in ruins. The castle was founded after the Norman Conquest of 1066; with development through to the Tudor period. It has been described by the architectural historian Anthony Emery as "the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later Middle Ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship".

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Kenilworth Castle: a motte and bailey and enclosure castle with mere, dams and 16th century gardens
castle, historic house museum, United Kingdom, 

• Historic England research records page^@
• Gatehouse Gazetteer page^@
• The Castle Studies Group Journal page^@ Kenilworth Castle as it may have been at the time of the great siege of 1266
• Sketchfab page^@ Kenilworth Castle photogrammetry
• CastlesFortsBattles page^@
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  Caludon Castle ⓘ
  Grade I listed castle in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK  

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  Weoley Castle ⓘ
  remains of a fortified manor house, in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

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  Warwick Castle ⓘ
  medieval castle in Warwickshire, England, UK  

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  Kenilworth Castle ⓘ
  castle ruin in the town of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, UK  

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  Winterbourne House and Garden ⓘ
  Botanic garden in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  Arbury Hall ⓘ
  Grade I listed historic house museum in Warwickshire, England, UK

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  Baddesley Clinton ⓘ
  manor house in Warwickshire, England, UK

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  Birmingham Back to Backs ⓘ
  last surviving court of back-to-back houses in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, now operated as a museum

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  Blakesley Hall ⓘ
  Tudor hall in Yardley, Birmingham, England: now a museum

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  Chedham's Yard ⓘ
  

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  Coughton Court ⓘ
  Grade I listed historic house museum in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom

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  Farnborough Hall ⓘ
  Grade I listed country house in Warwickshire, England, UK

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  Lunt Roman Fort ⓘ
  Roman fort in Warwickshire, England, UK  

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  Mary Arden's Farm ⓘ
  farmhouse and museum in Wilmcote, Warwickshire, United Kingdom, associated with William Shakespeare

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  Midland Air Museum ⓘ
  aviation museum in Baginton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

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  Museum Collections Centre ⓘ
  museum store, occasionally open to public, in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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  Museum of the Jewellery Quarter ⓘ
  former former jewellery factory, preserved as a museum of jewellery making

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  National Sea Life Centre ⓘ
  aquarium in Birmingham, United Kingdom

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  Packwood House ⓘ
  Grade I listed historic house museum in Warwick, United Kingdom

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  Queen's Royal Hussars Museum ⓘ
  

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  Royal Pump Rooms ⓘ
  Grade II listed building in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK

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  Sarehole Mill ⓘ
  water mill on the River Cole in Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

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  Selly Manor ⓘ
  14th-century building and museum in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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  St John's House Museum, Warwick ⓘ
  museum in Warwickshire, England, UK

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  Tyseley Locomotive Works ⓘ
  railway museum in Birmingham, England

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  Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum ⓘ
  

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  Wellesbourne Wartime Museum ⓘ
  museum in Wellesbourne, England, UK

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  West Midlands Police Museum ⓘ
  museum operated by West Midlands Police

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  Charlecote Park ⓘ
  country house near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK

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  Aston Hall ⓘ
  Jacobean house in Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK  

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  Ragley Hall ⓘ
  Grade I listed historic house museum in Stratford-on-Avon, United Kingdom

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  Upton House ⓘ
  country house in Warwickshire, England, UK

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  Market Hall Museum ⓘ
  museum in Warwick, UK

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  Birmingham Assay Office ⓘ
  one of the four assay offices in the United Kingdom

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  J. W. Evans Silver Factory ⓘ
  English Heritage in the West Midlands

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  Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ⓘ
  museum and art gallery in Birmingham, UK  

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  Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery ⓘ
  museum and gallery in Riversley Park, Nuneaton, England, United Kingdom

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  Barber Institute of Fine Arts ⓘ
  Art gallery and concert hall in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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  Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum ⓘ
  museum in Kenilworth, England, UK

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  Herbert Art Gallery and Museum ⓘ
  museum and art gallery in Coventry

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  Roman Alcester Museum ⓘ
  museum in Alcester, England, UK

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  Nuneaton Heritage Centre ⓘ
  museum in Nuneaton, England, UK

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  Marton Museum of Country Bygones ⓘ
  museum in Marton, Rugby, England, UK

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  Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park ⓘ
  zoo

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  Aircraft Radio Museum ⓘ
  museum in Coventry, England, UK

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  Earlswood Village Museum ⓘ
  museum in Solihull, England, UK

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  Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum ⓘ
  military museum in Warwick, England, United Kingdom

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  Coventry Transport Museum ⓘ
  Transport museum in Coventry, United Kingdom

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  Forge Mill Needle Museum ⓘ
  Industry museum in Redditch, England

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  Warwickshire Museum of Rural Life ⓘ
  museum in Moreton Morrell, England, UK

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  National Motorcycle Museum ⓘ
  motorcycle museum in West Midlands, England

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  Stratford Butterfly Farm ⓘ
  UK visitor attraction

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  British Motor Museum ⓘ
  transport museum in Gaydon, United Kingdom

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  Cadbury World ⓘ
  visitor attraction in Birmingham, England and Dunedin, New Zealand

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  Lutterworth and District Museum ⓘ
  museum in Lutterworth, England, United Kingdom

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  Naseby Battle And Farm Museum ⓘ
  museum in Kettering, England, UK

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  Soho House ⓘ
  18th-century house in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. Former home of Matthew Boulton, now a museum  

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  Henley-in-Arden Heritage Centre ⓘ
  museum in Henley-in-Arden, England, UK

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  Hinckley and District Museum ⓘ
  museum in Hinckley, England, United Kingdom

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  Compton Verney Art Gallery ⓘ
  art gallery at Compton Verney, England in a restored Grade I listed 18th century mansion

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  Bedworth Heritage Centre - The Parsonage And Nurses House ⓘ
  museum in Bedworth, England, UK

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  Rugby Art Gallery and Museum ⓘ
  Art gallery and museum in the United Kingdom

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  Pen Museum ⓘ
  museum recording the history of pen making, in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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  Thinktank ⓘ
  Science museum  

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  Coventry Watch Museum ⓘ
  museum in Coventry, England, UK

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  Robert Peel Society & Police Museum ⓘ
  museum in Tamworth, England, UK

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  Rugby School Museum ⓘ
  museum in Rugby, England, UK

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  Stratford Armouries ⓘ
  museum in Stratford-upon-Avon, England

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  Eastside Projects ⓘ
  artist-run free public space

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  The Coventry Music Museum ⓘ
  museum in Coventry, England, UK

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  The Mad Museum ⓘ
  museum in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK

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  Warwickshire County Cricket Club Museum ⓘ
  museum in Edgbaston, England, UK

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  Phil Silvers Archival Museum ⓘ
  private museum in Coventry, England

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1881 J. W. Evans Silver Factory

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1932 Barber Institute of Fine Arts

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1938 Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum

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1939 Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

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1943 Roman Alcester Museum

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1954 Nuneaton Heritage Centre

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1964 Marton Museum of Country Bygones

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1974 Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park

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1975 Aircraft Radio Museum

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1977 Earlswood Village Museum

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1979 Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum

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1980 Coventry Transport Museum

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1983 Forge Mill Needle Museum

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1984 Warwickshire Museum of Rural Life

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1984 National Motorcycle Museum

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1985 Stratford Butterfly Farm

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1990 British Motor Museum

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1990 Cadbury World

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1991 Lutterworth and District Museum

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1995 Naseby Battle And Farm Museum

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1995 Soho House

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1996 Henley-in-Arden Heritage Centre

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1996 Hinckley and District Museum

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1998 Compton Verney Art Gallery

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2000 Bedworth Heritage Centre - The Parsonage And Nurses House

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2000 Rugby Art Gallery and Museum

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2001 Pen Museum

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2001 Thinktank

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2003 Coventry Watch Museum

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2004 Robert Peel Society & Police Museum

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2007 Rugby School Museum

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2007 Stratford Armouries

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2008 Eastside Projects

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2010 The Coventry Music Museum

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2012 The Mad Museum

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2012 Warwickshire County Cricket Club Museum

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2015 Phil Silvers Archival Museum

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Kenilworth Castle in snow

Kenilworth Castle in snow

Kenilworth Castle MMB 06 Phasianus colchicus

Kenilworth Castle MMB 19

Kenilworth Castle keep 2016

Kenilworth Castle, Leicester's Building 2016

Kenilworth Castle stable block

Kenilworth Castle 2016

Kenilworth Castle 2016

Kenilworth Castle keep from the south 2016

• ‘I was never more in love with an olde howse nor never newe worke coulde be better bestowed’: The Earl of Leicester’s remodelling of Kenilworth Castle for Queen Elizabeth I - , Q1860, 2009
• The Earl of Leicester's Inventory of Kenilworth Castle, c.1578 - scientific article published in June 2007
• Two levels of the Mere at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire - article published in 1965, online
• Kenilworth Castle in 1563 - scientific article published in June 2008
• 'The best proportioned old building in England': Kenilworth Castle 1588–1722 - scientific article published in November 2010
• Kenilworth castle - a discussion of its entrances - scientific article published in 1971
• A Plan for Kenilworth Castle at Longleat - scientific article published in June 2007
• Kenilworth Castle's Elizabethan Garden - scientific article published on January 2009
• Sidelights on the Fourteenth-Century Architecture at Kenilworth Castle - chapter published in 2011
• Monuments, Mobility and Medieval Perceptions of Designed Landscapes: The Pleasance, Kenilworth - article, Q1860, 2015
• Side-Lights on Kenilworth Castle - article published in 1944, Q1860
• The English Castle - book published in 2011
• Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire - guidebook published in 1991
• The Siege of Kenilworth Castle, 1266 - scientific article published in November 2010
• Kenilworth Castle - guidebook first published in 1948, English, online
• Kenilworth castle as it may have been at the time of the great siege of 1266 - scientific article published on December 2015, online
• Reclamation of waste ground for the pleasance at Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire - article published in 1964, online
• A Note on Kenilworth Castle: The Change to Royal Ownership - article published in 1953, Q1860, online
• Arrow-loops in the Great Tower of Kenilworth castle: Symbolism vs Active/Passive 'Defence' - scientific article published on December 2011, online
• The Castle of Kenilworth - scientific article published in January 1875, Q1860
• A fragment of architecture at Kenilworth Castle, and its implications - article published in 1999
• Kenilworth Castle since 1962 - article published in 1969, online

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Historic England research records page@		Wikidata
link	page		Gatehouse Gazetteer page@		Wikidata
link	page		The Castle Studies Group Journal page@	Kenilworth Castle as it may have been at the time of the great siege of 1266	Wikidata
link	page		Sketchfab page@	Kenilworth Castle photogrammetry	Wikidata
link	page		CastlesFortsBattles page@		Wikidata
site	castle		Caludon Castle	castle, archaeological site	Wikidata
site	castle		Weoley Castle	ruins, archaeological site, archaeological museum, fortified manor house	Wikidata
site	castle	1068	Warwick Castle	castle, tourist attraction, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	castle	1122	Kenilworth Castle	castle, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	garden	1903	Winterbourne House and Garden	botanical garden	Wikidata
site	museum		Arbury Hall	historic house museum, English country house, country house	Wikidata
site	museum		Baddesley Clinton	museum, manor house, historic house museum, English country house	Wikidata
site	museum		Birmingham Back to Backs	back-to-back houses, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Blakesley Hall	historic house museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Chedham's Yard	museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Coughton Court	English country house, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Farnborough Hall	English country house, historic house museum, country house	Wikidata
site	museum		Lunt Roman Fort	castrum, military museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Mary Arden's Farm	farmhouse, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Midland Air Museum	aviation museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Museum Collections Centre	museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Museum of the Jewellery Quarter	museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum		National Sea Life Centre	zoo, public aquarium	Wikidata
site	museum		Packwood House	historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Queen's Royal Hussars Museum	regimental museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Royal Pump Rooms	museum, art museum, bathhouse, local authority museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Sarehole Mill	museum, watermill, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Selly Manor	historic house museum, manor house, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum		St John's House Museum, Warwick	historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Tyseley Locomotive Works	museum, motive power depot	Wikidata
site	museum		Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum		Wellesbourne Wartime Museum	military museum	Wikidata
site	museum		West Midlands Police Museum	museum, police museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1558	Charlecote Park	English country house, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1635	Aston Hall	historic house museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1683	Ragley Hall	English country house, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1695	Upton House	English country house, historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1836	Market Hall Museum	museum, local museum, local authority museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1877	Birmingham Assay Office	museum, building, Assay office	Wikidata
site	museum	1881	J. W. Evans Silver Factory	museum, factory, history museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1885	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	art museum, local museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1917	Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery	local authority museum, local museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1932	Barber Institute of Fine Arts	art museum, university museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1938	Kenilworth Abbey Barn Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1939	Herbert Art Gallery and Museum	art museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1943	Roman Alcester Museum	museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1954	Nuneaton Heritage Centre	heritage center	Wikidata
site	museum	1964	Marton Museum of Country Bygones	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1974	Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park	zoo	Wikidata
site	museum	1975	Aircraft Radio Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1977	Earlswood Village Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1979	Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum	military museum, regimental museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1980	Coventry Transport Museum	museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1983	Forge Mill Needle Museum	industry museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1984	Warwickshire Museum of Rural Life	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1984	National Motorcycle Museum	national museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1985	Stratford Butterfly Farm	butterfly house	Wikidata
site	museum	1990	British Motor Museum	museum, transport museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1990	Cadbury World	commercial museum, chocolate museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1991	Lutterworth and District Museum	museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1995	Naseby Battle And Farm Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1995	Soho House	historic house museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1996	Henley-in-Arden Heritage Centre	heritage center	Wikidata
site	museum	1996	Hinckley and District Museum	museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	1998	Compton Verney Art Gallery	art museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2000	Bedworth Heritage Centre - The Parsonage And Nurses House	heritage center	Wikidata
site	museum	2000	Rugby Art Gallery and Museum	art museum, local authority museum, local museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2001	Pen Museum	museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2001	Thinktank	science museum, independent museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2003	Coventry Watch Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2004	Robert Peel Society & Police Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2007	Rugby School Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2007	Stratford Armouries	military museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2008	Eastside Projects	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2010	The Coventry Music Museum	music museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2012	The Mad Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2012	Warwickshire County Cricket Club Museum	museum	Wikidata
site	museum	2015	Phil Silvers Archival Museum	private museum	Wikidata
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle in snow		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle in snow		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle MMB 06 Phasianus colchicus		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle MMB 19		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle keep 2016		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle, Leicester's Building 2016		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle stable block		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle 2016		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle 2016		Commons
commons	image		Kenilworth Castle keep from the south 2016		Commons