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John Pinkerton Canal Cruises offers public and chartered trips on the Basingstoke Canal. Read more

Chobham Museum is home to a number of exhibits including articles and pictures of local life. Read more

The East Surrey Museum is a small but highly attractive museum dedicated to the preservation and display of artefacts and documents relating to the social history, archaeology and geology of East Surrey from the earliest times to the more recent past.  Read more

Egham Museum is an independent, community museum and a dedicated teaching museum. Specialising in providing opportunities for young people to gain experience, develop transferable vocational skills and, most importantly, to devise, develop and deliver their own projects. Check the website for opening days and times, as… Read more

Guildford Museum is home to a number of exhibits including areas dedicated to the author Lewis Carroll as well as various aspects of the history of the local area. Entry is free. Guildford Museum is open Wednesday to Saturdays, 12pm to 4.30pm (last entry 4pm) Read more

Godalming Museum is home to a number of exhibits including those relating to local history and well known past residents. It also has an extensive art and craft collection. It offers educational sessions on-site and in schools. Read more

The Leatherhead Museum of Local History is in Hampton Cottage, a timbered 17th Century house at 64 Church Street. There are collections of: Anglo-Saxon finds; Ashtead pottery (1923 to 1935); Ronson lighters and Goblin items; models of Hampton Cottage and a Roman Villa at Ashtead;… Read more

The Rural Life Centre is a country life museum, distributed over ten acres of field, woodland and barns. Its exhibits comprise of a large number of implements and devices marking over 150 years of farming. Activities and events are provided for children. Read more

The Museum is devoted to the history of Spelthorne, which includes Ashford, Laleham, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell and Sunbury and is the only establishment of this kind in the Borough. Read more

Surrey Heath Museum tells the stories of the area's past - covering the Stone Age, Iron Age, Roman times, Medieval Surrey Heath, Early Transportation, Highwayman, Coaching Inns, The Royal Military College, the Area's Agricultural and Horticultural past, the Development of Camberley and much more.  … Read more