In praise of small museums

A series in praise of small museums across the UK.

'Museums are our national memories'
Melvyn Bragg on the importance of our small museums
'The only museum named after a cross dressing former Scots Guard'
Poet Ian McMillan describes the Maurice Dobson Museum in Darfield, South Yorkshire.
The museum with a 'full panoply of mowers'
Exploring the British Lawnmower Museum
'Step back in time' at the Framework Knitters Museum
The Framework Knitters Museum in Wigston
'Hear Grieg as it's meant to be played by Grieg'
The Museum of Mechanical Music in Northleach
In praise of Bakelite
Exploring the Bakelite Museum in Williton
'A national museum in a matchbox'
The Oliver Cromwell museum in Huntingdon
The museum 'packed with the spirit of its founder'
Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks us through the Savings Bank Museum in Ruthwell
The Museum of Carpet
Broadcasting House's small museums series