Our digital map shows UK museums and visitor attractions which are within former Cold War sites, or which have Cold War related collections.
To help identify where Cold War collections or heritage sites are located, the links below have been arranged by former postal county.
National & Other Organisations
British Nuclear Test Veterans Association (BNTVA)
Cold War Conversations Oral History Project
Imperial War Museum
National Radio Centre
Red Atlas – How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
Support for veterans and their families
The Military Vehicle Trust
The View East
Argyle
Avon
Aerospace Bristol
The Helicopter Museum
Ayrshire
Berkshire
Greenham Common Control Tower and Cafe
Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire
The National Museum of Computing
Cambridgeshire
Airfield Research Group
IWM Duxford
Magic Mountain
The Centre for Computing History
Cheshire
Avro Heritage Museum
Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker
Jodrell Bank
Clwyd
Rhydymwyn Valley History Society
Cornwall
Davidstow Airfield
Goonhilly Downs
County Armagh
Northern Ireland’s Secret Bunker
Cumbria
Solway Aviation Museum
The Dock Museum
Derbyshire
Dorset
Nothe Fort
Royal Signals Museum
The Tank Museum
Dumfriesshire
Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum
Dunbartonshire
East Lothian
Essex
Combined Military Services Museum
Great Baddow Chain Home Radar Tower
Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker
Peace Wood – Harlow Town Park
Royal Gunpowder Mills
Fife
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Farnborough Air Sciences Trust Museum
National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth
The Royal Navy Submarine Museum
Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight
National Trust – The Needles Old Battery and New Battery
Kent
Dover Castle
Gravesend nuclear bunker
HMS Ocelot
National Trust – Chartwell
Royal Engineers Museum
The Historic Dockyard Chatham
Lancashire
Huey Flight Experience – Fly in a Vietnam War Helicopter
IWM North
People’s History Museum
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
London
HMS Belfast
National Army Museum
Royal Air Force Museum London
Royal Arsenal
Science Museum
Midlothian
National Museum of Scotland
The Barnton Bunker Preservation Society SCIO
Norfolk
City of Norwich Aviation Museum
Langham Dome
Muckleburgh Military Collection
RAF Air Defence Radar Museum
RAF Coltishall Heritage Centre
RAF Sculthorpe Heritage Centre
The Norfolk Tank Museum
North Humberside
North Yorkshire
York Cold War Bunker
Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial
Northamptonshire
Harrington Aviation Museum
Sywell Aerodrome
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Ross-shire
Shropshire
Staffordshire
National Memorial Arboretum (Alrewas, Staffordshire)
Somerset
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum
Suffolk
Bawdsey Radar Transmitter Block
Bentwaters Cold War Museum
Gorse Industrial Estate
Landguard Fort
Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum
Orford Ness – National Trust
Orford Ness – Independent Research Group
Wattisham Station Heritage Museum
Surrey
Brooklands Museum
The Museum of Military Medicine
Sussex
Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps Bunker
Tangmere Military Aviation Museum
Tyne and Wear
North East Land, Sea and Air Museums
West Midlands
West Yorkshire
National Science and Media Museum