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The Designation Scheme is an English system that awards "Designated status" to museum, library and archive collections of national and international importance. The Scheme is administered by Arts Council England (ACE). As of 2012, 140 collections are officially recognized. National museums are not eligible for Designated status.
The Scheme was first launched in 1997 under the auspices of what eventually became the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and originally covered only museum collections. Harewood House became the first stately home to be awarded Designated status in 1998. The scheme was expanded to cover libraries and archives in 2005. Responsibility was transferred to the Arts Council in October 2011 following the closure of the MLA.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
Bath & North East Somerset Heritage Services
Fashion Museum, Bath
Roman Baths Museum
Bath Record Office
Birmingham Libraries (Photography collections Archive collections)
Birmingham Central Library
Birmingham Museums & Heritage (Fine and decorative arts Science and industry (housed at Thinktank) Birmingham history (including numismatics))
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (main site)
Aston Hall
Blakesley Hall
Jewellery Quarter
Sarehole Mill
Soho House (main site)
Beamish Museum, County Durham
The Tank Museum, Bovington Camp
Bowes Museum, Durham
Bristol City Council Museums, Galleries & Archives Service (Collections related to Bristol’s role as a manufacturing city and major seaport)
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (main site)
Bristol Industrial Museum
Georgian House
Red Lodge
Blaise Castle House Museum
Bristol Archives and Bristol Central Library’s Local Studies Service
Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (The arts and crafts collections)
Chetham's Library (The whole of the collections)
Colchester Castle Museum (Archaeology collections)
Compton Verney, Warwickshire (Archaic Chinese bronzes)
Cornwall Record Office (The archives relating to Cornwall's hard-rock mining industry)
Corporation of London (Guildhall Library and London Metropolitan Archives) (The History of London collection)
Courtauld Gallery, London
Coventry Transport Museum
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Durham University Library (The Bishop Cosin’s Library and The Sudan Archive)
Durham University Oriental Museum (Egyptian and Chinese collections)
Firepower, The Royal Artillery Museum, London
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Hampshire Record Office, Winchester
Harewood House, Harewood, Leeds
Horniman Museum and Gardens, London (The musical instruments collections and ethnographic collections)
Institute of Engineering and Technology, London
Institution of Civil Engineers, London (The library, archive, and works of Art)
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron including Old Furnace
Blists Hill Victorian Town
Coalport China Museum
Jackfield Tile Museum
Broseley Pipeworks
Darby Houses
Library and Archives
Jewish Museum, London (The Ritual Judaica collection)
John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
King's College London (Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives)
Kingston upon Hull City Museums and Art Galleries
Ferens Art Gallery
Hull and East Riding Museum
Hull Maritime Museum
Streetlife Museum
Wilberforce House
Lambeth Palace Library
Lancashire County Museum Service (The textile industry collections)
Higher Hill Museum, Helmshore
Whitaker's Mill, Helmshore
Queen Street Mill, Burnley
Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham
Leeds Museums and Galleries (Natural science, fine and decorative arts, and industrial collections)
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leeds City Museum
Lotherton Hall
Temple Newsam House
Armley Mills Industrial Museum
Thwaite Mills Museum
Leeds University Library Special Collections (The English Literature Collection, The Romany Collection, The Cookery Collection, The Leeds Russian Archive, The Liddle Collection)
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Freemasons' Hall, London
Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln (Episcopal Rolls and Registers)
Liverpool and Merseyside Record Offices (Photographic image collection)
London School of Economics and Political Science
British Library of Political and Economic Science
The Women's Library @ LSE
London Transport Museum
Manchester City Galleries (Fine and decorative art, and Costume collections)
Manchester City Art Gallery
Platt Hall, the Gallery of Costume
Wythenshawe Hall
Heaton Hall
Manchester Museum
Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, London (The Silver Studio collection)
Museum of London and Museum of London Docklands
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Museums of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London (The Hunterian Collection)
National Co-operative Archive, Co-operative College, Manchester
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire
National Tramway Museum, Crich
Norfolk Record Office (Collections relating to the history of Norfolk)
Northampton Central Museum and Art Gallery (Boot and Shoe Collection)
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Oxford University Library (Special collections at the Bodleian Library: Rare books, Manuscripts and Archives, Maps, Music, and Oxford University Archives)
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
People's History Museum, Manchester
Petrie Museum, London
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (The Cottonian collection)
Royal Academy of Music, London (The Special Collections and Archives of the Royal Academy of Music Library)
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (The world cultures collections)
Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) (All geographical collections)
Royal Institute of British Architects, London (The British Architecture Library)
The Royal Mail Archive, London
Royal Pavilion, Libraries and Museums (Brighton and Hove) (Decorative arts, World Art and Anthropology, and Natural History)
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
Royal Pavilion
Preston Manor
Booth Museum of Natural History
St John's College, Cambridge (Old Library collection)
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum (The archaeology collections)
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Upon Avon (All collections relating to Shakespeare’s life and times)
Sheffield City Museum (Metalwork collections)
Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Southampton City Council Cultural Services
Southampton City Art Gallery
Museum of Archaeology, Southampton
Stoke-on-Trent Museums Service
Potteries Museum
Etruria Industrial Museum
Ford Green Hall
Tyne and Wear Archives (Shipbuilding, Marine and Maritime Trade Collection)
Tyne and Wear Museums (Fine and Decorative Arts, Natural Sciences, and Science and Technology Collections)
Discovery Museum
Laing Art Gallery
Monkwearmouth Station Museum
Shipley Art Gallery
South Shields Museum and Art Gallery
Stephenson Railway Museum
Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery
Washington 'F' Pit Museum
Unilever Archives & Records Management (Unilever plc), Manchester (Archive of the United Africa Company)
University of Birmingham Library (The Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts)
University of Cambridge Churchill Archives Centre
University of Nottingham (The D. H. Lawrence collection; collections related to the Portland (London), Portland of Wellbeck and Newcastle of Clumber families)
University of Reading (Archive of British Publishing and Printing)
Library (The Beckett Collection)
Museum of English Rural Life
University of Sussex Library (The Mass-Observation Archive)
University of Warwick Modern Records Centre
Waterways Trust
National Waterways Museum, Gloucester (lead site)
Ellesmere Port museum, Ellesmere Port
Canal Museum, Stoke Bruerne
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester
Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Stoke on Trent
Wellcome Trust (All collections within the Wellcome Library)
Westminster Libraries and Archives (The Art and Design collection)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Wiltshire Museum, Devizes
Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Lake District
York Museums Trust
York Castle Museum
York City Art Gallery
The York Story
Yorkshire Museum
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