Museum sights in Warwickshire
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Coventry Transport Museum
Down by the bus station, this stupendous museum is every schoolboy's dream. Inside you can view hundreds of motor cars from across the ages, from the earliest 'horseless carriages' produced by Daimler in the 1890s to the jet-powered car that broke the land speed record (and the sound barrier) in 1997. Also on display are motorcycles, buses, tractors and early pushbikes and the car that Field Marshall Montgomery drove to Berlin in WWII. Kids will love the atmospheric 'Coventry Blitz Experience' and the Thrust speed simulator.
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Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm
Bored of the Bard? Unleash your inner insect-lover at this 'farm', just east of the town centre. It's a large walk-through greenhouse housing hundreds of species of exotic butterflies in tropical foliage. Arachnophobes beware - the 'Arachnoland' scorpion and spider section may keep its specimens behind glass, but it is guaranteed to get your heart racing.
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Shakespeare Countryside Museum
The home of William's mother is now used to house the Shakespeare Countryside Museum, with exhibits tracing local country life over the past four centuries. Plan to spend more time here than at the other properties to appreciate its unique collection of rare farm animals.
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Shakespeare Exhibition
Tickets to Shakespeare's Birthplace include admission to the adjacent Shakespeare Exhibition, where well-devised displays chart the life of Stratford's most famous son.
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Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum
Touch down for rugby memorabilia. This tiny museum run by Webb Ellis, Rugby-based manufacturers of balls and rugby gear, is housed in a 19th-century cobbler's shop, where the first rugby ball is supposed to have been made in 1842. Count yourself lucky if you witness traditional ball making - hand-stitching action is rare to see.
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Rugby Art Gallery and Museum
This newish centre briefly enshrined rugby's holy grail - the Webb Ellis Cup - in 2006. These days, visitors make do with a contemporary British art collection that features Lucian Freud. Also visit-worthy are artefacts from nearby Tripontium (the closest you'll get to these Roman digs) and nostalgic local history exhibits. The tourist office is here too.
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