Fine Arts
Ceramics
other Decorative Arts
- furniture (including clocks)
- glass
- ivories
- silver (including regimental silver)
- watches Other
- animal heads and horns (treated as furniture)
- metal ware
Archives
Military
Arms and armour, (includes part of East Lancashire Regiment Collection), General Scarlett Collection)Collections not currently included here
Founding collections
Egyptology, Ethnography and the Wright collection consist mainly of objects given in the first ten years of the museum's existence and these collections are now closed.
Others
Numismatics, Natural History (Bird eggs, Entomology, Fossils, Minerals, Rocks, Shells, Taxidermy), Rugs, Textiles, Widdows collection of costume dolls