The American Museum and Gardens is located in Claverton, near Bath, England. The building, a country house designed for John Vivian by Jeffry Wyatville between 1819 and 1820.

The museum housed there was founded by Dallas Pratt and John Judkyn, passionate collectors of antiques.

The American Museum and Gardens was officially opened to the public on July 1, 1961 and, outside the United States, remains the only museum dedicated to American decorative arts.

The museum, in fact, is committed to making American culture known in England with the mission of also strengthening relations between the two countries.

The collection, in the manor house, houses a variety of American cultural artifacts, decorative arts and antiques, plus a series of period rooms within which reconstructions of various historical American interiors are proposed. Also on display are world-renowned Shaker furniture, fabrics and quilts, 200 historical maps and the most important collection of American folk art in Europe featuring artists such as Susan Powers, as well as portrait painters John Brewster, Jr., Ammi Phillips and William Matthew Prior. There are also eagles sculpted by Wilhelm Schimmel and Frederick Myrick.

The American Museum and Gardens also organizes an annual exhibition on the latest American art.