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Museums
Helena Thompson Museum
This museum displays potter, silver, glass and furniture covering the Georgian, Victorian and Regency eras as well as ladies and children’s clothing and accessories between the eighteenth and twentieth-centuries.
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Museums
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum
Built on the site of the former Threlkeld Quarry, this elevated site offers excellent views of Blencathra and the surrounding fells.
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Museums
Penrith Museum
It was used for educational purposes until 1970 and now houses the new tourist information centre.
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Museums
Folk Museum
A small museum attached to the local library offering a full scale reconstruction of a drift from the Hodbarrow iron mine.
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Museums
Maritime Museum
This museum is based on a collection started by the Senhouse family in the late sixteenth-century.
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Museums
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
Here you will find an excellent example of a small Victorian Museum retaining most of its original character.
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Museums
The Cumberland Pencil Museum
The manufacturing of pencils in Keswick came about from the mining of graphite in Borrowdale.
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Museums
Cars of the Stars Motor Museum
A fine collection covering many of the celebrity vehicles which were made famous through television series and movies.
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Museums
Abbot Hall Art Gallery
A fine Georgian house with richly furnished rooms boasting fine examples of pieces by Gillows of Lancaster, well known Cabinet Makers.
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Museums
Hill Top
This is the place where Beatrix Potter wrote a number of her books.
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Museums
Beatrix Potter Gallery
An attractive seventeenth-century building, which was the office of William Heelis (who was Beatrix Potter’s husband) a local solicitor.
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Museums
Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum
Dove Cottage the home of William Wordsworth between 1799 and 1808. Showing off his contemporary furnishings and other personal belongings.
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Museums
The Ruskin Museum
Cannon Rawnsley opened this museum in 1901 to commemorate the life of John Ruskin, one of his friends.
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Museums
The Mineral and Mining Museum
An excellent assortment of fossils and some old miner’s tools, lamps and other items on display. There is an outstanding display of minerals.
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Museums
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
This museum and art gallery is housed in a Jacobean building, which has a vast amount of natural history and Roman collections and has been extended to build an outstanding museum and art gallery.
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Museums
The Guildhall Museum
This fifteenth-century building has been carefully restored and is a fine example of medieval construction, a timber frame with wattle and daub inside walls.
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Museums
The Lakeland Motor Museum
This museum contains a replica of Donald Campbell’s Bluebird along with over 80 historic cars, motorcycles, bicycles and plenty of other motoring bits and bobs.
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Museums
The Dock Museum
This museum is very close to the shipyards that have recently produced Trident nuclear submarines and warships.
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