Museums around Keswick on Derwentwater of Industrial interest.
All of these Museums are worth visiting. Each has a different emphasis.
Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum
Based in Threlkeld Quarry (signed from A66) on the south side of the valley with Blencathra towering opposite.
Plenty of open-air exhibits for the Excavator enthusiast with an indoor Mining Museum. Gold panning and Underground Experience.
Keswick Mining Museum and Cumbria Mining Heritage Centre.
At Ottley Road in Keswick opposite the Bell Close Carpark
"Probably the best Mining Museum in the North of England" Ian Tyler. A vast and well displayed collection of mining artefacts and memorabilia. Shop with lots of new and second hand books. Gold panning.
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery (FREE)
In Station Road, Keswick on the way to the Leisure Pool, Keswick Hotel and Skiddaw
The first purpose built museum in Cumbria (1897). Victorian museum of geology,archaeology, minerals, fossils, natural & local history. 500 year old cat - it's actually nearer 700 years old! Flintoft's Model of the Lake District - 8 feet across. Regular summer exhibitions. Poets' Corner - Southey, Wordsworth, Walpole, and ...
In the Southey Trading Estate near the Greta Bridge north-west of Keswick Market Square.
takes you through the manufacture of pencils from mining the graphite (Wad in the Seathwaite mine) to finished product - showing ancient and modern methods. very large shop with play and demonstration areas
2 July 2005