Explorations and Experiments: Early Scientific Discoveries in the Lakes

Contact

Organizer: Keswick Museum

Name: Keswick Museum

Phone: 017687 73263

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://keswickmuseum.org.uk/

Address

Fitz Park
Station Road, Keswick, Cumbria,
Keswick
CA12 4NF

Price Notes

Included in museum admission

Direction

Travelling from Penrith on A66, follow signs for town centre. Turn right after war memorial on to Station Road.

Details

From 8th July

This exhibition asks what made the Lakes such a hotbed of scientific discovery in the 18th and 19th centuries. Telling the story of early scientific explorers such as John Dalton, Jonathan Otley, Benjamin Franklin, and Beatrix Potter, Explorations and Experiments will show how the landscape of Cumbria inspired them to experiment – and asks how it might inspire you.

With loans from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and the Armitt Museum, alongside objects from Keswick Museum’s own collections.

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