Keswick Museum
Come rain or shine, no visit to Keswick is complete without a trip to the Town’s award-winning museum, situated next to the beautiful Fitz Park and near the popular Keswick to Threlkeld railway trail.
Through exhibitions, family activities and special events, find out about life in the Keswick area, its characters and the many stories that have put the town firmly on the map.
Just a five-minute walk from the centre of town.
“A fantastic little museum- don’t miss it.”
Open daily 10am to 4pm. (Closed 24 – 27 Dec 2024 and 4 - 19 Jan 2025 inclusive)
Entry price: All tickets include free return visits for 12 months. Free admission to shop, café and Community Gallery.
Adult (16 years +) £7.00
Student with card £4
Child (5–15 years) £4
Child (under 5 years) Free
2 Adult Family (up to 4 children) £17
1 Adult Family (up to 4 children) £10
Children 15 years and under must be accompanied by responsible adult.
“Don’t wait for a rainy day to experience it.”
Contact us: [email protected]
017687 73263
www.facebook.com/keswickmuseum
Twitter: @keswickmuseum
Location
Find us:
On Station Road, Keswick CA12 4NF
Regular buses to Keswick from Grasmere, Windermere, Workington and Penrith. Make the most of the £2 capped single fare until December 2024.
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk
Accessibility:
All areas are accessible. Access/Assistance dogs welcome.
Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Management Ltd is a charity no 1156330
Re-imagining Goldilocks: From Southey to Puss in Boots
A new exhibition at Keswick Museum celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of Keswick’s most famous characters – Poet Laureate and writer of the Three Bears tale Robert Southey.
Southey was a prolific and influential poet, essayist, historian, travel-writer and biographer who lived with his family at Greta Hall in Keswick from 1803 onwards. This new exhibition reveals the many different versions of the classic ‘Three Bears’ fairytale for which Southey became famous. From Goldilocks to Puss in Boots and everything in between, the exhibition explores what stories we tell when we reimagine classic tales.
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/
Southey before Keswick - from teenage radical to Laker Laureate
An online talk.
Join Keswick Museum for a special online talk by Rebecca Nesvet, Professor of English at Uni of Wisconsin – Green Bay on the life of the young ‘teenage radical’ Robert Southey before he settled in Keswick.
Before Southey lived in Keswick or dreamed of serving as Poet Laureate, he was quite the radical. The son of a linen-draper, he attended London's Westminster School, where he befriended powerful politicians' children, became entranced by the French Revolution, and rebelled against the school's authoritarian culture. Rebecca Nesvet will introduce this 'Young Southey': author, by age 20, of a number of radical poems, two neo-medieval prose romances, and an 'Essay on Romance.' We might know him as one of those Bright Young Things—had he not lived to grow up.
7.30pm 24th September.
Register via
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southey-before-keswick-from-teenage-radical-to-laker-laureate-tickets-1021610232707?aff=oddtdtcreator
Author event with Jenny Price
Local children's book author Jenny Prince will be reading her Magical Mindfulness books and showing children how they can manage their emotions & energy and calm their mind & body in a fun and magical way. Free drop-in event for children from age 3 and upwards.
Your enquiry will be sent directly to Keswick Museum. Please fill in as much detail as you can.
Come rain or shine, no visit to Keswick is complete without a trip to the Town’s award-winning museum, situated next to the beautiful Fitz Park and near the popular Keswick to Threlkeld railway trail.
Through exhibitions, family activities and special events, find out about life in the Keswick area, its characters and the many stories that have put the town firmly on the map.
Just a five-minute walk from the centre of town.
“A fantastic little museum- don’t miss it.”
Open daily 10am to 4pm. (Closed 24 – 27 Dec 2024 and 4 - 19 Jan 2025 inclusive)
Entry price: All tickets include free return visits for 12 months. Free admission to shop, café and Community Gallery.
Adult (16 years +) £7.00
Student with card £4
Child (5–15 years) £4
Child (under 5 years) Free
2 Adult Family (up to 4 children) £17
1 Adult Family (up to 4 children) £10
Children 15 years and under must be accompanied by responsible adult.
“Don’t wait for a rainy day to experience it.”
Contact us: [email protected]
017687 73263
www.facebook.com/keswickmuseum
Twitter: @keswickmuseum
Location
Find us:
On Station Road, Keswick CA12 4NF
Regular buses to Keswick from Grasmere, Windermere, Workington and Penrith. Make the most of the £2 capped single fare until December 2024.
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk
Accessibility:
All areas are accessible. Access/Assistance dogs welcome.
Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Management Ltd is a charity no 1156330
Re-imagining Goldilocks: From Southey to Puss in Boots
A new exhibition at Keswick Museum celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of Keswick’s most famous characters – Poet Laureate and writer of the Three Bears tale Robert Southey.
Southey was a prolific and influential poet, essayist, historian, travel-writer and biographer who lived with his family at Greta Hall in Keswick from 1803 onwards. This new exhibition reveals the many different versions of the classic ‘Three Bears’ fairytale for which Southey became famous. From Goldilocks to Puss in Boots and everything in between, the exhibition explores what stories we tell when we reimagine classic tales.
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/
Southey before Keswick - from teenage radical to Laker Laureate
An online talk.
Join Keswick Museum for a special online talk by Rebecca Nesvet, Professor of English at Uni of Wisconsin – Green Bay on the life of the young ‘teenage radical’ Robert Southey before he settled in Keswick.
Before Southey lived in Keswick or dreamed of serving as Poet Laureate, he was quite the radical. The son of a linen-draper, he attended London's Westminster School, where he befriended powerful politicians' children, became entranced by the French Revolution, and rebelled against the school's authoritarian culture. Rebecca Nesvet will introduce this 'Young Southey': author, by age 20, of a number of radical poems, two neo-medieval prose romances, and an 'Essay on Romance.' We might know him as one of those Bright Young Things—had he not lived to grow up.
7.30pm 24th September.
Register via
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southey-before-keswick-from-teenage-radical-to-laker-laureate-tickets-1021610232707?aff=oddtdtcreator
Author event with Jenny Price
Local children's book author Jenny Prince will be reading her Magical Mindfulness books and showing children how they can manage their emotions & energy and calm their mind & body in a fun and magical way. Free drop-in event for children from age 3 and upwards.
Your enquiry will be sent directly to Keswick Museum. Please fill in as much detail as you can.