Keswick Museum
Visit our award winning local museum with new digital activities and engaging exhibitions.
Exhibitions, events and displays telling the story of Keswick's landscape, history and culture with a shop and great cafe. In beautiful Fitz Park, next to the popular playground.
For opening times please check our website
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk
Entry price: Tickets valid for one year (except family day passes) so come again for our school holiday events.
Adult (16 years +) £4.95
Student with card £3
Child (5–15 years) £3
Child (under 5 years) Free
Family day pass (2 adults & up to 3 children) £12
Friends of KMAG Free
Children 15 years and under must be accompanied by responsible adult.
Contact us: [email protected]
017687 73263
www.facebook.com/keswickmuseum
Twitter: @keswickmuseum
Location
Find us:
On Station Road, Keswick CA12 4NF
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk
Accessibility:
All areas are fully accessible. Access Assistance dogs welcome.
Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Management Ltd is a charity no 1156330
The Heritage of Linen Production in Keswick
The museum’s new exhibition in the Community Gallery explores the historical production of linen in the Keswick area.
It features a potential textile heritage trail along the River Greta - created by the U3A Textile Heritage Group - which highlights many of the textile related sites which once relied upon the river.
It also looks at wool production, featuring local Low Bridge End Farm which produces the raw material in much the same way as it did 200 years ago. As well as managing 100 acres and a variety of rare sheep breeds, farmer William Chaplin-Brice still clips by hand in the field or on the fell.
The exhibition also features a wonderful display of Ruskin Lace, with a legacy linking directly back to Marion Twelves. This important figure had helped to re-establish the linen industry in Langdale in the late 19th century and was brought to Keswick by Canon HD and Mrs Edith Rawnsley in 1889 to help re-start a similar industry in the town with the Keswick School of Industrial Arts (KSIA.)
* NB the museum will be closed for maintenance from 31st December to 15th January 2023.
Christmas Stockings Workshop
Join our craft workshop and make your own Christmas stocking, or even better make one for someone else as a personalised Christmas gift. Bring your own sewing machine, dress makers scissors and needles and the rest of the resources are provided by us.
We also have a couple of spare sewing machines and pairs of scissors so please contact the Museum directly if required.
Carols in the Museum
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… especially in Keswick Museum.
Listen to carols played on the Musical Stones of Skiddaw as you explore the museum. Performances throughout the day.
Regular opening hours and admission charges apply.
Your enquiry will be sent directly to Keswick Museum. Please fill in as much detail as you can.
Visit our award winning local museum with new digital activities and engaging exhibitions.
Exhibitions, events and displays telling the story of Keswick's landscape, history and culture with a shop and great cafe. In beautiful Fitz Park, next to the popular playground.
For opening times please check our website
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk
Entry price: Tickets valid for one year (except family day passes) so come again for our school holiday events.
Adult (16 years +) £4.95
Student with card £3
Child (5–15 years) £3
Child (under 5 years) Free
Family day pass (2 adults & up to 3 children) £12
Friends of KMAG Free
Children 15 years and under must be accompanied by responsible adult.
Contact us: [email protected]
017687 73263
www.facebook.com/keswickmuseum
Twitter: @keswickmuseum
Location
Find us:
On Station Road, Keswick CA12 4NF
www.keswickmuseum.org.uk
Accessibility:
All areas are fully accessible. Access Assistance dogs welcome.
Keswick Museum & Art Gallery Management Ltd is a charity no 1156330
The Heritage of Linen Production in Keswick
The museum’s new exhibition in the Community Gallery explores the historical production of linen in the Keswick area.
It features a potential textile heritage trail along the River Greta - created by the U3A Textile Heritage Group - which highlights many of the textile related sites which once relied upon the river.
It also looks at wool production, featuring local Low Bridge End Farm which produces the raw material in much the same way as it did 200 years ago. As well as managing 100 acres and a variety of rare sheep breeds, farmer William Chaplin-Brice still clips by hand in the field or on the fell.
The exhibition also features a wonderful display of Ruskin Lace, with a legacy linking directly back to Marion Twelves. This important figure had helped to re-establish the linen industry in Langdale in the late 19th century and was brought to Keswick by Canon HD and Mrs Edith Rawnsley in 1889 to help re-start a similar industry in the town with the Keswick School of Industrial Arts (KSIA.)
* NB the museum will be closed for maintenance from 31st December to 15th January 2023.
Christmas Stockings Workshop
Join our craft workshop and make your own Christmas stocking, or even better make one for someone else as a personalised Christmas gift. Bring your own sewing machine, dress makers scissors and needles and the rest of the resources are provided by us.
We also have a couple of spare sewing machines and pairs of scissors so please contact the Museum directly if required.
Carols in the Museum
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… especially in Keswick Museum.
Listen to carols played on the Musical Stones of Skiddaw as you explore the museum. Performances throughout the day.
Regular opening hours and admission charges apply.
Your enquiry will be sent directly to Keswick Museum. Please fill in as much detail as you can.