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Museums & Galleries in Bakewell
Rainy day or culture fix, the museums and galleries around Bakewell have you covered — think Old House Museum, Eyam Museum and Darley Dale Waiting Room Museum — many are free, and the distances below help you pick the closest.
Museums & Galleries
0.2 mi from Bakewell
Old House Museum
Old House Museum in Bakewell is a five-hundred-year-old building, originally built as a tithe house in 1534, making it the oldest standing residence in the town. Across eleven room...
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5 mi from Bakewell
Eyam Museum
Eyam Museum tells the story of this famous Derbyshire Dales village, including its experience of plague in 1665-1666 and its wider social history and industrial heritage. It's an i...
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8.1 mi from Bakewell
Peak District Mining Museum
The Peak District Lead Mining Museum is located at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. The Peak District Mining Museum is operated as charity by the Peak District Mines Historical S... — Wikipedia
8.8 mi from Bakewell
Cromford Mills
Cromford Mill is the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill structure is classified as... — Wikipedia
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9.4 mi from Bakewell
National Stone Centre
The National Stone Centre is a 40-acre site of natural landscape on the edge of the Peak District, just 30 minutes north of Derby in the Derbyshire Dales. It makes for an education...
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9.9 mi from Bakewell
High Peak Junction
High Peak Junction, near Cromford, Derbyshire, England, is the name now used to describe the site where the former Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR), whose workshops were loca... — Wikipedia
10.6 mi from Bakewell
Chesterfield Museum
Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. — Wikipedia
10.6 mi from Bakewell
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is a historic scythe and steelworks site in Sheffield dating back to the 1700s, where you can explore the Manager's House, Worker's Cottage and Counting...
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11 mi from Bakewell
Revolution House
Thatched cottage in Old Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
11.4 mi from Bakewell
National Tramway Museum
The National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire, is an open-air heritage attraction where you can ride vintage trams through a recreated village street and out into open countrysi...
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12.1 mi from Bakewell
Shepherd Wheel
Shepherd Wheel Workshop is a Grade II listed, Scheduled Monument water-powered grinding workshop set in the Porter Valley, close to Endcliffe Park. Dating back to the 1500s, it was...
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12.7 mi from Bakewell
The Great British Car Journey
The Great British Car Journey is an interactive motoring museum in Crich, Derbyshire, telling the story of British car-making through more than 150 classic cars, from the Austin Se...
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12.7 mi from Bakewell
Bishop's House
Bishops' House is a museum in Sheffield, housed in the city's best preserved timber framed building, once a yeoman's farm surrounded by fields. You can explore the history of the b...
12.8 mi from Bakewell
Barrow Hill Roundhouse Museum
Barrow Hill Roundhouse is the last surviving operational railway roundhouse in the United Kingdom, set in Staveley near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It's an amazing family-friendly mu...
13.8 mi from Bakewell
Weston Park Museum
Weston Park Museum is a museum in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is one mile west of Sheffield city centre within Weston Park. It is Sheffield's largest museum and is hou... — Wikipedia
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13.9 mi from Bakewell
Alfred Denny Museum
The Alfred Denny Museum is a biology teaching collection at the University of Sheffield, named after the department's first professor of biology and established in 1905. Many of it...
14.1 mi from Bakewell
Turner Museum of Glass
The Turner Museum of Glass is housed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield, in England. It is in the Sir Robert Hadfield Building wi... — Wikipedia
14.3 mi from Bakewell
Millennium Gallery
The Millennium Gallery sits in the heart of Sheffield, close to Sheffield station just 0.2 miles away, making it an easy stop whether you're visiting for the day or staying nearby....
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14.5 mi from Bakewell
The National Videogame Museum
The National Videogame Museum in Sheffield is the UK's only museum dedicated solely to videogames, with over 100 playable exhibits ranging from retro arcade machines to modern cons...
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Make a day of it
Lots of UK museums are free with a suggested donation, and paid ones often do annual passes for little more than a day ticket — worth it if you're local or returning.
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