Keswick Mining Museum

(See also Keswick)

Displays in the Keswick Mining Museum explain the Lake District geology and the history of its formation. The Fossil Room gives a picture of how the area would have looked in prehistoric times. The Crystal Cave contains fluorescent minerals.

Displays in the Keswick Mining Museum explain the Lake District geology and the history of its formation. The Fossil Room gives a picture of how the area would have looked in prehistoric times. The Crystal Cave contains fluorescent minerals.

Collections of mining memorabilia include the Ian Tyler collection, the Willie Shaw collection of minerals and part of the William Creighton and the Willie Hemmingway collection. Other displays offer detailed information and artifacts related to all aspects of mining in Cumbria and northern England.

Also explained are mining and smelting techniques from prehistory to the present. Further displays are about Cumbria's gunpowder manufacture and use, the Mines Rescue Service, lives of miners, the Elizabethan period and the history of Keswick. A shop offers geological tools, rocks, minerals and books on minerals and mining.

Keswick Mining Museum
Otley House
Otley Road
Keswick, CA12 5LE
Tel. 017687 80055
Open: daily and BH, 10am-5pm but closed on Mon out of season
Email: enquiries@keswickminingmuseum.co.uk
Web: www.keswickminingmuseum.co.uk

Photos courtesy of Julian Thurgood

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