Nidderdale Museum

About

Nidderdale Museum is a local and social history museum in the market town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, in North Yorkshire, England. The museum is housed in a former workhouse, and is normally open every week from Tuesday to Sunday 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. from Easter (or 1 April) to 31 October, and only open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. over the winter months, from November to March. The Museum is closed on a Monday. There is a small entry charge for adults. Accompanied children under 16 are free. The museum is run by volunteers. The Nidderdale Museum Society has two hundred members, with an elected Committee, and a Board of Trustees.

Exhibits: The exhibits focus on rural life, with sections devoted to agriculture, local industries, religion, transport and costume, set out across 11 rooms. Displays include re-creations of a Victorian schoolroom, a cobbler's workshop, a lead mining tunnel, a Victorian parlour, general store, a 1930s hairdresser's shop and a kitchen. Other displays include historic costumes, agriculture tools and equipment, local industries and transport vehicles. The museum also has a reference library of books...