Cumbrian museum set to close
After 25 years, Keswick Mining Museum is closing. Its collection is one of the most comprehensive in the country.
A new exhibition is launched to celebrate
The Armitt Museum celebrates 100 years this year and are marking it with an exhibition with contemporary elements as well as historical.
Work will begin later this year
Keswick Museum and Art gallery will be transformed thanks to an injection of cash, work is expected to begin later this year.
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Keswick mining museum to close
After 25 years, Keswick Mining Museum is closing. The collection inside has been brought together over 40 years and is one of the most comprehensive in the country. The founder, Ian Tyler, is past retirement age and struggling to sell his collection. He says he has no choice but to get rid of it.
Keswick has a long history of mining with the first experts from Germany arriving in 1564. In those early days, Copper and Lead were mined. Much Later Keswick was to become the centre of the Pencil industry based on the famous Borrowdale graphite, the first discovery of this mineral in the world.
The museum was the first of its kind to be established in Cumbria and is said to host the finest collection of mining memorabilia in the country.
Curator Tim Barker explains the idea behind the new toy museum.
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Toy museum opens
A toy museum featuring thousands of soldier figurines has opened in Silloth.
Curator Tim Barker hopes his collection will add to the tourism experience in the town.
The toy soldiers have been collected from around the world and are from nearly every period in history.
A new exhibition is launched to celebrate
The Armitt Museum celebrates 100 years this year and are marking it with an exhibition with contemporary elements as well as historical.
Read the full storyWork will begin later this year
Keswick Museum and Art gallery will be transformed thanks to an injection of cash, work is expected to begin later this year.
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Secret Egypt is a touring exhibition which features around 200 artefacts on loan from major Egyptology collections throughout the UK. By examining funerary objects it explores what is real and what is fake.
