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Bolling Hall Museum - Bradford
Bolling Hall offers visitors a fascinating journey through the lives and times of the Bradford families for whom it provided a home over five hundred years. Situated just a mile from Bradford city centre and situated in a quiet, leafy garden, Bolling Hall was for many years the seat of two important land-owning families, the Bollings...
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Bagshaw Museum and Wilton Park
Bagshaw Museum and Wilton Park offers a fun, fascinating, and free day out for the family with plenty to discover. Bagshaw Museum, housed in an extraordinary Gothic mansion that once belonged to a Victorian former mill owner, is set in 36 acres of lovely parkland and ancient woodland, and it’s easy to imagine that you’ve stepped back...
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The National Media Museum - Bradford
The National Media Museum is part of the NMSI Museums Group (National Museum of Science and Industry) which also includes the Science Museum (based in London and at Wroughton in Wiltshire), the National Railway Museum (based in York and at Shildon in County Durham). We exist to “Engage, inspire and educate by...
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Bradford Industrial Museum
Bradford Industrial Museum is on the site of a former Worsted Mill, complete with mill managers house with its splendid Victorian décor, and in contrast, a terrace of back to back houses that show how mill workers lived at 3 different time periods in history. Admission: Free! Opening Times: Tuesday to Friday...
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Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills
Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, housed in what was once the largest woollen mill in the world in a beautiful riverside setting, will take you back in time to learn about the industrial history of Leeds, from textiles to printing, clothing to manufacturing, engineering and locomotives, which the city was famous for. Armley Mills contains...
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Abbey House Museum - Leeds
William the Conqueror gave the Kirkstall area to one of his Norman followers, Ilbert de Lacy in the 11th century. A descendent of Ilbert, Henry de Lacy, made a grant of land to the Cistercian monks who started building Kirkstall Abbey in 1152. The monks built a gatehouse to the north west of the Abbey, which is the oldest part of Abbey House...
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Leeds City Museum
Experience a world of discovery.. explore four floors of interactive and exciting galleries. Come face to face with the Leeds tiger, step into Ancient Worlds to meet Nesyamun, the Leeds mummy, and dig for fossils in the Life on Earth gallery. Visit Leeds City Museum and come face-to-face with the Leeds Tiger, step into 'Ancient Worlds' and...
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Royal Armouries Leeds
The Royal Armouries is Britain’s national museum of arms and armour. At the Leeds Museum there are over 8,500 objects on display in five galleries: War; Tournament; Oriental; Self Defence and Hunting. Visit the newly refurbished Tournament Gallery and experience the might of the Henry VIII – king and sportsman. Visitor...
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Thwaite Mills Watermill Museum
Thwaite Mills Watermill Museum, nestled on an island with beautiful riverside surroundings, is one the last remaining examples of a water powered mill in Britain! A great chance to explore a unique piece of the industrial heritage of Yorkshire, and then take advantage of the lovely paths and waterside picnic areas to really make a day of it with...
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Thackray Museum Leeds
Step back in time and explore how medicine has changed with our brilliant hands-on exhibitions! Get the most out of your trip with fun activities, fantastic games and resources for teachers. Our unique medical library and archive is open for anyone to use. Find out more about it here. Hold a fully-catered conference or event in stunning museum...
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Eureka Museum For Children - Halifax
Everything at Eureka! has been designed to inspire children to find out about themselves and the world around them through 100s of hands-on exhibits. Eureka! The Museum for Children in Halifax, West Yorkshire is the first and foremost hands-on children's museum in the UK and is designed especially for 0-11 year olds. With more than 400...
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Tolson Museum and Ravensknowle Park
Tolson Museum and Ravensknowle Park is great for a fascinating and fun day out, with plenty for everyone to enjoy, and it’s free to visit! The museum, originally Ravensknowle Hall, offers a vivid intriguing picture of the area and its people from prehistory to present day, through its unique collections that include objects from the Luddite...
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Wakefield Museum
Wakefield Museum The main displays tell the story of Wakefield’s history and that of the people who shaped it. No boring chronology here! Themes such as love, war, play, crime, and even rhubarb are represented by fascinating objects from Wakefield’s past and are seen through the eyes of the very people involved in shaping this...
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The only one of its kind, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an international centre for modern and contemporary art, experienced and enjoyed by thousands of visitors every year. Explore open-air displays by some of the world’s finest artists, enjoy fascinating exhibitions throughout four stunning galleries, be inspired by the natural...
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National Coal Mining Museum
Welcome to the National Coal Mining Museum for England . Underground Tour To discover the depths descend 140 metres underground down one of Britain's oldest working mines. Your guide will take you around the workings, sharing his mining experiences with you. The tour lasts approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. Each visitor is...
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The Hepworth Wakefield
The Hepworth Wakefield has over 1,600 sq m of light-filled gallery spaces, making it one of the largest exhibition spaces outside of the capital and including, for those in the know, the Wakefield Collection, the Gott Collection,and the Hepworth Collection of over 40 rarely-seen plasters. They're very welcoming to children and offer a family...
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Colne Valley Museum
Colne Valley Museum is an 1850s revival exhibit and features a recreated period kitchen and other historical elements that add great atmosphere to the experience, so it's a pleasure with curious and imaginative kids. Visit the Loom Chamber, Spinning and Cropping room to help them foray into textile history, and venture into the clog-maker's...
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Bronte Parsonage Museum
Bronte Parsonage Museum in the Haworth Parsonage, was the home of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte from 1820 to 1861. The Bronte sisters were the authors of some of the best loved books in the English language, and this museum offers a great opportunity to learn more about them. The beautifully preserved Georgian house, set between the unique...
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Cliffe Castle Park and Museum
Cliffe Castle Park and Museum With the recent reopening of the new and improved museum there are naturally a wealth of exciting new displays and activities for you and yours to enjoy - including atmospheric period reception rooms with sparkling chandeliers and renovated historic light fittings, plus a new Dining With The Butterfields display that...
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Ilkley Toy Museum
How many times have you wondered just what happened to those little cars you used to play with, or that old dolls house that appeared one Christmas morning all those years ago? Well, they're here - complete with all the memories. The exhibits represent a journey back to childhood and each one must be keeping the secrets of thousands of happy hours...
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Cannon Hall Museum
Cannon Hall Museum is a charming country house museum set in 70 acres of historic parkland. Kids will love the childrens room with costumes, puzzles and hands-on learning plus the war zone with sights and sounds of war through the ages helping history come to life. The gardens outside the museum are beautiful with plenty to explore and a great...
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Experience Barnsley
Experience Barnsley is a Museum and Discovery Centre dedicated to the people and history of Barnsley through documents, recordings, films, and centuries old artefacts, that have been donated by people living in the Borough. It is located in Barnsley town centre, and is free to visit, making it a great all weather attraction. There is also a...
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Knaresborough Castle
A stronghold of Medieval Kings, Knaresborough Castle still stands towering over the River Nidd. A visit to the site includes a tour to discover what Royalty got up to in the King's Tower, get a glimpse of the dungeon and walk through the underground sallyport. Visit the Courthouse Museum, housed in one of the Castle's oldest surviving buildings....
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Towneley Hall Museum
Burnley's Art Gallery & Museum set in the town's largest park provides a wonderful day out for all the family. With an extensive range of events, activities and exhibitions Towneley provides something for every visitor. There are exhibitions, woodland walks, sculpture trails, an organic community garden, play areas, sports pitches and two...
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Queen Street Mill Textile Museum
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum allows you to experience the days when cotton was king and steam ran the world. You will be amazed to see the fascinating steam engine, called Peace, as it drives over 300 looms in the weaving shed. There are demonstrations showing toweling and dobby looms, pirn winding and weaving. A lot of the original...
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Portland Basin Museum
Portland Basin Museum is housed within the restored nineteenth century Ashton Canal Warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne. The museum combines a lively modern interior with a peaceful canal side setting and is an exciting family friendly museum. Step back in time on a 1920s street, as the sights and sounds of bygone Tameside are brought to life. ...
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National Emergency Services Museum - Sheffield
National Emergency Services Museum is the worlds larges joint 999 museum showing an insight into all of our Emergency Services through hands-on learning with history. With 30+ vehicles on site, 3 floors of exhibits to explore, discover and learn including real Victorian Police Cells (including smells!) there really is something for everyone. The...
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Kelham Island Museum
Kelham Island Museum was opened in 1982 to house the objects, pictures and archive material representing Sheffield's industrial story. Located in one of the city's oldest industrial districts, the Museum stands on a man-made island over 900 years old. Come inside and explore the new look Museum amidst the sights and sounds of industrial...
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Helmshore Mills Textile Museum
Nestling side by side in the quiet village of Helmshore in the stunning Rossendale Valley are two original Lancashire textile mills, Higher Mill and Whitaker’s Mill, together known as Helmshore Mills Textile Museum. Here you can... Soak up the atmosphere of the historic mills and witness working original machinery. Follow a journey to...
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Cusworth Hall and Park
Cusworth Hall and Park offers plenty to see and do with the kids, is open throughout the year, and it’s free to visit! The Museum has an extensive collection of items ranging from costumes and accessories, to agricultural and mining hand tools. There are also toys and games, household equipment, plus plenty of photographs to discover (more...
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Millennium Gallery
Millennium Gallery should be your destination if you and the kids are interested in craft, art and design. The permanent metalwork collection is one of the finest in the whole world and contains beautiful items that have been collected from every continent. There are also various items that Sheffield is famous for, such as cutlery and tableware....
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Weston Park Museum - Sheffield
Weston Park you can explore the world and its past, from millions of years ago to the present day. Children and adults will love the animated new displays, specially designed to delight even our littlest explorers. From Egyptian Mummies, to a traditional butchers shop. From Snowy the polar bear, to living ants and bees. The citys amazing...
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The Fusilier Museum - Bury
The Fusilier Museum is home to the collection of the XX Lancashire Fusiliers and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, commemorating over 300 years of history and heritage . Special exhibitions and events will be held throughout the year to highlight the extensive collection and its significance to those associated with the Regiments past, present...
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Graves Art Gallery - Sheffield
Welcome to the Graves Gallery - The Graves Gallery is the home of Sheffield’s visual art collection. Situated above the Central Library, away from the noise and traffic of the city centre, the Gallery is a peaceful haven for visitors to enjoy the city’s art and a programme of temporary exhibitions. Famous names on show at the Graves...
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National Railway Museum
Welcome! The National Railway Museum in York, England, is the largest railway museum in the world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the British national collection of historically significant railway vehicles and other artefacts. The Museum contains an unrivalled collection of locomotives, rolling stock, railway equipment,...
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Viking Walk
The York Viking Walk is a fascinating tour of Viking York. Time travel back to the 9th century and see where the Vikings fought to take the city in a bloody battle in 867. Find out how the Vikings' cunning and ferocity overcame the resistance of the Saxon kings who desperately defended the city! You will also see where the Vikings lived and worked...
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DIG
DIG is a hands-on archaeological adventure giving kids the chance to become trainee ‘diggers’ and discover the most exciting artefacts from 2000 years of York’s history! With four special in-door excavation pits, all based on real-life digs in the city and filled with replica Roman, Viking, medieval and Victorian finds, children...
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Barley Hall
Barley Hall is a stunning medieval house, once home to the Priors of Nostell and the Mayor of York. Until the 1980s the house was hidden under the relatively modern facade of a derelict office block. Only when the building was going to be destroyed was the amazing medieval building discovered and its history uncovered.
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Jorvik Viking Centre
Explore Viking history on the very site where archaeologists discovered the remains of the Viking city of Jorvik. Meet resident Vikings (staff), and see 800 of the items found during the dig. You can even journey back to a reconstruction of York in the year AD 975, complete with the sights, sounds and smells of the Viking-Age.
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York Dungeon
Take a trip into the past and discover Europe's darkest moments. Blood-curdling screams, groans and clashes of steel ring through the York Dungeon. Investigate if you dare! Dick Turpin Discover the true story behind the world's most famous highwayman, Dick Turpin, at The York Dungeon. Find out why the infamy of this daring criminal has lasted...
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York Castle Museum
York Castle Museum is one of Britain's leading museums of everyday life. It shows how people used to live by displaying thousands of household objects and by recreating rooms, shops, streets - and even prison cells. Kirkgate: It is best known for its recreated Victorian street, Kirkgate, which combines real shop fittings and stock with...
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Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery is a family friendly museum with games, colouring sheets, and trails that tells the story of the Doncaster area from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day. It is open all year, and free to visit, with a large and varied temporary exhibition programme, plus special activities and events suitable for all...
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Yorkshire Museum
The Yorkshire Museum is home to some of Britain's finest archaeological treasures and the history of England until 1550 can be traced through its galleries. It also specialises in geology and biology and its rocks, fossils, animal and plant materials are often used in our special exhibitions. The Roman Gallery Many of the...
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York Pass
See the best of York with this mega-value sightseeing pass What's included Free entry to attractions, museums and tours in York City and the York area (only with the York and Beyond Pass) Free access to the Hop-on Hop-off City Sightseeing buses of York for 1 day (operates only April - October) Free guidebook with helpful information and maps ...
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Manchester City Football Club
Packages Tours of the City of Manchester Stadium are available 7 days per week. To avoid disappointment, please book in advance or please check availability before you travel. We also have a limited number of tours available on matchdays. The Stadium Tour centre is located on the first floor of the City Centre building. Full...
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Museum of Transport - Manchester
The Tram Depot houses a display area as well as part of the Society's fleet of trams and our workshop facilities in which restoration and maintenance are carried by the team of volunteers. The display is made up of large photographs and many artefacts related to the history of trams in the Manchester area from the early horse trams right through...
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Greater Manchester Police Museum - Manchester
Imagine stepping back in time to a Victorian Manchester, not the city of commerce and corporate splendour but a hidden city of gas lamps and narrow alleys, of slums and unruly alehouses. Explore Manchester’s hidden past - a labyrinth of alleyways and slums, interrupted only by the huge mills casting shadows below. An eerie underworld, lit...
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Chinese Arts Centre - Manchester
Chinese Arts Centre works to promote, support and create opportunities for artists of Chinese descent. As the leading UK Chinese arts organisation, we offer a range of services for artists, arts organisations, businesses, schools and the general public. These include the following workshops: - Origami, Paper Cutting, Kite Making, Lantern...
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National Football Museum
The biggest and best football museum in the world, is the perfect place for young children and families to discover our national game, and best of entry is free! Where ever you go there will be something to excite and entertain, and kids of all ages will enjoy getting up up close and personal with stories from ‘everyone’s favorite...
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AeroVenture
Commercial Light Aircraft Collection Royal Observer Corps Exhibition Piston Engine Collection including Rolls Royce Merlin and Griffon Jet Engine Collection including DeHavilland Ghost, Rolls Royce Avon and Conway Sheffield Blitz Exhibition A treasure trove of Aviation history is available to all from a short...
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South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum
South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum at Doncaster Lakeside on the former site of WWII RAF Doncaster has historic buildings and aircraft hangers, military aircraft and helicopters, and you can even put yourself in the pilot seat as selected cockpits are always open! A great day out for families and enthusiasts alike. The museum exhibits a collection of...
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The Manchester Museum
We're the Museum on Oxford Road with the dinosaurs, mummies and live animals. We also have loads of other great stuff from the natural world and different cultures.
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Clitheroe Castle Museum
The museum stands high on Castle Hill, in the shadow of the Castle Keep, an image which has dominated Clitheroe's skyline for over 800 years. The historic landmark of Clitheroe, in the heart of the Ribble Valley offers a day of exploration for all the family. Our intriguing galleries will take you on a journey through 350 million years of...
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