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Armitt Museum
Armitt Museum Review
Ambleside's fine local-history gallery and library explores the town's past and its surroundings through the eyes of local people such as Beatrix Potter. A large collection of Beatrix Potter's natural-history watercolors and a huge number of photographic portraits can be viewed by appointment in the excellent library upstairs. Temporary exhibitions of art with a local connection are widely lauded.
- Address: Rydal Rd., Ambleside, LA22 9BL | Map It
- Phone: 015394/31212
- Cost: £2.50
- Hours: Mon.--Sat. 10--5; last admission at 4:30
- Website: www.armitt.com
- Location: Ambleside
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