Museums/Galleries in The Lake District

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

Abbot Hall One of the region's finest art galleries, Abbot Hall occupies...	Museums / Galleries	Kendal

Armitt Museum Ambleside's fine local-history gallery and library explores the...	Museums / Galleries	Ambleside

Beatrix Potter Gallery In the 17th-century solicitor's offices formerly used by Potter's...	Museums / Galleries	Hawkshead

Castlegate House Gallery One of the region's best galleries, Castlegate displays and sells...	Museums / Galleries	Cockermouth

Cumberland Pencil Museum Legend has it that shepherds found graphite on Seathwaite Fell...	Museums / Galleries	Keswick


Dove Cottage William Wordsworth lived in Dove Cottage from 1799 to 1808, a...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions	Grasmere

Hill Top Children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions	Hawkshead

Kendal Museum Focusing on natural history and archaeology, this museum details...	Museums / Galleries	Kendal

Penrith Museum In a 16th-century building that served as a school from 1670...	Museums / Galleries	Penrith

Ruskin Museum A favorite destination in Coniston, this interesting repository...	Museums / Galleries	Coniston

Rydal Mount If there's one poet associated with the Lake District, it is...	Museums / Galleries, Houses / Mansions	Rydal

World of Beatrix Potter A touristy attraction aimed at kids interprets the author's 23...	Museums / Galleries	Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere
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