Museums/Galleries in The Lake District

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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