Nidderdale Museum
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| Established | 1975[1] |
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| Location | Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, England |
| Coordinates | 54°05′16″N 1°45′33″W / 54.08787°N 1.75930°W |
| Type | Local history museum |
| Visitors | 7,000[1] |
| Website | Official website |
Nidderdale Museum is a local and social history museum in the market town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, in North Yorkshire, England.[2] The museum is housed in a former workhouse, and is normally open every week from Tuesday to Sunday 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. from Easter (or 1 April) to 31 October, and only open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. over the winter months, from November to March. The Museum is closed on a Monday. There is a small entry charge for adults. Accompanied children under 16 are free.[3]
The museum is run by volunteers.[4] The Nidderdale Museum Society has two hundred members, with an elected Committee, and a Board of Trustees.[5]
The exhibits focus on rural life, with sections devoted to agriculture, local industries, religion, transport and costume, set out across 11 rooms. Displays include re-creations of a Victorian schoolroom, a cobbler's workshop, a lead mining tunnel, a Victorian parlour,[1] general store, a 1930s hairdresser's shop and a kitchen. Other displays include historic costumes, agriculture tools and equipment, local industries and transport vehicles.[6]
The museum also has a reference library of books relating to the local history and life of Nidderdale, and materials for local and family history research.[7]
Cobbler's shop
Re-creation of a tunnel in a lead mine
General store from the 1940s
Hairdressing salon from the 1950s
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