Machine Knitting History brought to life.
Visit this Victorian time-capsule and see how the knitters lived and worked.
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Mansfield Museum was the brainchild of William Edward Baily, a wealthy local collector and natural historian. In 1903 Baily offered his collection and a building - the 'Tin Tabernacle' in which to house it, to Mansfield. The Museum opened the followi...
Newark Millgate Museum is now closed to visitors as we have been awarded £3.5 million of Heritage Lottery Funding to develop a new museum and national civil war centre at the Old Magnus Buildings on Appletongate Newark. The museum staff are at ou...
Newark Air Museum is located on the former World War Two airfield of Winthorpe in eastern Nottinghamshire. Its diverse collection of sixty-nine aircraft and cockpit sections cover the history of aviation, the aircraft on display include 10 (ten) Nati...
The Vina Cooke museum houses a large collection of dolls dating from the 18th century to the present day. The collection is brought together in a late 17th century Dower house and former Rectory, which is itself of considerable interest....
Step back in time to discover over 300 years of Nottingham's history in this unique community museum which is based within five 17 Century cottages situated at the base of the rock under Nottingham Castle.The galleries contain a variety of exhibition...
Visitors enter the museum through the house next door, going through the museum shop. The house has been laid out in the style of a late 19th century working class house with the furniture being mostly from the family of the women who founded it. The...
England's history of crime and punishment is a shocking one. As are the sinister and grim stories of Nottingham's own outlaws which are brought to life in the building where they were judged, imprisoned and executed.
To capture and explain this gr...
Explore our links with the natural world in the Natural History Museum. Located within the Hall itself, a fantastic array of specimens and minerals await your discovery
Since Wollaton Hall opened to the public in the autumn of 1926, it has been ho...
Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge honeycombed with caves and smaller fissures. Stone tools and remains of animals found in the caves provide evidence for a fascinating story of life during the last Ice Age between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. Furth...
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