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- Bassetlaw Museum, Retford
Collection of local archaeology, history, Retford
civic plate, fine & applied art. Displayed in Grade II* listed
restored Georgian Town House. Short-term exhibitions and events
programme throughout the year.
- Cresswell Crags Museum
Creswell Crags, a gorge formed by ancient stream
channels cutting through the limestone, is one of the most significant
Old Stone Age archaeological sites in Britain. Collections include
stone & bone tools
from the Old Stone Age (12000-50000 years ago) and a large collection
of animal bones. Visitors can walk the site, and enjoy interactive
displays and audio visual presentations in the museum.
- Green's Mill, Sneinton
Grade II Listed building and the only full-time
working windmill in the UK. Once home to the 19th century miller
and mathematical
physicist, George Green (1793-1841),
it now mills many types of award-winning organic flour.
Its Science Centre has interactive exhibits, which explore magnetism,
electricity and light.
- Holme Pierrepont Hall
Information on this fascinating house near West
Bridgford which dates from c.1500.
- Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery
The permanent displays show the social, industrial
and natural history of the District, while the Buxton Watercolours
record views of the town from the early 20th century.
- Millgate Museum, Newark
Displays showing the agricultural, industrial and
social life of Newark, from Victorian times to the 1940s. Temporary
exhibitions.
- Museum
of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard
The museum depicts the social history of Nottingham
over the last 300 years. Housed in five 17th century cottages adjacent
to the famous 'Trip to Jerusalem' public house. The museum
contains a mixture of reconstructed room and shop settings, and
gallery displays.
- Newark Air Museum
The UK's largest volunteer managed aviation museum. The
collection stands at over 70 aircraft and cockpit sections
from across the history of aviation. There is
also a small artefact and photographic display.
- Newstead Abbey
Newstead Abbey is a beautiful historic
house set in a glorious landscape of gardens and parkland within
the heart of Nottinghamshire, England. Founded as a monastic house
in the late twelfth century, Newstead became the seat of the Byron
family in 1540. Its most famous owner was the poet, Lord Byron.
- Nottingham
Transport Heritage Centre
The centre is the home of the preserved Great
Central Railway in Nottinghamshire and is based in Ruddington alongside
the Rushcliffe country Park.
- Papplewick Pumping Station
"This is Britain's finest Victorian
Water Works and the only one in the Midlands to be preserved as
a complete working water pumping station. Papplewick Pumping Station
was built between 1882 - 1884 to supplement the water supply for
the growing city of Nottingham. An outstanding example of ornate
Victorian architecture with two Watts Rotative Beam engines".
- Ruddington Framework Knitters'
Museum
The Museum's site is a unique complex of listed frameshops, cottages,
and outbuildings arranged around a garden courtyard, together with
a former chapel in which many of the knitters worshipped. The site
has been restored to show the working and living conditions of
the framework knitters who occupied it throughout the nineteenth
century.
- The Workhouse, Southwell
The often overlooked lives of the poor and destitute
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is explored at this National
Trust property.