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GRANTS & TRUSTS
As an independent museum and registered charity, we rely heavily on grants from trusts and foundations to cover our day to day running costs as well as fund special projects.
Thank you
We’d like to say a huge ‘thank you’ to all the trusts and foundations that have helped us in the past, and are providing support now and into the future.
With their help, here are just a few of the things we’ve been able to achieve:
● Creating new displays and galleries to tell the story of the Luddite uprising.
● Producing a multi award-winning interactive educational film, Breaking the Frame.
● Funding a unique Framework Knitting Apprenticeship to help preserve framework knitting skills into the future.
● Offering a sponsored work placement for a student to produce a suite of new promotional and digital marketing materials.
● Creating new educational resources linked to Key Stages 1 and 2 of the National Curriculum, for the benefit of local schools.
● Paying for essential repairs and maintenance to our historic buildings.
Please visit our Appeals page to read more about some of our current fundraising projects.
Opening Times
Wednesday to Saturday: 11am – 4.30pm*
1st April to 30th September
Wednesday to Saturday: 11am – 4.30pm*
Sunday: 1.30pm – 4.30pm*
1st October to 21st December
Wednesday to Saturday: 11am – 4.30pm*
January
Closed for essential maintenance and conservation works
We are also open all Bank Holiday from 11am to 4pm!*
* Last entry to museum is at 4pm
My sister and I loved this museum. Especially the guided tours explaining how the machines work and the working and living conditions of the frame knitters at the time. Even got the chance to take a look at Queen Victoria’s stockings in the former methodist church across the cottages. Excellent museum! Very entertaining and interesting
Terrific Museum
Second visit to this fascinating museum, a veritable storehouse of social history, staffed by knowledgeable, enthusiastic folk. Some steps may prove difficult for the elderly or infirm but there’s plenty to appreciate at ground level.
Living History
My sister and I loved this museum. Especially the guided tours explaining how the machines work and the working and living conditions of the frame knitters at the time. Even got the chance to take a look at Queen Victoria’s stockings in the former methodist church across the cottages. Excellent museum! Very entertaining and interesting! Lovely to see such a local and ordinary history preserved
Excellent Museum!