Penrith and Eden Museum

24/03/2025

Penrith & Eden Museum is closed today due to scheduled maintenance work. Apologies for any inconvenience.

18/03/2025

Penrith & Eden Museum will be closed on Monday 24th March for scheduled maintenance work. We apologise for any inconvenience.

12/03/2025

17/02/2025

This Half Term, why not combine a visit to Penrith & Eden Museum with a visit to Penrith Castle? See the elephants tooth found in the Penrith Castle moat and pick up a free Medieval Worksheet. The Museum is open Monday to Saturday 10-4 with FREE entry.

14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's Day! In the Museum’s archives is a typical example of a Victorian Valentine card. It was posted on February 10th, 1871 to Mrs. Ann Stables of Howtown, Martindale, near Pooley Bridge, Penrith. The 1891 census lists John Stables of Bobbin Mill Yard, occupation gardener, married to Ann who was born at Plumpton. They were possibly the parents of the Anne Stables baptised at Martindale 23rd January 1848.

27/01/2025

14/01/2025

Penrith & Eden Museum will be closed on Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 January for essential maintenance. Apologies for any inconvenience.

07/01/2025

Penrith and Eden Museum will be closed today - Tuesday 7 January. Apologies for any inconvenience.

02/01/2025

Happy New Year from Penrith & Eden Museum! We re-open today after our Christmas break, and our opening times are 10am to 4pm Monday to Saturday. FREE ENTRY

20/12/2024

Penrith and Eden Museum will close for Christmas from 4pm on Tuesday 24 December. The Museum will re-open at 10am on Thursday 2 January 2025.

16/12/2024

Still trying to find that perfect present? Why not give someone a copy of the our Museum publication 'Penrith - A Historical Record in Photographs'. This beautiful 159 page hardback book is illustrated with historical photos of Penrith, drawn from the Museum collection. Available at the discounted price of £8 from the Museum reception desk.

07/12/2024

It's Christmas Bingo Time! Why not visit the Museum and try our free, self-led Christmas Bingo activity? Open Mon-Sat 10am to 4pm. Free Entry

02/12/2024

Copied from our Museum publication 'Penrith A Historical Record in Photographs' is this photo in our archives titled 'Glasson's Penrith Breweries, Cornmarket, c1950' (p.133) which looks as though it may have been taken around this time of the year. The book is now available at the discounted price of £8 here at the Reception desk. The full caption reads 'In the mid-seventeenth century this building was referred to in the deeds as the 'Gambling Corner House' because a tailor of that name had his shop on this corner of Cornmarket and Great Dockray. It became a wine and spirits business, run by George Bird, before Glasson's Penrith Breweries bought the property in about 1900. The bar attached to their wine and spirits shop was called 'The Snug', also known as the 'Elbow Room', eventually becoming the Board and Elbow of today. The building to the left bears the date 1624 and was formerly the old Black Lion, though it was later incorporated into the Board and Elbow. The photographer of this wintry scene from the early 1950’s was Charles Fearnsides'.

14/09/2024

Heritage Open Days - FREE event TODAY with children's medieval worksheet available at Penrith Castle.

11/09/2024

Only a few more days left of Heritage Open Days 2024 - ends Saturday 14 September.
A chance to see a small display with a free leaflet on James Clarke of Penrith (1745-1790): Surveyor and Topographer of the Lakes:
He was born at Watermillock, and is remembered as the author of the ‘Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and Lancashire, together with an Account, Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive, of the Adjacent Country’. The Museum has one of these folios, which appeared in 1787, containing eleven large engraved maps.
Open Monday to Saturday 10am – 4pm – FREE ENTRY

10/09/2024

TODAY! - ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS DAY
12-to 2pm - FREE ENTRY
Don't forget to bring your Archaeological finds to Penrith and Eden Museum to have them identified by the region’s Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Liaison Officer, Alex Whitlock.
Anyone is welcome to bring along for identification portable archaeological material or historical objects they have found or acquired locally.

08/09/2024

FREE guided tours and talks with children's medieval worksheet available at Penrith Castle.