Grace Darling Museum

Grace Darling, 1838

Grace Darling Museum

Where is it – England, North East England

Who looks after it –  Charity 

What is it –  Free access, Museum or Gallery 

When is it from – Victorian

The Grace Darling Museum is run by the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and dedicated to Grace Darling who, in 1838 at the age of 22, helped her father rescue survivors of a shipwreck on the Farne Islands, where he was lighthouse keeper. The museum was established in 1938 and contains a collection of personal items relating to Grace, her family and the ship that was wrecked, the SS Forfarshire. The museum also houses the boat Grace and her father used in the rescue. Grace had a tragically short life, dying just four years after the rescue in a house in Fore Street, close to the museum. She is buried in St Aidan’s churchyard opposite, where there is also a memorial, and was born next door to the museum.

 


Address

Radcliffe Road, Bamburgh, Northumberland NE69 7AE 

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