Lancaster City Museum

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Lancaster City Museum

Lancaster City Museum

Where is it – England, North West England

Who looks after it –  Local Authority 

What is it –  Free access, Museum or Gallery 

When is it from – All or N/A

Lancaster City Museum is situated in a lovely Georgian building, Lancaster’s former town hall on Market Square. The building was constructed between 1781-3 and the museum was founded in 1923. This is a really excellent local museum which has a large and varied number of items in its collection and displays many of them in life-size exhibits, covering the history of Lancaster and surrounding areas from prehistoric times. There are some fascinating Roman items, a small feature about the mixture of races that settled in this part of Britain and exhibits of local trade and industry. The museum additionally houses the regimental museum of the King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), which is also very good.

The website for Lancaster City Museum is better than it used to be. Note that the museum is located in a pedestrian zone; if travelling by car, you will need to use a nearby car park.

 


Address
Market Square, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1HT 

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