MuseumsWitton Le Wear

Darlington Railway Centre & Museum is located on the 1825 route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world's first steam‐worked public railway. The site encompasses three significant Stockton & Darlington Railway buildings of the 1830s50s: North Road Passenger Station, the Goods Shed and Hopetown Carriage Works.…
Distance: 13.3 miles away

Winner of The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award 2003, Killhope explores the life of North Pennine lead mining families. Park Level Mine underground experience, Northern England's largest working water wheel and hands‐on activities. Visitor Centre with shop, cafe and World's largest Spar Box exhibition. Woodland…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

New attraction planned to open September 2004 ‐ the first ever out‐station for the National Railway Museum and the region's first branch of a national museum. It will feature a revamped Timothy Hackworth Museum together with a new 6,000 square metre single storey collections centre housing NRM…
Distance: 6.6 miles away

Bear making demonstrations contact for details from artist in residence. Advice on bear designingmaking. Exhibitions, events and hand made artist bears on sale, plus bear making supplies.Open: Monday ‐ Saturday 10am ‐ 5.30pm, Also Sunday in Dec 11am ‐ 5pm.…
Distance: 11 miles away

Remains of the commanding officer's house, with the best preserved Roman military bath house in Britain, and a stretch of Dere Street.Open: 9 ‐ 12 Aptil Easter weekend and 26 April ‐ 25 Sept daily 11am ‐ 5pm.…
Distance: 4.2 miles away

World's oldest surviving railway bridge built 1725‐1926, standing 80 feet above a wooded gorge. Picnic area with replica 18th Century coal waggon. Tanfield Railway runs between Sunniside, Causey Arch and East Tanfield.Open: Throughout the year ‐ normally locked at dusk.…
Distance: 12.5 miles away

The museum at this family friendly attraction features The Durham Light Infantry with emphasis on WW1 and WW2 and looks at Durham Home Front life during WW2. Regiment's archive housed in nearby County Record Office. Durham Art Gallery presents an exciting exhibitionevents programme. Open: …
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Local history museum in historic church telling Durham's story from 10th Century. Displays, models, artefacts and hands‐on activities. Changing exhibitions, videos, brass rubbing and shop.Open: April, May & Oct, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday 2pm ‐ 4.30pm, June daily 2pm ‐ 4.30pm, July, August…
Distance: 11.8 miles away

Discover a superb collection of over 3,000 medals awarded to over 1,000 men who served in one of the finest County Regiments The Durham Light Infantry. Here you will find the medals of Durham soldiers who fought in the Regiment from the Peninsular War battles against Napoleon…
Distance: 11.1 miles away

Small exhibition with panels and photographs celebrating over 600 years of industrial heritage in the Gaunless Valley.Open: 1 April ‐ 30 Sept daily, Oct ‐ 31 March Saturday and Sunday only, all 11am ‐3pm.…
Distance: 4 miles away

Giant Screen visitor attraction offering an insight into Durham's fascinating past. Sacred Journey is a specially commissioned film featuring the life of St Cuthbert and the birth place of Durham City.Open: Daily, screening at 11am and 12 noon.…
Distance: 11 miles away

Remains of East Gate and defences, courtyard building, part of internal road and bridge across.Open: All year round.…
Distance: 4.2 miles away

The Bowes was designed and purpose‐built as a public art gallery by the French architect Jules Pellechet. It opened in 1892. The Museum has public galleries on three floors. Ground Floor.Th ground floor is devoted largely to local history and archaeology, together with our popular toy display, the…
Distance: 10.5 miles away

The museum is situated in the former home of Timothy Hackworth, Soho House, or Soho Cottage, which was the preferred name of the Hackworth family. Built on the original Stockton & Darlington Railway Shildon Works site, which later, when Timothy Hackworth launched his own engineering works, became Soho…
Distance: 6.6 miles away

Archaeological museum with material from excavations in and around the City. Temporary exhibitions and regular events, including workshops and activity days.Open: Nov ‐ March, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday 11.30am ‐ 3.30pm, April ‐ Oct daily 11am ‐ 4pm.…
Distance: 10.2 miles away

Only museum of its kind in the Country devoted entirely to Oriental art and archaeology. Collections range from prehistoric Egypt and China to the work of living artists. Temporary exhibition programmes.Open: Monday ‐ Friday 10am ‐ 5pm, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday 12 noon ‐…
Distance: 10.2 miles away