Watch out for the lead miner. Imagine the damp and the dark as you step into our recreated lead mine. Discover the time tunnel and come face to face with a Norman invader. Learn how to get a woolly sock from a woolly sheep.
The Dales Countryside Museum explores how our ancestors survived in the beautiful but sometimes harsh environment of the Yorkshire Dales. Interactive exhibits, fascinating displays, hands-on activities for children, a video and CD-Rom bring alive the story of the Yorkshire Dales and the people that have lived and live today in this unique landscape and the special wildlife that can be found here.
The museum has several galleries, the largest one being in the Victorian goods shed that once housed the goods waiting for collection by the steam engines of the Midland railway. This building has been converted into a fascinating exhibition hall that reveals life in the rural villages of Yorkshire at the turn of the century.
Adjoining the goods shed gallery is the purpose-built centre which houses a gift shop and information centre, public toilets, education and study rooms, an outside ampitheatre and the John Richard Baker Exhibition Hall.
The Museum's time tunnel will then take you onto the platform of the old station, where a series of railway carriages house the video viewing room and artefacts from Dales life throughout the centuries.
