Priestgate
Peterborough
Cambridgeshire
PE1 1LF
England
Peterborough Museum is a fascinating and fun place to visit for all the family, right in the heart of the city centre. Having recently undergone a £3.2 million redevelopment (we open again on 31st March 2012) we're looking better than ever and 2012 is going to be an exciting year for Peterborough Heritage! General admission to the Museum is free, we hope you enjoy your visit, and that you will want to come back and see us regularly – there is always something different to see or do throughout the year. We are a Visit Britain Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance scheme attraction. Priestgate dates back to the twelfth century (when the current town plan was set down by the monks of Peterborough abbey) and the first recorded house on the site was built in the 16th century (a grand mansion for the Orme family), although the current building dates from 1816. It was the town house of newly-weds, Thomas and Charlotte Cooke. In 1856 the Priestgate mansion was sold to the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam who allowed it to be used as the city's first hospital, the Peterborough Infirmary, from 1857 until 1928. This impressive Georgian building became the museum in 1931 and an art gallery was added in 1939. Many of the original Georgian features can still be seen today, as can traces of its use as a hospital - as part of the recent redevelopment, the original operating theatre has been restored and visitors will be able to visit it for the first time (the only one of its kind in the country)! The Museum and its collections are owned by Peterborough City Council and are managed by Vivacity Culture & Leisure, a registered charitable trust.
Further information
Opening Hours:
Open Tues-Sun 10.00-17.00 Bank Holiday Mondays – 10am– 5pm Mondays (School holidays only) – 10am – 5pm Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day & Good Friday. We are closed Mondays during term time.
Charges:
Free admission; donations welcome. Admission charges may apply to special exhibitions or events.
Travel directions:
The Museum is in Peterborough city centre, a very short walk (a minute or two) from city centre shops and the Cathedral. It is also a two minute walk from the bus station. Peterborough train station is on the East Coast mainline, and the Museum is a short walk (less than 5 minutes) along a signposted route from the station. Peterborough is conveniently located just off the A1. Follow signs towards the city centre and use city centre car parks. There is limited disabled parking available on-site.
Upcoming events:
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Facilities and services
Facilities:
- Baby changing facilities
- Education facilities available
- Facilities for private functions and events
- Library
- Meeting room available
- Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
- Parking for disabled available
- Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
- Research facilities for academics
- Shop
- Study facilities
- Toilets for disabled
- Wheelchair access to all public areas
Services:
- Activities for pre-school children
- Adult lectures and courses held
- Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
- Direct teaching services for schools
- Events and resources for children and families
- Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
- Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
- General audio-guide available
- General guide to collections available
- Guided tours
- Induction loops in lecture theatres
- Loan service
- Member of staff available with responsibility for education
- Object identification and/or written enquiry service
- Pre-booking service for groups
- Primary school education service available
- Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
- Public access available to collections information
- Secondary school education service available
- Specialist publications on collections available
- Touch exhibits
tags
- Cambridgeshire
- Gallery & Museum
- Georgian architecture
- Archaeology
- Social History
- biology
- East of England
- Archives
- insignia
- costume
- Art
- Road transport
- Literary History
- Water transport
- medicine
- Music (art)
- Earth sciences
- Personalities
- Photography
- Science and Nature
- recreation
- Military History
- British History
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Middle Ages
- Norman
- Modern
- Contemporary (British History)
- Early Medieval
- Georgian
- Regency
- Medieval (British History)
- Prehistoric
- Bronze Age
- Roman
- Stuart
- Tudor
- Victorian
- Viking & Anglo-Saxon
- Neolithic
- Iron Age
- Mesolithic
- Palaeolithic
- 6000 BC - 4000 BC
- 4000 BC - 3000 BC
- 3000 BC - 1000 BC
- 1000 BC - 1 BC
- 1st century (1 - 100 AD)
- 2nd century (101 - 200 AD)
- 3rd century (201 - 300 AD)
- 4th century (301 - 400 AD)
- 5th century (401 - 500 AD)
- 6th century (501 - 600 AD)
- 7th century (601 - 700 AD)
- 8th century (701 - 800 AD)
- 9th century (801 - 900 AD)
- 11th century (1001 - 1100)
- 12th century (1101 - 1200)
- 13th century (1201 - 1300)
- 14th century (1301 - 1400)
- 15th century (1401 - 1500)
- 16th century (1501 - 1600)
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- 20th century (1901 - 2000)
- 21st century (2001 to present day)
- England
- Museums at Night October 2015
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