Dock Museum

Dock Museum

Coordinates: 54°06′44″N 3°14′24″W / 54.1121°N 3.2400°W / 54.1121; -3.2400

The Dock Museum

The Dock Museum seen facing southwards towards Devonshire Dock Hall
Dock Museum is located in Cumbria
Location within Cumbria
Established 1907 (as Furness Museum)
Location North Road, Barrow-in-Furness, England, United Kingdom
Collection size 2,100 objects[1]
Visitor figures 73,000 (2009)[2]
Website www.dockmuseum.org.uk

The Dock Museum is situated in the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. Its exhibits are largely based around the history of the town, heavily focusing on the shipbuilding industry at VSEL (now BAE), the steelworks industry — of which Barrow once had the world's largest and the World War II bombings on the town. There has been a museum in Barrow since 1907 and in its current location since 1994, when 50,000 people visited it in its first year, visitor numbers peaked at 120,000 in 2001. The museum has free entry, and is one of the Lake District's top attractions.

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Exhibits

On initial entrance to the museum, the ground floors galleries are about the town's history, its rapid mushrooming, as well as how it was affected by World War II. The largest part of the museum is housed in a former dry dock, where three floors containing models of ships and submarines built in Barrow, along with other exhibits can be found. The Vickers Photographic Archive, an archive of 10,000 glass plate negatives donated by the shipyard is available online. There are changing temporary exhibitions, two historic, locally-built vessels as well as a filmshow illustrating the town's past and present on the very bottom floor. The museum takes its name from the dock in which it is built. This is the oldest part of the museum, opened in 1872, and is one of its main attractions. The Dock Museum focuses largely on Barrow-in-Furness and its immediate surroundings. It is a common misconception that it is solely a maritime museum. The museum has a strong prehistory collection, natural history artefacts, domestic furnishings, toys and maritime objects.

Museum boats

There are currently four small boats preserved at the Dock Museum: a yacht called White Rose which was built in the late 19th century; Banshee, a Whammel fishing boat; the 1914 traditional Morecambe Bay prawner, Nance.[3] and the museum's current largest vessel - the RNLB Herbert Leigh is sited adjacent to North Road.[3]

Location and facilities

The Dock Museum is located in Barrow-in-Furness alongside the Walney Channel. The Museum has a distinctive shape, and can been seen from the nearby intersection of the A590 road and Hindpool Road.

The museum is home to the 'Bridge Coffee Shop', a gift shop, a maritime themed adventure playground, toilets, disabled access, a studio for hire as well as access to the 'Channelside Walk', which leads up to the towns old slag banks, with good views of Barrow, Walney Island, the Lake District and the Isle of Man when the weather permits. It is a fully accessible museum.

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Coordinates: 54°06′44″N 3°14′24″W / 54.1121°N 3.2400°W / 54.1121; -3.2400


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