Nidderdale Museum

Nidderdale Museum
Entrance to Nidderdale Museum
Nidderdale Museum is located in North Yorkshire
Nidderdale Museum
Location within North Yorkshire
Established1975 (1975)[1]
LocationPateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, England
Coordinates54°05′16″N 1°45′33″W / 54.08787°N 1.75930°W / 54.08787; -1.75930
TypeLocal history museum
Visitors7,000[1]
WebsiteOfficial website

Nidderdale Museum is a local and social history museum in the market town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, one of the Yorkshire Dales, in North Yorkshire, England.[2] The museum is housed in a former workhouse, and is normally open every week from Tuesday to Sunday 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. from Easter (or 1 April) to 31 October, and only open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. over the winter months, from November to March. The Museum is closed on a Monday. There is a small entry charge for adults. Accompanied children under 16 are free.[3]

The museum is run by volunteers.[4] The Nidderdale Museum Society has two hundred members, with an elected Committee, and a Board of Trustees.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Queen's Award success for North Yorkshire's secret gem". Harrogate Advertiser. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  2. ^ Long, Peter (2004). The hidden places of England (4 ed.). Aldermaston: Travel. p. 618. ISBN 1904434126.
  3. ^ The Rough Guide to Yorkshire. 2019. p. 209. ISBN 978 1 789 19415 9.
  4. ^ "Pateley Bridge - the village with winning ways". yorkshirelife.co.uk. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. ^ "The History of Nidderdale Museum". Nidderdale Museum Society. Retrieved 7 February 2021.