Established | c. 1892 as Keighley Museum at Eastwood House, Keighley. Reopened in 1959 at the former Cliffe Hall as Cliffe Castle Museum. |
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Location | Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England BD20 6LH |
Type | Heritage centre, Historic house museum. |
Visitors | 65,000 (2010) |
Public transit access | Keighley railway station; bus information from Bradford Interchange |
Website | www.bradfordmuseums.org |
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian, neo-Gothic Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in c. 1892. There is a series of galleries dedicated to various aspects of local heritage, and to displaying the house itself, which is a Grade II listed building.[1]