Pickford's House Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Derby, Derbyshire
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Open now — closes 5pm
🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Free parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Free visitor parking at Pickford's House (turn right at the 'Pickford's House' sign off Agard Street); pay and display parking also available on Friar Gate.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Pickford's House is a unique museum in the Georgian home of the Enlightenment architect Joseph Pickford, who built it as his family home in the 1760s. Run by Derby Museums, it brings historic domestic life up close: furnished rooms and costume displays show how the Pickford family and later occupants used the house, contrasting Georgian grandeur with the lives of the servants. The top floor is home to 'The Tiny World of Toy Theatre', newly expanded displays showcasing Derby Museums' world-class toy theatre collection. Entry is free, the shop is full of traditional children's toys and gifts, and the visitor entrance is up a ramp so the museum is accessible for everyone.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Hair bobbles
- Portable phone charger
- Rucksack
- Travel sickness bands
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