Lancaster City Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Lancaster, Lancashire
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Closed — opens Friday at 10.30am
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16Educational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Free parking
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Lancaster City Museum is housed in the former Lancaster Town Hall building in Market Square, a Grade II* listed Georgian building constructed between 1781-3. The museum explores local history, archaeology, and social/industrial heritage of Lancaster from pre-historic times to today. Also home to the King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Features Roman tombstones and the Viking-era Silverdale Hoard.
Open as usual for spring and summer Bank Holidays. Closed Christmas and New Year.
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 carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Changing mat
- Spare outfit
- Dummy and a spare
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