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Castle Hill Clitheroe Clitheroe Lancashire England BB7 1BA |
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Clitheroe Castle Museum overview
Clitheroe Castle has been the focus of a major new refurbishment programme, which has resulted in a state of the art interactive museum, an exhibition space and a spacious cafe. Outside, beneath the ...
brooding castle keep, there’s an innovative play area, with installations such as a giant kaleidoscope and truly huge panpipes. The Castle Keep is free to enter for everyone and offers a walkway around, as well as the chance to hide behind ancient weathered stones. The museum is free for children and £3.50 for adults. The ground floor exhibition starts off with the geology of the area, the beginning of a 350 million year journey via the Industrial Revolution and Victorian era. The natural history of the area is also beautifully presented, with birds and mammals well displayed, and some good interactive games for children. Times gone by are brought to life with voice recordings, cartoons and rooms decorated in various different period styles. Within Clitheroe Castle Museum, children are guided with the help of an Explorer Pack, which consists of a backpack containing a magnifying glass, explorer’s hat and various activity sheets. There is also a dressing up section, brass rubbing and colouring. Beyond the castle, beautiful grounds give the kids plenty of room to run and play and there’s a children’s park.
Not quite knights and damsels
10 Oct 2010
Visited with: Infant
The Clitheroe Castle isn't a huge structure, as you would expect from the term 'castle'. It is merely the remains of a very small castle and despite recent renovations it isn't a very exciting place to visit unless you live nearby and fancy something to do for a couple of hours one afternoon.
The museum isn't large at all and isn't really appealing to children. They have different exhibitions on at different times but they are more of an adult nature.
Entry isn't free, but it is very cheap and so it may be a nice play to take a couple of younger children for some medieval role play.
There is a cafe on site, toilets and a small shop. There are some activities outside which I think children would enjoy.
Good for imaginative and creative families. Not so good if you want the adventure mapped out for you. In a lovely, friendly town though and it is a beautiful view from the top.
Tags: historic, castle, culture, scenic, educational, clitheroe, lancashire, north west
Explorer Packs are a hit for kids at Clitheroe Castle Museum
09 Apr 2010
Visited with: Infant, Child
The towering castle keep of Clitheroe Castle captured the imagination of my visitors immediately (two four year olds and two six year olds plus a baby) and they loved playing hide and seek among the ruins. The Explorer Packs offered at reception went down even better and within minutes, everyone was wearing an explorer’s hat and peering at things through magnifying glasses. A Clitheroe Castle Museum employee was very nearly run through with a wooden sword when my nephew got slightly carried away in the dressing up room, but he did make a very fetching knight in green velvet. His sister resolutely refused to put on the princess outfit, which was a shame because it was very fetching – had I fitted, I might have tried it myself. The kids also loved the brass rubbings and the interactive nature games. The exhibits were interesting and informative for adults and children alike and I particularly enjoyed the cartoon story of the castle’s history. After spending about an hour and a half in the museum, we all wound up in the light and cheery cafe for hot chocolates to celebrate our marvellous afternoon - it did get a bit hot in the cafe despite the cold outside and it would have been pricey to all eat there, but the chocolate was great. Buggies need to be left downstairs so take a carrier for very small visitors and try to leave time for the lovely park afterwards.
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