Bailiffgate Museum — Attraction in Alnwick

We spent a wonderful rainy afternoon in this locally set up and run quaint little museum. We were made very welcome by the volunteer at the entrance.

The ground floor charts Alnwick’s history through interesting and interactive displays for both children and adults.

The first floor houses regularly changing exhibitions. The theme was childhood for our visit which was imaginatively curated, again with plenty of interaction for people of all ages.

The volunteers have clearly worked very hard to ensure children are included throughout the museum - they are encouraged to touch and play with objects and to draw and dress up. To be honest we three very senior visitors enjoyed the quizzes and dressing up! Don’t miss this little...

Regular and special exhibitions are excellent. The regular exhibition, 10,000 years of human occupation and wars across the borders (both North and South) is well laid out with lots of exhibits / facsimiles and good, informative descriptions. It is a market town museum so we did not expect a full cinematic experience, but it's in context - you step back outside and everything relates to the things around you. We went to the special exhibition, which was a textile artist who put heart and soul into her work, and...

For a volunteer led local museum it is full of interesting snippets. With time, this little museum will be developed more as the local history develops. They have visiting exhibitions. From now til September is a fashion exhibition from 1920-1970 with famous names . There is even a rack of clithes for you to try on. Next May-Sept is an exhibition of Vikings and the directors of the museum are working closely with the Jorvik...