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The Museum of Lancashire

The museum of Lancashire is currently closed to under take an exciting new redevelopment.

The Museum of Lancashire offers a real family day out. Housed in Preston's Old Court House the museum allows you to experience days gone by. Take a stroll along a 1940's street, take cover in the Anderson shelter when you hear the air raid siren and watch out for the unexploded bomb! Learn about the role of women during the war, ration books and evacuation. Sit in a Victorian classroom or experience life under gunfire as a world war to solider in the frontline trenches.

Please use the search facility to search a programme of touring and temporary exhibitions. There are also special holiday events and family days that will both inform and entertain.

The Museum of Lancashire,
Stanley Street,
Preston, PR1 4YP
Tel: 01772 264075
Web: Click here


Opening: Mon- Wed, Fri-Sat 10.30am - 5pm
Closed Thursday and Sunday and Bank Holidays

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