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The concept behind Bailiffgate Museum and Gallery was simple. Put heritage at the heart of the community by creating a volunteer-run museum for the people of Alnwick and District. Include interesting and educational permanent exhibits. Above all, showcase the wonderful heritage, art and craft expertise in the area.
Say "Museum" and people imagine a dull, dusty dreary place silently enjoyed by bespectacled academics. Nothing could be further from the truth at Bailiffgate. Volunteers offer a wide and diverse number of skills and interests. They harness these in inventive ways to develop the museum and all its services.
Each item in our collection has its own curious and fascinating story before ending up at Bailiffgate, where it starts a new life. If you adopt an object you help us raise essential funds to support the Museum and Gallery. You also become part of that story yourself. Adoption costs just 50 a year for an individual and 100 for a company.
Bailiffgate has delivered several community projects in recent years in the local community. Each aimed to highlight and preserve the rich cultural heritage of North Northumberland. Some focussed on a particular street or village. Others recorded personal testimonies of life in the first half of the 20th century.
Explore our inspirational collection of over 20 loans boxes to support your delivery of the national curriculum in an exciting and hands-on way. Our timeline ranges from early civilisation to the 1960s with special boxes for Agriculture, Fishing, Railways, Washday and the 'Box that Must Not be Named'.
Reviews (17)
Brooke Ritchie
Nov 26, 2021
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Nick Ball
Nov 18, 2021
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Norman Burns
Nov 10, 2021
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David Crabtree
Sep 13, 2021
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James Slater
Aug 22, 2021
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Laura Melanie Harrison
Aug 16, 2021
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Karen G.
Aug 06, 2021
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James Humbles
Aug 06, 2021
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Wendy Roughley
Jul 31, 2021
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Sian Kennedy
Jul 29, 2021
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Neil Smith
Nov 06, 2020
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Shelagh Douglas
Oct 14, 2020
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Hugo Minney
Jul 10, 2020
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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 it's excellent
We went to the special exhibition, which was a textile artist who put heart and soul into her work, and it's excellent
Christopher Inglis-Jones
Jul 07, 2020
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Carol Meredith
Nov 01, 2019
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Ruth Paterson
Jul 17, 2019
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Mari Ostendorf
Jun 28, 2019
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