Judges' Lodgings Museum, Lancaster

The museum promises much but fails to deliver. The museum is staid and dull and the staff are uninformed and lacklustre. The 'coffee shop' serving light refreshments is very limited. I found the information booklet too wordy and too deep for most people, without prior knowledge.
The free museum at the maritime down the road is good and there's much more to see.

The Judges’ Lodgings Museum is one of several museums in the UK with this name; to make things clear from the start, the particular one I am reviewing here is in the historic city of Lancaster. The museum takes its name from the Lancaster Castle Assize Judges who lodged in this building for nearly two hundred years between 1776 and 1975. During this time, every town council used to have to make available suitable accommodation for the circuit judges who travelled around the assize courts, and this was Lancaster’s comfortable offering, a fine town house in the city centre, just a short walk from the courts themselves, which were held in the castle on a regular basis. ...  Read the complete review