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Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle)

Description: Address: Castle Street / Carlisle / Cumbria / CA3 8TP / England / Take a walk from present day right back to the early ... more

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle) ... Romans and beyond in the Border Galleries.

Newest Review: ... area which gives an 8 minute audio-visual of Cumbria with dramatic and life like sky patterns. Look underneath rocks and floor boards to discover the critters lurking there. And my daughters favourite, and my most hated part, drawers and glass displays of stuffed animals, ranging from a lowly wasp to a now extinct in Britain, buzzard. Finally theres the Border Reivers Cinema, this gives the ... more

... story of the Border Reiver, but is quite graphic and violent, it carries a pg rating. This area is very inter-active and child friendly. Many places along the way have book bags, information packs, drawing areas and quizzes, aswell as being phy...more

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Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle): History as gorey as it comes. (1041 words)
by - written on 11/04/09 (Very useful, 163 readings)
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Carlisle is named the Great Border City, literally sitting on the border between Scotland and England. The only City in the county of Cumbria, it is steeped in history. Only miles from Hadrians wall and being constantly invaded and conquested between the Scots and the English for centuries, Carlisle's main museum and so called 'premier attraction of the North West' has a lot to cover. Tullie House museum and Art Gallery is situated in the centre of Carlisle. Directly across from Carlisle Castle, a 900 year old fortress famous for Mary Queen of Scot's imprisonment and more recently home to the Border Regiment. Old Tullie House is a classical Jacobean grade one ... Read the complete review

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