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City Museum (Sheffield)
 City Museum (Sheffield) ... pm; Sundays 11.00 am - 5.00 pm; Bank Holiday Mondays 10.00 am - 5.00 pm.ADMISSION FREE info@sheffieldgalleries.org.uk / Sheffield's main museum is situated in the peaceful surrounds of Weston Park, and would make a fascinating combined visit with the Mappin Art Gallery next door. City Museum's vast collections of natural, artistic, archaeological and historical artefacts are displayed in themed exhibits. Displays range from the ancients of Japan and Egypt to modern environmental concerns, and include Sheffield's own rich history. Display panels are easy on the eye and helpful, and are often assisted by larger than life models. A cafe and a shop complete the fine facilities here. Admission is free. Newest Review: ... the occasional glimpse of one of the workmen reminded me that this place was under renovation but as the months dragged on I came to accept that maybe this building would never be completed to reopen its doors to the public. Then suddenly last summer things slowly started to happen. Huge lorries queued outside the gates with empty skips whilst other ones took away tonne after tonne of rubble, ... more ... but still the blue plastic sheeting revealed nothing. Then one day in the middle of September the blue plastic sheeting was removed.
As I young child this museum was a place that I visited many times and so I had been itching to pay a visit to this new...more |
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City Museum (Sheffield): Sheffield's Oldest Museum (1563 words)
by micksheff - written on 29/09/07 (Very useful, 137 readings)
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Weston Park Museum is located within Weston Park, which is the closest public park to Sheffield City centre. The City's hospitals and university buildings surround it making it very easily accessible by car, bus or tram from the City centre, which is less than one mile away. The museum closed in the March of 2003 for a major £17million refurbishment that was partly funded by National Lottery money. It was due to re-open in the autumn 2005. However major structural problems that were discovered during this refurbishment meant that the museum only finally re-opened its doors to the public on Saturday 14th October 2006. This major refurbishment was ...
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