Nottingham Castle & it's Caves (Nottingham Castle - Museum & Art Gallery)

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Product:	Nottingham Castle - Museum & Art Gallery
Date:	20.09.00 (181 review reads)
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Advantages: Lots of interesting things to see

Disadvantages: The cafe lets the place down - looks nice poor service

I went to Nottingham this weekend and decided that having travelled all that way we should look around furthur than the bars!
We opted for Nottingham Castle & it's caves - though if you take a tour the guide will say it actually hasn't actually been a castle for a long time and since then has been a duchal palace and is now a museum. It cost £2 to get in as it was the weekend, though I must say I was very impressed to learn that during the week it is free. The grounds are nice - plenty of grass to sit on in summer and a playground for the children! The best bit though has to be the museum - it is really interesting. There is plenty of information about Nottingham and it's castle through the ages with displays and videos to watch. There's a section more designed for children with plenty of things for them to interact with and also various art exhibitions with the work of many local artists displayed. All this for free (during the week) - pretty impressive in this day and age.
An optional extra which would cost £3.50 in the week but is just £1 at weekends is the tour of the caves below the castle. The tour guides are volunteers from the local civic society (if memory serves me well) and certainly know their stuff. The tour took about 45 minutes and involves a lot of walking up and down stairs, but you definately learn a lot about the history of the place.
The only down side about the whole place was the cafe - the service was poor and very slow and the cutlery was dirty.
Putting that aside, if you're in Nottingham and have a few hours to spare give it a look, you'll definately learn something and may even enjoy it!

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