Keswick Museum and Art Gallery

Keswick Museum is a museum in Keswick in the English Lake District which reopened in 2014 after large refurbishment of its motive-built 1898 constructing. Its ied collections function Keswick’s panorama, history and subculture. The Mountain Heritage Trust continues a changing exhibition in the museum, which in 2014 focused at the effect of World War I on the mountain climbing community. The museum and artwork gallery is owned by using Allerdale Borough Council and run via the largely volunteer Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Management Ltd. The museum turned into founded in 1873 and had some of transient homes as it grew, along with The Moot Hall in Keswick metropolis centre.

A building changed into cause built for it, in Fitz Park, partly as a memorial to the Hewetson brothers, outstanding Keswick benefactors, and to commemorate the jubilee of Queen Victoria. It stays the best motive-constructed museum in the county. The authentic galleries have been the Main Gallery and the Model Gallery, the latter built particularly for Flintoft's famous version of the Lake District. The constructing work began in 1897 and the grand starting become on Easter Monday, 11 April 1898. The 'Picture Gallery' become brought later, through the energies of Canon Rawnsley, a museum trustee and one of the founders of the National Trust. It opened in July 1906 with its first exhibition held by way of The Lake Artists Society.