PICKFORD’S HOUSE
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Our friendly staff at Pickford’s House are available to offer tours of the home for you throughout the week. However, these tours taking place each Wednesday are an extra special opportunity to experience the magic of Pickford’s House whilst being guided by one of our Visitor Service Assistants in traditional 18th Century costume.
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This exhibition brings together a selection of botanical watercolours by a range of artists working for the Derby China Works, during the 19th century. Duplicate and jewel-like, their plants and flowers appear as fresh and life-like as the day they were picked.
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We’re being inspired by flowers this Half-Term week at Pickford’s House! Today, you can assemble your very own beautiful garden to take home. You will be able to fill your garden with colourful handmade flowers.
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Our friendly staff at Pickford’s House are available to offer tours of the home for you throughout the week. However, these tours taking place each Wednesday are an extra special opportunity to experience the magic of Pickford’s House whilst being guided by one of our Visitor Service Assistants in traditional 18th Century costume.
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Pickford’s House
Tuesday – Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: 1-4pm CLOSED effective from 5 April
Bank Holiday Mondays: CLOSED
<strong>EASTER OPENING HOURS</strong>
Monday 30 March- CLOSED
Tuesday 31 March- 10am-5pm
Wednesday 1 April- 10am-5pm
Thursday 2 April- 10am-5pm
Good Friday 3 April- 10am-5pm
Saturday 4 April- 10am-5pm
Easter Sunday 5 April- CLOSED
Easter Monday 6 April- CLOSED
FREE ENTRY
Come and experience our unique Museum of Georgian Life and Historic Costume.
Pickford’s House,
41 Friar Gate,
Derby, DE1 1DA
info@derbymuseums.org
01332 715181
FREE parking to Pickford’s House visitors. Turn right at the ‘Pickford’s House’ sign off Agard Street.
PICKFORD’S HOUSE IS A STUNNING TOWNHOUSE AND GARDEN FROM 1770, DESIGNED BY PROMINENT DERBY ARCHITECT JOSEPH PICKFORD AND USED AS BOTH HIS FAMILY HOME AND AS A PROFESSIONAL SHOWCASE OF HIS ARCHITECTURAL SKILLS.
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Inside the house you will discover a ground floor dining room, drawing room and morning room as they might have been kept at the time. A Georgian bedroom and dressing room have been recreated on the first floor, while on the top floor there is a servant’s bedroom – a contrast to the finery on display downstairs.
This fascinating house also has a kitchen, laundry and scullery as it may have been in 1830. There’s also a garden to explore and a basement air raid shelter, recreated in a 1940s style – not to mention a fully-working Edwardian bathroom which is one of the museum’s toilet facility for visitors, the other being in the style of the 1930s…
You’ will also find exhibits at Pickford’s House, including a wonderful collection of toy theatres, children’s dressing-up costumes and a new porcelain collection.
Pickford’s House, 41 Friar Gate, Derby, DE1 1DA, 01332 715181. View map.
TRANSITIONAL SPACES
Transitional Spaces are the places that we are beginning to use to show our previously stored collections.
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OTHER GALLERIES
Derby Museums have a collection that is wide ranging and varied. We hope that you find something to interest you.
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MIDLAND RAILWAY STUDY CENTRE
The Mildand Railway Study Centre at the Silk Mill is the UK's largest pre-nationalisation railway archive.
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