Fantastic local museum that offers great events for all the family. And is a vital hub for the community. Lovely museum

A Great place to take friends and family.

Brilliant museum with lots of history with friendly staff. Kids loved it will visit again.

Visited on the Model Railway Weekend and was an experience and a half! Not many displays but all amazing to see and experience, particularly the display connecting the bottom of Ilkeston Town to the Erewash Canal. Great collection of art from artists both close to home and further afield.

A small Museum to learn about local history and the Ilson folk who have lived here for years. They do have special events on during the year so contact the Museum or Erewash Borough Council to find out what's on. Coffee shop is now open when the museum is open. Well worth a visit

Erewash museum does it again,absolutely fabulous value for money and some great events, this year with my grandson we did,...SAND ART. PIRATES AND MERMAIDS,and ANIMAL MAGIC. Would have done much more, but for holidays.Everyone so friendly and always has time to engage with the children, the various trails got brains working, and crafting tables always a winner, shame we couldn't have the beach,but there's always next year. Well done to you all and a big shout out to the guy on the gate,he's so lovely ( and made a fantastic pirate ☠)

A lovely museum with lots of great exhibitions and events. The staff are all very friendly and welcoming. Make sure you pop into the tea rooms for a chat and very reasonably priced refreshments.

Lovely interesting museum with quirky out buildings all housing interesting things to explore. Great interactive activities for the children. I enjoyed the the new social stitch group on Saturday 3rd Dec.

Nice layout and plenty history of the area and things for children to do .The 1950s shop will bring back memories for some .Snack bar is good value ,clean and tidy .And free to visit

Absolutely love our local museum. They put on so many special events, usually free of charge in the school holiday. Staff are always so friendly and helpful!

A great museum to look up whilst visiting the area, there is a current informative room on the restoration of the Bennerley Viaduct, other rooms with galleries of artwork, others for the history of local places, and a vintage sweetshop mock set up. One room was especially dedicated to a historic woman called Hope, who aided POW's during the second world war. There is a little shop on site for postcards etc, and lots of marbles! Some of the stairways are steep, so disabled access limited in the main house fir upstairs, but there is a lift in the outer building. Friendly and helpful staff . Free entry .

Very friendly, knowledgeable staff and interesting exhibitions. The talks they host on local history are really excellent, highly recommended.

Erewash Museum and Gardens was not something I expected because based on photos in Google maps they had a sun deck chair, but when I visited twice it was empty, but the good stuff is inside the museum, cafe and car park. Other than that there is nothing to do outside

Went during the school holidays to do the animal handling (booked in advance) and the beach they had all free services just a polite request for donations to maintain this wonderful service with extremely friendly staff and volunteers definitely worth a visit and the gift shop is nicely priced too

Great place to take younger children in the school holidays. They have different activities and crafts each week and the garden has a large sand pit for them to enjoy. Staff are friendly and the cafe is very reasonable. All in all a great few hours out, would definitely recommend 👍

Had a lovely day at the museum took my nephew he is 3years old he loved it and its free 😁brilliant great value cafe definitely go again lovely staff all volunteers

This place means alot to me. I used to go alot when I was a child now I take mine. They try and do lots of new things in the holidays to keep familys happy. Thank you

Lovely little museum with some very interesting local exhibits. We went to see the Legacy of Lace exhibition which, as a lacemaker, I greatly enjoyed.

An interesting museum for both adults and children. On the territory there is a small garden and a cafe where you can drink delicious coffee or tea with cakes for a good price. The museum also has a shop with many souvenirs and small gifts for every taste! I recommend to visit.

Nice little museum, free entry, often have crafts/trails/events on. The tea room is very reasonably priced but cash only. No parking but nearby at b and m is v cheap - £1 for 3 hours. We went for a Halloween crafts session and the people helping were v friendly and helpful.

Always lots of activities on during the holiday break for kids. The staff are lovely. You can easily spend two hours here.

Lovely place and full of local stuff - bigger budget would help of course. Lovely people who were very helpful-and nice cafe with reasonable prices. Free to enter the museum

A wonderful local gem. My 4 year old loved it as did his grand parents. Great local history with lots of special events to keep an engaged audience. Good coffee and friendly staff.

Erewash Museum is excellent. Today they put on a model railway exhibition which was very good. The food in the cafe is good value for money and kids love it. Thank you Erewash Borough Council for supporting this fine venue.

Visited the erewash Museum the other day with a friend to look at the Sherwood Foresters collection that was on display until December of this year to which I was expecting a little bit more with the regimental Museum being closed for refurbishment. The building as a whole really nice architecture Lee as an old stately home within erewash with the old kitchens sweet shop stables and I really enjoyed the interactive boards that told you the stories of individuals that worked within the house. They are a gift shop with various teams for children and a few military books in but if you haven't been to the museum before like I hadn't I would love to see further displays of the history of are awash with in that museum as it has plenty of potential.

A wonderful local gem. My 4 year old loved it as did his grand parents. Great local history with lots of special events to keep an engaged audience. Good coffee and friendly staff.

Visit to Erewash Museum with our 10 year old that is home educated. The exhibitions were brilliant and held him through the whole visit. A lovely cuppa in the cafe to boot. The staff couldn’t do enough for us and were so welcoming. We came away with a learning resource box about refugees on loan. A fantastic location and resource for home educators.

Good place to call in

Great visit as a storm trooper.. great staff. Great place to visit.

Fab for keeping the kids entertained! Very low costs for activities, to eat and for little gifts