Around £7 adult entry. Good shop. Cafe great. Free parking. Museum very good too! Worth a visit, thought we'd whizz through... allow about 2hrs

A really interesting museum. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit and watching the experts create bowls and flowers was fascinating. The lady making the flowers just kept chatting to us while making beautiful delicate petals almost without having to look at her hands! Watching the lady painting the ceramics also equally fascinating. Impressive how she was able to maintain the correct perspective on a curved surface.

Fantastic working museum. See the history of pottery in Stoke. The exhibits were detailed and really helped me imagine what it would have been like working in a pottery. What I couldn't envisage is how bad the air quality must have been when there were over 2000 bottle kilns in Stoke! Entry was cheap and an extra £5 to have a go at pot throwing was well worth it. My 4 year old son also had a go and the instructor did really well letting him do it and also giving sufficient help so that he ended up with a pot. The toilet history exhibit was also really good! Also, if you like the Great British Throwdown then this is where it is filmed!

Visited here whilst in the area, was pleasantly surprised with how much we enjoyed it! Interesting to see how the place was when in its full working ways. Fascinating to see what was done here and how the ppl worked. We did the flower making which we enjoyed, the lady who was doing it was very helpful and friendly. You get to take the flower home with you plus it was only £5. We had a drink and a scone with jam and cream in the cafe. Definitely Recommend going if you are thinking of going!! You won’t be disappointed

I attended the craft fair at the pottery museum and what a marvellous day it was. I really enjoyed being fully submerged in my hobby. There was lots of lovely chatty staff to help with any issues and I throughly enjoyed meeting past great pottery thrown down contestants. I would say that this place is Very much worth a visit.

A wonderful museum, so much to see and learn. Really friendly and accommodating staff. We arrived later than planned, so only time for a flying visit, but we pretty much had the place to ourselves after 4pm on a Friday. Will definitely be back sometime soon.

Incredibly atmospheric location. Staff were very welcoming and friendly; one lady provided a demonstration with clay and another was hand-painting vases. I was the only visitor at the time so it was great to have the place to myself! I was surprised that the period machinery was in action; the noise was intense and gives a clear impression of what the working environment was like.

Waited ages to come here as it’s I’m usually working but took advantage of the bank holiday to finally pay a visit… love walking round old factories and have previously done the middleport tour. Also it’s the home of the pottery throw down so would have loved to have seen the bit they do the filming in but it doesn’t appear to be on the tour, none of the previous pottery throw down creations on show either that I could see. But still a great place to visit, entry price is very reasonable and there is a lot to see for relatively small site. The cafe was nice too although the squeaky sounding stairway up to it sounded like it needs a bit of TLC lol Would recommend a visit you won’t be disappointed

Such a great place! Informative boards and films with friendly staff. Lovely to see the big kilns and imagine what it was like with so many of the big chimneys spilling black smoke out. Tea room had great cake at a great price. Go and spend a couple of hours here!

Great museum. We had a home Ed day here with a lot making class Included. Staff are very in formative and helpful. There is a small cafe on site offering hot drinks and basic foods

A very interesting place to visit.Loads to see,loads of history and value for money.As you walk round the museum there are information boards to read as well as demonstrations going on. Unfortunatly we couldn't get hands on with the clay but it was still great to watch someone else making a vase or a rose etc.(it looked easy,not ). The history certainly draws you in with story's of hundreds of local people working in the smog of Stoke on Trent.There's quite a bit of walking here with stairs and cobbles to overcome but it's well worth it. You leave via the gift shop and the café for a well earned coffee and carrot cake.Good.

Brilliant pottery museum, so much to see and do! Covid restricted hands on experiences but a lot of boards and artifacts. Definitely worth a day out to visit.

Brilliant place to visit, so much to see and a real writer opener. Lots of demonstrations and things to see. Cafe is good with a small selection of hot and cold food.

Very interesting place, lots of demonstrations, things to do. Fabulous restaurant. Special mention to the staff who were knowledgeable, friendly and very kind to us.

What a fantastic museum. There's is such to learn and see. Very well laid out thoroughly informative. Also got a throw your own pot (certain days).Great little canteen. Well priced.

A really interesting experience. Went with my family and were there for several hours exploring all the things and could have probably stayed even longer if we'd wanted to explore in more depth. The toilet museum was a peculiar surprise and was honestly better than I feel it really should have been. The cafe was quaint and served lovely Staffordshire oatcakes. Would recommend this if you're in the area.

The Gladstone Pottery Museum provides a window into a lost world - the production of bottle kiln fired ceramics with its arcane industrial processes, demarcated jobs with strange titles ('jiggers', 'saggers'), hard, dangerous, disease ridden working lives and lack of clean air. My tour today took time to start, as I was made to wait ('the Great Pottery Slow Down'?) to see a rather old fashioned introductory 4 minute video before making my way round. The museum itself has a non interactive 'feel' to it. The explanatory information is nearly all provided via signage (no headphone sets or modern tech available). The Tile Gallery, which is well worth a visit, is an illustration of what a more modern Gladstone Museum could look like. This is not a museum that anyone who is not able bodied would feel comfortable visiting. Uneven floors abound, there are steep stairs to climb, and the walkways inside the bottle kilns are narrow and poorly lit. Overall, I enjoyed my visit. If I take nothing else from the experience, I will remember that Armitage introduced the avocado bathroom suite in 1969!

A fantastic slice of history! It was brilliant to see a working museum in action and to really get a sense of what it must have been like to work there. Lots to look at and read, even my two children enjoyed it. Gladstone Pottery is where they now film the Great Pottery Throwdown, which is what inspired my love of creating ceramics myself. The staff were so informative and friendly...I got chatting to one of them and mentioned that I wanted a plate mould...they happened to have one in their car boot and sold it to me for a great price!!! It's a shame they were all sold out of the little hanging bottle kiln models though.

Fantastic place - grey pottery museum that really gives a sense of what the place was like in its heyday, pleasant tea room where I experienced my first oatcake and a lovely shop filled with great gifts. Oh, and the noisiest set of stairs north of the Trent. Plus we got to throw a pot for a very modest fee and the teacher was great!

I loved visiting the museum and having the chance to kearn a bit about the history of The Potteries. Highlights for myself were throwing a pot and making a flower, which I can both take home too. So enjoyable. Made my day today. Thank you!

Fabulous place. Pay for an annual pass which is only £4 more than single entrance and entitles you to free access all year. Step.back in time and explore the well marked trail and see the pottery demonstrations. Lovely little cafe. Great little gift shop.

A really good museum. We had three live demonstrations with people who had a genuine interest in their craft. We didn't do the cafe bit but a really good presentation from start to finish. Would go again.

Very interesting romp thru the history of the Potteries. Well laid out and informative. Clear map provided to guide you on the self tour. Good little cafe at the end for tea/coffee and light snacks.

What a wonderful place that has been preserved and I hope it carries on educating and entertaining people for many years. The gift shop has paintings, pens, flowers and bags, plus more wonderful things you can get a keepsake of your visit. The tea room is light and the staff are very friendly. We enjoyed a pot of tea and a slice of cake. Then there are information videos in different rooms, staff a various points who seem more than happy to talk. We were lucky to chat the a lady making flowers and also another lady who was helping a student make a piece. A magical gem of our industrial history of Great Britain and well worth a visit.

Fantastic museum. Very accessible. Jean is so knowledgeable and gives such a wonderful welcome! Learning about our local history has been wonderful. The yearly passes are an absolute bargain! The Peaky Blinders costumes are an added bonus!

This was a lovely afternoon out, I was amazed how big it was inside, so much to see and do. The huge kiln was fascinating, imagining the people working in that heat years ago. There was a lovely cafe to enjoy afternoon tea which was delicious. You could make some flowers after a demonstration, plenty of parking. Underrated, should be advertised more, a jewel in the Crown of Stoke on Trent.

Wonderful museum. Staff were all lovely and helpful. Well worth a visit. Some great demonstrations.

It's a wonderful place to visit. You get to understand how it was for the people working in the potteries in those days. So hard for them. You cannot get that experience from a modern museum, no matter how much information is displayed. It will be such a shame if the council decide to close it. Especially if they knock it down and build new modern buildings on the site.

Such a well preserved step back in time. Great to see people working there keeping it alive. Great history. Run well with a great team. Cafe also serves great food.

Very interesting place to visit learnt alot about the areas pottery industry.

Great preserved historical pottery with four bottle kilns as well as lots of interesting info, videos, very impressive live demonstrations, a tile museum and a toilet museum, along with a shop, cafe and picnic area (and more), everything you need for a great day out. Only criticism would be that on a warm day the radiators in the coloured glazes and office sections were on, which made it too hot and seemed wasteful, and secondly that some of the films were running on repeat and sometimes at the same time within earshot of each other, which was annoying, it would be much better if they could all be button activated like some already are.