Best places: Historical place museums in Derby, United Kingdom

Intricately decorated romantic castle with discovery centre and extensive scenic grounds and a cafe.

Preserved Georgian mansion and estate with costumed staff, period exhibits, garden trails and farm.

Archaeological museum in a limestone gorge, caves and fissures, with prehistoric tools and art.

The prototypical workhouse, this Victorian building now tells the story of the workhouse program.

2 houses with interactive exhibitions about the city, a local army regiment and historic gardens.

👍👍 Really interesting museum with tons of activities for the kids as well as lots of interesting exhibits for adults. We especially loved the model railway that is still being added to - it features reconstructions of many Derbyshire station buildings and the accuracy is astonishing. There's a lovely...

Educational museum in a half-timbered house with rooms depicting Elizabethan and Jacobean styles.

👍👍 This is well worth a visit. Very informative about our mining history. The staff great and its all dog friendly and all they ask for is a small donation because its run by volunteers.

👍👍 Fascinating place, beautiful &, obviously historic. Kate is the perfect host, friendly & knowledgeable & I can highly the cream tea too. A fabulous day out & on our doorstep too. Highly recommend it!

👍👍 A former colliery site transformed into a nature park. It hasn't been over-managed and there are plenty of wild areas of flowers and long grass. There are several lakes and pools which are good for wildfowl. Some of them are fenced off to prevent disturbance. The site is excellent for butterflies....

Ruins of a wall from a 2nd-century-CE Roman bath complex, with an adjacent archaeology museum.