Dales Countryside Museum

Station Yard, Hawes, North Yorkshire, DL8 3NT

Tel: 01969 666210 Fax: 01969 666239

e-mail: dcm@yorkshiredales.org.uk

Visit the Dales Countryside Museum and see for yourself how our ancestors survived in this beautiful, but sometimes harsh, environment. This award-winning museum brings alive the past of the Yorkshire Dales, with interactive exhibits, exciting displays, video and CD Rom. The museum has several galleries, the largest one being in the Victorian goods shed that once housed the cargo waiting for collection by the steam engines of the Midland railway. Adjoining the goods shed exhibition hall is the purpose built museum which houses a gift shop and information centre, public toilets, education and study rooms, an outside amphitheatre and the John Baker Exhibition Hall. The Museum's time tunnel will then take you onto the platform of the old station, where a series of railway carriages house the video and artefacts from Dales life throughout the centuries.