The Armitt Museum

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The Armitt Museum Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9PL Tel: 01539 431212 e-mail: info@armitt.com website: www.armitt.com A short walk from the mill brings you to The Armitt, an attractive building which contains a gallery, museum and library dedicated to the area's history since Roman times and to its most famous literary luminaries, John Ruskin and Beatrix Potter. Visitors can "talk" to John Ruskin, watch a 19th century lantern slide show, and marvel at Beatrix Potter's pre-Mrs Tiggywinkle watercolours - exquisite scientific studies of fungi and mosses. Other exhibits include a lock of Ruskin's hair, a life mask of Harriet Martineau, the political writer and author of an early Guide to the Lakes, and a fascinating collection of photographs by Herbert Bell (1856-1946), an Ambleside chemist who became an accomplished photographer, concentrating on lakeland scenes. The Armitt hosts regular exhibitions, lectures and concerts, and also has its own shop selling items produced exclusively for sale only at the museum.

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