Dales Countryside Museum

@DalesMuseum

Sharing the stories of the people and places of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Hawes, Wensleydale dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Joined March 2011

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Dales Countryside Museum @DalesMuseum 22h

Now on display in our Time Gallery - this is a Mosquito tail wheel recovered among crash wreckage near Keld in Swaledale. Mosquito NF 30 NT544 was on a training exercise on the 10th Jan 1946 when it crashed West of Keld at around 20:00 hours.
#mosquito #aircraft #WW2

Dales Countryside Museum @DalesMuseum 4d

Did you know there are 1,420 objects on display in the museum and a 10,600 in the store!
Fiona's favourite object is a strickle picker. The smallest object on display in the museum.
Have you visited the museum? What was your favourite object on display?
#FunFactFriday #DYK

Dales Countryside Museum @DalesMuseum 5d

Remember, remember the 5th of November! 🔥✨ We’ve just received a vintage recipe book packed with Yorkshire Dales favourites. Who’s tempted by “gunpowder plot” toffee or classic parkin by the bonfire tonight? What’s your favourite Bonfire Night treat? 🎇🍬 #BonfireNight

Dales Countryside Museum @DalesMuseum Oct 28

Where in Wharfedale are we this Wednesday?
' The long marsh overgrown with brushwood'

A hundred years ago a stranger described it as 'a most complete forest, one of the wildest parts of Yorkshire'.

Wharefdale – first published by Ella Pontefract & Marie Hartley in 1938.

Dales Countryside Museum @DalesMuseum Oct 25

Join us at the Dales Countryside Museum for half-term adventures. Help Marie find her lost prints on our interactive AR Trail. On Wednesday, craft your own pom pom alien to take home. Let’s make half-term memories! #darkskies #augmentedreality #halfterm