Galleries
A Brief Guide To The Displays
The galleries are on the First Floor (lift access available). At the gallery entrance visitors can also visit the Rotunda Viewing Platform for fine views of the Castle and across the city.
The main displays cover aspects of Carlisle and Border history, from Prehistoric to recent times, and the natural history of the area, from geology to local wildlife. Temporary exhibitions are held in the Special Exhibitions Gallery on the same floor.
Closed for refurbishment until July 2011 when the Roman Frontier: stories beyond Hadrian's Wall gallery will open.
Includes the original Jacobean house (1689); displayed items are mainly from the Fine & Decorative Arts collections and are subject to change.
One of the biggest and most attractive contemporary art galleries in the region, this fine exhibition space was provided as part of the £5 million redevelopment of the whole museum complex in 1989.
With 300 square metres of floor space, a flexible lockwall hanging system and the capability to meet the most demanding of environmental and security requirements, the gallery is able to present large-scale touring and self-produced exhibitions of the highest quality
