Welcome
The grim atmosphere of the Workhouse Museum has been carefully maintained in order to give visitors a sense of what life in a Victorian Workhouse could have been.
Start your visit in the original Gatehouse building, which contains the Guardians' Room, Bathing Area, Vagrants' Cells and Receiving Ward for inmates.
Then take a look around the Main Block where you can see the Master's study and dining room, the pantry, classroom and inmates' dining hall. In the Workhouse Museum Garden, fruit and vegetables would have been tended by the inmates and been used to feed them and we use 1860s gardening techniques to cultivate heritage crops.

Level access
There is level access from the main entrance to:
Main ticket deskVagrant's block toiletsMain block toiletWorkhouse Museum shopWorkhouse Kitchen GardenWorkhouse Museum siteThere is level access from the car park to:
Workhouse picnic areaVisual
General
Getting here
Travel by public transport
Travel by taxi
Parking

Arrival
Path to main entrance
Main entrance
Getting around inside

Lift
Vagrant's block lift
Ticket/ information desk
Main ticket desk
Things to See and Do
Stairs to the first floor are uneven. A handrail is provided.
Public toilet
Vagrant's block toilets
Public toilet
Main block toilet
Shop
Workhouse Museum shop

Getting around outside
There is some uneven ground on the museum site. The Kitchen Garden is on a slope, with upper and lower paths.

Picnic Area
Workhouse picnic area
We have three picnic tables on a grassy area of the Workhouse Museum site. There is a low kerb around the grassy area.

Workhouse Museum site
There is some uneven ground on the Workhouse Museum site, including some pathways with kerbs. There is a dropped kerb on the main visitor route from the rear of Main Block giving access to the Kitchen Garden.