Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Keswick Museum, Keswick


	Keswick Museum, Keswick
	Keswick Museum
	Keswick Museum and Art Gallery
	Fitz Park Museum and Art Gallery
Street:-	Station Road
locality:-	Keswick
civil parish:-	Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	museum
locality type:-	art gallery
locality type:-	lithophone
locality type:-	relief map
coordinates:-	NY26912370
1Km square:-	NY2623
10Km square:-	NY22

	BJX66.jpg (taken 8.10.2005) CDY12.jpg (taken 16.9.2015)

evidence:-	descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) item:- fossil
source data:-	Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. goto source Page 144, footnote:- "While staying at Keswick it may be worth while to see two museums kept there. They contain a great variety of fossils, and other natural curiosities of the country, several pieces of antiquity, and many other articles."

evidence:-	presumably descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) item:- geology
source data:-	Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto source Page 51:- "..." "[Keswick] ... Here are two museums, exhibiting the geological history of the surrounding locality, and many foreign curiosities; one was established by the late Mr. Crosthwaite, and is now kept by his son. At both the museums, the various mineral productions of the district are exposed for sale. ..." goto source Page 166:- "[Keswick] ... There are two museums, containing many curiosities, and specimens of the mineralogy and geology of the district. ..."

	CDX95.jpg Gallery. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDX96.jpg Gallery. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDX97.jpg Gallery, Wainwright exhibition. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDX98.jpg Gallery, Wainwright exhibition. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDX99.jpg Gallery, Fell and Rock Climbing Club exhibition. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum.

	CDY01.jpg Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDY02.jpg Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes, Longsleddale. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOK03.jpg Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ91.jpg Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail, Gatescarth Pass etc. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ95.jpg Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail, Longsleddale. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ93.jpg Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ94.jpg Flintoft's relief map of The Lakes; detail. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ96.jpg Mr Flintoft. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ97.jpg Advertisement for one of the relief maps. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum.

	BOJ88.jpg Mould for Mayson's relief map of The Lakes. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ89.jpg The pile of plaster shapes is about to be wrapped carefully and put into reserve storage. (taken 12.12.2007) courtesy of Keswick Museum.

	CDW59.jpg Bronze relief map of The Lakes, most of the area included in Wainwright guides, by Chris Scammell, Map Sculpture, 2015? (taken 11.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDW60.jpg (taken 11.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum.

	BOK04.jpg Richardson and Son's Rock, Bell and Steel Band. (taken 19.9.2006) courtesy of Keswick Museum BOJ98.jpg Richardson and Son's Rock, Bell and Steel Band. (taken 19.9.2006) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BOJ99.jpg Richardson and Son's Rock, Bell and Steel Band. (taken 19.9.2006) courtesy of Keswick Museum.

	BUF88.jpg Peter Crosthwaite's musical stones, 1785. (taken 18.3.2011) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BUF89.jpg Peter Crosthwaite's musical stones, 1785. (taken 18.3.2011) courtesy of Keswick Museum.
	John Ruskin visited the Crosthwaite Museum in 1830, age eleven, with his parents. In a childhood poem, Iteriad, he wrote:-
	And next we were shown, upon a new plan - O
	A kind of a sort of a stony piano!
	Some stones in the bed of the Great's stream found,
	Emitted, when struck, a most musical sound!

	Do Y' Ken John Peel

	Jamie Barnes, Brian Dewan and Emma Welsby have recorded a number of tunes on a set of musical stones, and have allowed us to use one of the tracks on this website:-
	-- JohnPeel.mp3 (opens in a new window)
	The track is taken from a CD The Musical Stones of Skiddaw; Geophony volume 2. available at Keswick Museum.

	BUF92.jpg (taken 18.3.2011) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BUF93.jpg (taken 18.3.2011) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BUF94.jpg (taken 18.3.2011) courtesy of Keswick Museum.
	A new set of musical stones.

	BMR27.jpg Portrait of Jonathan Otley. (taken 19.9.2006) courtesy of Keswick Museum. BMR28.jpg Jonathan Otley's instruments, etc. (taken 19.9.2006) courtesy of Keswick Museum.

	CDX92.jpg Outline view. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDX93.jpg Outline view. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum. CDX94.jpg Outline view. (taken 16.9.2015) courtesy of Keswick Museum.
	Drawn on the gallery windows as part of the Wainwright exhibition, 2015.

	BRA60.jpg Sheep, from the Gates of Borrowdale by Frederick Clive Newcom (1847-94); notice the smit marks. (taken 9.7.2009) courtesy of Keswick Museum.

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