Keswick Museum
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Keswick Museum is a local museum based in Keswick in the English Lake District, which exhibits aspects of the landscape, history and culture of the area.
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery in 2011
Keswick School of Industrial Art was founded in 1884 by Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and his wife Edith as an evening class in woodwork and repoussé metalwork at the Crosthwaite Parish Rooms, in Keswick,
Keswick Museum
…include a 700-year-old cat (found mummified within the wall of a church at Clifton near Penrith), and a collection of around 80 pieces of work by the Keswick School of Industrial Art. The museum holds various documents, maps and literary materials associated with the Lake poets and other writers, including William Wordsworth, Thomas…
Former building of the Keswick School of Industrial Art
The Rawnsley Shield: designed by Edith Rawnsley, made by Keswick School of Industrial Art, and presented to the Cumberland Association of Bell Ringers in 1895 by Canon H D Rawnsley to be competed for annually in a striking competition.