Erewash Museum

It's the last day of our Wildlife themed crafts and activity trail today! It's also going to be a lovely sunny day so join us at the beach!

The forecast is looking lovely for the Brass Band Concert tomorrow! Join us at 2pm down in the gardens, please bring your own seating.

This fantastic vehicle is on display at the museum.

We are very proud to be supporting the Friends of Victoria Park Poppy Project. Volunteers have created a field of knitted poppies to raise funds for the Royal British Legion, and 365 are now displayed at the museum where they will remain until 11th November. Join them on 27th October to see the full field of poppies at Victoria Park.

Join us at the museum as part of the Ilkeston Christmas Lights Switch on event to enjoy a range of craft and gift stalls. Admission is free.

Don't forget we have our last Quiet Hour today at the beach at 4pm for families with additional needs- all family members are welcome.

Come and meet Santa in the stables, £2.50 per child including a present. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. We will be operating a numbered queuing system.

Come and meet Santa in the stables, £2.50 per child including a present. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. We will be operating a numbered queuing system.

Thanks to everyone who responded to our call out for Craft/Gift Stallholders for an event on Friday 30th November. The event will be from 5:30pm to 8:30pm as part of the town lights switch on event. It's £20 for a stall, and you must have the required public liability insurance. If you are interested send us a message via facebook or email museum@erewash.gov.uk

We are delighted to announce that the Restoration Award from the Ilkeston Classic Car show was presented today to James and Carl for their hard work bringing the Fordson Tractor back to life. Well done guys!

Who came and saw the birds today at the museum? We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

A date for your diary for a lovely event coming up next month in Kirk Hallam.

Woodie's Wings will be here at the museum until 3pm today! Admission is free. Come along and say hello!

Our annual brass bank concert takes place this Saturday at 2pm, join us down in the gardens for a free afternoon of live music. Please bring your own seating.

We still have lots of spaces available if you would like to bring a group to our beach after the schools go back. Give us a call or message us if you would like to book a slot- it's completely free.

It's just a few weeks now until our Fairy Event in September, make sure you have the date in your diary for our magical activities!

Join Ilkeston and District Astronomy Society to view the night sky using professional star gazing equipment. We will also have science displays taking place. Free admission.

Join us to enjoy the sights and sounds of Fairgrounds of the Past Free admission

We will be opening the museum for the Ilkeston Christmas Lights Switch on event on Friday 30th November and are offering space for a selection of craft and gift stalls. The cost of a stall is £20. If you are interested please drop us a message or email museum@erewash.gov.uk

Wow! We’ve just been to the pirate day. What a fantastic place. Lovely staff. Well worth a visit.

We love this little museum, they always run events throughout school holidays and no matter how many times we've been my daughter still enjoys looking round the museum.

We have been each week since the beach has opened, an amazing day out, the beach is plenty big enough and lots of toys out. Staff very friendly and look after the venue brillantly. Awesome activities put on and love looking round the museum. All free of charge just dontations requested. Looking forward to visiting over the next few weeks.

Visited twice last week it was great - my son was able to help with the trains which he loved and the beach was great - will be back for mini beast week

Visited today for first time with 2 and 5 year old, really impressed!

Lots for kids to do and look for in each room. Each room had different theme and things to look at /talk about without going into too much detail with the younger ones. We really liked the room about iron works, Victorian kitchen and scullery, school room, archeology room.

Also tried the tea room, very sweet and v reasonable prices: not loads of choice but all freshly prepared with good quality ingredients.

Very friendly staff throughout. Crafts were fun. Kids loved the chance to peg their picture to the display wall. Liked the old railway posters, we have a few of this style. We are from Beeston so clearly need to go see other nice places in Ilkeston from these posters!

Very happy to give donation and will definitely return and recommend to friends.

We didn’t even do the beach yet!

Lovely, little museam, a gem in Ilkeston. Soooooo interesting and meaningful to the people who live and are interested in the history of the place.

The holiday experiences for the children are always extremly well presented and we always have a wonderful day. The fairy experience this time was amazing

Love this place so great that they have so many different activities during the holidays for the kids and most for free (or a very small cost!)

Looking forward to bringing my kids to the rest of the activities over the holidays!

Love it here, we visit every school holiday and take part in the treasure trail and crafts - the beach was fab this summer too and I can't wait for the gardens to be done. Free admission (remember to donate what you can), dressing up, enthusiastic staff and the best value tea rooms ever. Highly recommended!

I was only in the little tea room for a cuppa and sandwich. Everyone very friendly and excellent service. I recommend it to anyone in the vacinity to give it a try.

I took my nephew to an event called "the beach", he had a brilliant time playing in the sand, building with the large lego & jenga bricks. He particularly enjoyed playing connect 4 even, if he is a little too young to understand the rules of the game.



We ended our trip with a visit to the stable tearoom, which served really lovely refreshments. We will certainly be back.

Great little place. All the staff are very friendly and helpful. Took my niece yesterday for the 1st time. She loved looking around the museum , but really loved the fairy event which was on. Making her own fairy dust , fairy door, and meeting the unicorn. Fun filled day.

Great little place! Didn't realise how much goes on here until recently and now I can't get enough of the place with my children.

Fantastic place, lots to do with the children in the school holidays and very lovely helpful staff .

Fabulous little museum with great outreach events. We always look forward to the school holidays and a fun and interesting creative programme for my daughter and friends. Highly recommend this gem in the middle of Ilkeston, it brings the community together like no other local museum I've known and we enjoy all our adventures here (most recently the fantastic dinosaur!)

Brilliant Gem of a museum! Gorgeous building and well maintained and family friendly galleries. Friendly staff and it has a lovely little tearooms too!

Attended here today with my two yr old grandson for the beach event, erewash museum you got everything right, I can't praise you enough, the lawn and seating areas were perfect, the sand pit was amazing,and the right amount of activities for all ages.all members of staff were friendly,polite and helpful. A lovely way to spend the day. Thank you too from William Beasley aged nearly two.😁

Another super event, all the helpers are so kind and nothing too much trouble.

Really reasonable prices in the tea shop �� thank you �

Another great morning at the museum. Been to events for Santa, fairy queen and the beach and all are fab. I drive 30 mins to get there as I no it will always be a great few hours. Well done to all the staff and volunteers!!!!! Fab!!!

Always something to do at half term very good value