New Lanark World Heritage Site

How is our luxury New Lanark yarn made? Each little piece of cotton comes a long way before it is woven into fabric, and you can find out all about it's journey at our People and Cotton Exhibition!
Our Textile Production area is included in your Visitor Centre ticket and allows you to view a real, working spinning mule making our New Lanark yarn! Your Visitor Centre ticket also includes entry to our Annie McLeod Experience ride, the Millworkers' house, Robert Owen's House, Robert Owen's School for Children and our Roof Garden where you can enjoy the scenic views over the River Clyde!
If you're looking for a fun, family friendly day out this weekend then New Lanark World Heritage Site is the place to be! More information on our website: www.newlanark.org

We are currently recruiting for Visitor Attraction Assistants!
If you're enthusiastic, friendly, can deliver great customer service and have a passion for history then we want to hear from you. Please send your CV to the address or email provided in the job description.
Closing date: 22nd September 2018

Only one week to go until our Wedding Open Evening!
You will receive a glass of bubbly and canapes on arrival, a tour of our fantastic facilities, meet our wedding partners and coordinators and we will launch our new 'Vintage Weddings at the Institute' package! 💒
#SaveTheDate Thursday September 13th 6 pm - 9 pm! For more information, visit our website: https://bit.ly/2wLENRM

Do you have any spooky or unexplainable stories from your visit to New Lanark? Our ghostly guides certainly do!
Join us after dark for 'New Lanark's Ghostly Guided Tours' and explore New Lanark's past including strange stories taken straight from our history books and from our very own staff and visitor's experiences!
'New Lanark's Ghostly Guided Tours' will run on October 27th, 28th and on Halloween Night! 🎃 Tickets are £10 per person and tours are strictly adults only. Get your tickets via our website: https://bit.ly/1KXMN1U

The fog on New Lanark this morning came at just the right time as we launch 'New Lanark's Ghostly Guided Tours'! 👻
Join your ghostly guide for a behind-the-scenes tour of New Lanark's past, including spooky, strange and unexplained stories from the history books, staff and visitor experiences!
'New Lanark's Ghostly Guided Tours' will take place on October 27th, 28th and 31st. Tickets are £10 per person and tours are strictly adults only. For more information and to book your tickets, visit our website: https://bit.ly/1KXMN1U

Congratulations McKaila and Valerie! Our University of Glasgow Masters Museum Studies Interns submitted their theses last week. McKaila and Valerie were both placed at New Lanark on a voluntary basis as part of their Masters programme, and assisted with vital research, planning and build of exhibitions, and care of our collections during their time spent with us. Both of them were an absolute joy to have around and we wish them every success in the next steps of their careers in heritage! Thank you!

Who founded New Lanark? How did the mills operate? How many people worked here? Learn all about the history of New Lanark on one of our daily guided tours!
Our guided tours leave from the Institute reception daily at 11:30 am and 3:00 pm and last around 45 minutes. Explore the history of New Lanark as our expert guides tell you all about the people who lived and worked here almost 200 years ago!
The guided tour is included in your Visitor Centre ticket. For more information, visit our website: https://bit.ly/1WfmdGk

The sun is shining on Robert Owen’s Garden this morning! ☀️
If you’re looking for a fun, family day out this weekend, we have something for everyone! For more information, visit our website: www.newlanark.org

Are wedding bells ringing for you? 💒
#SaveTheDate September 13th 2018 6-9pm - join us for our wedding open evening!

Looking for something to do this weekend!
Why not head to New Lanark World Heritage Site and visit interactive exhibition from V&A Museum of Childhood, Game Plan: Board Game Rediscovered!
Game plan is included in the price of the Visitor Centre Ticket or from £5. Fun for all the family!

🎲 Make sure New Lanark World Heritage Site is on your Game Plan this weekend and visit our fun and interactive family exhibition! 🎲
The V&A Museum of Childhood's exhibition "Game Plan: Board Games Rediscovered" incorporates some of the most iconic and exciting board games as well as family favourites such as Cluedo and Jenga and more traditional games like Chess. "Game Plan" also features historic board games dating all the way back to Ancient Egypt.
Entry to "Game Plan" is ...included in the New Lanark Visitor Centre ticket which allows access to all attractions New Lanark has on offer, or it is available as a single ticket. "Game Plan" is open daily from 10 AM - 5 PM and will be at New Lanark until November 4th! Visit our website www.newlanark.org for more information.
📷 Photo: Neil Hanna Photography (https://www.neilhannaphotography.co.uk/)
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Great review from Scottish Field!

Take a step back in time and see what school life was like for the children of New Lanark almost 200 years ago!
Join your teacher in Robert Owen's School for Children for a Victorian-era classroom lesson at 2 pm. Make sure you're on your best behaviour!
Swap your PlayStation for a Gird and Cleek and see the toys Victorian children used to play with. Our Historic Toys workshop runs twice daily at 10:30 am and 1 pm in Robert Owen's School for Children.
... All sessions and workshops are included in your Visitor Centre ticket and last for around 45 minutes. There is a capacity of 20 for Toys from the Past and 25 for the Historic Classroom lesson. Your Visitor Centre ticket also includes entry to our Game Plan: Board Games Rediscovered exhibition which guarantees even more family fun!
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Had a lovely day hosting Richard Leonard MSP and Jeremy Corbyn today! Hope you both enjoyed your visit to New Lanark!

Great article!

Treat your kids this weekend after their first week back at school and visit New Lanark World Heritage Site to see the V&A Museum of Childhood's exhibition Game Plan: Board Games Rediscovered!
Game Plan is a fun and interactive exhibition with something on offer for the whole family!
Entry to Game Plan is included in New Lanark's Visitor Attraction ticket and can also be purchased as a single ticket. For more information on Game Plan, please visit: http://www.newlanark.org/visitorcentre/ga me-plan.shtml

Visited today for Brick City with 4 adults and 4 kids aged 16, 14, 8 and 5. Yes the displays are not massive but they are fantastic all the same. It took us about 45 minutes to go round the 2 rooms, we are a lego loving family so every detail was appreciated.The kids loved the activity sheets and the selfie area.In the lego play room ALL members of the group had a ball and could have stayed longer building our creations haha. All round good day and staff were lovely as well.

This is my review for Brick City only. I had booked tickets for this before I discovered that you actually did autism friendly slots so I contacted you and was able to change the date of our visit. First of all a HUGE thank you for actually providing autism friendly slots in the first place because lego events are often very attractive to our lego obsessed children but sadly they are seldom catered for. I received a visual social story before the event so my grandchildren knew exactly what to expect from before they entered the building and when they did it wasn't too busy or too noisy but was just right. The staff were all very friendly and helpful and at the end of our time slot when asked what marks they would give their trip out of 10 the replies were 'millions', 'ten' and 'ten' so you can't ask for more than that! Thank you all.

Stayed over in the hotel on Friday night.Lovely room, great food dinner/ breakfast but most of all very friendly helpful staff.Textile exabition was fantastic and we enjoyed exploring the whole World Heritage Site.Definitely a 5 star experience!!!

Really enjoyed it, agree with comments 're Lego exhibit being poor however the 25% off entry to the other attractions made up for this. I would have liked to see the school as it should have been and the exhibit else where in the estate. The whole experience is fab and would recommend it to anyone.

Lanark Mill is a favourite place in our family and my 2 daughters took me here last Sunday for Mothers Day. We had a wonderful day and enjoyed the Textiles Exhibition and the amazing Heritage Afternoon Tea. Staff are so nice. My husband and I got a hotel voucher from the girls at Xmas and have just booked overnight at Easter. Cannot wait and would recommend 😊

I visited the Textiles Exhibition: From Picasso to Warhol" yesterday. What a fantastic attraction. Beautiful pieces of work on show, it was fascinating. Stunning surroundings, lots to see & do, lovely large cafe & fabulous shop. Will return for the Tapestry of Scotland exhibition.

Finally saw the artists textiles exhibition, excellent 10/10 highly recommend and please keep getting lots of different exhibitions they are fab and love how all so different, last year Lego this year textiles! Something for everyone keep up the good work

Fantastic! We came to see the Artists’ Textiles Exhibition, and loved it. Janet, who was working at reception, really enhanced our visit by being so knowledgeable and helpful. Her passion for New Lanark shines through, and made us realise that we need to visit this place often.

Fantastic day with my grandchildren aged 4 years and 8 months. Would recommend the Christmas experience. Santa was fantastic and a lovely gift was received. Went to the Panto to end our day. All round a great day and all the staff were so nice.

Excellent attraction. Well worth a visit. We did the guided tour at 2pm which was informative and amusing, thank you Lesli. Perfect four hours spent in wonderful surroundings.

Brilliant place to take children learn there history. Is a lovely family day out and if you want a longer visit there is a hotel , self catering Waterhouses and hostel on site. Thoroughly recommend.

Absolutely fabulous day out, we loved it. What is not to enjoy, the school was fabulous as was the Annie MacLeod Experience. The whole thing is so well put together and the staff are so helpful and knowledgeable x My 10 years old loved it x

Absolutely brilliant experience we loved it last year but loved it even more this year! Santa was brilliant best we have seen and special mention to the elf Jamie who was brilliant with my girls ages 7 and 5! Danced with them as well as reading them a story! Fabulous day and will will 10000% be back next year!

Stayed there for the weekend as it was our anniversary.

Absolutely loved the buildings but for me there was not enough focus on the engineering and mechanics and too much on Owen's fantastic work on improving the social aspect for his workers. We took the tour on Sunday and I don't think you could get a more enthusiastic and informative guide than Josh.

Pool, sauna and steam room were also used as were the walk up to Cora Linn.

2 great dinners and breakfasts, plus liquorice ice cream.

Added bonus for us was the Brick City lego exhibition.

Absolutely loved our stay.

Lovely family day out but the cafe is needing a lot more for the kids. Got my son the kids lunch box which had half a sandwich in it. Don't think it was worth the money

An excellent historical site with lots to see. You need all day just for the visitor centre, school and manager's house. Then there are all the woodland trails I still haven't been around yet. My only criticism is the scope of the visitor centre and tours, with most of the emphasis on the social history and living conditions of the workers (in particular the children). The actual science and engineering aspects of water power and weaving are largely ignored.

went yesterday to brick city , was really disappointed , definitely not worth the money. My 2 son's got bored and we left. For the long drive there you could easily be in the exhibit for 10mins. The play room was ok not much lego or blocks to play with in the little side room. The cafe is no better expensive for The tiny portions and hot food was not that nice. Left this experience feeling disappointed and wasteful of money!

Brick City only: Very underwhelmed. Cost is high only to get access to this event. Any other access to the site would have cost us even more. Appallingly poor selection of Lego in the shop, we would've been better spending the £45 and visiting the Lego shop. Really disappointed

Travelled from Edinburgh for the Easter event weekend. There was Easter crafts which was an extra £4 per child and toy workshop extra £2 per child. On top of the entrance cost to enter New Lanark. The Easter bunny was about but was difficult to find. No Easter decorations as shown in the advertising leaflets. Huge disappointment for the children.

Visited today for Brick City with 4 adults and 4 kids aged 16, 14, 8 and 5. Yes the displays are not massive but they are fantastic all the same. It took us about 45 minutes to go round the 2 rooms, we are a lego loving family so every detail was appreciated.The kids loved the activity sheets and the selfie area.In the lego play room ALL members of the group had a ball and could have stayed longer building our creations haha. All round good day and staff were lovely as well.

This is my review for Brick City only. I had booked tickets for this before I discovered that you actually did autism friendly slots so I contacted you and was able to change the date of our visit. First of all a HUGE thank you for actually providing autism friendly slots in the first place because lego events are often very attractive to our lego obsessed children but sadly they are seldom catered for. I received a visual social story before the event so my grandchildren knew exactly what to expect from before they entered the building and when they did it wasn't too busy or too noisy but was just right. The staff were all very friendly and helpful and at the end of our time slot when asked what marks they would give their trip out of 10 the replies were 'millions', 'ten' and 'ten' so you can't ask for more than that! Thank you all.

Stayed over in the hotel on Friday night.Lovely room, great food dinner/ breakfast but most of all very friendly helpful staff.Textile exabition was fantastic and we enjoyed exploring the whole World Heritage Site.Definitely a 5 star experience!!!

Really enjoyed it, agree with comments 're Lego exhibit being poor however the 25% off entry to the other attractions made up for this. I would have liked to see the school as it should have been and the exhibit else where in the estate. The whole experience is fab and would recommend it to anyone.

Lanark Mill is a favourite place in our family and my 2 daughters took me here last Sunday for Mothers Day. We had a wonderful day and enjoyed the Textiles Exhibition and the amazing Heritage Afternoon Tea. Staff are so nice. My husband and I got a hotel voucher from the girls at Xmas and have just booked overnight at Easter. Cannot wait and would recommend 😊

I visited the Textiles Exhibition: From Picasso to Warhol" yesterday. What a fantastic attraction. Beautiful pieces of work on show, it was fascinating. Stunning surroundings, lots to see & do, lovely large cafe & fabulous shop. Will return for the Tapestry of Scotland exhibition.

Finally saw the artists textiles exhibition, excellent 10/10 highly recommend and please keep getting lots of different exhibitions they are fab and love how all so different, last year Lego this year textiles! Something for everyone keep up the good work

Fantastic! We came to see the Artists’ Textiles Exhibition, and loved it. Janet, who was working at reception, really enhanced our visit by being so knowledgeable and helpful. Her passion for New Lanark shines through, and made us realise that we need to visit this place often.

Fantastic day with my grandchildren aged 4 years and 8 months. Would recommend the Christmas experience. Santa was fantastic and a lovely gift was received. Went to the Panto to end our day. All round a great day and all the staff were so nice.

Excellent attraction. Well worth a visit. We did the guided tour at 2pm which was informative and amusing, thank you Lesli. Perfect four hours spent in wonderful surroundings.

Brilliant place to take children learn there history. Is a lovely family day out and if you want a longer visit there is a hotel , self catering Waterhouses and hostel on site. Thoroughly recommend.

Absolutely fabulous day out, we loved it. What is not to enjoy, the school was fabulous as was the Annie MacLeod Experience. The whole thing is so well put together and the staff are so helpful and knowledgeable x My 10 years old loved it x

Absolutely brilliant experience we loved it last year but loved it even more this year! Santa was brilliant best we have seen and special mention to the elf Jamie who was brilliant with my girls ages 7 and 5! Danced with them as well as reading them a story! Fabulous day and will will 10000% be back next year!

Stayed there for the weekend as it was our anniversary.

Absolutely loved the buildings but for me there was not enough focus on the engineering and mechanics and too much on Owen's fantastic work on improving the social aspect for his workers. We took the tour on Sunday and I don't think you could get a more enthusiastic and informative guide than Josh.

Pool, sauna and steam room were also used as were the walk up to Cora Linn.

2 great dinners and breakfasts, plus liquorice ice cream.

Added bonus for us was the Brick City lego exhibition.

Absolutely loved our stay.

Lovely family day out but the cafe is needing a lot more for the kids. Got my son the kids lunch box which had half a sandwich in it. Don't think it was worth the money

An excellent historical site with lots to see. You need all day just for the visitor centre, school and manager's house. Then there are all the woodland trails I still haven't been around yet. My only criticism is the scope of the visitor centre and tours, with most of the emphasis on the social history and living conditions of the workers (in particular the children). The actual science and engineering aspects of water power and weaving are largely ignored.

went yesterday to brick city , was really disappointed , definitely not worth the money. My 2 son's got bored and we left. For the long drive there you could easily be in the exhibit for 10mins. The play room was ok not much lego or blocks to play with in the little side room. The cafe is no better expensive for The tiny portions and hot food was not that nice. Left this experience feeling disappointed and wasteful of money!

Brick City only: Very underwhelmed. Cost is high only to get access to this event. Any other access to the site would have cost us even more. Appallingly poor selection of Lego in the shop, we would've been better spending the £45 and visiting the Lego shop. Really disappointed

Travelled from Edinburgh for the Easter event weekend. There was Easter crafts which was an extra £4 per child and toy workshop extra £2 per child. On top of the entrance cost to enter New Lanark. The Easter bunny was about but was difficult to find. No Easter decorations as shown in the advertising leaflets. Huge disappointment for the children.