MUSEUM OPENING TIMES

Mon – Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-4pm

Closed Easter Sunday and throughout December.
(January times vary, please enquire before visiting)

MACHINERY DEMONSTRATIONS

11am and 2pm in the Weaving Shed
(Sun 12 noon and 2pm) (times subject to availability)

MUSEUM ADMISSION CHARGES

Adult
Child (5-16)
Family (2 Ads + up to 3 Children)
Concessions
Pre-booked Groups and Schools

£3.00
£2.00
£6.50
£2.50
£2.50 per person

PLUS: Guide fee of £10 applicable for groups only
(Accompanying teachers and group leaders free)
All prices include VAT

Visitors may self-guide
(without guide and without pre-booking).
Alternatively, guided tours can be pre-booked and tailored to requirements.
Tour duration c. 45 mins

Tel/Fax +44 (0)1629 581001

Disabled access available

Masson Mills Working Textile Museum

The musuem floor, rolls of material, looms producing cloth and working beaming overhead

Masson Mills Weaving Shed

A small room with a massive bobbin collection

Masson Mills Bobbin Room

Masson Mills house a fascinating collection of authentic historic textile machinery dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In 2010 the collection was described as “possibly the UK’s finest collection of working textile machines” and includes machinery originally from Masson Mills, along with a large collection of other items and artefacts from textile mills all over Britain.

What Was It Like To Work In An 18th Century Cotton Mill?

Visitors to the museum can experience the genuine atmosphere of a working 18th century cotton mill in the original 1783 Masson Mill – the sights, the smells and the sounds are authentic and evocative. At Masson Mills there is a palpable sense of the continuity of enterprise. After “clocking in” with their entrance tickets, visitors “step back in time” on entering the old mill. Here they can see and appreciate Sir Richard Arkwright’s Legacy of over 200 years of industrial history.

The collection includes, amongst many other items:

Spools of cotton being wound on a machine

Masson Mills Doubling Room

» History of Sir Richard Arkwright's Masson Mills - The Jewel in the Crown