Museum
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle, North East England
A French-style chateau in a Teesdale market town, home to a clockwork silver swan.
- Price
- Admission charged
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 2 hours
The Bowes Museum was built to hold a collection of art and furnishings and looks like a Parisian palace dropped into the north. The star exhibit is the Silver Swan, an 18th-century automaton. Go in the afternoon to see it perform.
Good to know
- Silver Swan performs at set times
- Cafe and shop on site
- Best time
- Afternoons for the swan
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Town car park nearby
- Vehicles
- Fine in any car
- Dogs
- No dogs
Facilities
- Toilets
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