What's new...
Family History Course
Starts Saturday 27 February 10am to 12pm
Have you started researching your family history but come to a dead end? Why not sign up for a 5 week course hosted by Bolton & District Family History Society at Bolton Museum. £25 per person.
Temporary local history gallery closure
The local history gallery at Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive (including the permanent Humphrey Spender Worktown gallery) will be closed until 2010 while it is being refurbished. The Art Gallery, Egyptology Gallery, History Centre and Aquarium will remain open throughout the work.
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30 January to 13 March @ Bolton Museum
Gripping true stories about British justice from the Victorian era and the present. Created by the Genesis Entry to Employment youth group.
Features
Humphrey Spender's Worktown photographs
See Bolton, the town and its people, as it was photographed by Humphrey Spender for the Mass Observation project. A fascinating social document of pre-war Lancashire life.
Search our collections online
You can search from any page within the collections section on this site. If you follow the link above you will find an introduction to how the search works as well as some examples to get you going.
Bolton Museum Services include...
Hall
i' th' Wood
Discover Hall i’ th’ Wood Museum, a 15th century half-timbered hall and birthplace of the spinning mule.
Smithills
Hall
Explore Smithills Hall, a Grade 1 listed building set in formal gardens on the edge of the West Pennine Moors.
Museum & Archive
Bolton Museum and Archive service is located above the Library behind the Town hall on Le Mans
Crescent.
Bolton Aquarium
The only public aquarium in Greater Manchester. Come and see our diverse fish collection.
