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Artefactual

Brewhouse Yard museum.

Nottingham City Museums

Green's windmill

• History of the windmill and the life of George Green

Brewhouse Yard Museum of Nottingham Life

• Social and domestic history over the past 300 years.

Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery

• Decorative arts including ceramics, glass, silver, jewellery, clocks and watches.
• Story of Nottingham Galleries (archaeology and social history)
• Castle also holds the Sherwood Foresters Museum - regimental museum

Costume museum (only available by appointment for research)

Wollaton Hall

• Significant 400 year old Tudor building
• Contains artefacts on Botonay, zoology including insects, bats and amphbians, geology - fossils, rocks and minerals
• Industrial Museum

History of industry and technology - the building is closing intermitently over next 12 months for alterations so need to check with Wollaton Hall.

Nottingham Galleries of Justice

Houses the HM Prison service collection (previously held in Rugby). It is a National collection and contains things such as art works of prisoners; sampler made from human hair; costumes; Oscar Wilde's cell door; the last gibbet irons; religious and doctors collection.

• www.nccl.org.uk

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