National Stone Centre

National Stone Centre
Porter Lane
Wirksworth
Derbyshire
DE4 4LS
England

Website

www.nationalstonecentre.org.uk

Telephone

01629 824833

Fax

01629 824833

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Telling the Story of Stone - history, science, technology, art, environment - in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales on the edge of the Peak District. A dramatic site steeped in industrial history, ecology, displaying 330 million year old fossil tropical reefs.

Venue Type:

Museum, Science centre, Environmental or ecological centre, Industrial heritage site

 Opening hours

Open seven days a week all year (closed Christmas Day)

10.00-17.00 Summer Months

10.00-16.00 Winter Months

Closed: Christmas Day

 Admission charges

Story of Stone Exhibition
Adults: £1.80
Children £0.90
Concessions: £1.20
Family Ticket: £3.60

School Bookings, Holiday Activities, Group Visits - please phone for details

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Guided tours
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Parking for coaches
  • Picnic area
  • Refreshments
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
 Disability access
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Research facilities for academics
 Commercial and hire services
  • Meeting room available

Additional info

Parking for disabled visitors - ready access to Discovery Building and activity area. Certain parts of the on-site and off-site trails (which follow natural contours) may not be fully accessible at all times.

Please telephone in advance to enquire about services and facilities.

National Stone Centre
Porter Lane
Wirksworth
Derbyshire
DE4 4LS
England

Website

www.nationalstonecentre.org.uk

Telephone

01629 824833

Fax

01629 824833

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collection details

Archaeology, Industry, Natural Sciences

Key artists and exhibits

  • The Millennium Wall - dry stone walling.

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service

National Stone Centre
Porter Lane
Wirksworth
Derbyshire
DE4 4LS
England

Website

www.nationalstonecentre.org.uk

Telephone

01629 824833

Fax

01629 824833

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

http://www.learnwithmuseums.org.uk/JourneyView.asp?JID=30&PID=77

This learning package encourages pupils to consider how environments change and creatures adapt to their environment. These activities are a useful follow up to a visit to the National Stone Centre where they can see how the limestone rocks are made up of fossils of sea creatures. These are clues that the environment here, in an upland region of Britain, was once very different – these creatures lived in a tropical lagoon 330 million years ago.

Publisher

  • Learn with Museums

http://www.learnwithmuseums.org.uk/JourneyView.asp?JID=31&PID=82

Working with tools, equipment, materials and components to make quality products and evaluating these.

Publisher

  • Learn with Museums

http://www.learnwithmuseums.org.uk/JourneyView.asp?JID=28&PID=80

Construct a binary tree based on Fossils Game

Publisher

  • Learn with Museums

http://www.learnwithmuseums.org.uk/JourneyView.asp?JID=29&PID=58

Movement and dance to show creatures as they were before fossilisation occurred, for each of the geological period levels of the Fossils Game.

Publisher

  • Learn with Museums

http://www.learnwithmuseums.org.uk/JourneyView.asp?JID=35&PID=78

The activity packages have been developed to enable teachers to build on the interest created by the game. In all cases, time will need to be allowed for an initial exploration of the game either as part of a lesson, a lunch time or after school activity or as homework.

Publisher

  • Learn with Museums
 Face to face resources

Activities for schools

Activities available for school groups include
guided site trails,
gem panning,
fossil casting,
fossil rubbing,
Story of Stone exhibition,
rocks and minerals,
soils,
quarry visit.
Please telephone for an information pack.

How to obtain

Tel: 01629 824 833

National Stone Centre
Porter Lane
Wirksworth
Derbyshire
DE4 4LS
England

Website

www.nationalstonecentre.org.uk

Telephone

01629 824833

Fax

01629 824833

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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