Silk Museum

Silk Museum
Park Lane
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 6TJ
England

Website

www.silk-macclesfield.org

E-mail

silkmuseum@tiscali.co.uk

Telephone

01625 612045

Fax

01625 612048

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The Silk Industry Museum includes the Silk Museum and Paradise Mill. At Paradise Mill you are given a guided tour around a working silk mill as it was int he 1930s. The Silk Museum takes you through the design and processes involved in producing and creating silk, from bugs to beauty.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Mon-Sat 1100-1700
Mill Tours at 11.15, 12.15, 1.15 and 2.15

Closed: Sundays

 Admission charges

Silk Industry Museums
adult £3.75
concessionary £2.75
familu (2+2) £10.80

Costume, machinery and amterials relating to the whole silk process in Macclesfield and around the world. Social history items from Macclesfield.

Collection details

Archives, Costume and Textiles, Design, Fine Art, Industry, Science and Technology, Social History

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.
 Face to face resources

Saturday Science Club

http://www.makeitmolecular.com/index.html

Make It Molecular runs this hands-on, free, Science Club for children aged 8-13 years, taking place at the Macclesfield Silk Museum. Each workshop will cover a different aspect of science and is presented by an experienced Science Communicator.

How to obtain

Fill in the online booking form at www.makeitmolecular.com/Science%20Club%20Programme.pdf Workshops are free. Contact info@macclesfield.silk.museum for more details.

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