Name |
Image |
Town/City |
Type |
Summary |
Bakewell Old House Museum | | Bakewell | Multiple | website, historic Tudor house with period rooms, Victorian mill workers dwelling, textiles, toys |
Barrow Hill Roundhouse & Railway Centre | | Barrow Hill | Railway | Preserved roundhouse and locomotives |
Belper Heritage Centre | | Belper | Local | information, local history, also known as St. John’s Chapel Heritage Centre |
Bolsover Castle | | Bolsover | Historic house | Operated by English Heritage |
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery | | Buxton | Multiple | Local history, archaeology, fossils and minerals, natural history, art |
Calke Abbey | | Ticknall | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, Baroque country house and garden |
Carnfield Hall | | South Normanton | Historic house | Country house and park, open by appointment on guided tours |
Casterne Hall | | Ashbourne | Historic house | 18th century manor house, outbuildings |
Chatsworth House | | Chatsworth | Historic house | Seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, features priceless paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculpture, books and other artefacts, gardens |
Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery | | Chesterfield | Multiple | Local history, art |
Crich Tramway Village | | Crich | Open air | Restored period village, home to the National Tramway Museum |
Cromford Mill | | Cromford | Industry | Water-powered cotton spinning mill, part of the Derwent Valley Mills |
David Mellor Visitor Centre | | Hathersage | Art | website, museum of cutlery designs of David Mellor, factory and store |
Denby Pottery Visitor's Centre | | Denby | Art | website, small museum of china and porcelain decorative art of the Denby Pottery Company, shop and factory tours |
Derby Gaol | | Derby | Prison | 18th century prison |
Derby Museum and Art Gallery | | Derby | Multiple | Fine art, porcelains, local history, archaeology, natural history, geology and military collections |
Derby Silk Mill | | Derby | Industry | Located in a silk mill, area industries, railway, STEM exhibits |
Derwent Valley Mills | | | Industry | World Heritage Site that includes over 15 historic sites spanning over 15 miles |
Erewash Museum | | Erewash | Local | Local history, industry, period rooms, art exhibits |
Eyam Hall | | Eyam | Historic house | Jacobean manor house with costumes, needlework, family portraits, gardens |
Eyam Museum | | Eyam | Local | Local history, impact of the Bubonic Plague in 1665 |
Haddon Hall | | Bakewell | Historic house | Medieval manor house and gardens |
Hardwick Hall | | Doe Lea | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, significant Elizabethan country house, collection of embroideries, gardens, grounds include Stainsby Mill |
Heage Windmill | | Heage | Mill | website, working windmill built in 1797 |
High Peak Junction | | Cromford | Railway | Workshops for the former Cromford and High Peak Railway, near the Cromford Canal, part of the Derwent Valley Mills |
Hope House Costume Museum | | Alstonefield | Fashion | website, costumes and accessories from 1790 to the 1970s |
John King Workshop Museum | | Alfreton | Local | website, local industry including Pinxton Porcelain, the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, John King who invented the mine cage detaching hook, local social history |
Kedleston Hall | | Kedleston | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 18th century Neoclassical country house, extensive collection of paintings, sculpture and original furnishings, museum of art and items from Asia |
Leawood Pump House | | High Peak Junction | Technology | Part of the Derwent Valley Mills, canal pump house with preserved steam engine |
Life in a Lens Museum of Photography & Old Times | | Matlock Bath | Technology | History of photography, cameras, photographic equipment |
Little Chester Heritage Centre | | Little Chester | Local | website, local history, located in St Paul's Church |
M & C Collection of Historic Motorcycles | | Bakewell | Transport | information, information, motorcycles and memorabilia |
Melbourne Hall | | Melbourne | Historic house | Country house and gardens |
Middleton Top Engine House | | Middleton-by-Wirksworth | Steam | website, website, preserved beam engine |
Midland Railway – Butterley | | Butterley | Railway | Formerly known as Midland Railway Centre, heritage railway and museum |
Moorland Centre | | Edale | Natural history | website, geology, wildlife, plants and importance of the moorland and Peak District, operated by the Moors for the Future Partnership |
National Stone Centre | | Middleton-by-Wirksworth | Geology | website, geology, earth science, mining, uses for rocks and minerals, 50 site of former limestone quarries, fossil trail |
National Tramway Museum | | Crich | Railway | Located in Crich Tramway Village, collection of working trams |
National Trust Museum of Childhood | | Sudbury | Toy | Operated by the National Trust, located at Sudbury Hall |
New Mills Heritage and Information Centre | | New Mills | Local | website, local history |
Old Manor | | Norbury | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, medieval hall |
Peak District Lead Mining Museum | | Matlock Bath | Mining | Lead mining, miner family life |
Peak District National Park Visitor Centre - Bakewell | | Bakewell | Multiple | website, visitor center for the Peak District National Park, features the Peak District Photography Gallery |
Peak District National Park Visitor Centre - Castleton | | Castleton | Multiple | website, includes the Castleton Village Museum |
Peak District National Park Visitor Centre - Upper Derwent | | Bamford | Natural history | website, exhibits and information about the park |
Pickford's House Museum | | Derby | Historic house | Late 18th century Georgian townhouse, displays of eighteenth and nineteenth century costume, toys |
Red House Stables Carriage Museum | | Matlock | Transport | website, original horse-drawn vehicles and equipment, blacksmith |
Renishaw Hall | | Renishaw | Historic house | Country house of the Sitwell family, gardens |
Revolution House | | Old Whittington | Historic house | 17th century alehouse with ties to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 |
Royal Crown Derby Visitor Centre | | Derby | Art | China and porcelain decorative art |
Shardlow Heritage Centre | | Shardlow | Local | website, local history |
Sharpe's Pottery Museum | | Swadlincote | Art | website, china and porcelain decorative art |
Sir Richard Arkwright’s Masson Mills | | Matlock Bath | Industry | Water-powered cotton spinning mill, includes the Masson Mills Working Textile Museum, part of the Derwent Valley Mills |
Stainsby Mill | | Doe Lea | Mill | Operated by the National Trust, 19th-century flour watermill located on the grounds of Hardwick Hall |
Strutt's North Mill, Belper | | Belper | Industry | Part of the Derwent Valley Mills, former water powered cotton spinning mill, also includes the Derwent Valley Visitor's Centre |
Sudbury Hall | | Sudbury | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust, 17th century Restoration style mansion, features the National Trust Museum of Childhood |
Tissington Hall | | Tissington | Historic house | Early 17th century Jacobean mansion house |
Wirksworth Heritage Centre | | Wirksworth | Local | website, local history |