24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Gateway to Over 3,000 UK museums, galleries and heritage attractions
Skip to navigation
Museum Details
Bolsover Castle (English Heritage)
Image: An interior shot of Bolsover Castle
Castle Street
Bolsover
Chesterfield
S44 6PR
Derbyshire
England
Collection details
Architecture
Fine Art
Facilities
Parking: yes
Food: yes
Shop: yes
Guided tours: yes
Baby changing facilities: yes
Wheelchair access: yes
Visual disability facilities: yes
Wedding enquiries : 01246 856456
Contact details
Visitor Centre (Tel)
:
01246 822844
Hospitalilty & Weddings (Tel)
:
01246 856456
Regional Office (Tel)
:
01604 735400
2nd line for visitor centre (Tel)
:
01246 823349
Office (Fax)
:
01246 241569
Visitor Operations Manager
:
andrea.hill@english-heritage.org.uk
Site Supervisor
:
diane.hinchcliffe@english-heritage.org.uk
Site Supervisor
:
jackie.parker@english-heritage.org.uk
Website
:
www.english-heritage.org.uk
Open
2008
1 May - 30 Sept, daily, 10am - 6pm.
1 - 31 Oct, daily,10am - 5pm
1 Nov - 31 March 2006, Thursday - Monday (closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays) 10am - 4pm.
Site closes at 4pm EVERY Friday & Saturday throughout the year.
Closed
Closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day
Closes at 4pm on Fridays & Saturdays throughout the year.
Admission charges
Adults £7.00
Concessions £5.60
Children 5-15 £3.50
Under 5s FREE
Family ticket £17.50
English Heritage Members FREE
Discounts
Historic Scotland
English Heritage
Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments
Description
Bolsover is a 17th century house built on the site of a Norman fortress and is a wonderful place to meander and muse. See the fairytale house, designed as a fantasy house for entertaining, of rooms stacked on top of one another to create the "Little Castle" with its range of charming and spectacular interiors.
Collections description
12 Caesar paintings based on originals by Titian. They were commissioned in the 17th century by William Cavendish and are back at the castle after being taken away in the 1970s for restoration work.
Key artists and exhibits
12 Caesar paintings returned to the castle in 2004
;
Award winning fountain in the Venus Garden
Articles
News In Brief - Week Ending November 25 2007
News In Brief- Week Ending February 25 2007
News In Brief - Week Ending August 20 2006
Available resources
Art and Symbolism - The Cavendish Code Discovery Visit
; Workshop or activity session (Resource)
Educational Visits from Schools & Universities
English Civil War Discovery Visit
; Guided tour (Resource)
Meet a Medieval Soldier Discovery Visit
; Guided tour (Resource); Roleplay or interpreters
Home Page
News Page
Exhibition Page
What's On
Trails Page
Website of the Week
Letters Page
Welsh Home
Graphical Version
Copyright © 24 Hour Museum
Information published here was believed to be correct at the time it was prepared. Welsh language pages developed with CYMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.