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
Workhouse, Southwell (National Trust)
The Workhouse
Southwell
Nottingham
NG25 0PT
Nottinghamshire
England
Collection details
Architecture
Costume and Textiles
Law and Order
Social History
Facilities
Parking: yes
Shop: yes
Guided tours: yes
Baby changing facilities: yes
Study area: yes
Wheelchair access: yes
Visual disability facilities: yes
Education activities form a vital part of the programme at The Workhouse. The site has enormous potential in many key areas of the National Curriculum as well as providing exciting opportunities in many areas of lifelong learning.
Visual Arts and Performing Arts projects will feature highly with artists in residence being a regular feature.
Schools Visits: Teachers are encouraged to take up the offer of a free preliminary visit once they have made a booking.
Designated parking 200yds. Drop-off point. 5 manual wheelchairs available. Ramped entrance. Ground floor fully accessible, (except for motorised wheelchairs). Stair access only to other floors. Manual wheelchairs available on other floors. Audio-visual/video. Photograph album. Please ring for details and to book wheelchairs. Adapted WC in car park and at The Workhouse.
Contact details
Information (Tel)
:
01636 817250
Education Officer (Tel)
:
01636 817250
Property Manager (Tel)
:
01636 817250
General information (Fax)
:
01636 817251
Information
:
theworkhouse@nationaltrust.org.uk
Website
:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/theworkhouse
Open
Open 1st Oct - 2nd Nov 2008:
Sat & Sun and October half term week Wed - Sun:
11.00 - 16.00
Please note last entry 1 hour before closing.
Closed
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
Admission charges
National Trust members: free
Adults: £5.80
Children: £3.00
Family: £14.80
Family (1 adult): £8.80
Includes introductory video, displays and audio guide included.
Description
From a building that nobody wanted to enter, we want to create a heritage facility that anyone would want to visit and where everyone is welcome.' The often overlooked lives of the poor and destitute in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is explored at The Workhouse, Southwell in Nottinghamshire. The Workhouse was built in 1824 by the Reverend John Becher of Southwell, in Nottinghamshire. For over 150 years it housed the local poor, dominating the local landscape. But by 1997 this nationally important, Grade II* listed building was under threat of being turned into residential flats. Within a matter of weeks the National Trust stepped in to buy it with emergency funds, and started working to secure its long-term future as a monument to the Poor Laws and the poor.
Collections description
The Master’s Punishment - children can now explore The Workhouse by playing The Master’s Punishment game. Find the answers to the questions in each room and see what your punishment is!
Meet the paupers - meet some of the “characters” who lived at The Workhouse in the 19th century every Monday.
Articles
Summer 2008 Holiday Ideas At UK Heritage Sites And Museums
National Trust Opens Up Its Grounds To Train Heritage Gardeners
Southwell Workhouse Discovers Its History With A Little Help From Kew
Available resources
History Detectives
Face to face resources; Guided tour (Resource)
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.