Ruskin Museum

“the most thought-provoking in the Lakes”

Coniston’s award-winning, innovative, interactive, serendipitous Cabinet of Curiosities provides the perfect introduction to:  John Ruskin, 1819-1900, artist, critic, millennial prophet, whose radical political economy inspired the Welfare State and so much of the British way of life; the geology, mines and quarries of the Coniston fells; Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons country; Donald Campbell’s world water speed records in Bluebird; Herdwicks, charr and Ruskin Lace.

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