Workhouse Museum - Ripon Museums (original) (raw)

Walk in the footsteps of the Victorian poor

See how people lived, worked and slept in the Workhouse. Explore the stories with family trails, guided tours and drop in activities.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be poor in Victorian England? Before the welfare system was introduced, those without the means to support themselves would often end up in the workhouse.

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Address

Workhouse Museum, Allhallowgate, Ripon HG4 1LE

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Opening times

The Workhouse Museum & Garden are open daily from:
10am - 4pm

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Ticket prices

Book tickets for all museums or just the Workhouse Museum & Garden

All museums

• Adult: £19.00
• Child: £10.50
• Concession: £18.00
• Family & Friends: £38.00
  (2 adults and up to 3 children)
• Small family: £28.00
  (1 adult, 1 child)

Single Ticket

• Adult (16+) £11
• Concession £10.50
• Child (6-15yrs) £7.50
• Child (5yrs and under) FREE
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Visit time

90 minutes

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Accessibility

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• The Workhouse Museum is mostly on one level with two rooms on the first floor.
• An audio guide is available for visitors.
• Doorways and corridors are wide enough to allow wheelchair and mobility scooter access.
• Access lift available (dimensions: 100cm x 148cm)
• Uneven floors especially for the visually impaired. There are a mixture of surfaces.
• The stone stairs to the first floor are very worn and uneven. Handrail provided.
• Accessible toilets are available on the ground floor in both the Vagrant’s Block and Main Block buildings.
• There is low lighting in some parts of the museum.
• The Workhouse Garden is fully accessible for wheelchair users via a ramp

Did you know...

Our building housed vagrants or tramps for two nights at a time; they could not return for 30 days.

We grow vegetables and fruit varieties which could have been found here in 1890.

Vagrants were still housed here in the 1960s; many local people still remember them sitting on the wall outside waiting to be let in.