Royal Pump Room Museum, Harrogate
Harrogate for Health and Happiness: A Spa Town in the 20th Century
OPENING EVENT, 21 JANUARY 2012
11am until 3pm
£1 entry for everyone
To celebrate our new exhibition, come along to join in children's craft activities – play games, make masks and hats.
Enjoy recently discovered film of the spa treatments and visitors taking the sulphur waters.
Take a short tour to see the sulphur wells
Discover the Turkish Bathshistory with the visiting expert.
The exhibition explores Harrogate’s twentieth century history through historical objects, fashion, film and photographs.
Find out about the spa treatments, the visitors, Harrogate during the world wars and how the town became a conference venue as the spa visitors declined.
Discover our involvement with the recent BBC project, using museum objects to tell A History of the World.
See featured objects:
Ancient Egyptian Anubis mask
Czarina's cufflinks
Blind Jack's viameter
Find out about England's premier spa town |
See for yourself the spa treatments |
 Visit the strongest sulphur wells in Europe, where over 15,000 people used to come every summer. Don't forget to taste the water for yourself, it's an unforgettable experience! |
 Discover Harrogate's connection to Russian royalty and what politicians and famous writers of the 19th and 20th century thought of their visits.Charles Dickens described Harrogate as the queerest place with the strangest people leading the oddest lives! |
| Take a trip down memory lane |
Harrogate for Health and Happiness: A Spa TOwn in the 20th Century |
Stroll past the museum's
displays of old-fashioned
shops, a hotel and Harrogate's famous park, the Stray, to explore life in bygone Harrogate. |
This exhibition explores Harrogate’s twentieth century history through historical objects, fashion, film and photographs.
Find out about the spa treatments, the visitors, Harrogate during the world wars and how the town became a conference venue as the spa visitors declined.
the development of Harrogate and the lives of the people, who lived, worked and visited here. |
Find out about events relating to the museum's collections and exhibitions.
Find out about the museum's first artist in residence
Discover Mr Monkey's visit to the museum.
Interested in hiring the museum for an evening event or group visit? Find out more