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European InnLocal AttractionsDerby Museum & Art GalleryThe museum has a wide range of displays, notably of Derby porcelain, and paintings by the local artist Joseph Wright (1734-97). Also antiquities, natural history and militaria, as well as many temporary exhibitions. Distance: 0.77 Miles Industrial Museum The museum is set in an early 18th-century silk mill and adjacent flour mill. Displays cover local mining, quarrying and industries, and include a major collection of Rolls Royce aero-engines from 1915 to the present. There is also a section covering the Distance: 0.83 Miles Pickford's House Museum of Georgian Life & The house was built in 1770 by the architect Joseph Pickford as a combined workplace and family home. It now shows domestic life at different periods, with Georgian reception rooms and service areas and a 1930s bathroom. Other galleries are devoted to tem Distance: 1.04 Miles Royal Crown Derby Visitor Centre This museum traces the history of the company from 1750 to the present day, while the factory tour demonstrates the making of Royal Crown Derby in detail from clay through to the finished product. A demonstration studio gives you the opportunity to watch Distance: 0.32 Miles Pickford House Museum Distance: 1.04 Miles The Silk Mill Distance: 0.83 Miles Kedleston Hall Distance: 4.12 Miles Derby Train Station Distance: 0.10 Miles Peartree Train Station Distance: 1.40 Miles Spondon Train Station Distance: 2.28 Miles |
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