AIBU to ask if you've been to the Keswick Pencil Museum?

[BlooferLady]

Oh! Oh! I am HOWLING with laughter!

They have the most fantastic website - it's priceless, I can't see through my tears -

From 'Plan Your Visit' - "Explore the museum before you come and discover all the great things to see and do. You can journey through the history of pencils and pencil making!"

It's only a tenner for a family ticket but for £15 you can visit the bungalow museum as many times as you like during the year!

And the cafe is called SKETCHERS!!!!!

And there's a genuinely spine-chilling wax doll stuck helplessly in a cavern underground - WTF is he doing, mining for those erasers you stick on the end???

Reassuringly, they can take large numbers, and there's a Drawing Zone where you can get hands-on with the pencils

Oh Lord I'm laughing so hard I've nearly thrown up my prawns - surely some MNetter has been there? Is it as AWESOME as it looks?!

Why is this an AIBU question?

And can I just say, I'm honestly only taking the piss about 30%, I think the website is bloody great, a triumph of hope over expectation

I seriously want to go. What is 'Keswick' anyway? Is it North?

It couldnt be more boring than the liverpool museum of maritime history

Dunno FAB, heavy traffic?! I suppose it should be AIBU to mock. Awfully sorry for departing from the protocol...

just the thread title made me laugh

Pencil museum, snort, sounds like the sort of place my school would have dragged us to for an educational visit.

Am loving the Shop. And Sketchers Cafe. Would like to go

Is better than the Museum of Childhood where you can't actually get your hands on any of the toys

Hever Castle in Kent has a dog collar museum

Keswick is in the Lake District

I'm glad it's not just me snorting - every time I look at the NAME I go off in gales of laughter!

DOG COLLAR?!

Never been but noticed it many time on visits to the Lakes with my ex and ds.
I always had a hankering to go in but mean ex refused to fork out the admittance price.
I suppose if you've seen one pencil, you've seen them all but on a wet day in Keswick, unless you trawl round the million crap and boring outdoor shops, looking at boots and fleeces (ex was a mountaineering type) there's not a lot else do do.

Me too bacon - I think I'm laughing in delight as much as anything - and it's the brilliant media-savvy glossiness of the website when it's a PENCIL MUSEUM that gets me...

See, if I'd been to a pencil musuem, I'd've known you mine for lead. That settles it.

I have been to the pencil musuem.
We stole the pencils from the drawing area as we felt we had been conned as it is the most boring museum in the whole world. Not even the biggest pencil in the world cold redeem it. But then again, I have never ben to the lawnmower museum in southport.

Isn't the headquarters of Lakeland in Keswick. Now that is worth a visit

"If you've seen one pencil, you've seen them all..."

See now that's set me off again and I was trying to be serious...I'm not even pissed!

I went a couple of decades few years ago.

I really enjoyed it.

But then I'm a sucker for a tinned set of pencils in all the colours of the rainbow.

It can't be worse than the Dracula Museum in Whitby surely? We paid quite a few pounds 10 years ago and basically walked through a corridor from the front of the house to the back with a funny ventriloquist dummy stle dracula that just fell forward towards you a few inches. It was shite.

Onlion, it has been a few years, but The Liverpool Maritime Museum boring? No way! They even have a little seaman's cottage there to show you how they lived. How could you?

YY to JamieAgain.
The Lakeland shop is indeed in Keswick, I forgot about that.
It was a holiday highlight for me.

I went there today, boring as hell. (although the piermaster's house, which is separate to the museum, was ok)

Breaking news -they don't have a shop - they have a 'Flagship store' !

Oh now if I'd been disappointed by a Dracula museum I'd've raised merry hell. At least with a pencil museum any bit of interest is a bonus.

I went to the crayola factory in Philadelphia.... less said soonest mended! What can I say? They made crayola ....

I could do with a trip to lakeland. I used my special spatula when the frying pan was too hot and it's gone all melted and manky, like I can see a melted face on it.

My sis and her dp have been they sent me photos of them next to a giant pencil!

I recently went to the National Slate Museum in Wales. Slate! I took a video of the water wheel going round. And bought a slate magnet.

It's the home of Lakeland Pencils (posh arty pencils) not Lakeland Kitchenware.

I went to the pencil museum about 15 years ago on a wet day on the Lakes, and remember it being quite interesting. But I am a mega-geek.

Mock ye not! They have the world's largest colour pencil you know (yellow, since you ask)

We go to the lakes every year for big hikes and glorious views...however, last year we had DD for the first time so the dizzying heights became less so and inclement weather curtailed our outings in a way it never had before - we finally visited the Pencil Museum...it had a lot of pencils...

Seriously though, pencil history is linked to the Borrowdale area of the lakes so it's not totally random. We rather enjoyed it, plus we'd already been to Cars of the Stars and we figured we'd have to go eventually. Try to restrain yourself in the shop at the end - so many colours, so many thoughts that perhaps I could in fact learn to draw...