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?!

Do NOT trust this review

Belle we should wear badges so we know

VirgoGrr wasn't being a 100% serious

MoreWooThanAWooInWoovilleTiggaxx

There's a sewing machine museum in Tooting. According to Time Out the highlisht is a sewing machine given by Queen Victoria to one of her daughters

The fan one looks rather lovely.
The other one in Keswick has a rather random set of exhibits and possibly squeezes in on the crap list.

And I've just seen gmome world.
I want to go.
I want a hat.

Oooh, I just remembered that the random museum in Keswick (the non-pencil/car one) has a 500 year old naturally mummified cat. In a drawer I think if memory serves. So that alone makes the trip worth it!

I was going to offer the Bakelite Museum by Taunton, but Dilys beat me to it.

I've always wanted to go, but my parents refused to take me. One day...

There's some fab Bakelite in the Plastic exhibition at the Science Museum. A really good exhibition, actually

One of my fave places is avoncroft museum of the built environment where they have an old telephone exchange (complete with bloke who is a telephone exchange expert) and a collection of telephone boxes. It was actually fascinating and v.amusing to watch my kids have a go with an old dial phone!!

Ooh, Alistron, I love those phone boxes! And ringing out from them and then running to find the one that's ringing!

bloofer - I don't get why you find it so funny as to want to upchuck prawns? And you are showing yourself to be lacking somewhat in the geography department. A professional looking site and yet you still want to slag it off, go first then review.

Worst museum ever visited was somewhere in Lancashire with the worlds largest pear drop!

carocaro repeat after me "I must read the thread, I must read the thread, I must read the thread in order to find out if it was all meant to be a bit of a lark".

That is all.

Carocaro, have you not read the thread? Do you not understand the humour? I'm not sure bloofer has "slagged off" the website - it was generally hailed as being a great website. Did you not get the part where is was clear she does in fact know where Keswick is - she was actually taking the piss out of insular southerners

I?m just waiting for the subject of the Toaster Museum to pop up.

A visit to the Tinplate Museum gave me unalloyed pleasure.

Hurry along to the Submarine Museum in Gosport - there are fears it's going under.

The a Hat Museum in Stockport has a rival near Narbonne, in France. There's a lot of titfer tat between them.

.. and of course the Tobacco Museum in Bergerac is non-smoking.

The Einstein Museum thought right,
I can travel much faster than light.
It departed one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous night.

Oh really Carocaro love, do keep up

This thread is THE BEST THING EVER and I feel proud to be British. I'm going to make it my life's work to visit all of them. And then I shall hop on the ferry and make my way to the Tobacco Museum...

Dan did you make up that limerick?! Do say yes!

BlooferLady - I could try and pretend to be clever, but no, I must tell the truth ? I adapted it.
There was an old lady called Wright,
who could travel much faster than light.
She departed one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous night.

It is still a spiffing poem what you wrote, Dan. Needs to go on a mug.

I think we should hire this bus - it would be laughter and strange learning all the way. Don't forget your thermos!

Yay yay! I took a punt, had a google and YES! There is a Thermos flask museum!

"a trip down memory lane for anyone who's ever been on a picnic. "

What are we waiting for?

(Pulls on hiking boots)

I have been to Keswick and sadly couldn't persuade my family to go to the pencil museum. However in Fermoy, Co. cork we have a giant pencil! I think there used to be a Caran D' Ache factory there,but alas,it is no more,and only the giant pencil remains.

Actually we went a couple of years ago. The museum was not up to much, but they had an artist there who was teaching children how to create various effects with the different types of pencils. Me & DP could not drag the kids away from the artist, so we sat in the cafe with tea & cakes. The kids ended up spending all their spending money on pencils & I spent a fortune on a huge box of pencils that had every colour pencil in it - I love it.

I love this sort of thing! It's the opposite of cynicism, trash TV and solemn sophistication :)

I am near Keswick right now and desperately trying to persuade my friends that we need to go! Only because this is one of the first ever threads I read on MN and feel like I need to see something of such nonsense!

How funny, zombie thread! I was reading it and feeling a bit déjà vu and read my own post abut the crayola factory, ah sweet, crayon, memories