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?!

Um, OK. Slightly at a loss as to why you were so aggressive, but ne'er mind.

When I was a child I stayed with a family in Germany. I moaned about the lack of animals - they had no pets. So they took me to an animal foetus museum. Looking at dead kittens was not my idea of a good day out.......

Ah now Punk, there's a wee streak of the Goth in me that'd bloody love that ... the OM & I are looking forward to a trip to the Museum of Surgeons (or whatever) on Lincoln's Inn Fields. Nothing like antique bone-saws and forceps to keep the romance alive

nonno, you seem rather defensive... Is the pencil museum your favourite place? Do you take your fish paste sandwiches there for your lunch hour?

Yes Bloofer, I have a percentage of goth - a year or two later I would have loved it too! They had some other good exhibits - like a stuffed calf in a snake's mouth. You will love the Royal College of Surgeon's...The Wellcome Collection is great too....

I've been to the Pencil Museum, and it was quite a bit more interesting than the Guernsey Tomato Museum so I think you are being uinfair.

Guernsey tomato museum . Oo Ooo I went to a Wellcome Collection temporary exhibition at the British Museum a while back - it made me feel all sort of light-headed, like I was drunk on sheer gruesomeness. It was ace.

All of these places are making me proud to be English!

Fish paste!

PS threadworm every time I see your name I think of that brilliant MN thread (no pun intended) about the clove of garlic up the arse - have you read it?!

Ick. No I think I have been too squeamish for that one. I should get rid of this vile name. It was originally intended to convey that I was as hooked on mn threads as a bookworm is on books. That was years ago; I resurrected it for an oldies thread.

I went in 1990. Thought it was pretty good back then - but I was 11 and on a highly exciting school trip to the Lakes.

Oh keep it Thread - I got it & thought you were fearfully witty :)

There's a seaweed museum in Brittany if any of you are ever stuck for something to do across the channel.

(If you're all not too busy getting hands on with pencils that is)

I do remember the giant pencil at Keswick. That was very exciting. It was just like a pencil but (here's the thing) it was much bigger.

I want to go to all of these places - is there a biro annexe to the pencil museum with its own cafe called jotters and lots of rivalry between the staff I wonder?

This thread is an MN version of the fab book Bollocks To Alton Towers

"Biro Annexe"

I know, right?! I want to do a tour. Then write a witty yet poignant travelogue, sell the broadcasting rights to BBC4 and have it narrated by Rob Brydon. Y'all can share in the profits

Cars of the stars isnt there anymore according to my friend who lives in Keswick. She says its moved to Florida??
Pencil museum is shite imo

Is the thread consensus that the Pencil Museum doesn't have a point? Does it need to sharpen up? Is it a write-off or is it just swinging the lead?

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I need to apologise. It's not a seaweed museum. Oh no. It's something better. It's the museum of unfortunates people who collect seaweed.

I bet you're all booking your ferries now! I am, and on my way I'm going here

Anyone fancy a mumsnet pilgrimage to these wondrous places?

In Bruges I went to a crisp factory :)

These fabulous places should be MN endorsed as emblems with advert links to them on the home page instead of boring Boden and Mark Warner.

at Rob Brydon pencil narration

Not crisps, sorry. It was chips: www.frietmuseum.be/

The Mumsnet Bus tour of crap tourist attractions.
I'm up for that.
And whoever mentioned The Waltzing Waters in Newtonmore -yep - that's a must see on the list.

However, if you ver find yourself in a small village, called Pelhrimov, in the Czech Republic do visit here: www.dobryden.cz/wwwpredsin/klient/default.aspx?path=%2FEnglish%2FTHE-MUSEUM-OF-RECORDS-AND-CURIOSITIES-PELHRIMOV

The home of world records! Very odd little museum, but strangely appealing! DD and her two friends were fascinated.

Mmmm...chips museum, I would! Did you actually get to eat any? And did you also visit the chocolate museum?