Deborah Hadley

What a beautiful space with some really interesting exhibitions. The normal national history that you'd expect but so many extra surprises like the money and Christmas exhibitions. Some of the Viking and iron age stuff is absolutely breathtaking and the way it's explained is just wonderful. Highly recommended.

Very cool place, seems not quite finished yet, but interesting stalls and food options. The Hippo market is cool too. Some of the stalls are overpriced and you can find the same stuff online for a fraction of the price, but ambience makes it well worth a walk around.

Amazing structure, the building itself is worth a visit. Had kind of expected the museum to be about mining and how it worked, given the location, so a bit disappointed that it just touched on that. Would have loved to have the various structures explained not to mention the process of mining in the area. Was more a mishmash of all kinds of things. Some very interesting, some not so much. I feel like it would be much better if it picked a subject and went with that rather than jumping from natural history to archaeology to geology to photography to history. Definitely too much going on and none of it exceptionally well. Like a restaurant who's menu is too long, you know the food is going to be mediocre at best.

Wonderful free museum highlighting personal experiences of young people under Nazi rule. Signage is all German, but free English audio guide is well done and succinct. There's definitely more to ascertain if you can read German, if you can't it's worth downloading the Deepl app and using it to translate the signage, as there's a lot more information there. Especially the wall panel of photos you flip around to read the story of the person. The current art exhibition is wonderful as well, but no translation or guide for signage there, so again Deepl extremely helpful if you can't read German. The old air raid shelter was very interesting too.

Really enjoyed the Wonderwalls exhibit. Quite provocative. Fairey posters were amazing. It is quite a small exhibition though, basically just two rooms, so felt quite short in terms of a museum visit.

Unfortunately, ground staff were a bit rude and abrupt. Honestly don't see how having my tiny designer handbag on my back versus my shoulder makes a difference. It's not a backpack. And he was so rude when he was telling me to take it off my back.