Museum of Making
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The Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill
Silk Mill Lane, Derby DE1 3AF
Museum of Making, The Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill
Installation View, Photo: V21 Artspace
Courtesy: Derby Museums Trust
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Celebrating the area’s rich history of innovation, the Museum of Making in the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site is a contemporary space telling Derby’s 300-year history of making to inspire new creativity. Designed and made by the people and industries of Derby with exhibits, workshops, activities and events, there’s something here for everyone including a new café, shop and venue hire space.
Derby Silk Mill is widely regarded as the site of the world’s first modern factory, built in the valley that changed the world. Industry brought prosperity to some and poverty and wage slavery to others. Yet it shaped Derby as a city of making and creativity.
Industrial society led to the creation of civic institutions and stimulated a civil society in which people campaigned for social and political rights.
Find out more: derbymuseums.org