A new city experience
Art & Museums
Derby is packed full of wonderful heritage and history. Home to innovative 18th century artist Joseph Wright, famous china makers Royal Crown Derby and the nationally applauded arts centre Derby QUAD, you will always find something to do in our city!
Look out for the many fantastic museums just outside of Derby too! Click here to see our Top History Hunters places to visit!
Derby Cathedral
Great For...A lesson on religion and peeking at a family of peregrines!
Admission: FREE
Address: 18-19 Irongate, Derby, DE1 3GP - 01332 341201
Description: Derby Cathedral is much more than a beautiful building. It is, as its constitution states, 'the seat of the Bishop and a centre of worship and mission'. Situated in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter, it can be seen from everywhere in the city centre.
Derby Museum & Art Gallery
Great For...Learning about our famous artist Joseph Wright of Derby
Admission: FREE
Address: The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BS - 01332 641901
Description: Joseph Wright of Derby is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and innovative British artists of the 18th century and is recognised for his exquisite use of light to capture the spirit of the Enlightenment; a period when art, philosophy, science and industry seemed to be part of the same story.
Also home to some of Derby's best kept artefacts and treasures including an Eygptian Mummy!
Derby QUAD
Great For...Discovering contemporary art, international films and archive footage of years ago!
Admission: FREE
Address: Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby, DE1 3AS - 01332 285444
Description: Derby's newest Arts and Media Centre, QUAD Derby provides year round exhibitions from local, national and international artists as well as being the home of the first BFI Mediatheque outside of London. Festivals Format Photography and iD Fest, are held at the QUAD biannually.
Pickford House
Great For...Stepping Back in Time to the Georgian Era!
Admission: FREE
Address: 41 Friar Gate, Derby, DE1 1DA - 01332 715181
Description: Situated in one of Derby's finest Georgian townhouses, this charming museum relives the elegant Georgian times through fine style furnishings and decorations. Pickford House also has a costume display showing how fashions have changed through centuries.
National Sikh Heritage Centre & Holocaust Museum
Great For...Learning the story of Sikhism
Admission: FREE
Address: Princes Street, Pear Tree, Derby, DE23 8NT - 0845 643 5513
The First Sikh Museum in the UK tells the story of the complex history of the Sikh heritage including tails of courage, sacrifice and genocide with the aid of real artefacts. It is also set to be home to a new Sikh War Memorial in 2012.
Royal Crown Derby Visitor Centre
Great For...Collectors of Fine Bone China and admirers of the Royal Family!
Admission: FREE - £5
Address: 194 Osmaston Road, Derby, DE23 8JZ - 01332 712800
Description: The Visitor Centre provides an insight into the history and the skills that go into making the internationally collected, and renowned, Royal Crown Derby china. Factory Tours are also available at the museum as well as unique exhibitions.
