Midland Railway Study Centre
Gallery
Contact details
Museum of Making
Silk Mill Lane
Derby
DE1 3AF
Description
The Midland Railway Study Centre is the largest publicly accessible collection of primary research material and ephemera relating to the Midland Railway and constituent companies. The collection details the Company's lasting impact on social history and provides and insight into the working lives of the tens of thousands of staff it employed over the years. The Study Centre is also home to the incomparable Roy F Burrows Midland Collection, over 2,500 objects from which can be viewed within the Museum of Making's Assemblage.
Located within the Derby Silk Mill, itself a World Heritage Site, the Museum of Making is a ground-breaking reimagining of what a museum should be — notably because its collection of objects and ephemera is all freely accessible to visitors rather than mostly being hidden away in storage. With the stunning “Kirtley” model railway and the widely renowned River Kitchen, the Museum truly is a “Grand Day Out”.