Bakewell Old House Museum

What Bakewell Old House Museum does

Bakewell Old House Museum is a registered charity (No. 1184842) and Arts Council England Accredited Museum (No. 559) operating a single-site heritage attraction in Bakewell, Derbyshire, within the Peak District. The museum is housed in a 1534 Grade II* listed Tithe House — the oldest surviving residence in Bakewell — expanded into a gentleman’s residence in the Elizabethan period and later subdivided into Richard Arkwright’s mill workers' cottages before being saved from demolition by the Bakewell and District Historical Society in the 1950s and converted into its current museum use. The site spans eleven period rooms containing an artifact collection built over 60 years through local-resident donations, and it currently features the 2026 'Home Sweet Home' doll's house exhibition.

The core offering is general admission (adult £7.50, child £4.50, under-5 free), supported by guided town walking tours, curriculum-aligned KS1–KS3 school visits, a rotating community exhibition space, venue hire (Tudor Houseplace and Tudor Parlour for corporate events, filming, and paranormal investigations), and BDHS membership subscriptions at £15 / £20 per year. Distribution is direct-to-consumer via Yapsody online booking, door sales, the museum's WordPress website, and Mailchimp newsletters, with a TripAdvisor 2025 Certificate of Excellence acting as earned-media validation. Funding is a mix of earned revenue, donations, memberships, and grants from Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the most recent being a 2025 multi-year visioning and building maintenance grant.

The institution operates seasonally (25 March – 5 November, 11am–4pm daily) with a 6-person paid staff, supplemented by volunteers and the parent charity’s trustee board. The operating model is community-led, with the museum functioning as the public-facing vehicle of the Bakewell and District Historical Society rather than as a commercial enterprise. Customer segments are diversified across families/individual tourists, schools, heritage societies (U3A, Rotary, Probus, Women's Institute), film/media production, and paranormal/entertainment groups. Geographic reach is domestic, anchored in the Derbyshire/Peak District tourism economy.

Name

Bakewell Old House Museum

Legal name

Bakewell Old House Museum

Website

https://oldhousemuseum.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1950

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bakewell Old House Museum is a registered charity operating a single-site, seasonally open heritage museum in a 1534 Grade II* listed Tudor house in Bakewell, Derbyshire, serving Peak District tourists, KS1–KS3 schools, heritage societies, and venue-hire clients through admissions, guided tours, and educational programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Heritage Museum and Cultural Attraction

NAICS

Museums (712110), Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712), Historical Sites (71212)

akta.pro primary industry

History Museums (THAJADAB)

Keywords

• Heritage museum operations
• Historical artifact preservation
• Educational school visits
• Guided cultural tours
• Community exhibition space

Headquarters

HQ city

Bakewell, England

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. 门票收入: 成人£7.50，儿童£4.50，5岁以下免费。通过在线预订和门口售票销售。
2. 会员费: 个人会员£15/年，联合会员£20/年。提供年度期刊、通讯、网站档案访问、月度讲座等权益。
3. 场地租赁: 提供会议室（ Tudor Houseplace和Tudor Parlour）、拍摄场地和通灵调查活动场地租赁。
4. 出版物销售: Bakewell and District Historical Society出版年度期刊和书籍，通过博物馆销售。
5. 捐赠: 接受一次性捐款和遗赠，用于博物馆运营、收藏维护和建筑保护。

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The museum fundamentally sells admission to a five-hundred-year-old Grade II* listed Tudor residence in Bakewell, presenting eleven period rooms of original wattle-and-daub, a garderobe, and a large Elizabethan fireplace. Revenue-bearing offerings beyond general admission include guided town walking tours, curriculum-aligned school educational visits for KS1–KS3, venue hire of Tudor meeting rooms for corporate events and filming, a rotating community exhibition space, Bakewell & District Historical Society annual membership, paranormal investigation evenings, and the sale of historical society publications.

Product overview

Bakewell Old House Museum operates as a single-site heritage attraction offering a unified visitor experience. The core offering combines general museum admission with access to eleven period rooms and rotating exhibitions (currently featuring the 2026 Home Sweet Home doll's house exhibition). Supporting offerings include guided town walking tours, curriculum-aligned school educational programs, venue hire for events and filming, a rotating community exhibition space, and Bakewell & District Historical Society membership with annual journals. The museum also offers paranormal investigation experiences as a specialty add-on. The museum is accredited (No. 559) and run by the registered charity (No. 1184842).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Museum Admission General admission to Bakewell Old House Museum, an 11-room Tudor museum spanning 500 years of history from 1534, with exhibitions including the 2026 Home Sweet Home doll's house exhibition included in the admission ticket valid for 1 year.
• Guided Town Tours
• School Visits and Educational Programs Curriculum-aligned educational sessions for KS1, KS2, and KS3 covering Anglo-Saxons, Medieval Life, Tudors, Victorian Era, Richard Arkwright and Industrial Revolution, and Geography, including In-Bakewell tours (£5–6 per child), museum-led activities (£5 per child), and self-guided tours (£4 per child), with accompanying adults free and minimum number requirements.
• Venue Hire Rental of museum meeting spaces Tudor Houseplace and Tudor Parlour for corporate events, filming locations and other client gatherings, with full site access available for larger events and pricing by quotation.
• Community Exhibition Space Rotating community exhibition space for local history groups, schools, and organizations to display exhibitions, configured to suit content needs for 3.5 to 7 month periods during the museum's open season.
• BDHS Publications (Annual Journals) Annual Bakewell and District Historical Society journals containing research articles about Bakewell and District history, spanning from 1970 to present and available as PDF downloads from the museum's website.
• Paranormal Investigations Out-of-hours paranormal investigation events where groups can explore the museum from 6pm to 12am or overnight, with staff support to facilitate the experience; pricing by quotation.
• Home Sweet Home: The Doll's House Exhibition 2026 special exhibition featuring over thirty doll's houses and miniatures, including locally-made doll's houses from the 1870s, historic early 20th-century Lines Brothers (Tri-Ang) doll's houses and scenes from Valerie Claire Miniatures, Mini McGregor, Jane Harrop, Delph Miniatures, Birdhouse Miniatures, 3D-printed miniatures and book nooks; included in the standard admission ticket.
• Bakewell & District Historical Society Membership Annual membership subscription at £15 single or £20 joint (same address), offering the BDHS annual journal, newsletters, website archive access, monthly talks, museum access, and priority event booking.

Quantifiable outcome

• 博物馆开放时间为每年3月25日至11月5日
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Derbyshire Day Out Discount SchememinorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026与其他德比郡博物馆合作提供联票优惠，包括Buxton Crescent Experience、Creswell Crags、Crich Tramway Village等。成人票£1折扣。
• Chesterfield EmbroiderersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 20252025年社区展览空间合作团体，在博物馆展示刺绣作品。
• Peak Rail Association ArchivesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 20242024年社区展览，展出Bakewell火车站1863-1967年的历史。
• Over Haddon History GroupminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 20242024年社区展览，展示中世纪大厅研究和MI5官员Maurice Oldfield的故事等研究成果。
• Thomas LebiodaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020谢菲尔德音乐人和音响工程师，帮助录制QR码语音解说并创作音乐配乐。
• ShivelightsminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020谢菲尔德乐队，为Bakewell Witches歌曲录制器乐和人声改编。

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• National Trust: UK's largest conservation charity operating historic houses, gardens and museums nationally. Comparable as an institutional operator of heritage properties and museums with education and conservation missions, but at dramatically larger scale and reach.
• Hardwick Hall: National Trust-operated late-Tudor property in Derbyshire. Comparable as a major Tudor heritage site in the same county operating visitor access, education and conservation, but at much larger institutional scale.
• English Heritage: National charity operating hundreds of historic properties across England. Comparable as a heritage operator managing listed buildings, exhibitions and education programming, but at vastly greater scale and with national reach.
• Chatsworth House Trust: Major heritage attraction in the Peak District operated by the Chatsworth House Trust. Comparable as a Derbyshire heritage destination with visitor access and education, but at substantially larger institutional scale.

Direct peers

• Wirksworth Heritage Centre: Community-run local history museum in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, housed in a historic building. Comparable in scale, governance by a heritage society, and focus on the local story, with similar educational and volunteer-supported operating model.
• Eyam Museum: Small independent local history museum in Eyam, a Peak District village in Derbyshire. Operates at similar community/municipal scale with comparable education programming and seasonal opening, making it the closest like-for-like comparable heritage site.

Regional players

• Crich Tramway Village: Heritage attraction in Derbyshire and a current partner of Bakewell Old House Museum via the Derbyshire Day Out Discount Scheme. Comparable as a regional heritage destination within driving distance of Bakewell, although it is significantly larger in scale.
• Haddon Hall: Medieval and Tudor manor house near Bakewell in the Peak District. Comparable as a regional Tudor/medieval heritage property operating guided tours and venue hire, although at significantly larger scale.
• Buxton Crescent Experience: Heritage attraction in Buxton, Derbyshire, and a Derbyshire Day Out Discount partner. Comparable as a Derbyshire-based heritage destination operating under a similar regional tourism partnership model.
• Creswell Crags: Ice Age heritage site on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border and a current Derbyshire Day Out Discount partner. Comparable as a regional heritage attraction delivering educational and tourism experiences from a historic site.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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