Harborough Museum
Harborough Museum
4.5
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
About
The museum celebrates Market Harborough’s long history as a centre of trade and industry in the heart of the Welland Valley at the crossroads between Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. The internationally-important Hallaton Treasure is showcased in the museum. Found in 2000 by metal detectorist Ken Wallace and the Hallaton Fieldwork Group, the Treasure Gallery contains over 2,500 glittering coins, mysterious offerings and a beautiful and unique 1st century Roman cavalry helmet.
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Polarismd
Derby, UK39 contributions
Nov 2022 • Couples
A great museum. Although small the exhibits show the best of rural living and many things that I remember from childhood. The highlight is the Halloton Hoard, iron age and Roman coins as well as a Roman Helmet from 2000 years ago. If in Market Harborough pop in.
Written 16 November 2022
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Thank you for visiting us Chris B and leaving such a nice review. We are glad you enjoyed your visit, and always love to know people are reminded of their childhood when viewing the collections.
Written 4 January 2023
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wingate
London, UK2,546 contributions
May 2022 • Solo
The first half of the museum deals mainly with the Roman era.However the rear half contains lot of interesting displays regarding the history of the town.Much better than comparable museums in Leicester.
Written 26 May 2022
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Hello wingate,
Thank you for visiting the museum, we are glad you found the local history display interesting.
Written 8 June 2022
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pappaQ_Lds
Wakefield, UK384 contributions
Feb 2022 • Couples
Worth a visit to find out more of the local history. Great area and displays about Iron Age and Roman finds. The rest of the museum is interesting but the displays are very “busy”. So allow a good couple of hours if you want to get into the detail.
Housed in the Symington building which doubles as the library. Coffee shop too. Make sure to check opening days / times as not open all days.
Housed in the Symington building which doubles as the library. Coffee shop too. Make sure to check opening days / times as not open all days.
Written 23 February 2022
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Hello pappaQ_Ids and thank you for your review, we hope you enjoyed your visit.
Written 8 March 2022
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_orlando_arnold
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates63 contributions
Oct 2020 • Family
This was our first visit to the lovely market town of Market Harborough and we booked a visit online through the museum’s website.
Because of covid, we had a timed slot and were the only visitors in the space. The artefacts from the Iron Age and Roman periods are wonderful as is the accompanying video which explains how local people discovered the treasure. Also extremely interesting were the social history artefacts and memorabilia which provided a fascinating insight into various periods of human history.
A great hour spent here and a special shout out to the staff who were very friendly and knowledgeable.
Because of covid, we had a timed slot and were the only visitors in the space. The artefacts from the Iron Age and Roman periods are wonderful as is the accompanying video which explains how local people discovered the treasure. Also extremely interesting were the social history artefacts and memorabilia which provided a fascinating insight into various periods of human history.
A great hour spent here and a special shout out to the staff who were very friendly and knowledgeable.
Written 29 October 2020
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Hello _orlanado_arnold,
We are very glad you were able to visit us during October and you enjoyed your visit. We will pass on your kind feedback about the staff to them.
Stay safe,
Tim
Written 13 November 2020
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Peter G
Northampton, United Kingdom6 contributions
Nov 2019
We'd been to Wetherspoons for lunch and wanted something else to do on a wet day. Museum well laid out; great variety; accessible information. An hour or so well spent. Will return
Written 23 November 2019
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Thank you for your review Peter G, we are glad you had a good visit and look forward to welcoming you again.
Written 13 December 2019
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W Keith R
Market Harborough, UK45 contributions
Apr 2019 • Family
Not far from the site if the Battle of Naseby, too! The museum encompasses both businesses, discoveries etc and is next to both The Old Grammar School and St Dionysius Church.
Written 13 April 2019
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Thank you for coming to visit. If you are interested in the Battle of Naseby, there are several battlefield trail boards around the town of Market Harborough, including one in Church Square and at The Symington Building.
Written 10 May 2019
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Cori R
Falls Church, VA172 contributions
Mar 2019 • Couples
We were looking for something to do one morning and wandered in this little museum by the library. It does not have many displays but the treasure they have displayed from the countryside was fascinating. I usually just browse displays at museums but I found myself reading every display relating to the treasure. The Roman helmet is really amazing. There were some intense displays of some English life through the ages in the back and there were a lot of Interesting household wares. It was a little too much to take it all in so I just glanced at those. It was well worth a short visit if you enjoy some history.
Written 25 March 2019
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Hello CoriR and thank you for your review. I'm glad you enjoyed your short visit and hope you come again to take in what you couldn't this time.
Written 24 May 2019
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Jean S
Ashby de la Zouch, UK564 contributions
Feb 2019 • Couples
We only had a short time to visit but what we saw made us want to go back again. The museum is packed with fascinating items from the iron Age to more recent times.
Written 27 February 2019
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Thanks for visiting and your review Jean S! We are proud of the range of objects we have to represent the history and heritage of Harborough, so we'd be interested to know what you find next time you visit.
Written 4 March 2019
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piespiespies2018
Market Harborough, UK27 contributions
Sep 2018 • Family
If you have an interest in incredibly engineered corsets, this is for you. Odd bits of local history, not in any particular order or logical thematic arrangement.
Written 15 December 2018
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Hello piespiespies2018, thank you for visiting us. We certainly do have lots of corsets to show and there's an even larger collection of them at the collections resources centre - if you're interested in seeing any, you can ask for details at the museum.
Written 21 December 2018
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Paul B
Leicester, UK119 contributions
Nov 2018 • Couples
Wide selection of books for such a small library. Diverse children's section too and, a fairly good reading area. People do tale on there phones a bit too much.
Written 14 December 2018
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Hello Paul B. We're glad you're a fan of the library, which we're very pleased to share a space with in The Symington Building. We hope to welcome you again soon.
Written 9 January 2019
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- Tue - Fri 10:00 - 18:00
- Sat - Sat 10:00 - 16:00
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