The Dock Museum
The Dock Museum is situated in the town of Barrow-in-Furness. Its exhibits are largely based around the history of the town, heavily focusing on the shipbuilding industry at VSEL (now BAE), the steelworks industry — of which Barrow once had the world’s largest, the Furness Railway and the World War II bombings of the town. There has been a museum in Barrow since 1907 and in its current location since 1994, when 50,000 people visited it in its first year, visitor numbers peaked at 120,000 in 2001.
The museum has free entry, and is one of the Lake District’s top attractions.