Lancaster City Museums is inviting families to visit the Judges’ Lodgings Museum on Church Street, Lancaster, LA1 1YS for free entry from Friday 12 June to Sunday 14 June 2026, open 11:00 to 16:00 each day as part of Lancaster Day. Normal adult admission is £5 with under-18s free, but entry will be free during the Lancaster Day weekend and no booking is required for general entry. The event is organised by Lancaster City Museums.
Visitors will be able to explore the Victorian servants’ hall and Georgian rooms, see the Museum of Childhood and the museum’s collection of Gillows furniture on public display, and visit a Victorian schoolroom. The Grade I listed house includes a walled courtyard picnic area and garden, and activity worksheets will be available on arrival for children.
A programme of live music from local performers will run across the weekend. Eleanor Servante and Oliver Cross will play traditional folk music on Saturday 13 June 2026 and Sunday 14 June 2026; on Saturday 13 June musicians are scheduled at specific times, with Eleanor Servante and Oliver Cross at 11:15 to 12:00, Strike Band Trio featuring Pete Moser, Sian Philips and Paul Sherwood at 12:30 to 13:00, and Parcappella singing local-themed songs composed by the late Andy Whitfield at 13:00 to 13:20.
On Friday 12 June 2026 Penny Blackburn will present a lecture titled The Red Judges of 1826 from 12:00 to 13:00 to mark 200 years since county magistrates bought the house to lodge the Red Judges of the Northern Circuit; that lecture requires booking. The museum is open for its regular season from Thursday 2 April 2026 to Sunday 15 November 2026, Thursday to Sunday, 11:00 to 16:00, and volunteer support is provided by the Friends of Lancaster Judges’ Lodgings Museum.
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