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WINDERMERE JETTY MUSEUM
Reopens with New Stories of Shipwrecks and Ruins in the Lakes
• Windermere Jetty Museum reopens on Friday 28 May with a new season of displays, activities and events that embrace the outdoors and extend to more areas of the museum. • WRECKED! inspires a sense of adventure for all by exploring the hidden depths of Windermere through lost ships and revealing the human impact on the lake. • Fully restored heritage boat Motor Vessel Penelope II returns to the water for passenger trips.
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indermere Jetty Museum reopens on Friday 28 May, with a new season of family-friendly activities, uncovering the hidden treasures and sunken 196
secrets of Windermere’s most intriguing shipwrecks. This world-class museum, embedded in the Lake District, is thrilled to welcome visitors back for the start of half term with a new and unique experience that makes the most of its outdoor spaces and reveals an immersive, interactive visitor journey inside. WRECKED! reveals a fascinating insight into the perils of Windermere’s long-lost ships, it prompts new thinking about the human impact on the lake and surrounding landscape and embraces a spirit of adventure with a family trail covering all corners of the museum. With new displays and narratives across its remarkable and spacious galleries, visitors do really become part of life on the lake. WRECKED!
LANCASHIRE & NORTH WEST MAGAZINE
delves into the story of The Mournful Marriage, a tragic ferry accident that took place on Windermere, and will draw visitors into a space of chaos, calm and the deep through an immersive installation reflecting layers of icy waters of the lake. Senses will ignite through touch, colour, light and sound to reveal intriguing stories, myths and tales of the lake. From early accidents of the first steamboats, to the amazing rescues of boats pulled from the depths of Windermere, WRECKED! will share new stories of the region’s internationally important boat collection and will highlight the practice and evolution of boatbuilding over time. See Steam Launch Dolly, the world’s earliest mechanically powered boat which succumbed to the icy pull of Ullswater in 1895. www.lancmag.com
