Coniston Institute & Ruskin Museum Trust
Registered Charity Number: 222234
Location Of Benefit:
UK Local (Cumbria Coniston)
Address for donations: The Ruskin Museum, Yewdale Road, CONISTON, Cumbria, LA21 8DU
The Ruskin Museum is an award-winning Cabinet of Curiosities which tells the Story of Coniston. and acts as a permanent memorial to its most famous resident, John Ruskin, who died on 20 January 1900. The Rough Guide to the Lake District [all editions] praises ‘Coniston’s superb museum’ as ‘the most thought-provoking in the Lakes’ for its inspirational and award-winning telling of The Story of Coniston from the first Stone Age fell-walkers, who made and traded stone axes, to the Jet Era when the 1950s speed ace Donald Campbell used Coniston Water as Bluebird K7’s race-track. The Ruskin Museum is independent. It is owned and managed by the people of Coniston.