
Pump House Museum - The Royal Pump Room is a museum and former spa water pump, located in the town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The pump room was purposefully stopped at the start of World War II, and was subsequently decommissioned after the cessation of hostilities. Renovated as a museum and opened in 1953, today owned and operated by Harrogate Borough Council as a museum, it is still possible to sample the waters inside, and at a free pump outside.
The museum tells the story of Harrogate as a spa, with the programme of temporary exhibitions drawn from a collection of 20,000 items in the council-owned reserve collection. Mostly given by generous benefactors from the 1850's onwards, they range from ancient Egyptian artifacts to items from the 1960's. There is also a supervised children activity area, that includes colouring sheets, trails and quizzes.
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