Derwent Pencil Museum

The Derwent Pencil Museum is in Keswick, Cumbria, in the north-west of England. The museum opened in 1981 and is domestic to the most important colouring pencil within the world, the idea of technical manager Barbara Murray. The yellow pencil was finished on 28 May 2001, is 7. 91-metres long, and weighs 446.36 kilograms. The first pencil manufacturing unit in Keswick opened in 1832. The 2^nd and contemporary manufacturing unit become started out within the 1920s and completed in 1950. The museum now gets over 80,000 traffic a year from everywhere in the global. It is especially famous with visitors from the county of Yorkshire, because of the significance of pencil production for the local economy at some stage in the 1930s.

The museum capabilities as one of the places inside the 2012 movie Sightseers. In December 2015, the museum changed into badly damaged by using several feet of flood water whilst the River Greta broke its banks due to Storm Desmond and plenty of artefacts were destroyed. Although a number of the exhibits were salvaged, one restricted version series could not get replaced. The museum reopened to the general public on 15 June 2017 with Countryfile's John Craven slicing the ribbon.