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Grassington Museum is situated in the square. It is a small building which is believed to have been two miner's cottages and was built in about 1728. The museum opened in 1979. There are five rooms which are full of a great vareity of artefacts donated by local people.
The front room displays a range of domestic and personal memorabilia from dental instruments to mobile phones and from dresses to victorian toys. There is also a display of artefacts from Linton Mill which closed in 1959.
A large open fireplace with a beehive oven is the main attraction in the dairy. The artefacts range from kitchen and domestic items to an acetylene generator for producing gas lighting for a local hotel. The kitchen has a victorian range and a fine display or irons and wash day implements.
Upstairs there are two rooms, one with a display or cameras and mining artefacts and the other with farming implements, joiners tools, a cobbler's corner and a cinematic projector.