The Museum of Making is a 25-minute walk from Derby station.
The Museum of Making showcases the region’s 300-year history of making and innovation. The Museum of Making is located on a site of global significance, where the Derby Silk Mill, widely regarded as the site of the world’s first modern factory, first stood over 300 years ago.
You can follow a bespoke trail through the amazing 30,000 collections, which are displayed and shared in unique ways and include a seven tonne Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine suspended in the new Civic Hall above visitors’ heads, the Midland Model Railway, located in the Railway Gallery and the world’s smallest engine run using a human hair.