Events & Media
Displays
The Museum has a pop-up a display in Otley Library & Tourist Information Centre, changing a few times a year.
The Museum provided the photographs of the old pubs of Otley for the Otley Pub Club’s exhibition and photographic competition showcased in the Black Horse pub in June 2023.
Otley Museum display, now in Otley Library
Exhibitions
The Museum participates in the national Heritage Open Days in September, in conjunction with Otley Courthouse.
2023’s exhibition was based on the textiles in the Museum’s collection giving an insight of what the ordinary folk of Otley wore in Victorian and Edwardian times with a nod to the 1920s and 1940s. The exhibition ranged from baby clothes to children’s and adult’s outerwear and underwear showing the talent of home and hand sewing.
Otley Museum display, Heritage Day 2023
Talks
Trustees are available to give talks and presentations to local groups. Examples include:
- Churches
- Charities
- Men and Womens forums
- History Societies
- Friends Clubs
- Schools
with subjects as varied as Streets of Otley, Old Memories, Life in Otley 100+ years ago, Notable Buildings, and The First World War.
Talks are available on the ‘Otley Through Time’ book.
Ilkley Road, Otley
Publications
There are a number of publications on Otley’s history, available from Mounsey’s Stationers, Market Street and The Bookshop on the Square, Market Square, Otley.
