Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, officially known as Tullie since July 2024, is a museum in Carlisle, England. Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted.

Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Museum
Description: Grade I listed natural history museum in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK
Also known as: “The Tullie” and “Tullie House”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Carlisle Castle and Carlisle Cathedral.

Carlisle Castle

Photo: John Gibson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Carlisle Castle is a medieval stone fortress located in the city of Carlisle, Cumbria, near the site of Hadrian's Wall and the Roman fortress of Luguvalium. Carlisle Castle is situated 700 feet northwest of Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery.

Carlisle Cathedral

Church

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carlisle Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in Carlisle, is a Grade I listed Anglican cathedral in the city of Carlisle, Cumbria, England. Carlisle Cathedral is situated 520 feet southeast of Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery.

The Boardroom Public House

Pub

Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carlisle and Raffles.

Carlisle

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carlisle is a city in Cumbria, in northwest England 10 miles from the border with Scotland, with a population of 74,200 in 2024. Most visitors are just making an overnight stop on a long motorway journey, but reasons to linger include the cathedral, castle and museums.

Raffles

Suburb

Raffles or the Raffles Estate is a suburb of Carlisle, Cumbria, England. The estate consists mainly of council built and Housing association properties, and in 1994 had a population of 5,800.

Rickerby

Hamlet

Photo: Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rickerby is a village in the civil parish of Stanwix Rural, in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is situated near Carlisle, next to the River Eden.

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Categories: natural history museum, local museum, charitable organization, independent museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.89547° or 54° 53′ 44″ north

Longitude

-2.94062° or 2° 56′ 26″ west

Open location code

9C6VV3W5+5Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 222908346

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q7852186

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In Other Languages

From Italian to Slovenian—“Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery” goes by many names.

Italian: “The Tullie”
Italian: “Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery”
Slovenian: “The Tullie”

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Highlights include Tullie House Garden and Salvation Army.

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