There is a Leadmining Gallery, which details the industry which flourished in Swaledale and the North Yorkshire Dales until the end of the nineteenth century.
Another room contains the Herriot Set from the BBC's All Creatures Great and Small, and Barker's Chemist's Shop.
In 2008 the Museum opened a recreation of the Richmond grocer's shop where the founder of the Fenwick department store chain began his working life.
[4][5] The Museum also boasts a purpose built Discovery Centre that can be used by both schools and visiting families.
Here visitors can dress up and play in the mock up shop and with bygone toys; this room also houses the Museums Wednesday Workshops which are free activity sessions for families.