The Armitt (Ambleside) Museum and Library, Sunday, July 27th

Today I visited the local museum/library in Ambleside, which is dedicated to preserving, archiving, and displaying local history in the Lake District, especially in regards to Ambleside's local history (dating back to the Roman camps in Galava), Beatrix Potter's life in the Lake District (including many of her nature drawings), and, other local celbrities. The museum/library is also home to an extensive searchable archive of oral interviews with local residents dating back to their experiences in the 1890s, making the little building home to one of the largest oral archives in the English-speaking world (if not world in general). Unfortunately, the collection is incredibly underfunded, and services have been cut back. In fact, I only saw two other people the entire time I was there.