Museum & Exhibitions
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Museum & Exhibitions
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Museums & Exhibitions
Home of our Ice Age Ancestors
Our Museum displays a number of objects unearthed at Creswell Crags. This nationally important collection includes stone and bone tools as well as the remains of several surprising species, which you might not have known inhabited Britain.
Artefacts have been sourced and brought together from major British collections to illustrate this most influential period of human prehistory. Let this nationally important exhibition guide you through the story of life in the Ice Age.
Explore Our Collections
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Collections Page
Fixing our Broken Planet - Bridging Past and Future Sustainability at Creswell Crags
Work alongside Dr Angharad Jones (curator and palaeontologist) and Dr Theresa Nelson (archaeologist and sustainability expert) to explore more about past environmental challenges during the Ice Age and look towards a sustainable future in this exciting new project. Join us for a series of workshops about ecology, litter through time, mining in the stone age and today, and how we have been shaped by the food we eat since we were hunter-gatherers.
This project is part of the
Fixing Our Broken Planet
programme in partnership with the Natural History Museum, London.
Learn More
Special Exhibitions
We hold a number of special exhibitions each year, on a wide variety of themes including archaeology, history, art, nature and wildlife. We work with many different groups and individuals on these exhibitions, and best of all, our temporary exhibitions are
FREE
!
Teeth by Lucy Stevens
From 1.30pm on Saturday 11 October to 28 June 2026
Temporary Exhbition Room (next to the museum reception)
A vibrant new exhibition of colourful mixed media paintings inspired by the mammal teeth collection at Creswell Crags.
Artist Lucy Stevens' new work is an interpretation of the mammal teeth collection housed at Creswell Crags, including teeth found on-site at Pin Hole and Robin Hood Cave. Lucy has selected some well-known mammals from the collection of nearly 38,000 objects including reindeer, wolf, horse, bear, hyaena, vole along with extinct mammals like the woolly rhino and woolly mammoth.
This collection of new paintings uses mixed media to explore colour coding techniques to identify and interpret mammal teeth by looking at the number of different teeth each species has.
In some of the paintings, the shape of teeth are used to showcase groups of mammals feeding, hunting or migrating, or stacked to form totems or boundaries between symbolic imagery of eyes and moons, representing the idea of protection, magic, change and the cycle of life.
Visitors are encouraged to explore the paintings and develop their own interpretations of each piece. The exhibition also includes photographs and a video documentary showcasing the journey of the project.
Recent excavations at creswell crags: What's next?
Lower Ground Wallspace opposite the interactive dig
See first hand some of the items dug up from recent excavations, including a hyena tooth and a reflective road stud (cats eye)!
The exhibition explains what scientists, archaeologists and palaeontologists do with the finds to understand what they are and how old they are!
Skip to main content
Shop
Volunteer
The Collection
Contact
+44 (0)1909 720378
Museums & Exhibitions
Home of our Ice Age Ancestors
Our Museum displays a number of objects unearthed at Creswell Crags. This nationally important collection includes stone and bone tools as well as the remains of several surprising species, which you might not have known inhabited Britain.
Artefacts have been sourced and brought together from major British collections to illustrate this most influential period of human prehistory. Let this nationally important exhibition guide you through the story of life in the Ice Age.
Explore Our Collections
Visit our
Collections Page
Fixing our Broken Planet - Bridging Past and Future Sustainability at Creswell Crags
Work alongside Dr Angharad Jones (curator and palaeontologist) and Dr Theresa Nelson (archaeologist and sustainability expert) to explore more about past environmental challenges during the Ice Age and look towards a sustainable future in this exciting new project. Join us for a series of workshops about ecology, litter through time, mining in the stone age and today, and how we have been shaped by the food we eat since we were hunter-gatherers.
This project is part of the
Fixing Our Broken Planet
programme in partnership with the Natural History Museum, London.
Learn More
Special Exhibitions
We hold a number of special exhibitions each year, on a wide variety of themes including archaeology, history, art, nature and wildlife. We work with many different groups and individuals on these exhibitions, and best of all, our temporary exhibitions are
FREE
!
Teeth by Lucy Stevens
From 1.30pm on Saturday 11 October to 28 June 2026
Temporary Exhbition Room (next to the museum reception)
A vibrant new exhibition of colourful mixed media paintings inspired by the mammal teeth collection at Creswell Crags.
Artist Lucy Stevens' new work is an interpretation of the mammal teeth collection housed at Creswell Crags, including teeth found on-site at Pin Hole and Robin Hood Cave. Lucy has selected some well-known mammals from the collection of nearly 38,000 objects including reindeer, wolf, horse, bear, hyaena, vole along with extinct mammals like the woolly rhino and woolly mammoth.
This collection of new paintings uses mixed media to explore colour coding techniques to identify and interpret mammal teeth by looking at the number of different teeth each species has.
In some of the paintings, the shape of teeth are used to showcase groups of mammals feeding, hunting or migrating, or stacked to form totems or boundaries between symbolic imagery of eyes and moons, representing the idea of protection, magic, change and the cycle of life.
Visitors are encouraged to explore the paintings and develop their own interpretations of each piece. The exhibition also includes photographs and a video documentary showcasing the journey of the project.
Recent excavations at creswell crags: What's next?
Lower Ground Wallspace opposite the interactive dig
See first hand some of the items dug up from recent excavations, including a hyena tooth and a reflective road stud (cats eye)!
The exhibition explains what scientists, archaeologists and palaeontologists do with the finds to understand what they are and how old they are!