Creswell Crags Museum and Education Centre

Creswell Crags is one of the most important archaeological sites in Britain. It was used as a seasonal camp by Ice Age hunters over 45,000 years ago. These hunters came following herds of mammoth, reindeer, horse and bison over the grassy plains of Ice Age Britain, and used the caves of Creswell Crags as shelters.

Archaeologists have found fossil animal bones including mammoth and hyena, and flint stone tools left behind by our ancestors. Recently archaeologists have discovered the only known Ice Age rock art in Britain on the walls of some of the caves.

The site offers much to the modern visitor - take a pleasant walk around the gorge, enjoy a picnic in the new Crags Meadow, make use of our museum and education centre, with audio-visual programme, touch-screen computers and display, or book onto one of our cave tours. Visit our 'Virtually the Ice Age' website for further information and details of our many special events, including flint tool making demonstrations and school holiday activities.