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Discover the best top things to do in Peel, United Kingdom including Knockaloe Centre for WW1 Internment, House of Manannan, White House, The Cathedral Church of St German, The Creek Inn, Manx Transport Heritage Museum, Moore's Traditional Museum, Leece Museum.
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1. Knockaloe Centre for WW1 Internment
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 11 reviews
The Centre will remain closed in 2020 in the light of COVID (instead focussing on research) but reopens in 2021 - see website. At the site of the largest WW1 Internment Camp, where over 30,000 German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish civilian men were interned behind its barbed wire between 1914 and 1919, the Centre tells the story of the internees, guards and staff, incorporating an interactive scale model of Knockaloe Camp and our wonderful collections of artefacts created by the internees. Our app guides a walk from the Centre, taking in the Guards and Internee graves, the site of the former Camp and the Garden of Barbed Wire which provides a quiet spot to sit and reflect. The Charity team are on hand to help descendants - please do let us know in advance if you are descended from an internee or guard and are intending to visit so we can do some preliminary research for you. We are a Registered Charity - we do not charge for entry but really welcome donations which help cover costs.
2. House of Manannan
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 652 reviews
Mythical sea god Manannan guides you through this interactive museum which focuses on the Isle of Man's rich Celtic, Viking and maritime past. Discover life sized reconstructions of Celtic roundhouses, join the crew of the Odin’s Raven on a Viking longship as it returns from the battle of Clontarf, or find out what life was life in a Viking longhouse. You’ll also hear about the magnificent stone crosses dotted around the Island’s landscape and find out where you can still see them. Explore 19th Century Peel with a walk around the quayside, complete with traditional sights and smells from the Manx kipper yard, and uncover the importance of the sea to the lives of the people on the Isle of Man. During your journey from past to present you’ll also come face to face with characters telling you stories and superstitions from the Island’s past. An attraction not to be missed!
Reviewed By gourmetsunited
A superb museum of life and times and history of the Isle of Man built partly around the old station of Peel. The café is the old station's waiting room. Free to enter if you are members of IoM Heritage or UK National Trust, just show your membership tickets (or join them there and then! - can be used in all other Heritage museums on the IoM too). Otherwise, the entry price they charge is very well worth the price for at least 3 hours of interest. Very spacious and clean, with lifts to each floor for the less able, and very clean toilets too. The staff are extremely helpful in all ways. Everybody was smiling, so they obviously enjoy their work. A decent gift shop is downstairs for any worthwhile souvenirs. From start to finish this museum allows you to experience walk-in areas with plenty of seating showing how it is considered that early humans on the island lived, worked, protected and housed themselves. Going through the eras as one progresses through. It includes a superb Viking ship model in its own 'docked' area, with life-like Viking statues around and in it, and includes a wonderful feature of one Viking statue hauling a tow rope, half-in and half out of a huge glass window, which fronts the whole building too, and ends up in a rock-like projection with other Viking statues seemingly towing the boat at the museum's entrance. Well worth a photo. Upstairs one progresses through the fishing/living/working/various shop mock ups/ times of war rooms; with some short films of some of these historic times and events. Leave at least 3 hours to enjoy this museum to the full. Parking to the rear, or on-street parking nearby. Recommend also the Leece local history museum (free entry) very nearby which includes some TT bikes and history as well as local history upstairs (lift available), and the Roberts' Isle of Man dairy ice cream bar opposite the beach nearby too.
3. White House
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 15 reviews
4. The Cathedral Church of St German
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 43 reviews
The Cathedral Church of St German was consecrated as a Cathedral relatively recently, though its shared history goes back a long way with the Cathedral ruin on St Patrick's Isle. Built as a Parish Church in 1893, St German's became the Cathedral Church for the Diocese of Sodor and Man in 1980. It is also one of 5 churches that form the Parish of the West Coast, serving the communities in Dalby, Kirk Michael, Patrick, Peel and St John's.
5. The Creek Inn
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 17 reviews
6. Manx Transport Heritage Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 30 reviews
Reviewed By 705sandyp - Falkirk, United Kingdom
We visited this great little museum Despite its small size it contains an amazing ammount of artifacts relating to first and Second World War on the island . Well worth a visit
7. Moore's Traditional Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 37 reviews
A working factory illustrating the curing of herring.
