Purpose

The principle aim of the Museum is to maintain a wildlife education facility and to foster industrial relationships. The museum also has the aim of making people aware of the industrial heritage of Nottinghamshire.

This aim extends out to local schools and special interest groups where lectures and videos can be arranged through this website or contacting the telephone numbers listed on the Home page of this site.

Facilities

The museum is situated in the Dukes Wood Nature Reserve and is in the former Geological & Geophysical Surveyors office Portacabins. It can cater for groups up to 16 and has a Video/Lecture room with Tea and Coffee facilities on site. The museum is usually open on Sunday afternoons during the summer months but can can be made available for opening by prior arrangement. The museum also consists of the five Jack Pumps (nodding donkeys) on the nature trial and the statue of the 'Oil Patch Warrior'.

 What you can view in the Museum

Artefacts from various aspects of the Oil Industry can be viewed on the site from real core and oil samples to photographs of the men who were involved in the UK sector and abroad. Comprehensive information on all aspects of oil exploration and production can be found here. Also there is a collection of Video shows which include:

The present curator of the Dukes Wood museum was involved in the 'Yangtse Incident'. Also the 'Amethyst' gas field in the North sea was named after HMS Amethyst. There is also some displays of the works of the RAF Bomb Disposal and of RAF prisoners of war.

The museum also covers the ongoing preservation of the natural habitat of some of the rare species of wildlife in the UK.