Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery occupies a historic house west of the cathedral quarter and gives useful context to a city whose story is easy to miss from the shopping streets. The collections cover local archaeology, natural history, ceramics, and art.
It is a good second stop after the cathedral, especially if you are heading on to Flag Fen. The museum helps connect the medieval city with the much older fenland landscape around it, and it gives Peterborough a deeper identity than railway junction and new-town growth.