Lincoln Arts Centre

Large multiplex cinema with 9 screens.

Luxury cinema with four small screens and sofa-style seating. Waiter service at your seat while you watch a film.

There's been a fort here since Roman times and probably earlier, but the stone castle was begun in 1068 by William the Conqueror. It has a large enclosure within its curtain walls, which from the 18th century was the obvious place to site a court house, jail and gibbet. So it feels Victorian or Georgian, though it holds an original copy of Magna Carta, and its most striking features are the jail museum and apparatus of punishment. The Crown Court is still in use.

Museum purpose-built to exhibit the area's many archaeological finds. It includes the extensive Usher Gallery of art. The main museum is closed for refurbishment, but is expected to reopen at the end of 2026.

Impressive 14th-century gatehouse by the cathedral west entrance. This was where tenants of church land came to pay rent — lots of them, for it was a big diocese. Their money was counted out on a chequered cloth, and "Exchequer" came to mean the government finance department.

Fascinating museum of the area's agricultural, industrial and social history from 1750, housed in a Victorian militia barracks.