Museums

Combe Martin Museum

Combe Martin Museum and Information Point is a Registered Charity (No.1167141 ) and Accredited museum ?based virtually on the beach in the seaside village of Combe Martin.? The museum has been re housed? through Heritage Lottery funding in a completely refurbished building. ? We offer an attractive, interesting and easily accessible resource for anyone interested …

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Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum

The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum is located in Morpeth Chantry, Morpeth, Northumberland, England. The museum, founded in 1987, contains a large collection of historic bagpipes, especially, but not exclusively, historic Northumbrian smallpipes and Border pipes, mainly based on the collection of William Alfred Cocks (1892 – 1971). The collection had initially been housed in the …

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Broadway Museum and Art Gallery

Tudor House was purpose built in the 17th century as a coaching inn to serve the Ludlow to London route. It has been extended and adapted over the years but still retains original features and architectural flourishes reflecting trends of the passing eras. The house has been through many phases. It has served as a …

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Dorking Museum & Heritage Centre

Dorking Museum aims to preserve and present the heritage of Dorking and its surrounding villages and countryside by collecting, conserving, interpreting and displaying items of historic interest, and to provide facilities for study and research.

Tenbury Museum

Tenbury Museum, administered by the Tenbury Wells Museum and History Group, was opened in 1977. Day to day management is by officers and a committee, all elected annually from the membership at its AGM which will be on 7th February 2019. Current committee: Chairman ? Liz Finlay Vice-chairman – Vacancy Secretary ? Mike Thompson Treasurer …

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Blake Museum

The Blake Museum is in Bridgwater, Somerset, England at what is believed to be the birthplace of Robert Blake, General at Sea (1598?1657). Since April 2009 it has been run by Bridgwater Town Council with help from the Friends of Blake Museum. It has been an Accredited Museum since 2006. It is next door to …

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The Museum of Farnham

The Museum of Farnham is a local history museum, located in a beautiful Georgian town house with many original features and a delightful walled garden. Visit us to discover Farnham?s history,?from its prehistoric roots to its hop growing boom and Georgian grandeur. Discover the tales of the illustrious William Cobbett, political agitator,?and George Sturt local …

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Maldon Museum

Maldon Museum (or “The Museum in the Park”) each season attracts around 1,500 visitors half of whom come from outside the District and some from overseas. We have received visitors from California, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia amongst others. The Museum was established in the early 1920s as Maldon Borough Museum and at the outbreak …

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Military Wireless Museum

The Military Wireless Museum is a private museum operated from Kidderminster, Worcestershire which displays a collection of military wireless equipment from around the world. It developed from the private collection of Ben Nock and marks the importance of wireless communications in the UK and around the globe during World War II and later years. The …

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The Shoe Museum

The Shoe Museum in Street, Somerset, England exhibits shoes dating from the Roman era to the present day. It shows the history of the Clark family and their company C. & J. Clark and its connection with the development of shoemaking in the town. The Clarks started making slippers, shoes and boots in the town …

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Epping Forest District Museum

Housing locally significant collections & running heritage & culture activities, events & workshops on site and out and about. Epping Forest District Museum has been based in Waltham Abbey since 1981 and tells the story of the Epping Forest District through its collections of over 50,000 objects. The Museum, Heritage and Culture team also run …

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Tate Britain

The gallery is situated on Millbank, on the site of the former Millbank Prison. Construction, undertaken by Higgs and Hill, commenced in 1893, and the gallery opened on 21 July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. However, from the start it was commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry …

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Surrey Heath Museum

Surrey Heath Museum is a local museum telling the stories of the area’s past through permanent displays, changing temporary exhibitions and an active events programme. Our collections cover the whole region, dating from Stone Age through to modern times. It opened in the 1930s and the original collections were donated by the first curator George …

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Wellington Museum

Wellington Museum is a free museum in Wellington, Somerset, England, devoted to the modern history of Wellington, particularly those linked with the woolen industry. These focus on agriculture but also include iron founding as well as an old bank note from Fox, Fowler and Company, a private bank that was based in the town. There …

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Fairlynch Museum & Arts Centre

At Fairlynch Museum there’s masses to see But that’s not a problem ’cause all of it’s free! [99% of it anyway; donations always welcome. Fairlynch is open from Easter to end of October, also Autumn half term. This Community Page is open to anyone with an interest in the history and development of?Budleigh Salterton and …

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Norton Collection Museum

The Norton Collection Museum exists as a result of one man’s passion for collecting. Dennis Norton started collecting in 1949 and has never stopped. Over the years, he has amassed a huge array of items that help tell the history of how we lived in years gone by. Many of the exhibits also help tell …

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Topsham Museum

The Museum is housed in one of a group of late 17th century buildings overlooking the Exe Estuary. Visitors can enjoy the furnished period rooms of the original Merchant?s House and the Sail Loft with displays giving a timeline of the town?s general history. Much of the Museum?s focus is on Topsham?s maritime history, with …

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Design Museum

The Design Museum is a museum in Kensington, London, which covers product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. In 2018 the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum was originally housed in a former 1940s banana warehouse on the south bank of the River Thames in the Shad Thames area in …

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Bruton Museum

Bruton Museum is a small local museum in Bruton, Somerset, England. The museum is housed in the Dovecote Building, in the towns High Street. The building also contains a tourist information office. The Bruton Museum Society was formed in 1989 and involved the community and local schools in the development of the collection of local …

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Freud Museum London

The Freud Museum in London is a museum dedicated to Sigmund Freud, located in the house where Freud lived with his family during the last year of his life. In 1938, after escaping Nazi annexation of Austria he came to London via Paris and stayed for a short while at 39 Elsworthy Road before moving …

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Castle Cary and District Museum

Castle Cary and District Museum is a small local museum in Castle Cary, Somerset, England. The museum is housed in the Market house, a grade II* listed building built in 1855 in anticipation of increased trade after the projected arrival of the railway in 1856, by F.C. Penrose. It replaced the former house on the …

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Wellcome Collection

The Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring “ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art”. Founded in 2007, Wellcome Collection now attracts over 700,000 visitors per year[citation needed] and is advertised as “the free destination for the …

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