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Museums & Heritage Centres in Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire

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Somerset Museums (* seasonal opening- check times before visiting)

South West Heritage Trust -a portal to County heritage sites in Somerset and in Devon
Museum of Bath at Work -Bowler’s engineering and mineral water works, a stone quarry and more
Museum of Bath Architecture -how Bath’s Georgian houses were built, with great relevance to Bradford’s Georgian buildings too
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath -municipal art gallery with a large collection and major exhibitions
The Roman Baths, Bath
Holburne Museum, Bath -extended and redisplayed art gallery
Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, Bath
Herschel Museum of Astronomy, Bath -Bath’s pioneer astronomers
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
Fashion Museum, Bath
Castle Cary & District Museum * -local museum in the Market Hall
Bruton Museum -town museum
Chard Museum * -fairly large town museum
American Museum, Claverton * -unique collection of early Americana
Frome Museum * -local history, especially of Singer’s iron foundry
Glastonbury Museum of Somerset Rural Life -social history in a great medieval barn. Re-opened after major refurbishment
Ilchester Museum *
Oakham Treasures, Portbury -privately owned museum of retail and farming history
Somerset Coalfield Life at Radstock Museum -with a special focus on Somerset coal mining
Saltford Brassmill * -preserved representative of the former Bath-Bristol brass industry
The Somerset Museum, Taunton -newly redisplayed county museum
Wells Museum -Heritage of the city and of the western Mendip Hills
Wincanton Museum -now re-opened with space in the town’s library

Some Dorset Museums (* seasonal opening)

Beaminster Museum * -local history and ammonites
Blandford Forum Museum * -400 years of Blandford’s history and more
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester -premier museum for Dorset history, geology and archaeology
Gillingham Museum * -museum for the town and Blackmore Vale
Shaftesbury Museum & Abbey *
Gold Hill Museum, Shaftesbury * -Redisplayed museum on the Wiltshire/Dorset border
Sherborne Museum– town, abbey, castle
Poole Museum -port and pottery
Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne Minster

Some Gloucestershire Museums

Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham -large municipal museum
Corinium Museum, Cirencester -the place to learn more about the Romans in the Cotswolds
Frenchay Museum & Archives -village museum in the hospital grounds
Kingswood Heritage Museum * -Kingswood and Warmley industrial area east of Bristol
The Museum in the Park, Stroud -a Cotswolds wool and canal town, like Bradford
Thornbury & District Museum -volunteer museum in South Gloucestershire
Yate & District Heritage Centre

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