Museums & Heritage Centres in Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire
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Somerset Museums (* seasonal opening)
- 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
- 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. Closed for refurbishment until 2017.
- Oakham Treasures, Portbury -privately owned museum of retail and farming history
- Radstock Museum -With a special focus on the Somerset coalfield
- 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 has now re-opened after rebuilding and redisplay
- Sherborne Museum * -Town, Abbey, Castle and School
- Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne Minster *
Some Gloucestershire Museums
- Corinium Museum, Cirencester -Where 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
Bristol
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