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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
- Museum of Bath Stone, Combe Down, 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.
- 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 & Mendip 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. Closed for redevelopment.
- Gillingham Museum * -museum for the town and Blackmore Vale
- Lyme Regis Museum -fossils, Jurassic Coast and sea-faring
- Poole Museum -port and pottery
- Shaftesbury Museum & Abbey *
- Gold Hill Museum, Shaftesbury * -Redisplayed museum on the Wiltshire/Dorset border
- Sherborne Museum– town, abbey, castle
- Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne Minster -Museum of East Dorset, being refurbished
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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Hampshire
- Hampshire Cultural Trust -26 museums and galleries at one website, including Andover Museum of the Iron Age – and Milestones- a whole indoor town
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