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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.
• 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
• 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 -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

Bristol

• Bristol City Museums & Art Gallery

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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