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Museums long ago ceased to be stuffy
rooms full of glass cases containing bits of old pottery
and fossilised bones.
Today even most conventional
museums including displays which change but over recent
years there has been a growth in industrial and "living"
museums.
Here you can learn about local heritage, get a
feel for how people lived and worked, the hardships they
endured...
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Galleries listed include not just civic
galleries displaying publicly owned artworks, but also
privately owned galleries with items for sale.
Not all the
museums and galleries in the Exmoor and West Somerset area are listed.
Please provide details of any we have missed
here.
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Allerford Rural Life
Museum
The Old School, Allerford, Nr Minehead, TA24 8HN
Tel: 01643 862529
Implements and Crafts from West Somerset's past.
A Victorian schoolroom with children's cloths
for dressing up, Photograph collection, Craft
demonstrations, Picnic area, and Croquet.
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Dunster Dolls Museum
Dunster Memorial Hall Committee, 17 High Street,
Dunster, Somerset, TA24 6SF
Tel: 01643 821220
Web:
www.somerset.gov.uk
Over 800 dolls from many periods and countries,
in varied costumes.
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Dunster Working Water Mill
Mill Lane, Dunster, nr Minehead, Somerset, TA24
6SW
Tel: 01643 821759
Web:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Fully restored watermill, mentioned in the
Domesday Survey of 1086.
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Lyn and Exmoor Museum
St Vincent's Cottage, Market Street, Lynton,
North Devon, EX35 6AF
Tel: 01598 752225
E-mail:
lynton@devonmuseums.net
Web:
www.devonmuseums.net
Housed in Lynton's oldest surviving home, this
is a rural museum with a collection of
agricultural and domestic tools from Lynton and
Exmoor.
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Porlock Museum
Dovery Manor, Doverhay, Porlock, Minehead TA24
8PS
Tel: 01643 862316
Local, Social and Natural History of Porlock,
housed in a 15thC Manor building.
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The Bakelite Museum
Orchard Mill, Williton, Somerset, TA44NS
Tel: 01984 632133
Web:
www.bakelitemuseum.co.uk
The largest collection of vintage plastics in
Britain, tea rooms, vintage caravans, rural life
collection and play area.
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The Somerset & Dorset
Railway Trust
Washford Station, Watchet, TA23 0PP
Tel: 01984 640869
E-mail:
info@sdrt.org
Web:
www.sdrt.org
Railway relics, including a complete signalbox,
mainly from the Somerset and Dorset Joint
Railway.
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Watchet Boat Museum
Harbour Road, Watchet
Tel: 01984 633117
E-mail:
info@wbm.org.uk
Web:
www.wbm.org.uk
Displays of flatner, plus nets and other items
associated with their use, maps, knotwork and
boards showing the various uses of withy.
Activities include block and tackle where even
the smallest child can lift more than expected!
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Watchet Market House
Museum
Market Street, Watchet, TA23 0AN
Tel: 01984 631761 Fax:
01984 631209
Fossils, flints, Saxon coins, artefacts,
paintings, photographs, models of Watchet's
social Maritime industrial heritage.
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