|
This section covers museums
including working heritage museums and both civic and
commercial art galleries
|
 |
 |
|
Not all the
attractions in an area are listed.
If you know of an
activity provider who does not yet have an entry, please
submit the information
here.
|
|
|
|
HAYNES INTERNATIONAL MOTOR
MUSEUM
Castle Cary Road, Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset,
BA22 7LH
Tel: 01963 440804
E-mail:
kim@haynesmotormuseum.co.uk
Web: www.haynesmotormuseum.co.uk
|
Open: 7
days 9am - 5.30pm.
Closed Christmas Day and New Years Day.
The Haynes International Motor Museum is
the UK's largest exhibition of the
greatest cars from around the world. |
|
 |
A living and working museum, with over 340 amazing
cars and bikes from nostalgic classics of the 50's
and 60's, glorious Bentleys and Rolls Royces to
exciting super cars of today, like the Jaguar
XJ220 and the Ferrari 360 F1 Spider. You can
discover the world famous Red Room, 11 huge
display halls and one the UK's largest speedway
collections.
 |
|
Complete your day out in
our restaurant, serving a variety of meals
and snacks, visit our gift shop whilst the
children play on our adventure play area,
'Kids Race Track' or in our soft play fun
bus.
For further details and Events on this motor museum
near Yeovil, Somerset see our website. |
|
|
|
Chard & District Museum
Godworthy House, High St, Chard, Somerset, TA20
1QB
Tel: 01460 65091
This award winning local museum has a wide
variety of exhibits, starting with the story of
Chard from 1235, the fire of 1577 and its
disaster for the cloth trade; Monmouth's
rebellion; the lace mills and the riots of 1842;
the Pouletts, Lords of the Manor; and Chard in
the two world wars. There are also displays on
Chard's earlier history and prehistory, and
local geology. And there are exhibits of Chard
organisations and Chard celebrities - like the
pioneers John Stringfellow, James Gillingham,
and Corporal Vickery VC, and Margaret Bondfield
- the first woman Cabinet Minister. Other
exhibits include a complete garage display, with
1947 Morris 8, passengers, mechanic and all the
tools, a costume gallery, Granny's kitchen,
cider making and the dairy, a local cobbler, a
Victorian schoolroom, puppets, toys and a
dollhouse, 17th century needlework, local
churches, crime and punishment, old photographs
and posters.
|
|
THE MUSEUM OF SOUTH SOMERSET
The Heritage & Visitor Information Centre,
Hendford, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1UN
Tel: 01935 462855
E-mail us
See our
website
Open: Winter, Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm.
British Summertime, Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat
9am - 1pm & 2pm - 5pm.
|
Housed in the former
coach house to Hendford Manor, the Museum of
South Somerset includes a temporary exhibition
space at ground floor level and traditional
displays related to the history of South
Somerset in a first floor gallery. |
|
 |
A changing programme of
exhibitions includes local history, art and
themed displays, with associated public events
and activities. Permanent displays are drawn
from the key collections.
The museum is
administered by South Somerset Countryside
Heritage and Tourism Service. Full details of
current public programmes and exhibitions can be
viewed on our website.
|
|
|
Yeovil Community Arts
Centre
80 South St, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1QH
Tel: 01935 432123
The Arts Centre offers a continuous programme of
exhibitions showing a complete range of arts and
crafts, from work for sale by local artists and
makers to touring exhibitions from London and
elsewhere, including international shows. Entry
is free, there is a coffee shop and garden and a
display of cards and crafts for sale. Classes
and courses available.
|
|
FLEET AIR ARM MUSEUM
R.N.A.S Yeovilton, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 8HT
Tel: 01935 840565 Fax:
01935 842630
E-mail:
enquiries@fleetairarm.com
Web:
www.fleetairarm.com
|
Opening times:
Summer (April-Oct) Open daily from 10am.
Winter (Nov -Mar) Open Wed-Sun from 10am.
|
|
 |
The Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton Somerset has
the largest collection of Naval aircraft anywhere
in Europe.
You can go on-board the first British built
Concorde and be ‘transported’ by a simulated
helicopter flight to the replica of the aircraft
carrier HMS ARK ROYAL. You’ll experience the
thrills and sounds of a working flight deck and
even see a nuclear bomb!
|
|
|
BLAKE MUSEUM
Blake Street, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 3NB
Tel: 01278 435399
E-mail:
museums@sedgemoor.gov.uk
Web:
www.sedgemoor.gov.uk
Free entry. Open Tues - Sat 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
except Good Friday, Christmas and New Year.
|
|
 |
|
This Museum of
local history is situated in a house
dating from about 1500, said to be the
birthplace of Admiral Robert Blake (1598
- 1657). |
|
 |
From the earliest Prehistoric archaeology
through to the story behind the Battle of
Sedgemoor (1685), the busy international
shipping of the River Parrett and Bridgwater
Dock, a unique series of late 18th- century
watercolour paintings by local artist John
Chubb (1746 - 1818) and the glamour of the
local annual Guy Fawkes Carnivals, there is
plenty to interest the whole family.
Group visits and guided
tours by appointment. |
|
|
MAKERS CONTEMPORARY CRAFT
6 Bath Place, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 4ER
Tel: 01823 251121
E-mail:
info@makerstaunton.co.uk
Web:
www.makerstaunton.co.uk
A successful crafts
co-operative established in 1984.
Makers has a reputation for
being one of the West Country's finest
selections of contemporary crafts. Open all
year, Mon to Sat 9am - 5pm.
|
|
|
WILLOW & WETLANDS VISITOR
CENTRE
Meare Green Court, Stoke St. Gregory, Taunton,
Somerset, TA3 6HY
Tel: 01823 490249 Fax: 01823 490814
E-mail us
Web:
www.englishwillowbaskets.co.uk
Open Mon
to Sat, 9am -
5pm
|
Found in the heart of the beautiful
Somerset Levels is the Willows and Wetlands
Visitor Centre. Willows and Wetlands is owned and run by
PH Coate, a family business that was established
in 1819.
This famous wetland
area is a haven for wildlife as well as for
basket-making willows, called withies.
|
|
 |
The Coate family today grow over 80 acres of
withies. Enjoying a renewal of interest in
willow products, the family business continues
to weave the withies into a wide selection of
baskets, furniture and garden items in the
traditional manner although the willows are now
cut by machine rather than by hand.
Visitors to this interesting centre can purchase
the willow goods that are hand-made by the
Coate's craftsmen and discover the history and
skill of the willow weavers at the centre's
Basketware Museum. The centre also contains a
display, the Levels and Moors Exhibition, which
highlights the unique habitat of the area and
provides valuable information on the flora and
fauna that can be seen whilst taking a walk
around the Levels. Visitors can follow a signed
walk around the withy beds and, afterwards, at
the centre's Courtyard Tea Rooms they can enjoy
a cup of tea or coffee and a selection of
delicious home-made cakes and light lunches.
Only partial access can be gained throughout the
centre.
|
|
|
|
New Members required for this section!
To join or recommend an establishment to Tourist Net UK
contact
us
|
