South West Of England Museums Information about Museums in the South West England including American Museum, Corinium Museum, Blaise Castle House Museum, City Museum and Art Gallery, Fleet Air Arm Museum, The Helicopter Museum, Jenner Museum, King's Weston Roman Villa, Museum of Costume, Roman Baths, SS - Great Britain, Tank Museum, The Georgian House, The Red Lodge, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset,Gloucestershire, Wiltshire plus where to go and day out.
Housed in Claverton Manor on the outskirts of the Georgian city of Bath, the American Museum in Britain opened to the public in July 1961 with the intention of fostering historic ties between the United States and the United Kingdom. The American Museum is celebrated for its magnificent decorative arts collection over 200 historic American quilts, exceptional pieces of Shaker furniture, exuberant folk art paintings and sculptures, Native American objects, and Renaissance maps of the New World.
Home to one of the largest collections of Romano-British antiquities in the country. Corinium, Roman Cirencester, was the second largest town in Roman Britain. Experience life as a Roman - Marvel at the stunning mosaics - Visit a Roman Garden. Trace a path from the Iron Age to the English Civil War. A story of war, of wool, of royalty; of dissolved monasteries and of a local worthy's rise from rags to riches.
Corinium Museum, Park Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 2BX
Explore hundreds of weird and wonderful objects inside the museum that show how people used to live in the past. Gaze out of this 18th century mansion house over 400 acres of beautiful parkland and imagine that it all belongs to you and your family. Well it does and it's all free. Situated in the beautiful parkland of the Blaise Estate at Henbury, the Museum is housed in a late 18th century mansion, and contains most of our social history collections.
Bristol's major museum and art gallery houses an outstanding and diverse range of objects, from sea dinosaurs to magnificent art. A visit to the region's largest museum and art gallery is guaranteed to inspire you. The Museum is situated in an Edwardian Baroque building in Queen's Road, next to the Wills University building. Inside you will see collections of regional, national and international importance. With a changing and dynamic temporary exhibition programme, this complements the museum's vast and assorted permanent collections.
Historic Fashion. Dress of the Year displays. A sixteenth-century court dress (a gem of the museum’s collection). Ladies’ corsets and crinolines to try on. 17th century gloves from The Glove Collection Trust. Replica Victorian sporting dress for children to try on. Clarke’s Cabinets of Cures – art installation by Mark Clarke, inspired by and including objects from the Fashion Museum. Top Trends, Autumn/Winter 2011/2012. 20th century daywear.
Fleet Air Arm Museum. Where Museum meets theatre. Europe's No1 Naval aviation museum. Go on-board the first British built Concorde and be 'transported' by a simulated helicopter flight to the aircraft carrier HMS ARK ROYAL. You'll experience the thrills and sounds of a working flight deck and even see a nuclear bomb! Throughout the year the Fleet Air Arm Museum hold numerous, exciting and memorable events.
The origins of the Helicopter Museum goes back to 1958, when the founder, aviation writer/historian Elfan ap Rees, began to build up a private collection of rotorcraft documentation and artifacts. Over the next 10 years his collection grew and in 1969 he acquired his first complete helicopter, a Bristol Sycamore Mk.3. Dedicated Helicopter Museum which is located in Weston-super-Mare on the South West coast of England. A fun place for all the family, with a coffee shop, children's play area.
The Museum celebrates the life and work of Dr Edward Jenner, discoverer of vaccination. It is housed in The Chantry, the elegant Queen Anne house, set in an acre of gardens, which was his home. Displays include: an audio-visual biography; personal memorabilia; a reconstruction of Jenner's study; smallpox and its eradication; computer-interactive displays on immunology. The Vinery and 'Temple of Vaccina' (the rustic summer-house in which Jenner vaccinated the poor) are also open to visitors.
Kings Weston Villa was discovered during the construction of Lawrence Weston housing estate in 1947; the construction of a road partially destroyed it, but a full excavation was carried out in 1948-50. The villa may have been the centre of an estate associated with farming. Excavation revealed an almost symmetrical plan which developed in several phases. For the most part the walls, built of a variety of local stones, are now little higher than the foundations.
Step back in time on board Brunel's SS Great Britain - the world's first great ocean liner. Explore the beautifully recreated First Class Dining Saloon, steerage quarters and new Engine Room. Audio tours of passengers' lives and authentic smells help bring the 19th century experience alive. The ship appears to be afloat but descend beneath the glass 'sea' to see how innovative technology is conserving Brunel's engineering masterpiece
The tank was a British invention that changed warfare for ever when it was introduced in World War One and Bovington has been the home of the tank ever since. From the Somme to Tiananmen Square or D-Day to Desert Storm the tank has played a part in shaping history and it continues to do so today. The Tank Museum is the only place where many of these rare and historic vehicles can be seen. Fresh from a £16m investment in new exhibitions & facilities, with almost 200 vehicles on display in 6 large halls, you will come face-to-face with tanks that have seen action in all the major wars of the 20th century.
Explore hundreds of weird and wonderful objects inside the museum that show how people used to live in the past. Gaze out of this 18th century mansion house over 400 acres of beautiful parkland and imagine that it all belongs to you and your family. Well it does and it's all free. Situated in the beautiful parkland of the Blaise Estate at Henbury, the Museum is housed in a late 18th century mansion, and contains most of our social history collections.
The house, built in 1580, is furnished in Elizabethan, Stuart and Georgian styles and contains the impressive Great Oak Room, with its original Elizabethan plasterwork ceiling, oak panelling and carved chimneypiece. From here you can gaze down on the knot garden below. It was built as a lodge for a Great House, which once stood on the site of the present Colston Hall. It was subsequently added to in Georgian times. It has had several uses in its past, including a reform school for girls.
Britain's only hot springs, the Romans built the finest religious spa in northern Europe. This great temple and bathing complex still flows with natural hot water. The extensive remains and a Roman museum of international significance lie beneath the Pump Room and Abbey Church Yard in the centre of Bath. The Roman Baths and Temple complex at Aquae Sulis was one of the wonders of Roman Britain. This unique site is hidden under the streets of central Bath and needs exceptional visitor interpretation to do justice to this unique part of our heritage.They have created an unforgettable experience for all of our existing daytime and evening audiences and made the Roman Baths accessible and fascinating for new audiences.
