Bridgwater's Blake Museum

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Archaeology: Brooches
Archaeology: Medieval Tiles
Archaeology: Samian Ware terra sigillata
Archaeology: Spaxton Mosaic
Art: Oil portraits
Archives: Electors' Lists
Archives: Library
Entertainment: 1927 Pageant
Maritime: Docks and Irene
Numismatics: Coins
People: Chubb, Blake, Monmouth
Photographs: Photographers
Textiles: Baird Collection

The Geographic Area of the Collections

The Museum has acquired items originating from, used in, or having connections with, principally, but not exclusively the Town of Bridgwater and the parishes of the former Rural District [map] comprising: Ashcott, Bawdrip, Bridgwater, Bridgwater Without, Broomfield, Burtle, Cannington, Catcott, Chedzoy, Chilton Polden, Chilton Trinity, Cossington, Durleigh, East Huntspill, Edington, Enmore, Fiddington, Goathurst, Greinton, Lyng, Middlezoy, Moorlinch, Nether Stowey, North Petherton, Othery, Otterhampton, Over Stowey, Pawlett, Puriton, Shapwick, Spaxton, Stawell, Stockland Bristol, Thurloxton, Wembdon, West Huntspill, Westonzoyland, Woolavington and, in the District of West Somerset, Stogursey. The Museum has also collected items relating to Burnham and Highbridge Carnival which relate to Bridgwater Carnival Clubs.

The Blake Museum Bridgwater is established:

to rescue from loss and destruction the relics of our ancestors;
to collect, preserve, conserve and to show relics of history relating (principally but not exclusively) to Bridgwater and its immediate surroundings;
to show visitors that Bridgwater is not indifferent to its own history;
to interest visitors in what has happened in Bridgwater since it was granted its first Royal Charter in the reign of King John;
to give the townspeople of Bridgwater pride in their past;
to reveal that great events have taken place within the town and adjacent areas and set them in the context of the history of England;
to honour the lives of great men and women who have lived or been associated with the town, and, in particular but not exclusively, Robert Blake.

The Blake Museum is open to the public Tuesdays to Saturdays 10 am to 4 pm until 12 November.

Winter Opening at the Museum
From Saturday, 12 November, the Museum will open generally on Saturdays until and including 31 March.
(Closed 18 December to 6 January inclusive.)
It will be open for the whole of the schools' spring half-term holiday, from Monday 13 February to Saturday 18 February, inclusive
(provisional; and subject to the availabilty of volunteers).
Summer opening will recommence on Tuesday 3 April.

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