Following our recent, the very successful Wine Tasting Evening (thank you all for your support), we are now starting to plan for our big annual event, the plant sale which will take place this year on Saturday 12th May. If you are starting to re-organise your garden , or just starting to get it ready
We are welcoming in the New Year with a fascinating new exhibition! We’ve called it ‘Mere’s Amazing Neighbours!’ as it shines a spotlight on a few aspects of the history of each of the five parishes surrounding Mere which the Museum also serves. They are West Knoyle, Kilmington, Stourton with Gasper, Maiden Bradley and Zeals.
If you enjoy visiting our exhibits inside the museum, you can find out more about them by taking a look at our display in the clock-tower. At the moment you can read about items which are ‘Made in Mere‘. All kinds of things have been made in Mere over the years and the presentation presents
Our current exhibition is titled, ‘Made in Mere’. It showcases a large variety of artefacts that owe their existence to the diligence, toil and enthusiasm of residents of Mere over a couple of centuries. Items range from furniture (small!) to trains (also small!), from toys to candles and posters to pots. Please come and visit!
The Next Museum Exhibition! This exhibition will be all about the parishes surrounding Mere. We would love to hear from anyone who can provide us with news, images, artefacts which we might be able to include. Please get in touch via this website.
In our new exhibition ‘Made in Mere’ you can see a large brass clock face and a small silver pocket watch, children’s toys and a child’s chair, model trains and model animals (snuff-boxes!), photographs and posters and, as they so often say these days, ‘much, much more’! Don’t miss this intriguing exhibition. On till