News

10 - August , 2021

Quiz Evening- 20th August

We have a Quiz evening on Friday 20th August at the Grove Building, starting at 7.30 pm to start our fund raising. Tables of 4, £3 per person. Please book a table through Rose Heesom on ‘07791 559 674’

02 - August , 2021

New exhibition- 9th August

We are delighted to announce that our new exhibition will open on Monday 9th August 2021. It is titled, ‘Memories and Mementos of Mere’. It will look at the past at a collection of objects and documents. Unfortunately we cannot have an Open Evening for members at this time because of ongoing restrictions by Wiltshire

18 - May , 2021

Annual Plant Sale- 22nd May 2021

Dear Friends of Mere Museum,Just a quick reminder that we are holding our annual PLANT SALE next Saturday, May 22nd at 10 a.m. in the churchyard. We would love to receive plants for sale, and to have your support at the sale.  Please bring any plants you are able to give us to sell, to

09 - March , 2021

Covid Closure- Museum closed

Unfortunately, due to the Covid restrictions, the Museum is closed. We will let you know as things change, when we have opening dates.

09 - March , 2021

Exhibition- Union workhouse Mere

These pictures show our latest exhibition on the Union Workhouse in Mere. This was presented before the Covid closure and will be still up when the museum opens again. It was a very interesting part of Mere’s history to research and showed that not everything about the Workhouse’s was bad. However, Mere could be one

09 - March , 2021

Rutter Scrapbook- update

Having taking delivery of the Rutter Scrapbooks in January 2020 from the conservators at Chippenham, the volunteers started the task of transferring them into our system, by numbering, logging and individually storing each item.  We are looking forward to returning to our task when the Museum is open again! You can find some pictures of

29 - November , 2019

The Big Event and Waltons exhibition

Thank you to everyone who supported our Big Event in October, making it such a brilliant success! Lots of names were added to photographs (this was a huge hit!), two stories were recorded (so far) about Waltons, and we heard a fascinating talk from paper conservator Sophie Coles. It was exciting to see work being

26 - November , 2019

FRIENDS AGM- 26TH NOVEMBER

An important reminder is that the Friends AGM will take place on Tuesday November 26th at 7.30 p.m. in the Museum. At this event we shall be launching our exciting, brand new range of sales items which will revolutionise the Friends’ Sales Desk and generate, we hope, more much needed funds for the Museum. There

06 - October , 2019

The ‘Big Event’- Saturday 12th October!

We are delighted to announce our latest 'Big Event' at the Museum! Please join us for our 'big event', we have so much to do and see. You can find out more about the story of Mere's very own Waltons store, explore old photos of Mere, have some yummy tea and cake while also listening
02 - September , 2019

New exhibition: ‘John Walton & Co. Ltd. ‘The town store in the country’ is now live!

We are delighted to announce that our new exhibition, titled ‘The town store in the county’, John Walton & Co. Ltd. is now live! The exhibition introduces and explores the Walton dynasty of Mere’s shopping world during the 19th and 20th centuries. John Walton started the business in 1864 and this would grow greatly over