News

15 - December , 2023

Exhibition- the lives of six families of Mere

This exhibition follows the lives of six families of Mere. You can find some of the exhibits from the exhibition below.

09 - May , 2023

Friends Plant Sale

The weather (at the time of writing) has suddenly become spring-like and the Friends’ famous and popular plant sale is nearly here. It will be held in the Grove Building, on Saturday May 13th at 10am. Don’t forget, that it’s the sale to go for bedding and patio plants, geraniums and plant for hanging baskets,

06 - May , 2023

Exhibition- the Rutter Scrapbooks

The latest exhibition, The Rutter Scrapbooks, is the collection of posters and documents which the Friends of Mere Museum raised funds to have conserved. It took the best part of a year for the work to be done and has taken a long time to catalogue at the Museum. Some of the posters are unique

10 - April , 2023

New exhibition- Rutter Scrapbook- 17th April 2023

We are pleased to announce that our new exhibition will explore the Rutter Scrapbooks. Our preview evening is being held on Monday 17th April, from 7.00pm, in the Library. As usual wine and nibbles will be served. We hope as many as possible will be able to attend. The scrapbooks date from the 1850’s to

20 - February , 2023

Upcoming exhibition…Rutter Collection

Our next exhibition will be The Rutter Collection which you may remember the Friends raised money to have conserved. This will be quite a task as we have over 700 items to choose from! The collection came back to us from Chippenham about 14 months ago and has taken a considerable amount of time to

13 - February , 2023

50 years of Mere Museum

Our current exhibition is celebrating 50 years of Mere Museum. The flat showcase cabinet is displaying some of the first 85 objects received by the museum. At the time businesses were approached to see if they had any items to start the collection. The main showcase cabinets show both items received in the decades and

03 - December , 2022

New exhibition- 50 years of Mere Museum

Our new exhibition will celebrate 50 years of Mere Museum. Mere Museum started in 1972 and the museum now represents the events, people and developments which Mere has experienced to the present day. The new exhibition, opening on December 3rd, will celebrate the interesting History of the museum. As always, visitor comments on photographs and

14 - July , 2022

July update and new exhibition

The Jubilee exhibition has been well received and will run until the end of June. The museum would like to thank everyone who kindly loaded items for the display which have contributed to its success. Year 5 children from Mere School visited the exhibition and had a questionnaire to complete, the children enjoyed their visit

27 - February , 2022

Looking ahead (to June)

In June our exhibition will be of a Royal Theme and if anyone has any Royal memorabilia relating to Mere which they are willing to loan the museum for the duration then please do contact me. It will all be behind lock and key. We would also like to request stories and memories of life

19 - February , 2022

Current exhibition

Our new exhibition “Those were the days……A History of Mere through Postcards” is now up and ready to view.  We have a wonderful collection of postcards which give a brilliant insight into the people who wrote them and received them. In June our exhibition will change and be of a Royal Theme. If anyone has any Royal