Collections Archives - Mere Museum

23 - February , 2024

Exhibition- Mere Manor Youth Band

Our current exhibition is celebrating the creation of the Mere Manor Youth Band in 1966. This was started by Adrienne and Bernard Howell as a way of introducing youngsters to musical instruments. The collection belongs to Adrienne and this is the first time it has been shown publicly. Were you in the Band? Come and

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