Museum of Somerset
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I visited an exhibition at the museum a few months ago but this time I had the time to explore the whole site. The more permanent exhibitions covering the local area through history are excellent with many superb items, fascinating. There are also temporary exhibitions on the other side of the museum and these are varied and excellent. Lovely cafe with the museum and a great gift shop. My only complaint is that the lifts are much too small for many wheelchairs. I accompanied a relative in a medium size wheelchair and struggled every time, pulling the legs in and raising the back right up which was uncomfortable for my relative.
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Grew up in Somerset and never knew this was even there. An incredible museum with amazing artefacts. My 7 year old daughter absolutely loved the trail and my 3 year old son loved the skulls and dinosaurs! Who knew there was so much history in Somerset!! Amazing place, defo go visit.
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Fabulous fun for my granddaughter, and we only did the special exhibition, the downstairs activities and the coffee shop. Great staff, fun 'dos' and wonderful cakes !!!!
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Very interesting museum in an equally interesting building. Today we saw the Cheddar brooch there. What a find?
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Lovely museum with fantastic special exhibition on the Gruffalo illustrator. Great for families with different aged children.
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Very interesting. Staff very pleasant. Museum much larger than we thought. Gave a great insight into Somerset's history.
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We absolutely love this place, grandchildren especially! This time we went to special book week, exhibition, activities and real live characters included, all fabulous 😊
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Very interesting
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Great for all ages, lift insitu for those who find stairs difficult, even found the sword in a stone.
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Amazing military display of military equipment from across the world, from where the Somerset Regiments have served. There is also an interesting display of marine environment. It solely requests on donations and well worth a visit
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A very good museum with fascinating exhibits from the earliest human settlements in Somerset. A magnificent Roman mosaic found in the county is essential viewing. The museum's cafe has a good selection of beverages and lite bites. Good access for the disabled and ample car parking in Taunton town centre. Admission to the museum is free, but donations welcome.
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The museum is a wonderful place , well layed out . There is plenty of information on each exhibit. The military exhibition is one of the best small collections I have seen.
The staff are polite helpful and have a wealth of knowledge 😉.
To top it all the cafe is really good , with a variety of light snacks, served by polite cheerful and some what attractive staff,. This is our second visit and not disappointed 😊 will definitely be going back 😊.
The staff are polite helpful and have a wealth of knowledge 😉.
To top it all the cafe is really good , with a variety of light snacks, served by polite cheerful and some what attractive staff,. This is our second visit and not disappointed 😊 will definitely be going back 😊.
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Went to story time which was very cute and brilliantly lead by staff who really engaged with the children.
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Very interesting
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Very popular with kids and their guardians. Someone must have spent ages and ages cutting out bits of paper for making Gruffalo masks. Well done to them. Nice cafe adjacent
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We went as a family of 17. Intreast for young and old. We will visit again when we are in the area.
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Very interesting With many different things to look at.
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Free museum with interesting displays. Seemed very family friendly and especially geared and ready for young children in particular.
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Free to get in, donation welcome. Spent 2 hours here and that was looking around at average speed. More for adults and older kids but some stuff will interest little ones such as dress up etc..
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What a great day for children. Their exhibition of Axel Scheffler and his illustrations is great. We had 4 children with us. The Bingo around the Museum was so much fun. Making sticks and flags etc and the exhibition itself was fantastic. The only thing you may struggle with it is being busy but I expect if you go earlier or later in the day this wouldnt be an issue. The staff were very helpful. The cafe was busy but well organised. Great experience considering how cheap it was. Very much advised over the summer hols.
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An amazing place to explore. We went when they had an Alex Scheffler event (grufflo illustrations etc). A fun day with a craft for the children at a nominal price. The cafe was great and reasonably priced too! A great day out!
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Lovely place and some wonderful sta5
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A wonderful and carefully-planned museum! Makes excellent use of the space available and has some fascinating artefacts, especially the most perfectly preserved Roman Mosaic I've ever seen!
A fantastic, if fittingly depressing exhibition on the destruction of church artwork during the reformation was very moving indeed.
In addition to this, the museum gives justly thorough attention to the history of local people; something that is shortly sorely lacking in many museums in the South West!
A fantastic, if fittingly depressing exhibition on the destruction of church artwork during the reformation was very moving indeed.
In addition to this, the museum gives justly thorough attention to the history of local people; something that is shortly sorely lacking in many museums in the South West!
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A surprising little gem of a museum - kids loved it and I dressed up as a soldier - what could be better ?
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Great granddaughters first visit, she loved it but she wasn't sure with the darker rooms. She sort of did the Gruffalo trail (she is only three and a half).
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