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Bridgwater's Blake Museum

From 12 November 2009, the Blake Museum is not open to the public.
Volunteers are busy carrying out a few repairs and improving the displays for your visits next year..
The Museum re-opens to the public on 31 March 2010 at 10 am.
Meanwhile, you can see some of the Museum's Resources here

Robert Blake has taken a trip to Glastonbury .... but averts his gaze

The Blake Museum has loaned its recently-donated engraving by Thomas Preston (circa 1740) of Robert Blake for a temporary exhibition at the Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury. Next to the General-at-Sea is Ernst Blensdorf's Girl in the Reeds (1940) (Bruton Museum) and, to the far right, a carved panel from the Angel Inn, Hendford, Yeovil (17th C) from the Museum of South Somerset. The Exhibition is "Hidden Gems from Somerset - Selected art and artefacts from countywide museums and heritage sites". It is part of the Explore Your Somerset Routes initiative of Museums in Somerset and Somerset County Council.

Further details including opening times at the Rural Life Museum are here (note: link to Somerset County Council is broken)

The Blake Museum's first exhibition upon re-opening on 31 March is to be
How We Used to Vote - political corruption in Georgian and Victorian Bridgwater
illustrated by pamphlets and posters from the Blake Museum Collections

The Blake Museum Bridgwater is established:

to rescue from loss and destruction the relics of our ancestors;
to collect, conserve and to show relics of history relating (principally but not exclusively) to Bridgwater and its immediate surroundings;
to show visitors that Bridgwater is not indifferent to its own history;
to interest visitors in what has happened in Bridgwater since it was granted its first Royal Charter in the reign of King John;
to give the townspeople of Bridgwater pride in their past;
to reveal that great events have taken place within the town and adjacent areas and set them in the context of the history of England;
to honour the lives of great men who have lived or been associated with the town, and, in particular but not exclusively, Robert Blake.

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