Museum of South Somerset

Museum of South Somerset

Museum of South Somerset
Hendford
Yeovil
Somerset
BA20 1UN

Tel: 01935 462 855
E-Mail: heritage.services@southsomerset.gov.uk

Web: Museum of South Somerset

About Museum of South Somerset

Visit the splendid displays of the newly refurbished Museum of South Somerset and discover what rural life and times from the Roman occupation to the agricultural and industrial revolutions were really like. See artifacts from the past set in scenes that recapture the atmosphere of their time.
Displays on leather and glove-making, flax and hemp production, stone working, engineering and newspaper printing are all reminders of a bygone era. A reconstructed Roman dining room and kitchen and Georgian House provide settings for countless items from the museum's extensive collection. Fossils, firearms, coins, clothes, glassware, pottery, paintings, farming and household equipment . . . there's so much to be seen.
Housed in the former coach house to Hendford Manor, the Museum of South Somerset's modern displays draw upon many different collections. 0ver the years benefactors have donated other important collections, including those of fossils, firearms, glassware and costume. The lower gallery of the coach house features South Somerset's association with leather and glove manufacturing, flax and hemp production, engineering, stone working and newspaper printing. Women outworkers can be seen sewing gloves in the cramped conditions of their cottage, a reminder of a recently bygo