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Background: Radstock Museum
• Offers an entertaining, enjoyable and educational insight for visitors into the industrial and social heritage of the former Somerset Coalfield.
• Independent Museum run almost entirely by volunteers
• The only fully accredited (ACE) B&NES Museum outside Bath
• A registered charity
• Receives no funding from national or local government
• The collection includes some 37000 artefacts, including a digitised archive of 15000 photographs and documents
Association of Independent Museums (AIM)
Hallmarks Award
“…for a small, largely volunteer-run organisation you made an extremely strong and credible application.”
Helen Wilkinson, Assistant Director of AIM
As 2017 progresses:
• More lively street scene
• Blacksmith forge rebuilt, Co-op shop remodelled
• Replica coalmine with audiovisual effects and smells
• Victorian parlour, with James McMurtrie in residence
• Research Room, 1930s railway buffet, improved shop