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It closed to the public on 18 April 2008 for a two-year refit, and reopened as the Museum of Somerset on 29 September 2011. [10] [11] Central to the new museum is the Tree of Somerset, a sculpture carved from oak from the Quantock Hills, which depicts events from Somerset's history. [10] [12]
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, Chicago, closed in 2009; Motorola Museum of Electronics, Schaumburg [85] [86] Museum of Funeral Customs, Springfield, closed in 2009; Museum of Holography, Chicago [87] National Museum of Surveying, Springfield, closed in 2013; Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, closed in 2015; Old Barn Museum, Newark [88]
West Somerset: Railway: The museum contains relics of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR), including station nameboards, lamps, tools, signalling equipment, tickets, photographs, handbills, rolling stock and steam locomotives. [156] The Trust's Peckett and Sons 0-4-0ST No. 1788 "Kilmersdon" is normally based here.
The Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society was founded in 1849. The Society bought Taunton Castle in 1874, and leases it to Somerset County Council to house the Museum of Somerset . A substantial proportion of the items held by the Museum were originally collected by the Society. [ 1 ]
Museum of Somerset, Taunton, England The Frome Hoard is a hoard of 52,503 Roman coins found in April 2010, by metal detectorist Dave Crisp near Frome in Somerset , England. [ 1 ] The coins were contained in a ceramic pot 45 cm (18 in) in diameter, [ 2 ] and date from AD 253 to 305.
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Despite a 25 percent boost in museum admission fees, the Modern Wing was a major catalyst for a rise in visitor traffic. [51] In 2022, the museum welcomed 1.04 million visitors, an increase of 20 percent from 2021, but still well below 2018 attendance (before the COVID-19 pandemic).