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Until 2008 the museum was known as the Somerset County Museum. Heritage Lottery Fund support was obtained to improve the museum, and the new museum reopened at the end of September 2011. Exhibits include the Frome Hoard , the Low Ham Roman Mosaic , the bronze-age South Cadbury shield and a range of other objects relating to the history of the ...
The English ceremonial county of Somerset contains a wide range of museums, defined here as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The North Somerset Butterfly House; Nunney Castle; Peat Moors Centre; Priest's House Muchelney ; Prior Park Bath ; Quantock Hills AONB ; Radstock Museum; River Avon; River Chew; Roman Baths Bath ; The Shoe Museum, Street; Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway; Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, Somerset Coal Canal; Museum of Somerset; Somerset Levels ...
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 ]
The Somerset Military Museum was established to accommodate the collections of the Somerset Light Infantry and the Somerset Volunteers at the Somerset County Museum in Taunton. [6] It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 7 May 1974. [7] Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, visited the museum on 8 May ...
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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.