Petersfield Museum

The Old Courthouse
St Peters Road
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 3HX
England

Website

www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

Curator

curator@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Education and Outreach Officer

education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01730 262601

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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The Museum was set up in 1999 and is located in the former Magistrates Courthouse. The building was constructed in 1896 and was used as a court until 1995. The museum was set up by the Petersfield Area Historical Society who collected objects and artefacts for about 30 years before the museum was set up as a central resource.

Venue Type:

Museum

Opening hours

March - November
Tues to Sat
10:00-16:00

Closed: March - November Sun & Mon
December - February

Admission charges

Free Admission

General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Loan service
  • Library with public access
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities

Additional info

Wheelchair accessibility is via the police yard and a member of staff is required to unlock the access gate - please call ahead if this is required.

The Old Courthouse
St Peters Road
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 3HX
England

Website

www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

Curator

curator@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Education and Outreach Officer

education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01730 262601

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

The museum holds collections on the social, industrial and agricultural history of Petersfield and the surrounding villages. The collections are made up from artefacts and archives (including maps, oral history accounts, and photographs).

Both the Bedales collection of Historic costume, which consists of approximately 1000 pieces dating from 1720, and the Flora Twort art collection are housed in Petersfield Museum's Flora Twort Gallery.

Collection details

Trade and Commerce, Social History, Performing Arts, Law and Order, Industry, Fine Art, Costume and Textiles, Archives, Archaeology, Agriculture

Key artists and exhibits

  • Historic Costume
  • clothing
  • Jacobean coat of arms
  • Jolliffe family
  • Joliffe family
  • Bonham-Carter family
  • ITS
  • Itshide
  • minibrix
  • market town
  • Churchers college
  • Bedales school
  • St Peters Church Parish records
  • Historical Maps
  • Petersfield Musical Festival
  • Scouting in Petersfield
  • Petersfield Urban District Council

Collections services

  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

The Old Courthouse
St Peters Road
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 3HX
England

Website

www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

Curator

curator@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Education and Outreach Officer

education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01730 262601

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
Boxes, objects and other kit

Education

Paper-based and downloads

Old Toys (KS1)

This worksheet encourages the children to compare the old toy "Minibrix" which was made in Petersfield to the modern version "Lego". The worksheet is broken down into a variety of activities, which allow the children to handle samples of the toys.

Petersfield: What was it like to live here in the past? (KS2)

Thi worksheet encourages children to look at Petersfield and how it has changed through photographs, oral history accounts, maps and trade directories.

The Old Courthouse
St Peters Road
Petersfield
Hampshire
GU32 3HX
England

Website

www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

Curator

curator@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Education and Outreach Officer

education@petersfieldmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01730 262601

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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