Chard & District Museum

Godworthy House
High Street
Chard
Somerset
TA20 1QL
England

Website

www.chardmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

info@chardmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01460 65091

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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Chard Museum has displays illustrating the history of Chard and its surrounding area. Highlights include displays devoted to pioneers of powered flight (John Stringfellow) and the development of artificial limbs (James Gillingham). Other displays show rural crafts (blacksmith, wheelwright, cooper), local industries (lace-making, agricultural machinery) and social life (domestic and laundry exhibits). Most parts of the Museum are accessible to disabled visitors

Venue Type:

Museum, Archive

 Opening hours

May-October
Mon-Fri 1000-1630

Closed: Sat, Sun
November-April

 Admission charges

Adults : £2.50
Children : 50p
Friends : Free

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Picnic area
  • Shop
 Disability access
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Loan service

Godworthy House
High Street
Chard
Somerset
TA20 1QL
England

Website

www.chardmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

info@chardmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01460 65091

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.

Includes a display on John Stringfellow, pioneer of powered flight, who flew a steam-powered ten foot wingspan aircraft in a disused building in Chard in 1848. The Museum has replicas of this and other planes designed by him and his partner, William Henson.
Another display is on James Gillingham whose Chard company made artificial limbs from 1866 to 1950. Other displays include rural crafts (blacksmith, wheelwright, cooper), local industries including agricultural machinery, domestic life, costumes.

Collection details

Agriculture, Archaeology, Archives, Aviation, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Industry, Land Transport, Medicine, Music, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, Weapons and War

Key artists and exhibits

  • Flight
  • John Stringfellow
  • Artificial limbs
  • James Gillingham
  • Rural crafts
  • Farm machinery
  • Social and domestic life
  • Costumes
  • Education
  • Religion

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Godworthy House
High Street
Chard
Somerset
TA20 1QL
England

Website

www.chardmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

info@chardmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01460 65091

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

Resource Box

Resource boxes for use with Key Stage 2. Current topics include "The Victorians" and "World War II". A new box on "The Chard Lace Industry" is also available

How to obtain

Book through the Museum (01460 64017).
Charge of £10 per term.

Godworthy House
High Street
Chard
Somerset
TA20 1QL
England

Website

www.chardmuseum.co.uk

E-mail

info@chardmuseum.co.uk

Telephone

01460 65091

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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