Market Lavington Village Museum
Market Lavington Village Museum
15 Church Street
Market Lavington
Wiltshire
SN10 4AB
England
Website
Museum web site
www.marketlavingtonmuseum.org.uk
Market Lavington history and photos
www.lavington.site90.com/lavington/index.html
Museum blog
marketlavingtonmuseum.wordpress.com
Rog Frost, Curator
curator@marketlavingtonmuseum.org.uk
Telephone
Sally Reynolds, Secretary
01380 816222
Rog Frost, Curator
01380 813596
The home of the Museum is the Old Schoolmaster's House, built in 1846. The museum illustrates village life and work mainly from Victorian times to the present day. Basket making, brick making and brewing have been local industries in the past.
Market Lavington has had professional photographers since 1880 and their efforts have recorded every aspect of village life through to the present day.
Venue Type:
Museum
Market Lavington Museums holds artefacts and records which relate to the parish, past and present, of Market Lavington.
Photographic records and social history are particular strengths along with artefacts relating to the many and varied crafts carried out in the area.
Collection details
Weapons and War, Trade and Commerce, Toys and Hobbies, Sport, Social History, Science and Technology, Religion, Photography, Personalities, Music, Medicine, Literature, Law and Order, Land Transport, Industry, Fine Art, Costume and Textiles, Coins and Medals, Archives, Archaeology, Agriculture
Key artists and exhibits
- History of Market Lavington, Wiltshire
- About
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