Museums
| The Wotton-under-Edge Heritage Centre | | This interesting little town makes the most of its heritage with this centre - and here you will find out more about the woollen trade of the past, and the lovely countryside round and about. Many relics have been preserved from Wotton's craft and industrial heritage, and there are also documents and books of local interest. |
| Wonders of the Earth | | This permanent exhibition opened in February 2001, with fossils, minerals and dinosaur specimens from all over the world. There is a special section on shells, featuring a tank with live coral reef, crabs, star fish and sea anemones. |
| Oakridge Village Museum | | This little gem of a museum will take you back to your schooldays - and beyond. In fact, it's housed in the old schoolroom at the chapel of the pretty Cotswold village of Oakridge Lynch. Here, you'll learn about the former life of the village in days gone by, including information on the school and the very old Sunday School. There is also a chance to find out about some of the talented local craftsmen whose work is admired throughout the area. |
| Tetbury Police Museum | | Life in a police cell in years gone by is the subject of this museum, along with a selection of uniforms, photos and documents. |
| Purton Museum | | The village of Purton, from Neolithic times to the recent past, is covered in this museum which contains a collection of agricultural hand tools and dairy equipment,
maps and photographs, Neolithic flint tools, and shards of flint from Roman kilns. |
| Pittville Pump Room | | There is a changing programme of art exhibitions in this building, which, as a wonderful listed Regency Spa, is an exhibition in itself. Here you can sample the waters, and admire the park in which it is set. |
| Holst Birthplace Museum | | This museum is devoted to the composer who wrote The Planets, and also gives insight into the life of a Victorian household. |
| Corinium Museum | | This museum is featured in the Good Museums Guide Top 20 - a first class place to show off a superb collection of Roman antiquities. Cirencester - or Corinium as it was then known - was a hugely important town in Roman Britain. And the museum features a fantastic hare mosaic - found in one of the town's houses - as well as full-scale reconstructions of a kitchen and dining room. There are also displays on the Cotswolds in medieval times, and the Civil War in Cirencester. |
| Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre | | The history of Chippenham and its people, from pre-historic times, is at the centre of this museum. Find out about Chippenham's connection with Alfred the Great, and how the town fared throughout the ages. |
| Castle Combe Museum | | Museum with artefacts and displays relevant to the history of Castle Combe. |
| Arlington Mill Museum | | Working machinery, photographs and documents take visitors back to the 17th Century in this museum, which details the history of the mill, and on through to the Victorian way of life. |
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