Crewkerne Museum - Somerset

Talks & Teas - Monsterland - with Nicholas Jubber
2025-10-23 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
Thursday 23rd October at 7:00 pm
The museum is hosting this event.

NOTE: These events are very popular therefore due to the limited numbers that can be accommodated it is essential to book. Cost £5.00.
Call in at the Green Dragon Bookshop.

Halloween Activities at the Museum
2025-10-27 10:00 - 2025-11-01 16:00
Only during normal Opening hours. (closed Tuesday and Wednesday)

Talks & Teas - 1815-19 When we ruled France - with Sheila Seymore
2025-11-12 14:00 - 15:30
Wednesday 12th November at 2:00pm
After the French Revolution came the French Revolutionary Wars. The final battle was Waterloo.
Wellington, as Commander of the Grand Alliance, became in effect the French Head of State.
Surprised? Of course you are – we don’t like to talk about it….
NOTE: These events are very popular therefore due to the limited numbers that can be accommodated it is essential to book.
Call in at the museum or email admin@crekernemuseum.co.uk.

THE MISTLETOE BOUGH: A CHRISTMAS GHOST STORY
2025-12-01 19:30 - 21:30
This Christmas, Blabbermouth presents an atmospheric, candlelit performance of the classic Christmas ghost story, The Mistletoe Bough, at Crewkerne Museum. ​

Though now largely forgotten, The Mistletoe Bough was once one of Britain’s most popular and familiar Christmas songs, something like the Victorian equivalent of ‘Last Christmas’ or ‘The Fairytale of New York’. The story at the heart of the song, tells the chilling tale of a Yuletide wedding at a stately home, and celebrations which go tragically wrong. Versions of the tale can be found across the globe. There are several historic houses which claim to have been the location of the true events which are said to have inspired the story, at least one of which can be found here in England’s West Country.

Blabbermouth’s Dan Broadbent is both a storyteller and an award-winning archaeologist. His brand-new version of The Mistletoe Bough has been meticulously researched and explores the tale’s long history, taking the audience from 1920s New York to Elizabethan England, via the battlefields of the First World War.
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Why not make a ghost story part of your Christmas tradition and join us for an enchanting evening of story, music and history (plus mince pies!)

Talks & Teas - Special Plants of Somerset - with Dr. Fred Rumsey
2025-12-10 14:00 - 15:30
Wednesday 10th December at 2:00 pm
Dr Fred Rumsey will introduce a selection of the rare wildflowers I regard as characteristic of our varied county, some found nowhere else on earth. We will take in plants from the Levels, the Mendips, from Exmoor to the Avon Gorge, with a brief offshore excursion to Steep Holm. Looking at when they were discovered, by whom, where they are found and what makes them so special.
NOTE: These events are very popular therefore due to the limited numbers that can be accommodated it is essential to book.
Call in at the museum or email admin@crekernemuseum.co.uk.

Talks & Teas - Photographers of Crewkerne and Somerset- with Phil Nicholls
2026-01-13 08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 13th January at 2:00 pm
An illustrated talk on early photographers in Somerset (from 1839) and 19th and 20th century photographers of Crewkerne. Phil will use some of the Museums own photographs from our archives, as well as photographs from the book “Secure the shadow : Somerset photographers, 1839-1939” which he co-authored in 2018.
NOTE: These events are very popular therefore due to the limited numbers that can be accommodated it is essential to book.
Call in at the museum or email admin@crekernemuseum.co.uk.

Talks & Teas - Compton Durville - with Sarah Burden
2026-02-11 15:00 - 15:30
Wednesday 11th February at 2:00 pm
This talk covers research into a few people that have lived in the small hamlet of Compton Durville, near South Petherton. We will talk briefly about the origins of the hamlet but concentrate on people that called Compton Durville home. Some lived here for many years and others very briefly.
NOTE: These events are very popular therefore due to the limited numbers that can be accommodated it is essential to book.
Call in at the museum or email admin@crekernemuseum.co.uk.
