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Museum Looking for your Help

As part of our “Museum Making” project, we’re expanding our focus to tell the bigger story of Bath—a city full of history, creativity, and innovation. We’re diving into the diverse working lives of Bath’s residents, […]
Mar
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Friends and Volunteers of the Museum AGM

Friends & Volunteers AGM 2.30pm Saturday 22nd March This years meeting will be held at the museum and refreshments available from 2pm. View agenda here. After the short business section, there will be a panel […]
No 2 Christ Church Cottages adjacent to Museum entrance

From Sheppey to Bath

‘Report to Paddington Station in the morning’ Admiralty clerks posted to Bath in 1939 as possibility of war increases This was the instruction received by hundreds of Admiralty workers in September 1939. One of these […]
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Nov 30

Tennis in Bath: Work and Play

A major exhibition, Tennis: Work and Play, is planned from June to November. It covers Bath’s rich history of racket games, from Real Tennis in the 18th century, through early lawn tennis of the 1880s, […]

BBC Antiques Road Trip visit museum

UPDATE: The episode will be broadcast on BBC1 16.30pm Thursday 28th November 2024 or can be viewed now on BBC iPlayer by following this link BBC Antiques Road Trip team visited the museum in May with […]
Newspaper clipping of 1777 announces Tennis Court is open

History of the Museum Building and Use: 1. The Tennis Court

The first of a series of articles tracing the fascinating and varied history of the building the Museum now occupies. 1. The Tennis Court It is the 12th of February 1763 and a letter is published in the Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette: “Tennis is an excellent Exercise. There is scarce a little village in France without a Tennis-Court. Would not the Company here employ one with great Advantage to the Proprietor?”

The Bathford Papermill project

 The Bathford Papermill project is concerned with assessing the museum’s extensive archive of documents relating to the papermill with a particular focus on the First World War. The primary aim of the project is to […]

Cross Manufacturing- archive project

The museum is working with Cross Manufacturing on a project to find a solution for the company’s archiving needs. This will involve digitising the 1000+ historic engineering drawings that are currently held in Cross’ archives. Dating back to the […]

Upcoming Events

Young Inventors and War’s End Lectures The museum is staging some summer lectures which you may like to attend. To launch the Museum’s partnership with the 44AD Gallery on the Bath Young Inventor of the […]