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Totnes Elizabethan House & Museum

What will you want to see? Our amazing medieval kitchen? Our resident ghost? Our spiral staircase made from a ship's mast? Or is it Totnes' illustrious son, Charles Babbage, who invented the first mechanical computer? Whatever your interest in history, the Totnes Elizabethan House & Museum is a fascinating place to spend of few hours of your time.

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Totnes Archives

Tracing your family tree? Wanting to find out more about an ancient house? The Totnes Archives are a fascinating place to investigate the History of Totnes, come and have a leaf through our great reference libraries and ancient documents.

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Museum & Archive are Closed

Due to current events both Totnes Museum & Totnes Archive will remain closed until further notice.

This is not a decision taken lightly as we are a small organisation. But it is most certainly the right one, made with the interests of our volunteers and the general public at heart.

Although the archive will not be taking visitors it will continue to answer local and family history enquiries in addition to offering family history research for £7.50 an hour. If you have any enquiries for them please contact totnes.archives@outlook.com

Please keep an eye on our website and on social media for any further developments.

We look forward to seeing you when we open our doors once more but until then look after yourselves and each other.

Best wishes,
Totnes Museum & Archive

Friends of The Totnes Museum

Become a friend of the Totnes Museum. The Museum is a charity and can only run by the support of its Volunteers and Friends. If you would like to become a friend of the Museum you can find out more here.

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School visits!

Visiting school groups are particularly welcome at the Totnes Elizabethan House & Museum. We can provide a volunteer to act as your guide to show the children around our museum. If you are a teacher and would like to organise a school visit please click the button for more details.

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Visit our Herb Garden

To the rear of the museum, we grow our own Elizabethan Herbs; parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme amongst others. Why not pick up one of our recipe leaflets with a sprig or two, and try our medieval recipes in your own kitchen!

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News from the Totnes Museum

Catch up with our latest news, we regularly host interesting talks and put on events at the Museum.

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Have you seen our Ghost?

There are rumours that the museum might be haunted!
A recent article in the Totnes Times gave examples of experiences that people who had been to the Museum had witnessed, which include those who have been brushed up against by our invisible cat, to the rather imposing, well dressed spirit in the fore hall...

Are you brave enough to step over the threshold?

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