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WHAT'S ON
Wells & Mendip Museum has a busy calendar of events. From talks and workshops to art exhibitions and garden days, keep an eye on this page to see what's coming up.
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The Curator's Choice
A changing display which features items specially chosen by the curator.
It can be viewed on the mezzanine floor of the museum.
A set of portable balance scales with weights which belonged to Edgar Vowles, Dispensing Chemist, who owned a pharmacy at 44 High St, Wells from the late 1930s until the mid-1980s.
The weights use the Apothecaries’ system of weights and measures, where a dram (drachm) is 1/8th of an ounce, a scruple is 1/3rd of an dram, and there are 20 grains in a scruple!
Accession number 2024.23
Time & Place: Collect, Care, Value
Creative responses to material in the museum's collections
30 Oct 2024
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25 Jan 2025
10:00 am
4:00 pm
During July and August we welcomed artist Sara Dudman back to the museum to deliver a six week practical art course: Time & Place: Collect, Care, Value. Five participants took part, and - supported by our Hon Curator David Walker, learnt more about the approaches towards conservation, restoration and preservation of objects in our care.
Sara worked with the group to creatively interpret these ideas, using a variety of techniques, materials and processes. We are delighted that the groups creative responses will be on display within the museum for a while.
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