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Museums & Galleries in Poole
From local history to serious collections, here\'s what\'s worth your time around Poole — think Poole Museum, Poole Waterfront Museum and Scaplens Court Museum — with distances and visitor reviews to choose by.
Museums & Galleries
0.2 mi from Poole
Poole Museum
Poole Museum is a maritime museum, gallery and cultural centre, situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset, and is owned by Bournemouth, Christchurch a... — Wikipedia
0.2 mi from Poole
Scaplens Court Museum
15th century Grade I listed house in Poole, Dorset, England, UK, used as a museum
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4.3 mi from Poole
Museum Of Design In Plastics
The Museum of Design in Plastics sits on the first floor of the Arts University Bournemouth library, reached by lift, and houses a specialist collection tracing plastics design fro...
5.1 mi from Poole
Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
The Russell-Cotes Museum is an art gallery and museum in Bournemouth, England. A Grade II* listed building originally known as East Cliff Hall, it is located on the top of the East... — Wikipedia
5.7 mi from Poole
Wareham Town Museum
Wareham Town Museum tells the story of the Wareham area of Dorset in southern England from prehistoric times to the present day, with a special exhibition on Lawrence of Arabia, wh... — Wikipedia
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5.8 mi from Poole
Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum
The Purbeck Mining Museum tells the story of Purbeck Ball Clay mining and its narrow gauge railways, housed in the last underground mine building that worked in Purbeck. You can st...
5.8 mi from Poole
Museum of East Dorset
The Museum of East Dorset is a historic house museum in the heart of Wimborne, found opposite the Minster church. Inside you can explore themed exhibitions and collections, includi...
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6.4 mi from Poole
Blue Pool
The Blue Pool is a nature reserve and tearooms set within the 300-acre Furzebrook Estate near Wareham on the Isle of Purbeck. Once a 17th-century clay pit, it filled with rainwater...
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7.3 mi from Poole
Langton Matravers Museum of the Stone Industry
Museum in Langton Matravers, Dorset, England, UK
7.5 mi from Poole
Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre
Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre tells the story of Swanage and the wider Purbeck area, from the Victorian stone trade that built the town through to its transformation into a seas...
7.6 mi from Poole
Bournemouth Aviation Museum
Bournemouth Aviation Museum is a volunteer-run, self-funding charitable trust near Bournemouth Airport, offering a hands-on experience where visitors of all ages can climb into the...
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8.4 mi from Poole
Durlston Castle
Durlston Castle stands within Durlston Country Park, a 1.13 square-kilometre (280-acre) country park and nature reserve stretching along the coastline south of Swanage, on the Isle... — Wikipedia
8.4 mi from Poole
Museum, Fossils & Local Finds
This small museum at the Square and Compass pub showcases over 60 years of fossil and archaeological collecting from the Purbeck area. You'll see marine reptile fossils such as Ich...
8.8 mi from Poole
Museum of Jurassic Marine Life
The Museum of Jurassic Marine Life, home to The Etches Collection, is a modern museum showcasing amazing fossils of the marine life that lived in Jurassic Dorset's seas 157 million...
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10.2 mi from Poole
Tyneham
Tyneham is a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in the parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulwo... — Wikipedia
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