We are delighted to say the museum is now open again for visitors on Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday afternoons. Marlow Museum - An interesting and informative selection of displays and exhibits providing an insight to the history of this beautiful and historic town and the surrounding area.
Admission is free. The Marlow Museum is handy to the town centre, Court Garden Leisure Centre, Higginson Park and the Pound Lane car park. As well as the permanent displays, there are feature displays that are changed to something new every few months. Our past displays have included: General Higginson, 20 Women of Marlow, Borlase, Lace Making, Marlow Donkey, Natural History of the River, Little Marlow, Archaeology.
Admission is free. The Marlow Museum is handy to the town centre, Court Garden Leisure Centre, Higginson Park and the Pound Lane car park. As well as the permanent displays, there are feature displays that are changed to something new every few months. Our past displays have included: General Higginson, 20 Women of Marlow, Borlase, Lace Making, Marlow Donkey, Natural History of the River, Little Marlow, Archaeology.
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We are a modest museum affiliated to the Association of Independent Museums but an independent registered charity. The museum is staffed and run entirely by volunteers. Although the town had been talking about having a museum for at least twenty years, we only opened our doors in 2009.
We still have a long way to go to fully represent the long history and variety of life in Marlow town and surrounding villages of Little Marlow, Bisham, Medmenham, Greater Marlow and Marlow Bottom.Our ambition is a bigger museum to display a larger collection of objects, photographs, documents and text relating to our district.
We still have a long way to go to fully represent the long history and variety of life in Marlow town and surrounding villages of Little Marlow, Bisham, Medmenham, Greater Marlow and Marlow Bottom.Our ambition is a bigger museum to display a larger collection of objects, photographs, documents and text relating to our district.
We are a small museum affiliated to the Association of Independent Museums and run entirely by volunteers. We have to raise all the funds to keep the museum going and put on regular exhibitions - these ongoing costs are 8000 to 10000 each year.
While our plan is to raise enough to move to larger premises, where we can fully do justice to the fascinating history of this lovely area, our current challenge is to raise sufficient to cover our running costs.Thank you to all the individuals and organisations whose subscriptions, donations, grants and other support have helped us to keep the museum running.
While our plan is to raise enough to move to larger premises, where we can fully do justice to the fascinating history of this lovely area, our current challenge is to raise sufficient to cover our running costs.Thank you to all the individuals and organisations whose subscriptions, donations, grants and other support have helped us to keep the museum running.
During The Crimean War (1853 -1856) British, French and Turkish troops fought together to prevent Russia from invading Turkish territory in what is now Romania. The fighting was mainly around the Russian naval base of Sebastopol on the Crimean peninsula (now in the Ukraine). The war is chiefly remembered in the UK for Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
This popular exhibit is one of the oldest large-scale maps of Marlow. It was drawn by a master at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, one William Francis. Unfortunately he was considered to be a trouble maker and often wrote in the press attacking Benjamin Disraeli MP. Finally he was convicted of libel in 1834 and was sentenced to three months at Aylesbury jail.
However, because of the current 'lock-down' situation we are unable to open the premises or to hold the event. Nevertheless in continuing our museum's 'Objects in Focus' feature we offer the following object and its story. A French wine bottle with a difference. Please read on. The French were very hospitable and in Bayeux they held a reception and had laid on various events at other places for their British guests.
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