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The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

The Museum is reopening on the 21st October 2019, please check our website or social media as opening day times and events are decided. In the meantime please contact us by email with any enquires.

Our new extension will include two new exhibition spaces, a learning room, brand new tourist information and shop and a updated tearooms named Bromleys (after the popular tearoom that ran for years on the Strand in Barnstaple).

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The Tarka Gallery

Follow the otter's trail from river to sea, find out how you can help to encourage wild creatures into your garden, discover the local Culm Grassland areas or just take a look at animals, birds and insects close-up.
The Undersea World

The Undersea World includes turtles, fish and marine mammals from North Devon's coast and looks at the marine environment of this wonderful region. Beneath the ocean we reveal the underwater life of the turtles, dolphins, gulls, porpoises and ganets.
North Devon Art Pottery

The museum is home to the largest public collection of North Devon Art Pottery. Building on the established tradition of sgraffito decoration, the three potters Brannam, Lauder and Baron produced some very distinctive work.
Shapland & Petter Furniture

The Shapland & Petter collection is based on the archive and furniture donated by the company and is gradually being built up. We are always interested to hear from anyone who has items of furniture we could record for the archive.
Geology, archaeology and pre-history

Discover the how our ancestors lived in Devon, Through amazing objects like the whale bone fishing spear from Westward Ho! this gallery will let you in on the pre-historic secrets hidden in our landscape.

Admission & prices

Admission FREE

Museum Opening Times

Monday - Saturday: 10.00am - 4.00pm
Sunday: Closed

Find us

Museum, Tourist Information, Tea Room and shop situated in red-brick Victorian building on town-side of the old stone bridge.

3 minute walk from Bus Station, 8 minute walk from Train Station. Public car parking at Belle Meadow, a 3 minutute walk.

Museum news

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Covid 19 Story Collecting!

The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon is asking North Devon museums and organisations to add their names to a Covid-19 story collecting campaign......

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Documentary Photography Open

Are you a budding amateur, seasoned professional or part of a passionate local photography group? The museum is launching our brand new Documentary Photography Open exhibition......

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