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This Somerset County Museums Leaflet contains information about 3 of Somersets top attractions

Somerset Rural Life Museum
The Somerset Rural Life Museum is based in Glastonbury. In the Abbey Farmhouse the social and domestic life of Victorian Somerset is described in reconstructed rooms and there is a lively events programme as well as regular temporary exhibitions. There is also a tea room and museum shop. The magnificent fourteenth-century Abbey Barn is the centrepiece of the Museum. The barn and the farm buildings surrounding the courtyard contain displays and tools used in local rural activities such as mud horse fishing, peat digging and cider making.

Somerset Brick and Tile Museum
The Somerset Brick and Tile Museum is based in Bridgwater, and is dedicated to the local industry of brick and tile making – one of the many labour-intensive coal-based industries that used to be found in Somerset. Demonstrations are held inside the Museum about the methods and processes involved in making the wide variety of bricks, tiles, terracotta plaques and other wares that create the look of Somerset towns like Bridgwater, Burnham and Glastonbury.

Glastonbury Lake Village Museum
The Lake Village Museum presents an insight into everyday life in an Iron-Age settlement, dating from around 2000 years ago, when much of Somerset’s landscape was covered by marshy sea. Although these marshes have long been artifically drained, the excellent preservative properties of the peaty wetland soils in the Glastonbury area left an archaeological legacy of international importance.