Our museum - the Butcher Row House folk museum - attracted more than 14,000 visitors in 2009 and was awarded accredited status by the Museums Libraries and Archives Council, the first independent Museum in the West Midlands to receive this award.
The museum, in Church Lane, is one of a row of 15 burgage
houses and shops, many of them butchers, that ran down the
middles of what is now the High Street. They were bought
out by public subscription in 1830 and one or two were
re-erected; this one used to be in the back garden of 14
High Street.
In April 2010, the Museum held a special anniversary exhibition in the Burgage Hall to mark 30 years since the Butcher Row House was re-built on the present site.
Reproduction helmets and breastplates as worn in the Battle of Ledbury in 1645 and a small collection of musical instruments ranging from a 'hurdy-gurdy' to a Tibetan pipe fashioned from a thigh bone are among the varied items to be seen in the museum.
The museum is open daily from 11am to 5pm from Good Friday to 30 September and from 11am to 3pm in October. Admission is free, but there is a donations box for those who feel it worthy of support.
For directions to The Butcher Row House museum, please click here