The museum is the gateway to Wells and the Mendips and includes a Visitor Information Centre. Wells and Mendip Museum tells the story of the Mendip landscape and its inhabitants, with a large collection of geological specimens, as well as archaeological and social history artefacts.
Explore the diverse collection which includes fossils, medieval carved sculpture, samplers, Roman mining, prehistoric flints, cave exploration, a vintage dollhouse, miniature antique shop, the Harry Patch memorial, and much more.
Don’t Miss!
The legendary ‘Witch of Wookey Hole’, a skeleton excavated in the caves in 1908.
Address
8 Cathedral Green
Wells
Somerset
BA5 2UE
Telephone
01749 673477
Website
Price
Admission charges apply
Opening Times
Open all year
Facilities
- Activity trails
- Parking nearby
- Refreshments
- Shop
- Toilets
- Baby changing facility
- Disabled toilets
- Handrails
- Hearing loop
- Level access/ramps
- Limited disabled access
Collections
- Agricultural
- Archaeology
- Archives
- Art
- Ceramics
- Ecclesiastical
- Geology
- Local History
- Natural history
- Science
- Social history
Time Periods
- 20th Century
- Bronze Age
- Edwardian
- Geological
- Georgian
- Iron Age
- Medieval
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- Norman
- Palaeolithic
- Roman
- Stuart
- Tudor
- Victorian
