The Marble Museum Devon

Devon guild of craftsmen 262 14 min.

The marble museum devon.

This list of museums in devon england contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions including nonprofit organizations government entities and private businesses that collect and care for objects of cultural artistic scientific or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. This helped to promote the britishness of the marble in buildings. The tap bottle shop. What you may not know is that our headquarters is also open to the public in devon england.

Today we have a large trade and retail presence with our headquarters and visitor site in devon england. Restaurant the old pottery. All reviews glass blowing marble runs glass making play area marble museum rainy day gift shop all ages free entry couple of hours glass works well worth a visit great place to visit glass items lovely shop. Glassworks teign valley glass.

Bovey tracey heritage centre 19 15 min. The devon marble display uncovers some of the history of this raw material and the marble industry a story that is often missing from the history books. Set in an historic pottery works just outside dartmoor national park this attraction has four museum exhibitions to view which are all free to enter. Visit us in devon house of marbles bovey tracey.

House of marbles is a a manufacturer and distributor of classic toys games of course marbles. There you will find. Museums games gardens. A warm welcome to house of marbles.

Located in the old bovey potteries site the marble museum has a variety of exhibitions including an antique marble making machine and a collection of toys games dating back to 3rd century bc. Coronavirus update we are open as normal with lots of safety precautions in place to help protect our staff customers including a one way system perspex barriers at tillpoints sanitisation stations. It is worth keeping an eye out for the 19th c application of the beautiful devon marble in cathedrals churches and buildings even outside of devon. The first large scale working of the local marble began at the start of the 19th century soon after daniel woodley purchased ownership of the quarry at pettitor torquay.

Watch the glass blowers at work in the teign valley glass studios as they produce huge victorian replica marbles.