VISITORS will be able to enjoy free admission to Chard Museum on Saturday, October 10, as part of the town’s Carnival celebrations.
The award-winning museum in the High Street will be opening its doors on the morning of October 10 to encourage more people into Chard for Carnival Day.
It will follow on from the great success the museum enjoyed in the summer with its celebratory open day.
The museum is a gem in the heart of Chard, with amazing and fascinating history for all to see.
“The museum is in the public eye at the moment with the pioneering works of James Gillingham were shown on Antiques Road Trip only last week.”
As well as the work of Gillingham, who invented artificial limbs from his Chard shoemaking business in the 1860s, the museum holds displays on some of the town’s other famous people – John Stringfellow, who created the first aircraft to fly under its own power in 1848, and Margaret Bondfield, who was born in Chard in 1873 and went on to become the country’s first-ever woman Cabinet Minister.
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