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Torquay Museum
529 Babbacombe Road
Torquay
Devon
TQ1 1HG


Tel: 01803 293 975
Fax: 01803 294 186
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Museum are accessible for visitors with mobility problems
Certain items in this gallery also have Braille labels
Accessible toilet

The registered Museum holds collections of natural history, palaeontology, archaeology, social history, ethnography, Torquay pottery, pictorial records, and archives, relating to the Torbay area, as well as from across the world.

The collections are exceptional for a museum of this size, over 300,000 specimens are held in the stores with about one percent on display. The galleries include displays of Local Natural History, South Devon Archaeology and finds from Kents Cavern, Egyptology, the life of Agatha Christie, John Salter's Topographical watercolours, the old Devon Farmhouse, Victoriana, Torquay pottery and World Adornment. The Museum has regular temporary exhibitions, and programmes of events for all ages.




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