Marlow Museum

PICTURE (TOP):
Workers at
Marlow Brewery
around 1900.

  • The Story of Marlow

Although the town had been talking about having a museum for at least twenty years, we only opened our doors in 2009. We still have a long way to go to fully represent the long history and variety of life in Marlow town and surrounding villages of Little Marlow, Bisham, Medmenham, Greater Marlow and Marlow Bottom.

Our ambition is a bigger museum so that we can display a larger collection of objects, photographs, documents and text relating to our district. There's an old fire engine that we'd love to show you if only we had the room.

Meanwhile we have a permanent collection of smaller objects – the local stocks, General Higginson's drum captured from the Russians in the Crimean War, pictures, maps and reference books. And rolling exhibitions on key topics such as Brewing, Lacemaking, Natural History, Famous People. It's always worth coming back for another look round - there's often something new.

  • Who we are:
  • Marlow Museum is a local history museum serving the town and surrounding parishes. Our aim is to provide in our modest premises a venue for societies to display their ?nds and to stage regular exhibitions about topics and features concerning the area.
  • The museum is near the main entrance to Court Garden Leisure Centre in Pound Lane, Marlow SL7 2AE.
  • Our activities:
  • Our current exhibition is ‘The Story of Marlow’, which includes information about the Wethered Brewery for which we have a number of artefacts. The museum is run entirely by volunteers.
  • Recent publications:
  • THE STORY OF MARLOW is a 46-page booklet which considerably expands on the information displayed in the museum, and includes a useful summary timeline listing world, British and local events in parallel from 45,000 BCE to the present.
  • £4.50 from the museum.
  • Opening times and enquiries:
  • Entry is free and from November to the end of February we will be open on Sundays from 2pm to 4pm. From March we will move to Wednesday and weekend afternoons. Arrangements can be made for organised groups to visit at other times subject to the Covid-19 regulations, which we follow.
  • Visit our website at www.marlowmuseum.org for further details.
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Thanks to Mike Hyde at Marlow Museum for providing content for this page.