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This unique museum nestles between the Quantocks and
Exmoor and five minutes from the Somerset coast in one of the most beautiful
parts of
the West Country. A feast of nostalgia, with tea gardens and a pretty cafe
where good food and delicious cream teas are our speciality.
Ask about our Unique Bakelite Weekends.
In 1907 the pioneer of plastics,
Leo Baekeland, invented an exciting material lie called BAKELITE. This
became immensely successful and products made from it touched every aspect
of the twentieth century from the cradle to the grave. Produced in an
astonishing range of glowing colours, Art Deco shapes ana wonderful names
like Bandalasta and Lmga Longa, there s so much to early plastics than
just Drown radios.
The Bakelite Museum is the largest collection of plastics in the
world, with thousands of objects to see, housed within an ancient watermill,
including Vintage caravans, Bakelite car, the first plastic bike and
Bakelite coffins!, Wooden refrigerators and Worzel Gummidge.
Bakelite object
The Bakelite
Museum contains the largest collection of
vintage plastics in Britain.
There are exhibits from the inter-war period and the smooth, stylish
Art Deco styles that set the trends of the 20th Century
Showcases hundreds of the domestic items which we all grew up with
Thousands of quirky and rare items on show, including spy cameras,
monstrous perming machines and the Bakelite coffin!
'Before Bakelite' - a fascinating display of Victorian plastics on
show
Set deep in the peaceful Somerset countryside, and housed within a
historic watermill
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