In the Alex Hann Exhibition Gallery this year.
Music of the Somerset Coalfield: three centuries of local music making – July to November 2025
From 1st July to 30th November this year, Radstock Museum will be presenting an exhibition exploring and celebrating local music making. The exhibition starts with “west gallery” church music from the early eighteenth century and then moves on through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to folk songs, miner’s songs and playground songs.
The display will include some wonderful instruments, one of which is a serpent, a rarely seen woodwind instrument. There will also be a violin made in Camerton by Henry Lye. Lye’s violins were much valued and were played in the world famous Hallé orchestra.
Headsets will be available to allow visitors to the Museum to hear examples of local folk music.
Entry is during normal museum Opening Hours and is included in your annual Admission Ticket.
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