Our Stock
The Museum Shop specialises in publications that are of local interest and relate to the heritage of the area. We have a section for second hand books. Sometimes out of print books can be found here.
The Museum Shop also stocks souvenirs, limited edition prints and greetings cards.
You can browse our Museum Shop without paying to enter the Museum.
The shop is open during normal Museum opening hours.
Five Arches
Five Arches is a history journal that explores many aspects of the heritage of our local area. Mining disasters, the industry of the Victorian era and history in the landscape have all been the subject of articles in the Five Arches.
The current issue and back copies are available from the Museum Shop.
For more information on Five Arches click here.
Books
We offer a Mail Order service for our books. Please browse our lists of books and get in touch with us if there is something that you would like to have sent to you.
How to use Radstock Museum Mail Order.
We stock over 200 titles of specialist books of both Local and National interest.
In order to make your browsing easier we have divided the specialist titles into 8 sections:
(Please note that some books may have an entry in more than one section). Click the link to access the page.
- New books
- Coalmines, Mining and Local Industries
- Children’s books
- Local People and Places
- Railways and Canals
- Somerset
- Walks and Maps
- Wartime
If you know what you are looking for, you can use the website Search box, at the top right of this page, to find the book you are looking for. The search will identify the page or pages on which the book is listed.
We aim to keep the website up to date with respect to both the Shop stock and the prices. However things do change and sometimes the website doesn’t keep up or is just plain wrong. The webmaster apologises if this happens.
David Fisher prints
The Museum Shop stocks six wonderful limited edition prints of pencil drawings by local artist, David Fisher. Reproduction rights for these drawings have been granted to Radstock Museum by the Radstock Co-operative Society and by David’s widow, Mrs Brenda Fisher.
The prints come in two sizes and qualities:
The larger ones are numbered in a limited edition of 250 and are premium quality reproductions. With border they are 23.5 inches x 16.5 inches (59cm x 42cm). Price £40 each, £200 for 6.
The smaller ones are unlimited and standard quality. They are 16.5 inches x 11.75 inches (42 cm x 30cm) with no border. Price £15 each, £75 for 6
The prints are currently exclusively available in Radstock Museum shop in person or by mail order, please contact shop@radstockmuseum.co.uk .
We keep an excellent selection of GREETINGS CARDS many produced by local artists and featuring local scenes.
In partnership with the local Radstock social enterprise Autistic Eye we sell special art works created by people with Autism. The Museum shop has a selection of Autistic Eye greetings cards.