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There are still a few tickets left for our event next Tuesday. We enjoy having Green Matthews, as they always send us away with a spring in our step, and a warm Christmassy feeling! Tickets are £12.50pp ... See MoreSee Less

A Brief history of Christmas at The Museum of Somerset

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Tickets are now available for A Brief history of Christmas at The Museum of Somerset, Taunton between Tuesday 15 December 2015 and Tuesday 18 December 2018. Click the link for further information and ...
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Join us this afternoon for our Talk and Tea. £5pp including tea and cake!

Exeter-based author and former wildlife filmmaker Dan Eatherley talks about the story behind his latest book Bushmaster: Raymond Ditmars and the Hunt for the World’s Largest Viper.

Bushmaster is the story of one man’s obsession with an enigmatic and deadly reptile. Raymond Ditmars (1876-1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York’s world-famous Bronx Zoo, popularised cold-blooded animals as never before. His love for snakes, insects and other misunderstood creatures was conveyed in books, lectures, and pioneering motion pictures. But his expeditions to the South America jungles during the 1930s in search of the legendary bushmaster – the world’s largest viper – really captured the public imagination. In Bushmaster the author follows in Ditmars’s footsteps and attempts to achieve what Ditmars himself failed to do: find a bushmaster in the wild. Eighty years on, will Dan have any more luck? And will a bushmaster find him first? ... See MoreSee Less

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If you are taking part in Christmas jumper day this year, wear your jumper to the museum and they will give you 10% off in our café. See you on Friday! ... See MoreSee Less

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Tickets are still available for my talk tomorrow! #Taunton @SomersetMuseum @somerset @somersetLife @bbcsomerset

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Plenty of festive fun to be found at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton
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