{"id":80,"date":"2018-06-26T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T10:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museum-of-somerset.swht.wpengine.com\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2019-03-14T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:55:48","slug":"galleries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/explore\/galleries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galleries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Foundation Stones<\/h2>\n

This gallery explores how the Somerset landscape was created during 400 million years of change.<\/p>\n

At times it was a tropical sea or a desert or a rain forest. 15,000 years ago it was covered by ice and snow.<\/p>\n

When the climate warmed, our human ancestors began to claim the land.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Claiming the Land<\/h2>\n

Six thousand years ago people began to farm the land.<\/p>\n

They stayed in one place for longer and had a far greater impact on their surroundings.<\/p>\n

This gallery explores how these changes laid the foundations of modern life.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Anglo-Saxon<\/td>\n\n

Making Somerset<\/h2>\n

Anglo-Saxon settlers from the late 600s onwards defined the borders of Somerset and gave it a name.<\/p>\n

This gallery shows how, during the next 1,200 years, it became recognisably the remarkable and distinctive place we have inherited.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Reflecting<\/h2>\n

This gallery is a beautiful space for reflection and inspiration.<\/p>\n

It features the words of Somerset people and visitors to the county over the centuries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Discovering<\/h2>\n

Explore how knowledge of Somerset\u2019s landscapes and traditions, and of the world outside the county, grew during the 1800s in a period of rapid discovery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Going Places<\/h2>\n

Find out how Somerset was transformed in the years after 1750. Improved roads and new railways ended centuries of rural isolation and encouraged the growth of towns.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gathering<\/h2>\n

This gallery explores how Somerset people have always gathered to enjoy a drink, to march in parades or to harvest the crops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Rebellion!<\/h2>\n

Find out how Somerset gained a reputation as a rebellious county during the 17th century and what it endured in the Civil War and Monmouth Rebellion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Somerset Military Museum<\/h2>\n

Somerset Military Museum tells the story of the regiments connected with the county over more than three hundred years.<\/p>\n

The gallery reveals individual stories of bravery and sacrifice set in places as far-ranging as the battlefields of Europe, the jungles of Malaya and the mountains of Afghanistan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foundation Stones This gallery explores how the Somerset landscape was created during 400 million years of change. At times it was a tropical sea or a desert or a rain forest. 15,000 years ago it was covered by ice and snow. When the climate warmed, our human ancestors began to claim the land. Claiming the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":125,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/museum-of-somerset\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}