ARCHITECTURAL tours of Newton Abbot are set to feature in a programme of free events this September as part of the national Heritage Open Days 2018 initiative, England favourite and biggest heritage e...
Museum News & Blog
Recent blog posts
£800,000 National Lottery funding for Newton’s Place
THE team behind the Newton’s Place museum and community space project is celebrating confirmation of National Lottery fundin...
The museum is delighted to welcome Amy McCarthy to the Newton’s Place team. An award winning stained glass and mixed media artist, she has completed many community projects already and has a wealth of...
This gentleman is Charles Kay, also known as Charles Beachcroft Kay, C B K Beachcroft, and even Jack Trent. As his many aliases may suggest, he was quite a character: famous (some would say in...
Our volunteers meet up monthly with our Community Officer, Kate Green. It's their chance to chat with one another, get updates on the progress of Newton's Place and give us feedback on anythin...
To view the Planning and Listed Building Applications for Newton's Place please click on relevant link.
Bat Mitigation Method Statement
Bat Survey
Limited Structural Report
Building Control ...
This week's blog comes from Tess Walker, volunteer extraordinaire and shares what our trusty team have been up to behind-the-scenes to get the museum ready for the Big Move to Newton's Place.
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The museum had the pleasure of hosting the first Ever Chrysalis Workshop, a fantastic project by Encounters to cooperatively create a mobile arts space.
Our wonderful volunteers got stuc...
We have quite a few pictorial postcards as part of our photographic collection, preserved because the photos show the development of the town over time.
However, some of thes...
We had a record turnout on the 17th to the first ever film night held at Newton's Place. We were full to the rafters with keen souls eager to see our uncovered archive footage and clips unearthed by&n...
The museum has not one, not two, but THREE pitches at the Speed History Event tomorrow at the library (Saturday 7th October).
Come along, join the fun and and discover the super su...
It’s been a busy few weeks in the museum, so our news updates have been thin on the ground.
But I’m back with bells on to announce the launch event for our Newton’s Place Funding camp...
If you attended the last of the Summer Nights events in Newton Abbot last weekend you may have noticed that the Town Council has acquired a new member of staff.
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We've had a exciting meeting about Fun Palaces today!
Find out more about what a Fun Palace is and why they are brilliant here:
http://funpalaces.co.uk/about/
Why were we talking about it?
Newto...
One of our fantastic Facebook-followers heard our plea for toys and came through for us in spades! Not only are these wonderful wind-ups great examples of toy making from the 1920’s through to...
The Museum has recently acquired The Chase Collection, a personal archive of more than 100 detailed sketches and oil paintings depicting the artist’s observations of stations and railway staff...
Now that we have HLF funding we are ready to shake off museums of the past and create the museum of the future.
If you haven’t had a chance to find out abou...
Earlier this summer we had the great pleasure of showing a group of young ladies from the 3rd Newton Abbot (Salvation Army) Brownies around the museum and they did a great job of getting to gr...
We just can’t stop telling people about Newton’s Place! Now that we have HLF funding for the project we can share our plans far and wide.
We even had a stall at Summer Nights where we...
