The Beaker Burial
Beaker People, came from the continent and gradually spread into Britain, replacing Stone Age people. Their graves are widely scattered across Herefordshire. The skeleton in the museum was found by a digger driver at a gravel pit at Aymestrey in 1987.
2026 Season
This year, our main seasonal exhibition explores a fascinating theme: "Victorian Women - Seen but not Heard?"
The fanciest Spade and Barrow ever seen in Leominster?
This spade and barrow was used on the morning of 30th November when Lady Bateman cut the first sod for the building of the the Kington and Leominster Railway.
Two Lost Portraits by John Scarlet Davis?
Research by Leominster Museums Hon Curator, Malcolm Mason, has identified two possible ‘lost’ paintings by Leominster-born artist John Scarlett Davis.
Podcast: Visitor Feedback!
Four students from Earl Mortimer College, with their teacher, visited the Museum in March. Listen to what they said about us!
Etnam Street
The Museum has a complete new display this year [2023] about the history of Etnam Street, one of the oldest and most significant roads in the town
Leominster People
Our new exhibition for 2023 is called Leominster People. It profiles the lives of those who either lived in Leominster all their lives, or spent many years there, and who have made an impact on the world
Conserving our Collection
Leominster Museum is delighted to acknowledge payment of a generous AIM Collections Care Audit Grant with Icon and supported by the Pilgrim Trust. Using this grant, we were able to secure the services of Jane Thompson-Webb, of the Birmingham Museums Trust. Jane
The Luthers
A few years ago, the Museum was visited by Anne Lindsay, from Dumfries in Scotland. She has given us a large collection of items related to the wedding of Ernest Edward Price & Madeline Sheila Luther
A Creative Museum
Leominster Museum was one of six small museums from across England which were selected to join Creative Museums, an eighteen-month programme of experimentation from 2015 to 2017.
