Totnes Museum and Archives — Attraction in South Hams

Fantastic little Museum

Set in an old Elizabethan merchant's house and on three levels. The Museum, has collections dating from 5000BC, and many items showing the lifestyle of a merchant in the Elizabethan times. One room is dedicated to the most famous Totnesian Charles Babbage. Babbage went to the Totnes grammarians school then onto Cambridge. This mathematician and his inventions have contributed to the likes of the current computer, a way of sending signals over great distances and many more to mention. A most interesting and compact Museum. Fully...

As museum go it's not very big but well worth looking around as there is plenty to see...The building it self is very historical with all the lovely old wooden beams and supporting posts...what fascinated us was one particular man by the name of Charles Babage,the things he started to invent all those years ago is almost unbelievable....Back in the 18th century he came up ideas about computers and submarines etc,you would never imagined people thinking like that all those years ago...What a clever man he was...The whole museum is so interesting to...

I haven’t been inside this museum, needless to say I never will now. Walking outside with our 7 year old daughter when my dog stopped to sniff another dogs urine and the gentleman promoting the museum outside decided to shout at us for allowing our dog to wee on ‘his museum’ , then follow on with a fingers up signal to us. We asked him repeat his issue and then explained it was not our dog. No apology . Absolutely appalled and not a great way to...