Let’s visit! WYCOMBE MUSEUM - official video guide

CATEGORY.☞ local museum.

IN ONE SENTENCE. ☞ Introducing Wycombe as used to be the world's “chair making capital” (as ambitiously claimed in the leaflets).

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1/F. ☞ A small art gallery.

Factory and workers’ life.

History of the town's chair-making factories.

You’ll also find photos of magnificent “chair arches”: an bowed gate made of chairs to welcome Queen Victoria and other VIPs.

The rest is an entire corridor dedicated to local artifacts, in chronological order, starting from a lithic axe. The labels are in the process of being replaced, and you’ll see how the rest consists of curious descriptions on blue-tagged office paper. Here’s an example: an object labelled as “Other World War 2 items (will be replaced soon with World War 1 items)”.

Clip: 1/F, WYCOMBE MUSEUM

G/F. ☞ Recreated war trench, kept from a WWI exhibition (clip).

Information on the very building (Castle Hill House) to be found on the walls at random places. Offering a thick sachet of historic knowledge (down to possible locations of the bedrooms). The period furnishing is nowhere to be seen, so use your imagination.

Clip: G/F, WYCOMBE MUSEUM

LOCATION. ☞ Nearest station: High Wycombe. Exit the station and walk up the bridge. Turn left into Priory Avenue. The museum’s garden entrance will be at the next corner, to your right.

FEES. ☞ The museum is free for all.

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Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.

Date of visit: 2019.11

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