We’ve closed the Museum temporarily

A message to all our visitors and volunteers.

We’re very sorry to announce that, because of the outbreak of the Corona Virus, Covid-19, we have decided to close the museum for the time being.

It’s important that we protect both our visitors and our volunteers, many of whom are likely to be required by the Government to ‘self-isolate’ very soon.

Many of us will still be doing museum work remotely and you are very welcome to email us at the usual address (enquiries@thornburymuseum.org.uk).

We’ll post news and updates on this website and on our Facebook page.

We’ll keep our current exhibitions in place until we reopen, so you will have plenty of opportunities to see them later on.

Both our Thornbury Picture House exhibition and our display of photographs of Thornbury in 1980 had been provoking lots of responses from our visitors.  People can remember sitting in the back row (the ‘two and nines’) with their girlfriends!   And lots of post-it notes had been attached to the 1980 photographs of Thornbury, telling us the names of people in the photographs.  When we re-open, you must come and see if you can contribute, too!

We really want to keep the museum alive while we’re closed and be prepared for a full return to service as soon as possible. Stay with us!  We look forward to opening again as soon as we can safely do so.