The Museum is open Wednesdays to Sundays and on Bank Holiday Mondays 2pm-5pm with last entry at 4.30pm to allow enough time to visit the Museum. Admission is free. To find us, follow this link.
There is more to the Museum than the exhibits. The Riverside Garden is always open and its plants include some collected by the Veitch family of nurserymen. Your entrance to the Museum is through the main house garden. You can read more about the gardens here. We also have the Tea Room, famed for its cream teas, home-made cakes and scones. The Museum Shop carries a wide range of gifts and publications, and can also be accessed online when the Museum is closed.
We welcome children and they will find much of interest. Those under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Quiz sheets enjoyed by young visitors are available at the Welcome Desk. A baby changing table is available in the toilet.
Group visits are welcome and should be arranged beforehand. Please complete our visits form.
But the Museum’s activities are not only within the Museum’s grounds. We arrange regular free guided tours around Topsham, and there are also self-guided walks detailed in our Topsham Trails leaflet. You can find copies of our leaflets in several places around the town, including the Museum’s telephone box annexe in front of Saint Margaret’s Church.
Access: Much of the Museum, including the Tea Room and gardens, is accessible to wheelchair users but it has not yet proved possible to make easy access available to all rooms in the 17th century Merchant’s House.
Dogs are welcome in the museum gardens. While assistance dogs can come inside to help their owners, other dogs are welcome to wait outside. There’s always a bowl of water by the main door.
See the Accessibility Information page for full details.