Collections
The museum collections focus on the social history of Newton Abbot and environs, the GWR history including the social history of the GWR & its affect on the town & its people.
- In 2017 our Heritage Lottery Funded project to move the Museum and Town Hall to the Town Centre begins
- The official opening of the Sandford Orleigh Gallery
- Locomotive 4099 standing at Newton Abbot Station c. 1950s
- Finding out about John Lethbridge the town’s 18th century inventor and diver
- A view of St Leonard’s Tower & The Globe hotel in the late 1890
- Newton Abbot VAD Hospital, College Road, Newton Abbot
- WWI tank travelling through the streets of Newton Abbot to Baker’s Park c 1920
Opening Times
Closed in the current location
Learning
Explore Newton Abbot’s fascinating past
Current Exhibition
Museum closed in the current location
What's On
Talks, events & exhibitions
Oral Archive
The Oral History Archive exists to record material that might otherwise be lost to future generations providing a resource & raising awareness of Newton Abbot’s history.
Museum at Home
Newton Abbot Museum gets digital during our closure to support social distancing
Welcome to our useful resources page.
Here you can find links to:
- Support during quarantine and virus advice
- Virtual Museum Tours from around the world
- Education for school age children
- Activities to do at home
