Fore Street in Old Photographs - Illustrated Talk
2024-09-11 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
We delve into the archives and explore the long and fascinating history of Tiverton’s Fore Street, illustrated with photos from our collection.
3pm. Talk is held at Tiverton Museum, with refreshments served.
Tickets: £8 (Museum members £6.50).
Pop into the museum for more information or book online for Fore Street in Old Photographs now.
Advance booking essential.
*This talk has been run previously

West Exe in Old Photographs - Illustrated Talk
2024-09-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
We investigate our archives and explore the history of Tiverton’s West Exe, including textile production, shops and community life, plus the impact of floods and fires. All illustrated with photos from our collection.
7pm. Talk is held at Tiverton Museum, with refreshments served.
Tickets: £8 (Museum members £6.50).
Pop into the museum for more information or book online for West Exe in Old Photographs now.
Advance booking essential.
*This talk has been run previously

Tiverton Tots 2024 - Transport
2024-09-20 10:30 - 12:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Tiverton Tots is a great way to introduce your little ones to our wonderful, family–friendly museum!
Enjoy a mix of stories, music, crafts and free play as you explore the museum, with a different theme each time. Suitable for ages 1-4.
Friday 20th September, 10.30am – 12pm – Transport
Come and explore the famous Tivvy Bumper!
Dress up as a train driver and explore our fabulous steam train. Enjoy messy play at our craft station, listen to a story, make some music or just enjoy exploring and playing with our train toys – there’s lots to keep your little ones amused!
1 adult free with each child.
We’ll have a break for a snack, so please bring something along to keep little tummies going!
£4 per child (£3.50 for members). Booking essential.
Book for September’s Tots now.

Introduction to the History of Tiverton
2024-09-20 13:30 - 15:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
A guided walk around the centre of Tiverton looking at the history of the town, including its industry and historic seats of power.
1.30pm – 3pm
Walk starts from Tiverton Museum
Walk Tickets: £10 (£8.50 for museum members)
Book your ticket for Introduction to the History of Tiverton online, or pop into the museum.
Booking Essential.
This walk is taking place as part of the Mid Devon Walking Festival.

***SOLD OUT*** Introduction to the History of Tiverton
2024-09-28 13:30 - 15:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
The second of our guided walks around the centre of Tiverton looking at the history of the town, including its industry and historic seats of power.
1.30pm – 3pm
Walk starts from Tiverton Museum
Walk Tickets: £10 (£8.50 for museum members)
Book your ticket for our second Introduction to the History of Tiverton walk online, or pop into the museum.
Booking Essential.
This walk is taking place as part of the Mid Devon Walking Festival.

Gold Street & Bampton Street in Old Photographs - Illustrated Talk
2024-10-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
We follow the story of two of the main streets of Tiverton through history, with rich illustrations from our photo archive.
3pm. Talk is held at Tiverton Museum, with refreshments served.
Tickets: £8 (Museum members £6.50).
Pop into the museum for more information or book online for Gold Street & Bampton Street in Old Photographs now.
Advance booking essential.
*This talk has been run previously

Tiverton Tots 2024 - Farmyard
2024-10-18 10:30 - 12:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Tiverton Tots is a great way to introduce your little ones to our wonderful, family–friendly museum!
Enjoy a mix of stories, music, crafts and free play as you explore the museum, with a different theme each time. Suitable for ages 1-4.
Friday 18th October, 10.30am – 12pm – Farmyard
Dress up as a farmer or one of the farmyard animals and explore our farming collection. Make a woolly sheep at our craft station, listen to a story, make some music (& animal noises!) or just enjoy exploring and playing with our farm toys – there’s lots to keep your little ones amused down on the farm!
1 adult free with each child.
We’ll have a break for a snack, so please bring something along to keep little tummies going!
£4 per child (£3.50 for members). Booking essential.
Book for October’s Tots now.

Fright Night
2024-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Join us for an Adults Only Fright Night! Dare you brave the museum at night?
Normal admission (museum members half price).
Please bring your own torch!
7pm – 9pm with 15 minute timed entry slots. Choose the time you’d like to arrive and please come along at any time during that 15 minute slot. You can then stay as long as you like during the event. Limited tickets available so book early!
Book online for Fright Night.

Halloween Half Term
2024-10-26 10:00 - 2024-11-02 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
A Spooky Problem!
An evil wizard has cast a spell over the museum. Can you solve the clues to find the magic word and break the spell?
Younger visitors can spot our pumpkins around the museum.
Part of normal admission.
Book Online for Halloween Half Term or just turn up on the day.

Halloween Craft
2024-10-29 10:00 - 12:00
Come along to the museum during our Halloween Half Term and make spider headbands!
£3 per child with a paying adult (£2.50 with a museum member).
Drop-in, no need to book.

Family Fright Night
2024-10-29 17:30 - 19:30 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Visit the museum by torchlight (it will be darker from 6pm) and find the museum ghosts!
£3 per child plus normal admission for adults (museum members half price admission and £2 per child).
Please bring your own torch!
Book online for Family Fright Night to save time on the night!
NB. Your ticket is valid for the whole evening. You can arrive at any time between 5.30 – 7.30pm and go round as many times as you like!

Halloween Craft
2024-10-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom

***SOLD OUT!*** Terrible Tiverton
2024-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
A gruesome walk through some terrible history concealed in Tiverton’s streets. Not aimed at children (older children welcome at an adult’s discretion) – this may be unnerving for some!
6pm.
Walks start at Tiverton Museum and last around 1.5hrs.
Walk Tickets – £10 (£8.50 museum members).
Book your tickets for Terrible Tiverton online now.

***SOLD OUT*** Behind the Scenes at the Museum
2024-11-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Join our Director, Pippa Griffith, as she takes you on an exclusive tour of the museum’s stores and shares some of her favourite objects.
Learn about how we care for our collection, see our paper and photograph archive and see the Tivvy Bumper steam engine from track level.
Tour starts at 1pm at the museum. Refreshments served afterwards.
Tickets: £12 adults, £10.50 museum members
Book Online for Behind the Scenes on November 13th

**SOLD OUT** Tiverton Tots 2024 - Kitchen
2024-11-15 10:30 - 12:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Tiverton Tots is a great way to introduce your little ones to our wonderful, family–friendly museum!
Enjoy a mix of stories, music, crafts and free play as you explore the museum, with a different theme each time. Suitable for ages 1-4.
Friday 15th November, 10.30am – 12pm – Kitchen
Come and join us for a feast in the Kitchen gallery! Dress up as a chef and get cooking and enjoy tea with our teddies!
Listen to a story, make some music, or just enjoy exploring and playing with our kitchen toys – there’s lots to keep your little ones amused!

1 adult free with each child.
We’ll have a break for a snack, so please bring something along to keep little tummies going!
£4 per child (£3.50 for members). Booking essential.
Book for November’s Tots now.

Terrible Tiverton
2024-11-16 18:00 - 19:30

Mid Devon at War - Illustrated Talk
2024-11-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
We use our museum archives to explore the impact of both World Wars on the communities of Mid Devon.
3 – 4pm
Talks takes place at the museum. Light refreshments served.
Tickets: £8 (£6.50 museum members)
Book Online for Mid Devon at War now.

Christmas at the Museum
2024-12-03 10:00 - 2024-12-21 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Find our Christmas stockings hidden around the museum, decorated for the season, and visit the festive Tivvy bumper steam engine.
Part of normal admission.
Book online for Christmas at the Musuem or just turn up on the day.

Tiverton Tots 2025 - Jobs
2025-01-24 10:30 - 12:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Tiverton Tots is a great way to introduce your little ones to our wonderful, family–friendly museum!
Enjoy a mix of stories, music, crafts and free play as you explore the museum, with a different theme each time. Suitable for ages 1-4.
Friday 24th January, 10.30am – 12pm – Jobs
What would you like to be when you grow up? Enjoy our dressing up and role play – will you be a firefighter, a doctor, a vet, or run the post office?
Enjoy our (craft station/messy play), listen to a story, make some music or just enjoy exploring and playing with our toys and books – there’s lots to keep your little ones amused!
1 adult free with each child.
We’ll have a break for a snack, so please bring something along to keep little tummies going!
£4 per child (£3.50 for members). Booking essential.
Book for January’s Tots now.

Railway Day
2025-01-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Join us for a day of family activities to celebrate the railways and 90 years of the Tivvy Bumper Steam Engine.
Fun family activities telling the story of the railway in Mid Devon.

Evacuee Story
Butter Making
Seaside Photo Booth
Railway Objects
Craft, Toys, Dressing up and more!

PLUS Culm Valley Model Railway Club will be bringing along one of their layouts.
Adults: £8.50, Child: £3.00
Members: £4.25, Child of Member: £2.00
Book ahead for our Railway Day online, or just turn up on the day.
Look out for more Bumper anniversary events coming throughout 2025!

Spinning a Yarn - Illustrated Talk
2025-01-29 15:00 - 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
We explore our archives to give an introduction to Mid Devon’s wool trade. Join us to discover why during the 1600s and early 1700s, Tiverton was the most important inland town in Devon.
3 – 4pm
Talks takes place at the museum. Light refreshments served.
Tickets: £8 (£6.50 museum members)
Book Online for Spinning a Yarn now.

Photographic Tiverton Exhibition
2025-02-01 10:00 - 2025-02-25 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
An exhibition featuring all 40 old photographs featured in our 2024 Photographic Tiverton Trail. The trail took place over the summer last year with old photographs on display in shop and business windows throughout Tiverton, showing how the buildings or parts of the town they were located in used to look in the past.
This exhibition, which runs until the end of February, is a chance for those that missed the trail, to see all of the photos in one place.
Entry into the exhibition is free. Donations are always welcomed.

Bumper Half Term 2025
2025-02-15 10:00 - 2025-02-22 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Help us to celebrate the Tivvy Bumper’s 90th birthday with fun family activities around the museum.
Plus: dressing up, train toys and more!
All included with normal admission.
Craft sessions
Tuesday 18th & Wednesday 19th February
10 – 12 Drop in.
£3 per child with paying adult (£2.50 per child with museum member).
Book ahead for Bumper Half Term online, or just turn up on the day.

Engine-eers
2025-02-21 10:30 - 12:00
Join us during February Half Term on Friday 21st February for an exclusive museum experience as we celebrate the Tivvy Bumper’s 90th birthday! Go behind the scenes to view our iconic steam engine from trackside and find out more about the engine through photographs, video and an object handling session.
Design and make a birthday badge to take away with you.
10.30am – 12pm.
Booking essential*
£5 per child.
Recommended for age 7+
Must be accompanied by an adult (normal museum admission applies).
*Early bird priority booking for members runs from 31/01/25 to 07/02/25.
Book online for Engine-eers now!

Schools of Tiverton - Illustrated Talk
2025-02-26 15:00 - 16:00
This illustrated talk looks at the history of learning in Tiverton and the various schools that have existed over time.
For people who couldn’t make the guided walks on School Days, and people interested in learning more about the history of schooling in the town.
3 – 4pm
Talks takes place at the museum. Light refreshments served.
Tickets: £8 (£6.50 museum members)
Book Online for School of Tiverton now.

Making Tracks - Exhibition
2025-03-12 10:00 - 2025-05-31 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
As part of our celebrations marking the Tivvy Bumper’s (GWR loco 1442) 90th birthday, this exhibition showcases some of the railway collection that is normally not on display.
Items on display relate to the Exe Valley Line, the Culm Valley Line, and the branch line connecting Tiverton Station to Tiverton Junction which was on the line between Bristol and Exeter.
Included in normal admission.
Look out for more railway related events throughout the year!

Victorian Mid Devon - Illustrated Talk
2025-03-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Discover more about Mid Devon’s towns and countryside in the Victorian era, from childhood, work and home life, to community events. All illustrated from the museum’s extensive archives with photographs and documents.
Wednesday 12th March, 3-4pm
Talk Tickets: £8 (Museum Members £6.50)
Book Online for Victorian Mid Devon now.

Tiverton Tots 2025 - Nursery Rhymes
2025-03-21 10:30 - 12:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Tiverton Tots is a great way to introduce your little ones to our wonderful, family–friendly museum!
Enjoy a mix of stories, music, crafts and free play as you explore the museum, with a different theme each time. Suitable for ages 1-4.
Friday 21st March, 10.30am – 12pm – Nursery Rhymes
Share your favourite nursery rhymes as you explore the museum. Build a wall for Humpty Dumpty and look out for the mice climbing the clocks.
Get crafty at our craft station, listen to a story, make some music or just enjoy exploring and playing with our toys and books – there’s lots to keep your little ones amused!
1 adult free with each child.
We’ll have a break for a snack, so please bring something along to keep little tummies going!
£4 per child (£3.50 for members). Booking essential.
Book for March’s Tots now.

Tiverton, Travel & Trade - Creative Writing Workshop
2025-03-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Join Tiverton Museum’s Writer-in-Residence Emma Phillips to explore ‘Tiverton, Travel and Trade’ through a workshop suitable for writers at all levels. There will be opportunities to view and handle objects from the museum’s collection and writing exercises to generate ideas.
Emma Phillips is a local teacher, poet and short fiction writer. Her work has been placed in competitions such as the Bath Flash Award, Frome Festival Short Story Competition, Graham Burchell Award, Best Microfiction 2022 and has appeared in various publications, including Mslexia, Popshot, Gone Lawn and Free Flash Fiction Magazine. Her flash collection Not Visiting the SS Great Britain is available from Alien Buddha Press. She runs the Culm Valley Writing Group, which meets at the Hayridge Library in Cullompton on the 2nd Monday of every month.
£8.50 per person (£9.35 with Gift Aid)
Limited places – booking essential.
Book online for our Creative Writing Workshop now.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
2025-04-02 13:00 - 14:30 | Tiverton Museum Of Mid Devon Life, Beck's Square, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PJ, United Kingdom
Join our Director, Pippa Griffith, as she takes you on an exclusive tour of the museum’s stores and shares some of her favourite objects.
Learn about how we care for our collection, see our paper and photograph archive and see the Tivvy Bumper steam engine from track level.
Tour starts at 1pm at the museum. Refreshments served afterwards.
Tickets: £12 adults, £10.50 museum members
Book Online for Behind the Scenes on 2nd April
