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Founded in 1845 Torquay Museum is Devon’s oldest established Museum. We have an exciting programme of temporary exhibitions, children's activities and events and an education service for schools. Our permanent exhibitions tell the fascinating story of Torbay's natural and cultural heritage. The Time Ark tells the story of our planet and the moments when earth-shattering changes took place, such a
s the great mountain building of the Carboniferous period and the huge swings in climate that took place in the Pleistocene, from tropical to arctic conditions and back. See amazing artefacts and fossils from Torquay's famous Kent's Cavern prehistoric caves, where our ancestors made their home as long as half a million years ago - Neanderthal tools, woolly mammoth teeth, cave bear skulls and the jawbone of what is thought to be the oldest human in north west Europe. Follow the incredible journeys made by Torquay's famous explorers, from the frozen wastes of the Antarctic to the depths of the Brazilian rain forest and come face-to-face with wonderful artifacts from ancient Egypt, including Devon's only Mummy. Why not visit our lovely café serving home cooked local produce. Our shop stocks an excellent range of quality gifts, cards and books, including an extensive stock of secondhand and new books by Agatha Christie.
OBJECT OF THE WEEK: Percy Fawcett’s Dentures
Percy Fawcett wore these front dentures, on display in our Explorers gallery. He lost his teeth through a football accident. His wife, Nina, wrote a note in 1933 explaining the importance of the dentures in identifying any remains that may become known.
A Happy New Year from the staff and volunteers at Torquay Museum! We look forward to welcoming you all to the Museum this year.
🥳🛕 Celebrating the New Year in Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian year was organised according to seasonal Nile River cycles, which dictated dates for ploughing, harvesting, and celebrating festivals. This statue group for the parents of Lymhotep bears a feast list on the back including the Opening of the Year, New Year's Day, Full and Half Moon Festivals, the Thoth Feast, and the Festival of Sokar.
The joy of these festivals was expressed through drunkenness and offerings of Nile water and perfume. How are you going to celebrate the New Year?
📷 Wooden figure of a couple on display in Egyptian hieroglyphs: unlock the Mystery. © 2023 The Trustees of the British Museum
We offer a wide range of exciting, hands-on workshops covering KS1, KS2, KS3 AND Home Education.
📣 LAST CALL - a few remaining school workshop spaces for our Hieroglyphs workshop before the A British Museum Touring Exhibition Egyptian hieroglyphs: Unlock the Mystery ends on the 18th February 2024. 📣
🔎 FIND OUR LATEST EDUCATION NEWSLETTER HERE https://torquaymuseum.org/learn
Upcoming HE workshops:
Thurs 4th Jan - KS3 Home Education - Observation drawing sessions
Thurs 11th Jan - Home Education - Polar Explorers workshop
Thurs 8th Feb - Home Education - Meet the Ancestors Stone Age workshop
🖱 BOOK NOW - https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
📧 CONTACT [email protected] for further information
A Torquay Times photograph of Barton Post Office and shops taken in February 1969.
🐚 Around the Museum there are several cases that we use for temporary displays. One of those cases is currently filled with some of the Museum's most impressive exotic shells.
Come and see them before they're replaced with different objects!
With this lovely photograph of two ladies having fun in Station Square, Paignton, we would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas from the staff and volunteers at Torquay Museum. Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to welcoming you in 2024. Merry Christmas! ❄️☃️🎄
Some amazing last minute ideas for Christmas presents below!
Stuck for a last minute Christmas present? Then why not consider treating relatives and friends to one of these 2024 event presents?
Folk Singer Jim Causley comes to Torquay Museum on Saturday 27 January with Devon Folklorist Mark Norman for an afternoon of songs and legends: Tickets available here: https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/torquay-museum/2024-01-27-the-folklore-of-devon-presented-and-performed-by-jim-causley-and-mark-norman
Or how about TMS Membership? There are still 26 lectures and events to come in the current season, with informal Conversazione talks to follow, and possibly more to come.
Click on the link
https://torquaymuseum.org/torquay-museum-society
or Email [email protected] for details
: Dicken’s Christmas Carol Book
Christmas Carol, published in 1843, tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come and is transformed into a kinder man. In this book, Dickens also popularized the phrase “Merry Christmas”.
This book is part of our Victorian Christmas trail which is available only until 6th January.
We have posted this photograph before but we love it so much that we thought you might like to see it too! It shows a man feeding gulls in the harbour in the winter of 1963.
❄️☃️ Christmas Opening Days at the Museum
Over the Christmas period, we are open to the public on the 19th - 21st and 27th - 30th of December.
🥧🫖 Pengelly's Cafe is open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and offers yummy treats, light lunches and hot/cold drinks. torquaymuseum.org/cafe
The Museum is not only warm but also usually quiet at this time of year so it's an ideal time to visit!
📆 Check our website for discounts and don't forget you Pay Once and Get in FREE for a Year! torquaymuseum.org/opening-times
📣📖 TQM BOOK CLUB - SATURDAY 27TH JANUARY 2024 📖📣
This session will discuss Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell.
With books hand-picked by our Education Team, working in partnership with Jane Powell Tutoring, from their extensive recommended reading lists, uncover stories that will captivate and enthral.
Meeting once every half term, to discuss a set text, TQM Book Club will introduce you to a wealth of new genres, authors, and perspectives.
Suitable for ages 8-11yrs
Share the joy of reading.
Book your tickets here https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
📣TQM Book Club is supported by First Draft Books - you can buy all of your books for the upcoming TQM Book Club sessions in just one place - http://uk.bookshop.org/lists/tqm-book-club
KS3 HOME EDUCATION - Observation drawing sessions
4th, 18th January and 1st February 2024. 10.15am – 12.15pm.
In these two-hour sessions we will draw from life, using objects within the galleries in the museum to study. We will develop a visual awareness of how to look at objects to create sketches and drawings from life. A range of materials will be offered with different experimental techniques and processes. We will look at tone, shape, line, negative space, shadows, texture, close-ups and colour.
These sessions can be attended as a series as we will progress and cover different themes but they can also be accessed as stand-alone sessions.
Book your tickets here https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
⚱️🐫⚱️ All things Egyptian at the Museum!
If you're a fan of Ancient Egypt, then the Museum has lots of things of interest for you this festive season:
🏛 A British Museum Touring Exhibition Egyptian hieroglyphs: unlock the mystery - discover the central role hieroglyphs played in the life and afterlife of the ancient Egyptians.
🙋♀️ Egyptomania in the Explorers Gallery - explore a collection of artefacts revealing life and death in Ancient Egypt. The highlight is Devon's only mummy - a four-year-old boy in his sarcophagus.
🕵️♀️ Become a newspaper reporter on a game developed by the BBC - the "Curse of the Mummy’s Hand".
📜 Follow hieroglyphs around the Museum and discover an ancient Egyptian saying.
🎁 After you've explored the Museum, you can find some amazing merchandise from the British Museum in our Gift Shop.
📆 Check our website for opening times and discounts and don't forget you Pay Once and Get in FREE for a Year! torquaymuseum.org/opening-times
: Indian Village Model
Sadly, we know very little about this model of an Indian village. It has been stored for many years on a top shelf covered in plastic sheeting, largely forgotten. A bespoke case had to be made to be able to display it in our Explorers Gallery.
🎄❄️⛄️Are you looking for fun things to do this Christmas? The Museum is warm and cosy and our doors are open four days a week! Check our Xmas opening days here: torquaymuseum.org/opening-times
Come and explore our galleries dedicated to Torbay's incredible heritage and the temporary exhibition Egyptian hieroglyphs: unlock the mystery. We also have two exciting trails for children to spark their interest in the past - Victorian Christmas and Explorers Safe game.
🎟️ The Museum offers 20% off admissions for TQ postcode residents, 25% off for all Blue Light Card holders as well as a discount for unemployed, home-schooled children and South Devon College students and employees. And of course, carers go FREE if they come with the person they care for.
🫖🍰 Pengelly's cafe which offers hot drinks, light lunches and yummy cakes is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays (11am - 2.30pm).
Our Christmas advert was kindly produced by Emberlense Productions.
Our collections volunteer Janet has just started digitising a box of previously untouched images which means we have some new cracking pictures to show you.
One of them is this view of Torre Abbey Meadows and the Belgrave Hotel.
📣 It's the last week of our "Adopt the Twelve Objects of Christmas" campaign with guaranteed Christmas delivery!
If you are still looking for a unique present for someone special and would like to support a local charity, please consider adopting a piece of Torbay's incredible heritage: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/adopt-the-twelve-objects-christmas
🎁 Psamtek's Royal Coffin - was given to the Museum by Lady Leeds, daughter of Paris Singer, and it once resided in Oldway Mansion in Paignton.
🎁 Cockington Gold Ring - a late 16th-century posy ring found at Cockington, believed to have belonged to Wilmotta, the wife of Sir George Cary.
🎁 Hercule Poirot's Swan Cane - this cane was used for over 20 years by David Suchet in his portrayal of Agatha Christie's Poirot.
🎁 Torquay Marble Plaque of Babbacombe Beach - marble pictures like this one may have been the ultimate tourist souvenirs for the super-rich Victorians who visited Torbay
🎁 Waddeton Court Figure of Charity - this stunning figure, along with 15 others, occupied a position on the wall of the dining hall of Waddeton Court, Stoke Gabriel.
👋 Say hello to our holiday period Shelfers! 🎁
From November to January our Gift Shop has the perfect holiday presents for you and your loved ones, courtesy of all of our fabulous Shelfers. Nothing says unique specialty gifts quite like these locally crafted products.
Thank you Alycrafts handmade products, Saz Designs, FromSea2Shore, by Nature, Buttons Knits & Bits, Devon Scenic Photography, Beaufizzle Rosie Spooner Photos and Canvasses and welcome to Lily's sweet shop!
🎄 A HUGE thank you to everone who joined us over the last two Saturdays to make our 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fair a success! 🎄
😇 Cockington Primary School choir joined us to raise our festive spirits. 😇
Thank you to all of our lovely stallholders over both weekends and last week's choir Torre C of E Academy.
⭐️ Finally, a big thanks to all the museum staff and volunteers whose hard work made it all happen, and of course, Netherton Christmas Tree’s for the beautiful tree they donated to us. 🎄
FOUND - If you visited our first 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fair on Sat 2nd Dec and lost a piece of jewellery, please contact us on [email protected] with a full description.
: Wild Boar Jaw Bone
This is the right mandible (lower jaw) of a wild boar, on display in our Ancestors gallery. The ancestor to the modern pig, it went extinct by the 16th century although genetically pure wild boar may have become extinct several centuries before. They have since been accidentally reintroduced into several areas in Britain.
❄️ Would you like to learn interesting facts about Victorian Christmas? If so, then come to the Museum and follow our new festive Trail around the galleries!
Many of the things we think of as defining Christmas were first made popular by the Victorians. One man in particular, Charles Dickens, had a huge influence on our idea of Christmas. He inspired several aspects of it such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games and a festive generosity of spirit. Can you find all the Victorian objects around the Museum?
🎟️ This trail is free with a valid Museum entry ticket.
🥳 Congratulations to the Foley family who took part in the Forest School's Christmas raffle and won an annual ticket to the Museum! We can't wait for them to explore our permanent galleries as well as the British Museum's Touring Exhibition Egyptian hieroglyphs: unlock the mystery.
❄⛄📣 Have you seen our new mix of FABULOUSLY TALENTED stallholders joining us on SATURDAY 9TH DECEMBER - 10AM TO 4PM?
'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum returns for a second Saturday!
Christmas-crafting and stories with Mrs Christmas, festive treats in the Museum Café, the wonderful voices of Cockington Primary School Choir, Mulled Wine, and SNOW! ❄❄❄❄❄
Only £3 Adult, £1 Child (Fair ticket holders from Sat 2nd can return for just £2 Adult and children FREE)
Your 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fair ticket allows you access to the Fair and the WHOLE museum. (Please note - access to the British Museum Hieroglyphs Touring exhibition requires a valid museum ticket).
Pets Sweets and Treats Coast Drinks Co. Lab
This Western Morning News photograph shows The Mallock Memorial Clock Tower and the Queen's Hotel on Victoria Parade in 1960.
❄⛄📣 SATURDAY 9TH DECEMBER - 10AM TO 4PM 📣⛄🐧
'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum returns for a second Saturday!
Join us for a whole new mix of very talented local stallholders across two floors.
Only £3 Adult, £1 Child (Fair ticket holders from Sat 2nd can return for just £2 Adult and children FREE)
Your 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fair ticket allows you access to the Fair and the WHOLE museum. (Please note - access to the British Museum Hieroglyphs Touring exhibition requires a valid museum ticket).
Harle Knits & Bits Pine needle Art Locke Handmade Wood Turning and Crafts
📣 LOOKING FOR RENT-A-SHELF RECRUITS!
We have an all-time high of 18 shelves available for local businesses to sell their goods at the Museum, so get in contact now to secure your places for after the holiday period!
Contact [email protected] or call Will on 01803 293975 for onboarding and further information.
📚 TQM Book Club - An Introduction Launch Event
Saturday 9th December at 10.15am sees the launch of the fabulous new TQM Book Club, sponsored by Jane Powell 11+ Tutoring and Exams, and supported by First Draft Books, in the Holden Gallery at Torquay Museum. The sessions are aimed at children aged 8-11yrs to improve vocabulary and concentration, help them perform better academically, give them in a deeper understanding of the world, and much more!
All are welcome to join us at the launch, followed by the first TQM Book Club session.
Please note - only children need TQM Book Club Tickets, although everyone attending will require a valid Torquay Museum ticket.
BOOK NOW - TQM Book Club tickets https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
📣📚 You can buy all of your books for the upcoming TQM Book Club sessions in just one place - http://uk.bookshop.org/lists/tqm-book-club 📚📣
❄ A HUGE thank-you to everyone who joined us yesterday for the first of our 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fairs! ❄
The choir from Torre C of E Academy were simply magnificent, Bay Brass had us feeling festive, Mrs Christmas offered stories and crafts for all, the Museum Cafe took several compliments for their delicious Christmas menu, and it was fabulous to host to so many very talented local stallholders.
Join us on Saturday 9th December when we're going to do it all again with additional stalls and the wonderful choir from Cockington Primary School.
Adults £3, Children £1. Returning visitors can use yesterday's fair ticket to return for just £2 for adults, children free.
https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
🪁 🎅 HOME EDUCATION - Christmas-y Toys from the Past Workshop at Torquay Museum on Thursday 14th December.
Our workshop focuses on the different toys and games which children played with in the past including board games from Ancient Egypt and Tudor times. Children investigate the similarities and differences between toys today and those in the past and we encourage them to think about changes in living memory through handling and playing a variety of toys and games.
Children will also make their own toys from the past to take home.
The workshop is aimed at children aged 7 – 11 (KS2). Each family group requires a participating adult to remain with the children throughout.
Prompt 10am or 12.45pm (depending on your workshop booking) Health and Safety/Introduction, workshop until 12.15pm or 3pm. Lunch space available afterwards for those who wish to spend time exploring the museum before or after their workshop.
The maximum number of children per session 15, with a minimum of 12 children required for a session to run.
Cost £5 per child, adults free. Must be booked in advance. Your first HE workshop is free to attend (valid museum ticket required).
BOOK NOW https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
Each person attending requires a valid museum ticket. Torquay Museum tickets last for a whole year - 20 % discount for those living with a TQ postcode.
🐧 Today you can adopt one of the Museum's cutest and most unique residents as a perfect Christmas present - Frank Browning's Adelie penguin!
This very special bird is believed to be the only mounted specimen of an Adelie penguin to have survived from Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition and was sent back to Torquay by our own intrepid local polar explorer Frank Browning.
Your support is vital for the Museum and you can adopt this object for yourself or as a Christmas gift at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/adopt-the-twelve-objects-christmas
As part of your package you will get one yearly pass to the Museum, our guidebooks, a Christmas card and a label with your name displayed with the Penguin in our Explorer's Gallery.
📣⛄❄🎅ALL SET UP AND FEELING FESTIVE! 🎅❄⛄📣
'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum is open!
10am to 4pm today.
Violet Vintage First Draft Books Winter’s Crafts By Nature Curious Crumbs @ melts, candles and gifts Waters Art and Glass Sea View Studios KILLA Confectionery Jean Pascall Lynda Medwell by K
⛄❄🎁 Baby, it's cold outside! 🎁❄⛄
Come shop in the warmth at 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fair!
🎅 Saturdays 2nd and 9th December - 10am to 4pm 🎅
A lovely fun-filled day for the whole family - stay warm and dry with us.
Book tickets now. Also available on the door. https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
Netherton Christmas Tree’s
: A Child's Chinese Silk Coat
This is a silk coat, on display in our Explorers gallery, made for a boy of the Manchu imperial clan of China and is about 120 years old. The Manchus became the rulers of China by right of conquest, establishing the Qing dynasty after deposing the previous Ming dynasty in 1636.
🎨 week continues and today's theme is !
The Museum does not actively collect works of art, an area more comprehensively covered by Abbey, but it does hold some interesting watercolours one of which shows Napoleon Bonaparte in the Bay. With Napoleon being the topic of many discussions thanks to Riddley Scott's new film, we thought we would show you some pieces from our collections connected to this French emperor and military leader (Napoleon, not Riddley Scott!)
🖼 Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte published for the Proprietors of the European Magazine in September 1821.
🖼 Bust of Elizabeth Rowe in Carrara marble by Lorenzo Bartolini who is regarded as one of the most important early 19th century sculptors. Napoleon Bonaparte was his great patron. Bartolini was the quasi-official portrait sculptor to the Bonapartes.
🖼 Torquay Harbour with Napoleon aboard the Bellerophon 1815. This view, probably from the 25th July 1815, shows Torquay Harbour teeming with visitors boarding small boats. Out in the Bay, a small flotilla lay siege to the Bellerophon which holds Napoleon Bonaparte, Torbay’s first tourist attraction.
🖼 Can you find Napoleon visiting his tomb?
📓 Day 5 of the week is dedicated to all things and what could be more special than the internationally important archive of one of the founders of the Museum, William Pengelly, related to his work at Windmill Hill cave in Brixham.
Early cave exploration was often haphazard, with little recording of what or where objects were found. Pengelly created an entirely new technique by applying the disciplines of mathematics and geology to the excavations of local caves. Excavating layer by layer, he recorded each find in place, determining its position from a fixed point. Each block or 'prism' was given a unique number, which was then given to every object found in that prism. His resulting explorations were unparalleled in their thoroughness and his techniques continue in principal to this day. Because of this, Pengelly holds a unique place in the history of archaeology in Britain.
In 1858 Pengelly began work to end Buckland’s antediluvian (before the biblical flood) theory. The discovery of a pristine cave at Windmill Hill in Brixham, provided the opportunity to resolve the question of the association of humans with extinct animals. The resulting excavation allowed his newly developed excavation technique to be used for the first time. Everything was meticulously recorded in excavation notebooks.
In September 1858, Pengelly and Falconer presented their findings which showed clearly the association of human and extinct species, proving for the first time, anywhere, the true ‘antiquity of man’. The Museum holds 13 original manuscript notebooks and correspondence books, photographs and loose pages of exploration notes relating to the Windmill Hill excavation, along with excavation diaries and notebooks for the exploration of Kent’s Cavern. The notebooks have been recently digitised for Prof. Mark Write of Durham University.
As an archive relating to the nineteenth-century scientific exploration of caves, it is without comparison among British archaeological archives.
🦢 Are you looking for a unique present for someone? Or even for yourself? Adopt the Hercule Poirot's Swan Cane for a year!
This silver swan walking cane was used for over 20 years by David Suchet in his portrayal of Agatha Christie's Poirot. He kindly presented it to the Museum in July 2013 as a loan.
🎁 You can support the Museum and adopt this object for yourself or as a Christmas gift at: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/adopt-the-twelve-objects-christmas
As part of your package, you will get two yearly passes to the Museum, our guidebooks, a Christmas card and a label with your name displayed with the cane in our Agatha Christie Gallery.
⛄🎄❄🎁FIVE DAYS TO GO!! 🎁❄🎄⛄
Join us on Saturday for the first of our fabulous 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fairs!
🎁 Stalls selling LOCAL products
❄ Christmassy crafting for all ages
🎄 Festive food and drinks in the museum cafe
⛄ Christmas trail
🎁 Choirs from Rydon Primary School, C of E Academy, and Arts
❄❄❄❄ AND SNOW!! ❄❄❄❄
Open 10am to 4pm
https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
melts, candles and gifts Sue Hair and Permanent Jewellery Sweet Shop #'Tistheseason
📜 Week 2023 is finally here and it's packed with interesting themes that we will explore together.
🗺 We will kick things off with ! In 2006 the Museum acquired the ‘Secret Archive’ of Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a Torquay-born explorer. The archive contains the remarkable story of one family’s obsessive search for a lost civilisation in the Brazilian rainforest. It has inspired an international bestselling book ‘The Lost City of Z’ and a Hollywood film of the same name. Over 500 documents, logbooks, diaries and cuttings record a remarkable life of exploration and remain the only means to truly understand this remarkable story.
On display in our Explorers Gallery can be seen Fawcett's diary from the 1920-1921 expedition which includes detailed maps and a secret location of ’Z’ as well as comparative texts that Fawcett thought might have been Atlantean in origin. Also displayed is his theodolite compass found in 1933 which has been recently kindly adopted. Explore Your Archive
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🎄❄️⛄️Are you looking for fun things to do this Christmas? The Museum is warm and cosy and our doors are open four days a week! Check our Xmas opening days here: torquaymuseum.org/opening-times Come and explore our galleries dedicated to Torbay's incredible heritage and the temporary exhibition Egyptian hieroglyphs: unlock the mystery. We also have two exciting trails for children to spark their interest in the past - Victorian Christmas and Explorers Safe game. 🎟️ The Museum offers 20% off admissions for TQ postcode residents, 25% off for all Blue Light Card holders as well as a discount for unemployed, home-schooled children and South Devon College students and employees. And of course, carers go FREE if they come with the person they care for. 🫖🍰 Pengelly's cafe which offers hot drinks, light lunches and yummy cakes is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays (11am - 2.30pm). Our Christmas advert was kindly produced by Emberlense Productions.
🎄 A HUGE thank you to everone who joined us over the last two Saturdays to make our 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fair a success! 🎄 😇 Cockington Primary School choir joined us to raise our festive spirits. 😇 Thank you to all of our lovely stallholders over both weekends and last week's choir Torre C of E Academy. ⭐️ Finally, a big thanks to all the museum staff and volunteers whose hard work made it all happen, and of course, Netherton Christmas Tree’s for the beautiful tree they donated to us. 🎄
❄ A HUGE thank-you to everyone who joined us yesterday for the first of our 'Tis the Season at Torquay Museum Christmas Fairs! ❄ The choir from Torre C of E Academy were simply magnificent, Bay Brass had us feeling festive, Mrs Christmas offered stories and crafts for all, the Museum Cafe took several compliments for their delicious Christmas menu, and it was fabulous to host to so many very talented local stallholders. Join us on Saturday 9th December when we're going to do it all again with additional stalls and the wonderful choir from Cockington Primary School. Adults £3, Children £1. Returning visitors can use yesterday's fair ticket to return for just £2 for adults, children free. https://torquay-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
Come and see this stunning Christie-themed model railway at Torquay Museum during the International Agatha Christie Festival - until lunchtime, Saturday 18th September. For tickets to a special event on Friday 17th September where you can meet the model railway builders and see the railway in action, visit: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/agathafestival/the-agatha-christie-model-railway/e-ezjroz
