This month the MAYANS visited the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury.  We were taken on a guided tour around the Museum by MAYA volunteer Tash who works there.  We started out looking at the buildings outside and how the original small farmhouse had expanded into the impressive building it is today.  Tash then talked about the Mapstone family who used to live on the farm before it became a museum.

Our tour around the museum included the kitchen and the impressive 14th-century tithe barn.  Other attractions included the museum’s two horses, one made entirely of old farm machinery and equipment, and xxx, a taxidermy stuffed horse who is something of a local celebrity!

As it was so close to Halloween, the museum had a special Pumpkin Trail where we had to find the answers to a series of questions by exploring the museum and collect special stamps on our Trail information sheets.  We ended the tour in the Remembering Gallery with recordings of local people reminiscing about countryside life, accompanied by simple but compelling animated images.

A big thank you to Tash and the staff of the Museum for making us so welcome.