Occupying the 18th century stone-built former market hall and lock-up, now Clun Town Hall, the Museum of Clun conserves and displays a myriad of local historical items from the Clun Forest area.
The Museum of Clun was established in 1931 by Tom Hamar, a Clun shopkeeper, as a permanent home for his wide collection of local historical items gathered in the 1920’s and 1930’s by himself and fellow enthusiasts. His nationally recognised collection of flints traded on the Clun-Clee ridgeway formed a significant part of this original museum.
A few years earlier, the Clun Town Trust had been constituted in 1924 for the management of two Elizabethan silver maces and the Seal of the “Corporation of Clun”, on the dissolution of the Corporation, and it was to the Town Trust that Tom donated his collection, becoming the first Curator and custodian of the Museum.
Since that time the Museum has expanded greatly and today those maces, Seal and flints are in the midst of a vast diversity of artefacts, documents and photographs, capturing a vivid portrayal of the many changing aspects of life over the centuries in this once self-sufficient agricultural community.
Open from Easter to end of October on:
Saturdays 11am to 5pm, Tuesdays 2pm to 5pm, Bank Holidays: Sunday, Monday and Tuesday – 11am to 5pm
