by Vanessa | Feb 20, 2025 | News
Grab your knitting needles and support Dementia Action Week at the museum Wimborne’s award-winning Museum of East Dorset is supporting Dementia Action Week (19th – 25th May) with a special Forget-Me-Not campaign. The museum would love crocheters and knitters to...
by Vanessa | Feb 14, 2025 | News
The hard-working team of six volunteer gardeners at Wimborne’s award-winning Museum of East Dorset have been awarded The Volunteer Team of the Year at the Volunteer Centre Dorset Awards. Delighted museum director Francesca Hollow said: “The Museum of East Dorset is a...
by Vanessa | Feb 14, 2025 | News
Wimborne’s Museum of East Dorset has been celebrated as a winner in this year’s Dorset Tourism Awards. The museum scooped a Silver in the ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ category. The museum was applauded for its access improvements which now includes a British...
by Vanessa | Apr 1, 2023 | News
The Museum of East Dorset in Wimborne has scooped a Silver award for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ at the South West England Tourism Excellence Awards. Following on from its Gold award at the Dorset Tourism Awards, museum representatives joined a host of...
by Vanessa | Oct 21, 2022 | News
The Museum of East Dorset is collaborating with the Francis Crick Institute in a nationwide research project. The project, funded by the Wellcome Foundation, seeks to establish the whole-genome history and evolution in a thousand ancient people from Great Britain, to...
