Poole Museum
Poole Museum is a maritime museum, gallery and cultural centre, situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset, and is owned by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.- Email: museums@poole.gov.uk
- Type: Museum
- Description: Grade I listed local museum in Poole, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Poole Waterfront Museum”
- Postal code: BH15 1BW
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Scaplen’s Court and Four Bollards In Front Of Custom House.
Scaplen’s Court
Museum
Photo: Roy Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scaplen's Court is a fifteenth century Grade I listed house in Poole, Dorset, England, adjacent to the Poole Museum. The house is now used as a museum focusing on life in Poole between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, and includes a Victorian schoolroom and kitchen.
Four Bollards In Front Of Custom House
Restaurant
Photo: gary radford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Four Bollards In Front Of Custom House is a restaurant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poole and Hamworthy.
Poole
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Poole is a coastal town and seaport in Dorset, on the south coast of England. Poole is a tourist resort, attracting visitors with its large natural harbour, history, the Lighthouse arts centre and Blue Flag beaches.
Hamworthy
Suburb
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hamworthy is a suburb of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It is sited on a peninsula of approximately 3 square kilometres that is bordered by the town of Upton to the north, Poole Harbour to the south, Lytchett Bay to the west and Holes Bay to the east.
Maryland
Locality
Maryland is a deserted village on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England. It was named for the wife of its founder, Colonel William Petrie Waugh.
Poole Museum
- Categories: local museum, history museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.71253° or 50° 42′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.98882° or 1° 59′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C2WP276+2FOpenStreetMap ID
way 354964712OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q7228623
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In Other Languages
From French to Slovenian—“Poole Museum” goes by many names.
- French: “musée de Poole”
- French: “Musée de Poole”
- French: “Poole Museum”
- Slovenian: “Muzej Poole”
- Slovenian: “Poole Museum”
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Highlights include Poole Tourist Information Centre and Poole Waterfront Museum.
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