Priest's House Museum

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The Priest's House Museum is a local museum in the town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England. It is located on the high street, opposite the Church of Wimborne Minster. The Priest's House museum resides in a historic Grade II listed town house dating from the 16th century.

The museum is dedicated to rural life in a market town in Dorset and the exhibits are based on the daily lives of people within the house and within Wimborne and Dorset. There are also exhibits on the relgious use of the building and its home to past ministers of the Minster Church. The building was recently restored and many of the buildings original features remain intacted for public appreciation. Notable rooms of interest are the 17th century main hall and the 18th century parlour and Victorian kitchen with its working 'Beetonette' range. Displays include reconstructions of local businesses that once ran from the building. Mr. Low's Victorian stationery shop (closed up for over 30 years) and the Coles' Ironmongers, both recreated from original shop stock.

In addition to the main museum house, the East Dorset Villages Gallery gives a taste of local community life from industry to shopping, school to church life, with a hands-on Victorian schoolroom. A walled garden, with seating, behind the Priest's House covers one third of an acre and is open to visitors to the house. A tea room, formely the 1920's Boathouse, also in the garden and on the banks of the River Stour is open to visitors.