West Somerset Rural Life Museum

The Rural Life Museum is housed in the old Village School leased from the National Trust. It was a school from 1821 to 1981 and opened as the Rural Life Museum in 1983. The collection is owned and administered by a Charitable Trust. The exhibits are displayed in three rooms, the largest containing domestic, farm and local industry equipment from a hundred years ago. The New Room has a "theme" collection changed annually.

The Victorian Schoolroom has original desks and forms, together with slates, textbooks, books and toys of the period. There are Victorian era clothes for the children making educational visits and in which individual children can dress up. Behind the school in the river-side gardens are larger exhibits, a cobblers workshop and a picnic area. The playground is used by school parties for organised activities with stilts and hoops and the old singing games. Morning educational visits covering the Victorian aspect of the National Curriculum are taken by experienced teachers and guides.

There is a small shop for the purchase of souvenirs and replica Victorian toys.