Would you like to be a Museum Friend? There are lots of benefits…
FREE entry, which includes:
- Special events’ days such as traditional crafts
- Social events, including speakers
- Activity days for children
- Christmas Carols by Candlelight in the Abbey
Discounts, which include:
- Renting Museum premises such as the cafe for parties
- Renting the Education room for childrens parties/activities
- 10% off the price of attending arts and crafts courses
Opportunities to be involved in Open Days:
- Learning and demonstrating traditional crafts
- Assisting with car parking
- Waitressing and washing up
- Being a monk for a day!
Opportunities to be involved in Friends’ workdays:
- Preparing for the Museum’s spring opening
- Putting the Museum to bed for the winter
- Helping with maintaining the site
- Carpentry through to window cleaning
- Basic Restoration work
- A FREE lunch!
AND …. you will receive a quarterly newsletter, which includes:
- Updates about everything going on at the Museum
- Interesting snippets, competitions and amusing anecdotes
- The chance to see one of your articles in print!



