PlacesLocals’ pickCulture and odditiesKingsmead

Herschel Museum of Astronomy

A small Georgian house with its kitchen and garden, where a home-made telescope found Uranus; the volunteers like to talk.

Category
Culture and oddities
Area
Kingsmead
Where
19 New King Street, BA1 2BL
Opening
Most days, seasonal
Price
££
Best time
Quiet weekday
What’s on
Listings here
Website
herschelmuseum.org.uk
A Georgian sitting room inside the Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Photo: Jwslubbock, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Where

Where it is

The larger pin is Herschel Museum of Astronomy. The smaller ones are other places within about 15 minutes on foot.

51.38251, -2.36694 · Open in a map

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Kept by handChecked Source: herschelmuseum.org.uk

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