Museum of Wimbledon

Museum of Wimbledon
Location Wimbledon
London, SW19
United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°25′25″N 0°13′00″W / 51.423547°N 0.216683°W / 51.423547; -0.216683Coordinates: 51°25′25″N 0°13′00″W / 51.423547°N 0.216683°W / 51.423547; -0.216683
Type History museum
Public transit access London Underground Tramlink National Rail Wimbledon
Website www.wimbledonmuseum.org.uk


The Museum of Wimbledon is a museum at 22 Ridgway, Wimbledon, in the London Borough of Merton.

It is run by The Wimbledon Society, staffed by volunteers and open at the weekends from 2:30 to 5:00pm. Admission is free.[1][2]

The emphasis is on local history. The Wimbledon Society also runs the adjacent Village Hall Trust Gallery, which is used for photographic and other exhibitions, such as "Wimbledon Now and Then", which ran from December 2013 to March 2014.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to the Museum of Wimbledon". Museum of Wimbledon. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "History of the Society". The Wimbledon Society. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Heritage: Wimbledon 'now and then' photographic exhibition". Wimbledon Guardian. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Wimbledon 'Now and Then'". Past exhibitions. Museum of Wimbledon. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
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