Axe Valley Heritage Centre and Seaton Museum
Axe Valley Heritage Centre and Seaton Museum
The Axe Valley and Seaton museum has many varied collections concentrating on the history and events of the local area, with many photographs, from Victorian times, of Seaton, Beer and Axmouth.
The museum concentrates on the lower Axe Valley and also includes the adjacent villages of Beer, Axmouth, Branscombe, Colyton and Colyford. Seaton museum is renowned for it's excellent collection of old photographs of the area and collection of Roman artefacts. Many from the site of the Honeyditches Roman Villa in Seaton and others from the Norman Whinfrey Roman collection.
These come mainly from the E.S. Gosling collection. Other displays include the Roman site at Honeyditches, the natural history of the area and a display of Victorian costumes.