Bruton Museum

Bruton Museum occupies the Dovecote Building on the High Street, a space the town and district councils bought jointly in 1999 to house a collection first assembled when the Bruton Museum Society formed in 1989. Volunteers run the museum, which is free to enter and open mornings on weekdays and into the afternoon on Saturdays. Exhibits trace the town from Bruton Abbey through to more recent residents, including sculptures by Ernst Muller-Blensdorf, a German refugee artist who settled locally after the Second World War, and the writing desk used by John Steinbeck during his stay in Bruton in 1959. A rotating display called Casespace gives space to contemporary local artists alongside the permanent collection.