Description
Ventnor & District Local History Society was established in 1980 to record and preserve the history of our area. In 1987 the Society bought 11 Spring Hill and established the Ventnor Heritage Centre, with space for a museum as well as room to store our collection of photographs, documents and artefacts. We undertake research, publish books on the local history of our area, and hold popular monthly meetings.
If you are looking for Best Museums and Art Galleries in Ventnor , Isle of Wight then you can visit Ventnor Heritage Museum. Ventnor Heritage Museum is one of the places in Ventnor Isle of Wight for day out with kids and families. More details can be found on the website for this place.
Features
- Free
- Host birthday parties: No
Features
On Site Parking
On Site Cafe
Monthly meetings and talks
The Society holds popular monthly meetings, with guest speakers covering a wide range of local history subjects.
Our Collection
The collection contains photographs, prints, documents and artefacts.
Research
The database listing items in our collection is available to search in the Heritage Centre, and our volunteers are happy to undertake research enquiries for visitors. There is no charge for this, but donations are very welcome, and are used for our conservation programme and to help us to preserve our collection.
Publications
We publish newsletters for members and write a weekly local history article which is published on our News pages and in the local paper, the South Wight Chronicle. Back copies of the articles are available here. Local history publications, many of them written by Society members, are available for sale in our Museum and in our online shop.
Photographs and prints
They have now embarked on a programme of digitising our collection to prints to preserve it for future generations. Some of the digital images have been used on this website, and we are adding more material all the time. If you would like higher resolution copies of any of the images here for publishing purposes please contact us. We can also provide prints for personal use for a small fee to cover admin costs.
Donations
They are entirely managed and run by volunteers, and welcome donations to help us to collect, record and preserve the rich heritage and history of Ventnor and surrounding villages and share it with local and wider communities.
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