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Totnes Museum (aka Totnes Elizabethan House Museum) is a local museum in the town of Totnes, south Devon, in southwest England.〔(Totnes Elizabethan Museum ), Culture 24, UK.〕 The museum is housed with an Elizabethan merchant's house that was built c.1575 for the Kelland family. The house has many original features and has been carefully restored. Totnes Museum has twelve galleries, a courtyard, and a herb garden.〔( Totnes Museum ), Devon County Council, UK.〕 The collections〔(COllections — Totnes Elizabethan House Museum ), (Devon Museums Net ), UK.〕 date from 5000BC onwards, including coins minted in Totnes during Saxon times, and concern the cultural, economic, and social history of Totnes.〔(Totnes Elizabethan House Museum ), Devon Museums Net, UK.〕 The galleries include a Babbage Room, presenting Charles Babbage, the Victorian mathematician who invented the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, mechanical precursors of the modern computer. Babbage spent his youth in Totnes and studied at King Edward VI Grammar School there. There is a Study Centre at the rear of the building which contains an archive of Totnes-related material - books, fiches, transcripts, photographs, and local newspapers from 1860 - of particular interest to those seeking information on Totnes history, buildings and their own family connections in the area. Experienced researchers are on hand to help on Thursdays and Fridays. == See also == * Grade I listed buildings in Devon * List of museums in Devon * Totnes Castle * Totnes Guildhall 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Totnes Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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