News and Events
2025 Exhibition: The Ancient House: Past, Present & Future
If you have information, photographs or items you think may be of interest to us please email info@clare-ancient-house-museum.co.uk Thank you
We are currently closed
We re-open Easter 2025 with a new exhibition. Please see our home page for information on private tours.
We will be closed on Sunday 28 July 2024
On Sunday 28 July we will be attending The Friends of Clare Ancient House Museum Summer Fundraising Lunch. The museum will be closed all day.
Town Crier to announce our 2024 Exhibition
On Market Hill at 11.30 am on Saturday 30 March, the town crier will announce the opening of our “Celebrating Clare” exhibition. Please come along! Our exhibition will then open at 12 noon.
2023 Season – some exceptional news!
Our 2023 Season was a huge success. Despite not being able to open until 1 July (while the building was drying-out, following substantial works) we welcomed over 1,000 visitors to our exhibition: Clare Shops: Past and Present – with a greatly increased proportion coming from Clare and nearby. The exhibition was also a great financial Continue Reading »
Recording your memories
In our next exhibition, Celebrating Clare, we would like to include peoples memories of our town’s; carnivals, festivals, annual competitions, shows and events. Occasions like Clare Carnival, Clare World Music Festival, Party in the Park, performances by CADs and Clare Choral Society, Clare in Bloom, Clare’s horticultural shows, Priory Craft Fair, Christmas Fair, jubilees, coronations Continue Reading »
Our next exhibition: Celebrating Clare: Past and Present
We are excited to announce that our next exhibition will be “Celebrating Clare: Past and Present” which will tell the history of our town’s celebrations; carnivals and festivals. If you have any information, items or photographs that we could exhibit, please get in touch. We are also looking for keen history enthusiasts to help us Continue Reading »
Clare Shops: Past and Present Exhibition
Great News!! We have extended our exhibition to include Sunday 1 October 2023.
Town Crier Announces Opening of New Exhibition
On 1 July 2023, Clare’s town crier announced the opening of Clare Shops: Past and Present.
Clare Historical Society lectures of Museum interest
Friday, 31 March 2023, 7.30 Clare Old School, a lecture about Joan of Acre, Countess of Gloucester, wife of Gilbert de Clare and owner of Clare Manor, by Kelcey Wilson-Lee. Friday 6 May 2023, 7.30 Clare Old School, a lecture about medieval buildings that have been taken down and moved, which nearly happened to the Continue Reading »
What is inside...
The medieval pilgrim with his signature cloak, walking stick and hat (showing 3 badges attached), and a large replica of the badge for St Edmund. Part of the exhibition on Elizabeth de Burgh, who made several pilgrimages in her lifetime. She, however, would have travelled by coach or carriage.
