News                                                                                                                                                       

• New Exhibition Starts 4th November 2008                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   'Hearth and Home, Home and Country'    An opportunity to see some of the interesting and unusual domestic items in our collection that have survived from the 19th and early 20th centuries.  The exhibition will provide a fitting backdrop to a celebration of Mere Women's Institute’s 90th birthday, which is on November 6th.  Photographs, documents and possibly objects from this long and active life will be shown together with Mere W.I.’s famous award–winning scrap book compiled in 1956 by  Miss Joyce Rutter and colleagues.  This treasure trove of information about Mere will be on display and the pages will be turned regularly so that its amazing scope can be more fully appreciated. We are hoping to have a copy of the scrap book, made to celebrate the WI's 90th birthday, available on a permanent basis in the Museum.                                                                                                                                                                                     
• The Book of Mere - a reprint                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Containing well over 300 photographs, this book has been reprinted and is for sale at Mere Information point (The Library), Mere Pharmacy, Walton's (Mere Post Office) and from the Author, David longbourne (tel: 01747 860243). Price £19.95.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
• New display cases for Mere Museum and School January 2008.