Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
This opened in 1967 on a fifteen-acre site. Founded as an educational resource, it is registered as a charity. It owes its existence to the threat of demolition of the Merchant’s House in Bromsgrove, an early wool craftsman’s house, which in the early 1960s was dismantled and reconstructed as the first museum building. Today the Museum houses 26 structures of all materials and types, domestic, agricultural, industrial and ecclesiastical, ranging over 700 years, and mostly from the Midlands.
The buildings are ideal for curriculum-based studies and provide the venue for the Birmingham University School for Professional and Continuing Education course in British Vernacular Architecture. A local Business Partnership works with the Worcestershire Construction Training Group whose purpose is to encourage secondary school students to enter the modern construction industry through learning about traditional techniques. JH
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