The Bakelite Museum has joined forces with the Cultura Trust to form
The Bakelite Design Trust.
The Trust is a charity formed to set up a new museum of early plastics and twentieth century design in a suitable building - when one is found.
The Bakelite Museum has been in existence for over thirty years.
After starting in London, the museum was housed in a beautiful 18thC watermill in the heart of the Somerset for twenty-five years. It has now moved out and, after years of looking for a new and more easily accessible location, we may have a possibility of moving to London (see the News page) and making this wonderful collection open to the public again. It will of course depend on funding. Please contact us here or on Facebook with any helpful ideas.
Meanwhile, there will be opportunities to visit the museum-in-waiting. See the News page for details of our Open Weekends and book here using the form on the Contacts page of the website. Do keep an eye on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/BakeliteMuseum
The Bakelite Museum is an enormous collection of vintage plastics, from the earliest experimental materials to 1970s kitsch. It includes Bakelite objects in a huge variety of shapes, colours and functions - radios, telephones, eggcups, musical instruments, toys, tie-presses and even a coffin. There are also domestic and work related things from the Bakelite era, mainly the 1920s to the 1950s, and the whole collection is a nostalgic treat, a vintage wonderland and an educational eye-opener.
The Bakelite Design Trust.
The Trust is a charity formed to set up a new museum of early plastics and twentieth century design in a suitable building - when one is found.
The Bakelite Museum has been in existence for over thirty years.
After starting in London, the museum was housed in a beautiful 18thC watermill in the heart of the Somerset for twenty-five years. It has now moved out and, after years of looking for a new and more easily accessible location, we may have a possibility of moving to London (see the News page) and making this wonderful collection open to the public again. It will of course depend on funding. Please contact us here or on Facebook with any helpful ideas.
Meanwhile, there will be opportunities to visit the museum-in-waiting. See the News page for details of our Open Weekends and book here using the form on the Contacts page of the website. Do keep an eye on our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/BakeliteMuseum
The Bakelite Museum is an enormous collection of vintage plastics, from the earliest experimental materials to 1970s kitsch. It includes Bakelite objects in a huge variety of shapes, colours and functions - radios, telephones, eggcups, musical instruments, toys, tie-presses and even a coffin. There are also domestic and work related things from the Bakelite era, mainly the 1920s to the 1950s, and the whole collection is a nostalgic treat, a vintage wonderland and an educational eye-opener.
