Bakelite Museum

Bakelite Museum

Infobox Museum
name = Bakelite Museum


established =
location = Williton, Somerset
map_type=Somerset
latitude= 51.1648
longitude= -3.3087
visitors =
director =
website = [http://www.bakelitmuseum.de/ Bakelite Museum]
The Bakelite Museum is in Williton, Somerset, England.

The Museum is housed in the Orchard Millhouse, which has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building. [cite web | title=Orchard Millhouse | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=265006 | accessdate=2007-10-30]

It is home to a collection of vintage plastics including radios, cameras and telephones to a Bakelite coffin.

See also

*Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite (1907)

References

External links

* [http://www.ukattraction.com/west-country/bakelite-museum.htm Bakelite Museum] . www.ukattraction.com


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