Jonny Butler
25.01.2025
Lovely museum in the heart of Bromsgrove centre. The upstairs is a lot bigger than you would expect. Great friendly and knowledgeable staff who volunteer and dedicate their spare time to helping out. Recommend the visit to here
David Mc
25.11.2024
Hidden gem of history for the Bromsgrove area.
It's beautifully appointed it terms of displays and friendly informative staff. Never realised the famous Liver birds and Buckingham Palace gates and railings were made locally.
Well worth a visit to support a volunteers ran local attraction
Ben Standing
24.11.2024
A really well presented Aladdin's cave of local history. Very friendly welcome and exceptionally good value. My children aged 6 and 8 enjoyed it. Took about an hour to go around when taking time to look and read.
Rob Cartwright
23.09.2024
What a wonderful collection.
Super look into the past Bromsgrove.
Even got to meet the man Norton himself.
James Chance
30.08.2024
Great great museum and well laid out .
Melanie Smollett
06.07.2024
We visited here today to pass an afternoon on a rainy day and it was fantastic! It is much bigger inside than it looks on the outside with loads of interesting things to see inside. Great care has been taken to curate the museum in a way that is interesting with real shop fronts from Bromsgrove. We had the absolute pleasure of meeting Dennis himself and not only that he walked round with us picking out bits and pieces to show us, things he thought my Dad (64) would be interested in and also things for my daughters (10, 7), he was absolutely lovely. Overall a fantastic unexpected gem that is definitely worth a visit.
artisanne10
13.02.2024
On my doorstep and it's taken me far too long to visit! Really fascinating collection and insight into Bromsgrove's past. Lovely to be accompanied on our tour by Mr Norton himself who gave us lots of interesting tales. Well worth the visit.
Melissa Hobbs
30.01.2024
We went last year and had a great time!
sylvia bluck
28.01.2024
Friendly volunteer staff. The story of the museum is as interesting as the contents
Leanne Daly
13.01.2024
Walked past the museum today with my 9 year old son, which we’ve done many times but today he asked to go in. We’ve never gone in before as it looks so small from the outside but it’s really not. So many interesting things to see. It was a really fun afternoon. The volunteers there were really lovely and so great with my son. He had a quiz sheet to find a selection of items which kept him entertained for a good hour. Definitely worth a visit!!
Peter Hale
04.11.2023
Well worth a visit. A fascinating collection of the area - we stayed for longer than we had expected. A good welcome from the volunteers running the museum - visit recommended!
Emma Jackson
17.09.2023
I adore this place. It is huge on the inside and absolutely fascinating. The volunteers are lovely and helpful as well. So impressed.
Tommy Wagus
09.09.2023
Absolutely amazing collection!
Definitely worth a visit and we will come back again.
Lots of Bromsgrove history.
Brian Elliott
08.08.2023
Deceptively small museum from the outside but now occupies two floors and a small garden area. Interesting memorabilia and much of it made locally in the area's industrial heyday. Staffed by volunteers and we were fortunate enough to meet the owner while we were there. Highly recommended for a visit.
Frederick Kell
15.06.2023
Great collection of memorabilia of all things Bromsgrove and the locality
Paula Kay
22.04.2023
Great little museum,but full of history and love the way it’s displayed as shops, plenty of items to look at, recommend a visit
Vanessa Mathers
31.03.2023
Fascinating little museum, the shop fronts are crammed full of historical items, very interesting, would recommend this little treasure
John „Dinger“ Dell
28.03.2023
Excellent little museum.
Paul Troth
26.03.2023
Worth a visit very interesting about bromsgrove past life
Chris fav songs wilday
12.03.2023
It's absolutely amazing what's actually in there entry is £5 per adult, didn't realise how many trades have disappeared from and around Bromsgrove, well worth a visit it's only open Fridays , Saturdays and Sundays and it's now called the Norton Collection.
Barbara Potts
08.06.2020
Visited in August 2019. Fascinating museum. We actually got shown round by Mr Norton himself. What an interesting man. Thoroughly enjoyed our visit.
Croggy jones
29.02.2020
Visited today with my young daughter after searching for places to pass an hour while the wife was having some beauty treatment.
I was first intrigued after looking through the website, although this is not a Norton Motorcycles museum it does have two fantastic old and very very unique motorcycles that any real fan of bikes would be thrilled to see.
What really drew my attention though was how the collection came to be and how it ended up in the building it is in now. Mr Norton actually purchased the building in a state of disrepair and restored it himself in his spare time. This is as much a part of the collection as anything else and really shows the skills knowledge and the character of the man.
A big thank you to Dennis and the team there today for being so welcoming.
I shall definitely be revisiting when i have more time to study the collection.
Di Stratton
23.02.2020
Absolutely fascinating place, incredible collection (with much more in storage!), So well set out as store fronts of original Bromsgrove stores 50+ years ago. Mr. Norton obviously has a great passion for his home town! Also met some well-informed volunteers, long-time residents with whom we chatted - loads to tell us! So interesting. An absolute treat!!!
A larger place with a tea-garden would serve Bromsgrove well.
Adam Heatley
05.02.2020
The hidden treasure trove of Bromsgrove, with a vast array of items to look at. There's a lot to learn about Bromsgrove and you’ll likely need to visit more than once in order to take it all in. The volunteer staff are welcoming and can offer you a short tour of the museum answering any questions where possible. Dennis the owner and principle maintainer of the collection regularly pops in and has a very good knowledge of the antiquities on display, and of their historical importance to Bromsgrove. There are also activity worksheets for children/teenagers. The entrance fee is also very reasonable.
Robert Morris
05.02.2020
A hidden gem , well worth a visit
Peter Crewe
24.01.2020
Excellent museum
Martin Burford
15.11.2019
Excellent a small gem in a Worcestershire corner why did I drive past and never stop before today we will be back far too much to take in in one trip and excellent value thank you for creating a wonderful place
Bernard Regen
10.11.2019
Amazing to see this of memorabilia lovely collection well worth a vist 👍
