The adjacent Wordsworth Museum, founded in 1943 and moved to a coach house nearby in 1981, exhibits manuscripts, landscapes and portraits. The Jerwood Centre, an award-winning new building to house the collections of the Wordsworth Trust, opened near Dove Cottage in 2005.
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Famous quotes containing the words wordsworth and/or museum:
“Will no one tell me what she sings?—
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)