Culture
Wincanton Museum is a small local museum in the High Street. It is housed in a late 18th or early 19th century cottage, which is a Grade II listed building, which is owned by the Quakers. The Museum has a collection of artefacts, documents, posters and photographs related to the social history of Wincanton and the surrounding district. There is also a replica of a Victorian kitchen and a collection of 19th and 20th century farm implements. A separate room is devoted to World War I and World War II when American soldiers were stationed in the town prior to the D Day landings. The museum closed in 2009, due to increased rents and the need for renovations to the building, but reopened in 2010 only to close again in September 2010.
The cartoonist Tony Weare was born in Wincanton.
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