Bakelite Museum

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Bakelite Museum
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Bakelite Museum is located in Somerset
Bakelite Museum
Location within Somerset and the United Kingdom
LocationWilliton, Somerset (former location)
Coordinates51°09′25″N 3°19′38″W / 51.15702°N 3.32714°W / 51.15702; -3.32714Coordinates: 51°09′25″N 3°19′38″W / 51.15702°N 3.32714°W / 51.15702; -3.32714
WebsiteBakelite Museum

The Bakelite Museum is a collection of Bakelite and other articles belonging to Patrick Cook that currently is without a home.

History[]

It began as an art installation in London galleries in the 1970s and was opened as a museum in Greenwich in 1983. It includes vintage plastics such as radios, cameras, telephones, Bayko play bricks and a Bakelite coffin. The Bakelite era is also represented by non-plastic objects from the early 20th century – fridges, cookers, washing-machines, toasters and comptometers.[1][2] An additional feature is the contents of one of the first, pioneering Bakelite factories in Britain, with presses, moulding machines and original steel moulds.

The collection is currently without a home. After 25 years in an 18th century watermill in Williton, Somerset, England. It is hoped it will re-open as a new more modern building in an urban location accessible to all and will address the future of plastics by learning from the past.

  • Interior

  • Bakelite Museum Williton 01.jpg
  • Bakelite Museum Williton 03.jpg

  • Vacuum cleaners with Bakelite bodies

  • Bakelite radio

  • Picnic basket

  • Clock

  • Disused water wheel

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Campbell, Sophie (23 June 2007). "This is Bakelite, do not adjust your dial". Telegraph. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Bakelite Museum". Culture 24. Retrieved 20 November 2010.

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