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Hollytrees Museum
Hollytrees Museum, High Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1UG
Saturday 14 Sep 2024
Sat 14 Sep:1000-1700; Free Entry.
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Hollytrees Museum
Heritage Open Day: Hollytrees is the best 18th-century house in Colchester and has been a museum since 1929. It was built in 1718/19 for Elizabeth Cornelisen, a wealthy widow, on the site of an earlier house. It was later the home of Colchester's MP Charles Gray (1696-1782) who commissioned the local architect James Deane to extend the building in 1748. It now houses Colchester’s Visitor Information Centre and a museum of family life and childhood in the city over the past 300 years. Displays include a celebration of the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' which was written in Colchester in 1806 by Jane Taylor who, with her sister Ann, is the subject of a new statue recently erected in Colchester High Street. The museum also has a clock gallery displaying clocks and watches made by Colchester craftsmen and a small selection of portraits from the city's art collection.