Curtis Museum
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The Curtis Museum in Alton is a local history museum in Hampshire, England.
The museum was founded in 1865 by Dr William Curtis (1803–1881).
In 2014, ownership of the museum was transferred to the Hampshire Cultural Trust as part of a larger transfer of museums from Hampshire County Council and Winchester City Council.[1]
It contains a wide range of artefacts and displays including:
- Prehistoric tools
- Roman bowls and other material, including a cup found at Selborne
- The Anglo-Saxon Alton buckle[2]
- Artefacts from the Battle of Alton (1643), a battle in the English Civil War
- The "Jane Austen Trail"
- The tale of Sweet Fanny Adams, who was murdered locally in 1867
- Hop picking and brewing
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