A community museum in a seventeenth-century High Street coaching inn, covering Broadway's wool trade, artists' colony, and coaching history.
Broadway Museum and Art Gallery occupies Tudor House, a seventeenth-century building at 64-65 High Street that began as a coaching inn on the Ludlow to London road. The house has been extended over the centuries and later served as a farmstead, a private residence, and for many years the headquarters of H.W. Keil, a noted antique furniture dealer. Original features remain inside a working community museum run as a charitable trust.
Displays trace Broadway's story from early settlement through the wool trade that shaped the Cotswolds, the coaching era (including the hazards of the London road), and the coming of the railway. A Cabinets of Curiosities gallery looks at collecting, the East India Company, and Roman finds. The museum also tells how artists, writers, and musicians used the village as a base, among them Frank Millet, Alfred Parsons, Edwin Austin Abbey, A.A. Milne, and J.M. Barrie. Paintings by John Singer Sargent, including a portrait of Mrs George Lewis (Elizabeth Eberstadt), are shown as part of a changing Colony of Creativity exhibition.
Family rooms include interactive displays and a children's floor with a play space and craft area. Talks, workshops, and temporary exhibitions run through the year. The museum is typically open Monday to Saturday; ticket types and prices change, and Art Fund members and children are often admitted free. Confirm hours and current shows on the Broadway Museum website before you visit. The High Street location (WR12 7DP) is a short walk from overnight stops in Broadway and from Stage 1 of the Cotswold Way.
