Free admission on Sundays & Bank Holiday Mondays between 2:00 and 5:00pm from 4th April to 19th September 2010.
Also open on Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th May
as part of Kenilworth Festival 2010, and on
Saturday 11th September as part of Heritage Open Days 2010,
with a guided walk starting at 3pm at outside the Barn.
Leaflet-Guides in English, French, German, Japanese, Polish & Spanish are
available.
An educational leaflet challenges children to find answers to questions about exhibits in the
museum.
The ground floor is devoted to a professional exhibition which tells the story of the
Kenilworth Augustinian Abbey
by descriptive plaques and surviving stonework. The Millennium Exhibition on the ground floor was opened just after Easter 2001. It was part of the Abbey Interpretation Project costing £98980.
The first floor, which was installed in 1994 for £7265, portrays Kenilworth history by relics brought in by residents Publications are for sale.
The Museum is staffed by a rota of volunteers.
More volunteers are always welcome to contact the chairman of KHAS,
or else contact Michael Formstone by e-mail :- m.formstone@ntlworld.com
Access on foot from the free Abbey Fields Car Park, or from the bus service
12 stops in Bridge Street or from the bus service U2 stops in Abbey Hill.
Both services run on a Sunday afternoon between Coventry & Leamington Spa and stop in Abbey End by the Kenilworth Clock Tower
where there is a pay & display car park ( Sunday charges free all day ). A short walk uphill along Abbey End to the
War Memorial leads to the steep downhill path in Abbey Fields to the Swimming
Baths.
From Kenilworth Castle
down by a track to a gap near the Ford, after crossing the busy road,
paths in Abbey Fields beside the Lake lead to the Swimming Baths.
Outside the baths building there is café on the corner, public toilets including a RADAR
disability facility and disabled parking.
July 2010
KWN July 23rdfrontpage :- "
Historic Kenilworth road may be protected" - a campaign for
"
A Case for Conservation - Avenue Road, Kenilworth
( a unique housing development, almost 100 years old )"
June 2010
Friends of Abbey Fields, Kenilworth
launch a leaflet on The Trees of Abbey Fields available free from the library.
May 2010
Two objects added to the online
BBC "A History of the World" - List of Objects for Coventry &
Warks :-
Garden of Our Lady of Doncaster