🏡 A FREE MUSEUM IN BEDFORD, BEDFORDSHIRE - The Panacea, a beautiful Victorian House.

Tuesday 25 February 2025
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🏡The Panacea Museum is a free beautiful Victorian House to visit in Bedford. Discovering the amazing story of the unique religious community that created its own beautifull Garden of Eden in the centre. A very interesting museum if you haven't visited before. They also have a tea room.

📖 SOME INTERESTING HISTORY ...
The Panacea Society, originally called ‘The Community of the Holy Ghost,’ was a mostly female religious group led by Mabel Barltrop, known as ‘Octavia.’ In the 1920s, followers moved to Bedford to live near her, creating a private communal space known as ‘the campus,’ with a central chapel.

Operating from Bedford, the Society gained over 2,000 members worldwide, including in Europe, North America, and the British Empire. Members believed in an impending new age—‘the Millennium’—and saw Octavia as part of a prophetic lineage dating back to the late 1700s, a tradition called ‘the Visitation.’

🅿️ PARKING
No parking is available at the Museum, however there is pay and display parking nearby
(However when we visited we managed to get a parking space outside the museum on the road which was free)

🅿️ ACCESSIBILITY INFO
https://panaceamuseum.org/visiting/access

🕦 OPENING TIMES
▪️Thursday - Sunday
▪️11:00am - 5pm
(Last entry 4.30pm)

🗺 LOCATION
Panacea Museum
9 Newnham Road
Bedford
MK40 3NX

🌐 PANACEA WEBSITE:
https://panaceamuseum.org/

✅️ Free
✅️ Historical
✅️ Educational
✅️ Partly accessible
✅️ Scenic gardens
✅️ Family friendly
✅️ Date idea

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