The American Museum in Britain

The American Museum invites you on a journey through the history of America, from the time of the early settlers to the twentieth century. The museum presents a remarkable collection of folk and decorative arts, with the help of which it shows the complex nature of American traditions. The only American museum outside the United States was founded to bring American history and culture to the people of Britain and Europe.

The American Museum is located in Claverton Manor, near the town of Bath. Here visitors are offered to get acquainted with more than 15 thousand valuable objects of decorative arts of America, a lot of historical materials about the native inhabitants of the continent – Indian tribes, and various details of the relationship between the two states. Here you can see jewelry and household items of Indian tribes, ancient maps and materials devoted to the research of the new continent, very rare and typical for the United States samples of furniture, the world's best collection of decorative art with gilding, a large collection of paintings.