The Bantock House Museum and Park, is a museum that tells the uses and customs of Edwardian life and local history.
The house, which owes its name to Alderman Baldwin and Kitty Bantock who once lived there, is surrounded by 48 acres (190,000 m2) of parkland.
The house was built in 1730 and is today a Grade II listed building.
Bantock House hosts exhibits exploring the life of the Bantock family and other upcoming figures on the local landscape of the era. The ground floor is dedicated to the Bantock family with special exhibitions. Upstairs, the focus shifts to the men and women who have marked the history of the city of Wolverhampton and the typical industries of the area. The peculiarity of the museum is that it presents itself as an informal and imaginative environment; visitors are, for example, encouraged to sit on whatever furniture they find. Noteworthy are the gardens surrounding the building: designed by Albert Baldwin Bantock, they were restored to his original designs by Wolverhampton City Council in 1998, allowing today's visitors to see the different spaces Baldwin created. At the back of the house is a sunken garden called Dutch Garden. There is also a rose garden, with an array of roses with names like Blythe Spirit, Chapeau de Napoleon and Glamis Castle, colorful flower beds in the house garden, and a wooded garden that is now part of a nature trail around the park.
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Finchfield Rd Wolverhampton , Wolverhampton, United Kingdom