THE Wellington Museum 2025 season drew to a spooktacular close immediately after Halloween with a ‘Scary Tours’ evening.

Somerset Youth Theatre teamed up with the local history and museum society to perform in the museum on Saturday (November 1).

The youth theatre members gave performances of their ‘Ghostly Plays’ to a sell out audience and were congratulated by the society on playing their parts so well.

It meant the museum finished its 2025 season in style after another successful year and will now be closed until March 6, although the volunteers will still be working behind the scenes.

Visitors will experience a newly refurbished museum when they return next spring, which will be its 43rd season after first opening in 1983.

A Remembrance window display has been created for passers-by in Fore Street to see a tribute by the museum society in honour those who have fallen in conflicts around the world.

A museum spokesperson said: “If you wish to get in touch during the winter months please go to the museum website.

“To all those who visited us and supported us, a big thank you from all of us at the museum.

“See you all in 2026 and in the meantime watch this space for ongoing news of the winter happenings at the museum.”

The free to enter family friendly museum’s collection chronicles the town's rich history, including its links to the Duke of Wellington, the development of what was once the South West’s biggest woollen mill, the transformation of the townscape, and how Wellington was home to the last provincial bank in England and Wales to issue its own banknotes.

Recently, it helped to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first steam-powered passenger railway journey along with Wellington’s rich railway heritage, which includes an unofficial world speed record set on the stretch of line at White Ball.