Dorset Teddy Bear Museum
High East Street and Salisbury Street
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About Dorset Teddy Bear Museum
Explore a charming collection of vintage and contemporary teddy bears at this quirky Dorchester museum, where visitors can browse displays spanning decades and purchase their own cuddly souvenir.
What's nearby
- San Telmo next door
- Howards Peugeot Dorch 150m away
- Waitrose & Partners 250m away
Distances as the crow flies, via Google
Photos
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Opening hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Wednesday
- 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Thursday
- 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Friday
- 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Saturday
- 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Sunday
- 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Current hours may differ from the usual schedule above (e.g. holidays) — check Google Maps for today's hours.
What visitors say
Lovely little museum, as others said it doesn't take long to go round but it was lovely and glad we visited, added bonus downstairs where we got to see the terracotta army exhibition. The lady who worked there was really helpful and friendly.
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Small but really cute, bit of history, nice scenes set up with the big bears 🐻. Plenty ot recognizable characters too! Well kept and not dusty. The terracotta warrior museum was interesting too. Lady running it was lovely and friendly.
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I loved it at the teddy bear museum the member of staff lady was so lovely and absolutely loved the history of all of the bears brings me back to my childhood very nostalgic and recognised the history about the bears as some of it is in my book I have the ultimate teddy bears and loved how they mentioned Margarete steiff who originated the steiff bears I would love to come back many kind regards Lauren Kingston thank you
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Found it really creepy. Expected the mannequins to jump out at me. Great collection of bears but my granddaughter was scared and I was glad to leave. We didn’t look at the warriors as there was a big one at the entrance. In fairness the lady arranged a free visit to the dinosaur museum as she could see we were both scared.
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At a glance
- Address
- Salisbury Street, Dorchester, DT1 1JU Get directions
- Category
- Museums & Galleries
- Guest rating
- 3.7 / 5 (278 reviews)
- Suitable for
- All Ages
- Setting
- Indoor
- Good for children
- Yes
- Destination
- Dorchester