Dorset Teddy Bear Museum

Dorset Teddy Bear Museum

Location	Dorchester, Dorset, England
Coordinates	50.71547°N 2.43283°W / 50.71547; -2.43283
Type	Teddy bear museum
Website	The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum website

The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum is a teddy bear museum in Dorchester, Dorset, south west England.[1][2]

The museum includes Teddy Bear House and displays antique and other teddy bears. It initially opened in 1990, in Bournemouth under the title of 'The Bournemouth Bears', but moved to a Victorian building in Dorchester in 1995 and is regarded as the oldest teddy bear museum in Britain.[3] The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum is owned by World Heritage, who also own The Terracotta Warriors Museum and The Tutankhamun Exhibition, also in Dorchester. Bears on display include Paddington Bear, Rupert Bear, and Winnie the Pooh.[4] The earliest bear dates from 1906, and there are also life-sized bears.[5]

References

1. "Dorset Teddy Bear Museum". Culture 24. UK. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
2. David Else, Jolyon Attwooll, Charlotte Beech, and Oliver Berry, Great Britain, 7th edition. Lonely Planet, 2007. ISBN 978-1-74104-565-9. Page 279.
3. "The Teddy Bear Museum".
4. Dorset Teddy Bear Museum, Information Britain, UK.
5. Rachel Hayward, Museums at Night 2010: Family fun in Dorchester, Culture 24, UK, 16 May 2010.