The Cowper and Newton Museum

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WELCOME BACK (click here for volunteering opportunities with us)!

We are now open again after 2 months of renovation and collection care. Huge thanks to all our volunteers who worked tirelessly on all the activities. Please do come and […]

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The Cowper and Newton Museum celebrates two great men who lived in Olney: the leading 18th Century poet & letter writer William Cowper and his friend, John Newton who wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace” and helped William Wilberforce to abolish the slave trade. Together they wrote the ‘Olney Hymns’ many of which are still sung today. The museum is housed in Orchard Side, the building that William Cowper lived and worked in. It has beautiful, well tended gardens and a lovely 18th Century summerhouse.

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Events

Did you know?

This year is the 250th Anniversary of John Newton preaching his first sermon at The St Peter and St Paul Church, Olney on Sunday, 27th May 1764.

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WW1

Olney WW1 Roll of Honour

Your museum needs you!

To remember our brave heroes and to commemorate the Great War 1914 -1918 we would like to tell the local story of those years. Do you have any information relating to your family during WW1? Do you have any artefacts we can temporarily display in the Olney History Room in the museum? We would be delighted to hear from you. Contact Paula Noble (House Manager) with your stories 01234 711516 or email house-manager@cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk or just pop in to see us.

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