In Mendip Hospital Cemetery there are 3,000 burials of patients and some staff associated with the Somerset and Bath County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

These grave are marked with numbered pegs and research has been done to match the numbers to a name and a story alongside photographs that were taken to identify patients at the asylum.

These will be on display along with a history of the asylum during this period and also to dispel some of the myths that have been perpetrated about the treatment of the patents during this period.

The museum will be open on the Saturday, June 5, 10am to 4pm and thereafter only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays due to lack of front of house volunteers.

Admission is £4, children £1. Please check the museum website for opening hours.