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Before Petersfield Museum opened, Petersfield was one of the few towns in Hampshire without a museum. It was in 1990 that Wilf Burnham, chairman of the Petersfield Area Historical Society, decided “we are going to have a museum”.
Petersfield Museum Trust was formed in 1994 to promote the idea of a museum with several of the trustees coming from the Historical Society. They were delighted when, on the 28 June 1998, they took over the recently vacated courthouse building for use as a museum, which opened for just one and a half days a week and was run entirely by volunteers. At this time, the Society’s collection of objects and artefacts was transferred and formed the core of the new museum.