The Old Bell Museum

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| name = The Old Bell Museum

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| image = Old Bell Museum Exterior.JPG

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| building_type = Museum, inn

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| address = 3-5 Arthur Street

| location_city = Montgomery, Powys

| location_country = Wales

| owner = Montgomery Civic Society

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| material = Half-timbered

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| website = {{URL|http://www.oldbellmuseum.org.uk/}}

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The Old Bell Museum is a former 16th-century inn, converted into a museum and run by volunteers from the Montgomery Civic Society of Powys.{{cite web|url=http://www.montgomery-wales.co.uk/visiting/things.html |title=Things to do |publisher=Montgomery-wales.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2015-04-22}}{{cite web|url=http://www.visitmidwales.co.uk/Montgomery-Old-Bell-Museum/details/?dms=3&venue=1122540 |title=Old Bell Museum |publisher=Visitmidwales |date=2009-02-26 |accessdate=2015-04-22}}{{cite book|last=Hunter|first=David|title=Offa's Dyke Path: A journey through the border country of England and Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ncjpo7wATAMC&pg=PA159|accessdate=22 April 2015|date=21 July 2011|publisher=Cicerone Press|isbn=978-1-84965-388-6|page=159}} The half-timbered building contains eleven rooms of various local exhibits, including information on the architecture of the building itself.{{cite web|url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/united-kingdom/wales/montgomery/sights/museums-galleries/old-bell-museum |title=Old Bell Museum |publisher=Lonely Planet |date= |accessdate=2015-04-22}} Originally opened as the Old Bell Hotel, it served as a temperance hotel catering to teetotal visitors visiting Montgomery {{cite book|last=Parker|first=Mike|title=Real Powys|date=2011|publisher=Seren|isbn=978-1-85411-553-9|page=156}}

The Old Bell Museum was awarded "Accredited Museum" status by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council of Wales (MLA) in February 2009 and re-accredited in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/accreditation-stats/List_of_Accredited_museums_UK_CI_IoM_May15.xlsx |format=xlsx |title=List of Accredited Museums in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, May 2015 |publisher=Arts Council England |date=May 2015 |accessdate=2015-05-26}}