Totnes Museum extends over two buildings and three floors including twelve gallery rooms, a courtyard, and a herb garden.
These range from early archaeological finds, coins minted in Totnes during Saxon times, Elizabethan artifacts and Victorian ephemera.
The museum aims to entertain and educate visitors with the cultural, economic, and social history of Totnes.
Babbage spent his youth in Totnes and studied at King Edward VI Grammar School there.
Some of the paranormal experiences often reported include supernatural seasickness caused by a ships mast used by the spiral stairs and a variety of ghosts.