The adjacent Wordsworth Museum, founded in 1943 and moved to a coach house nearby in 1981, exhibits manuscripts, landscapes and portraits. The Jerwood Centre, an award-winning new building to house the collections of the Wordsworth Trust, opened near Dove Cottage in 2005.
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