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Regional Furniture Vol. XXI, 2007

The 2007 Regional Furniture Society journal on furniture in churches has been delayed and will be published as soon as possible.  The Society apologises for the delay.

The Regional Furniture Society’s Annual General Meeting will be at the Westminster Hotel, City Rd, Chester, CH1 3AF at 10am on Sunday 27 July: admission is free

 

The Christopher Gilbert Memorial Fund

The Christopher Gilbert Memorial Fund, named after the former head of Leeds City Art Galleries, has been established to assist writers on furniture with some of the costs of publication of their work. For further details visit. www.geocities.com/artinleeds/grants.html .  For details of the Regional Furniture Society's Bursary scheme click here).

New Look at Wycombe Museum 

The redisplayed chair collection at Wycombe Museum is now open after major refurbishment.  The furniture gallery has been modernised and access to the museums chair store improved.  As well as showing off this important collection of chairs, the displays highlight the conditions of workers in the industry.  The museums recreation of a bodgers’ hut is on view again, and the manufacturing processes demonstrated by tools, materials and memorabilia from the district.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Museums Collection

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Museums collection database is now available online at www.shakespeare.org.uk .The online database, which catalogues over 8000 Museum records, is as a result of funding from the Museums, Library and Archives Council. Web users will be able to search for information including, date, style etc. from articles on display in the Shakespeare Houses as well as items held in the reserve collection that may be too fragile for display.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust cares for an extensive range of collections, including items on display in the Shakespeare Houses and Harvard House and the Museum of British Pewter. These collections include a wealth of artefacts dating from the Shakespearean period, paintings of Shakespeare, furniture, sculpture, costume as well as archaeological finds from Anglo-Saxon and Roman times.

Aiden Graham of the Museums Department said "The online Museums Catalogue complements the online catalogues of the both the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library and Records Office which went live last year. It is an ongoing project that we will be continually updating and demonstrates the Trust's ongoing commitment to broadening access to the collection."