Submit Items

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).

 

The Salaman Tool Collection 

The Salaman historical tool collection has been the exhibition-in-residence at St Albans museum for over 40 years. Sadly, for health/safety and funding reasons, it is set to be dismantled and placed in storage, thereby denying visitors the opportunity of seeing a most valuable source of social history. 

A petition has been set up to try and prevent this from happening and with enough signatures it is hoped it will be possible to save the exhibition or make it available to other museums.  

* PLEASE HELP BY SIGNING THE ONLINE PETITION * 

http://www.saulwordsworth.com/blog/?p=373 

And, please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested.

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."