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Description: | -The main themes of the collection are:
Community Life:cultural traditions, social organisation, health and welfare, education, public utilities and amenities, entertainment, sport, communications, ceremonial, currency and defense;
Domestic, Family and Personal Life: housing and household management, food and drink,hobbies, crafts and pastimes, costume, personal health and welfare; Working Life: agriculture, manufacturing, the professions, commerce and aspects of University life.
The collections include three-dimensional objects;documents and books (primary and secondary sources);iconographic sources (picutre, paintings and maps); and photographs, film and electronic archives and tape-recordings
;The museum has a good collection of paintings, prints, watercolours and drawings of local scenes and people. Also, four inn signs held at the museum painted by local artist Richard Hopkins Leach in the 1840s. ;The museum has an interesting collection of costume that includes working costume and university costume. There is a good collection of needlework samplers.;The museum has a collection of agricultural tools, mainly those associated with the distinctive way of life in the Fens.;Local and British coins and tokens.;The museum has a collection of books and printed ephemera, such as posters, trade bills and receipts, notices, programmes, catalogues etc and some manuscript archives. ;Tape recordings featuring local people.;The museums holds an extensive photographic archive, including both original and copy images of people, place, events and activities in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire from the 19th century onwards. Some of these images have been captured digitally. There is also a collection of film.
- | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 2/3 Castle Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire United Kingdom,
CB3 OAQ | Telephone: | 01223 355159 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6290 | Go to resource |
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