Leominster Museum

Interior of the museum, from the first-floor balcony

Leominster Museum, formerly known as Leominster Folk Museum, is an independent, volunteer-run,[1] museum in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.[2]

Harlech Castle, by John Scarlett Davis, at the Museum

The museum, which opened in 1972, owns and displays a collection of artefacts relating to the local area, including banknotes and cheques from the Leominster & Herefordshire Bank, early local postage marks, material from the Leominster and Kington Railway, the Bronze Age Aymestrey burial, and a complete cider mill.[3] It also has a number of works by the Leominster-born artist John Scarlett Davis, including an 1828 self-portrait,[4] and a book of 173 sketches, purchased for £11,000 at auction at Christie's in March 1979.[5]

In 2014, a new display, "Rifles and Spades", opened. It commemorates the local effects of World War I, and was funded by an £8,900 Heritage Lottery Fund grant.[6]

The museum building, on Etnam Street, is a former mission house for railwaymen.

References

  1. ↑ "Volunteering". Leominster Museum. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Home Page". Leominster Museum. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Leominster Folk Museum - Leominster Museum of local life". Leominster.co.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Self Portrait in Oil". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Hobbs, Tony (2004). John Scarlett Davis: A Biography. Almeley, Herefordshire: Logaston Press. ISBN 1904396151.
  6. ↑ "Leominster Museum's Rifles and Spades project wins Heritage Lottery Fund support". Hereford Times. 2014-05-14. Retrieved 12 July 2014.

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