Clowns Gallery-Museum

The Clowns Gallery-Museum is a museum of clowning situated at venues in Holy Trinity Church, Dalston and Wookey Hole, Somerset. Established in 1959, the collection contains costumes and props from famous clowns, as well as a reference library,[1] and is home to the Clown Egg Register, an archive of painted ceramic and hen's eggs which serve as a record of individual clowns' personal make-up designs. The collection is split between the museum's two sites.[2]

The museum was established in 1959 in Dalston and the collection was split to a venue in Wookey Hole in 2007. The Dalston museum is situated in what was the vestry of the Holy Trinity Church.[3] It was threatened with closure in 2014, but remained in place.[4] The Wookey Hole museum is run by Gerry Cottle, Vice President of Clowns International.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Clowns Gallery-Museum's History". Clowns International. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Taylor, Jeremy (12 July 2013). "First Person: Matthew Faint – ‘I run the clown egg register’". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  3. ↑ Adams, Tim (7 June 2015). "Send out the clowns: why are they losing popularity?". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Polyviou, Natasha (30 January 2015). "A matter of laugh and death: what to expect at the Joseph Grimaldi service". Time Out. Retrieved 3 October 2015.

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Coordinates: 51°32′39.6″N 0°4′23.3″W / 51.544333°N 0.073139°W / 51.544333; -0.073139

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