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Sir John Moore Foundation
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q116738955
- Instance of:
- independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2226
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q116738955/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Sir John Soane’s Museum
(collection-level records)
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q2060860
- Also known as:
- John Soane's Museum, John Soane Museum, Soane Museum, Sir John Soane Museum
- Instance of:
- historic house museum; public inquiry; national museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum; Designated collection
- Accreditation number:
- 1800
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q2060860/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Ancient Egyptian Collection
The museum holds 38 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic box; coffins; faience figures; metal figures; sarcophagi; shabtis; stelae (stone); stone figures. Objects are known to have come from the following location in Egypt (with the name of the excavator and year of excavation given: Valley of the Kings (Belzoni, 1817, tomb of Sety I).
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC
Sir Joseph Banks Society
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q130738022
- Instance of:
- historical society; collection
- Accreditation number:
- T 600
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q130738022/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Sir Walter Scott’s Courtroom
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q116738956
- Part of:
- Live Borders
- Instance of:
- local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 728
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q116738956/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q1971996
- Part of:
- National Trust
- Instance of:
- garden
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1745
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q1971996/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Skara Brae Visitor Centre
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q113573066
- Part of:
- Historic Environment Scotland
- Instance of:
- museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2073
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q113573066/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Skidby Mill
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7535053
- Also known as:
- Skidby Windmill
- Part of:
- East Riding Museums
- Instance of:
- windmill
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1935
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7535053/
- Collection level records:
- Yes, see East Riding Museums
Slough Museum
(collection-level records)
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7541486
- Instance of:
- local museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 977
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7541486/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Local and Social History
The collection relates to the history and development of Slough and district mainly through images and objects, especially industrial, community and domestic life and development. There are 13,000 items, mainly photographs and negatives, but also small collections of geology, archaeology and local artists, 34 oral history tapes.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC
Smailholm Tower
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q2696684
- Also known as:
- Smailholm Tower, tower, buildings and enclosures
- Part of:
- Historic Environment Scotland
- Instance of:
- tower house; barmkin
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2411
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q2696684/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Smallhythe Place
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7543679
- Part of:
- National Trust
- Instance of:
- historic house museum; museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1746
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7543679/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Smith Art Gallery
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q116738957
- Part of:
- Calderdale Museum Service
- Instance of:
- local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1230
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q116738957/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Smithills Hall
(collection-level records)
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7545538
- Part of:
- Bolton Library and Museum Services
- Instance of:
- English country house; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 163
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7545538/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art Collection
The fine art collections of Bolton MBC comprise oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture and includes works by notable British artists from the 18th to 20th centuries, particularly the English watercolour landscapes.
Subjects
Fine Art
Decorative and Applied Art Collection
The decorative art collections include ceramics, furniture, metalware and glass. The furniture collection comprises mainly English oak furniture of the 16th-18th centuries, particularly 17th century oak pieces carved in the northern regional style. There is a small collection of c.180 pieces of glassware at Smithills Hall, ranging from ornamental to functional pieces. It consists mainly of 19th century wares but with some 18th century drinking glasses. Metalwork includes some electrotype reproductions of examples in the V&A collection and is generally a small mixed collection of various metals and objects.
Subjects
Decorative and Applied Arts
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC
Smithy Heritage Centre
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q113454680
- Instance of:
- heritage centre; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2003
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q113454680/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Snowshill Manor
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q3487204
- Part of:
- National Trust
- Instance of:
- art museum; historic house museum; English country house
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1845
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q3487204/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
SOAS Gallery
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q134452317
- Also known as:
- School of Oriental and African Studies gallery
- Instance of:
- museum; art gallery; collection; university museum
- Accreditation number:
- T 555
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q134452317/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Society of Antiquaries of London – Kelmscott Manor
(collection-level records)
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q1525759
- Also known as:
- Society of Antiquaries of London - Kelmscott Manor
- Instance of:
- historic house museum; English country house; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 59
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q1525759/
Collection-level records:
-
Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Kelmscott Manor was left to the Society of Antiquaries by William Morris’s daughter May in her will of 1929, naming the Society as her residuary legatee. Her sister Jenny died in 1935, leaving her residuary estate to the Society to form the William and Jane Morris Fund. in 1962, the Society became residuary legatee of the entire Morris estate. The collections consist of about 550 items of furniture, textiles, ceramics and pictures. Some items were in the house when it was leased by Morris in 1871, some were brought to the Manor by May Morris before she died in 1938 and some items were brought to and acquired by the Manor following its restoration in the 1960s. Furniture includes original Morris and Co chairs, Ford Madox Brown green painted bedroom furniture, William Morris’s bed, tables and a settle designed by Philip Webb for Red House. Textiles include 15th and 16th century tapestries, Morris & Co carpets, embroideries by William Morris and the Acanthus & Vine tapestry worked entirely by him, the hangings of his bed and Daisy hangings from Red House. Ceramics include a collection of blue and white china and a William de Morgan lustre plate.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC
Soho House
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q1810087
- Part of:
- Birmingham Museums
- Instance of:
- historic house museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1786
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q1810087/
- Collection level records:
- Yes, see Birmingham Museums
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
(collection-level records)
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q15278439
- Instance of:
- military museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 357
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q15278439/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Medals Collection
The Gloucestershire Regiment collection comprises approximately 600 groups of decorations and medals and is a good representation of the service of the Gloucestershire Regiment since medals were first officially struck. The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars collection consists of approximately 40 groups of decorations and medals awarded since 1815.
Subjects
Coins and Medals; Army; Service (military); Medals
Costume and Textile Collection
The Gloucestershire Regiment collection has over 600 uniforms and articles of clothing including headgear and insignia, the oldest of which date from the 19th century. For the years pre-dating 1880, the collection consists mainly of examples of officers’ uniform jackets, for later years it is more comprehensive. The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars collection comprises approximately 270 uniforms and articles of clothing, the oldest of which dates from c.1795. The collection features Yeoman’s and officers’ braided dress and ‘Blues’ jackets; animal skin shakos; waist sashes and other trimmings.
Subjects
Army; Costume (uniform/regalia); Costume and Textile; Service (military)
Fine Art Collection
The Gloucestershire Regiment fine art collection mainly comprises watercolours, sketches, engravings and ten miniatures dating from c.1780-1820. The collection is particularly strong in watercolours by members of the Regiment depicting foreign landscapes and officers and soldiers of the Regiment from 1801 to 1918. The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars collection has one painting in oils; one original pencil drawing of a magazine illustration dating from 1914-1918; one watercolour painting; and two lithographic prints.
Subjects
Watercolours; Army; Paintings; Art and Design; Service (military); Fine Art; Drawings; Prints
Archives Collection
This is a major aspect of the collection. The Gloucestershire Regiment collection comprises maps; letters; postcards; books; magazines; personal records of service; photographs; diaries; and first-person accounts of service experiences. Most of this material dates from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The Royal Gloucestershire Hussars collection contains regimental records.
Subjects
Army; Service (military); Archives; Photography; Documents (Government); Documents (personal)
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC
Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q22080062
- Also known as:
- SOFO Museum, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum
- Instance of:
- museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2370
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q22080062/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Soldiers of Shropshire Museum
- Wikidata identifier:
- Q50413685
- Also known as:
- Shropshire Regimental Museum
- Instance of:
- regimental museum; independent museum; military museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 623
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q50413685/
- Collection level records:
- Not yet. If you represent this organisation and can provide collection-level information, please contact us.
Collection-level records
History
Some Accredited museums (or multi-site services covering a number of museums) have shared with MDS a brief history of the collections in their care. These collection histories mostly come from the museums’ collection development policies, though they are no longer a mandatory section of the policies required by the Museum Accreditation Scheme.
Collection Overview
Accredited museums (or multi-site services covering a number of museums) are required to have a collection development policy that includes a brief overview of the scope and strengths of the collections in their care. Collection overviews are an incredibly useful starting point for anyone who wants to navigate the nation’s museum holdings, and we are very grateful to all those museums that have shared their overviews with MDS. In some cases, we have included overviews from a legacy dataset called ‘Cornucopia’.
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This figure is the number of datasets currently in MDS, rather than the number of museums. This is because some datasets come from multi-site services. For example, Norfolk Museum Service has contributed a single dataset, but this includes records about items held in the service’s eleven branch museums. On our Object search landing page, you can see the number of Accredited museums represented in these datasets.
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Accredited Museum
These museums meet the nationally-agreed standards of the UK Museum Accreditation Scheme run by Arts Council England, Museums Galleries Scotland, NI Museums Council and the Welsh Government. In the case of multi-site services, the individual branch museums are Accredited, but the overarching service is usually not. Eg Yorkshire Museums Trust is responsible for three Accredited museums, but is not itself Accredited.
Designated Collection
The Designation Scheme, run by Arts Council England, recognises cultural collections of outstanding importance held in non-national museums, libraries and archives across England. There are over 160 Designated collections, but only the museum ones are included in our database here.
Recognised Collection
The Museums Galleries Scotland Recognition Scheme includes more than fifty Recognised Collections of National Significance, some spread across more than one museum. Here we count the number of museums containing parts of those collections, which is why the figure displayed here is higher than that quoted on the MGS website. There is currently no equivalent scheme for Wales or Northern Ireland.
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