- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5036598
- Part of:
- Middlesborough Council
- Instance of:
- maritime museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 370
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5036598/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Maritime
Ship’s models comprise the main collection and consists of 6 builder’s models and 5 model makers models. There is a log boat and 2 anchors outside the Cook Museum. Small items are shipbuilding hand tools, wooden patterns and various inshore fishing equipment and a rare boat cradle ‘Lilian’ made by boatbuilder John James Harvey and used by his great grandson JJ Harvey in 1945. Also a small archive on docks’ labour and photographs of shipping in the Tees.
Archives
Collection of books, ephemera, souvenirs and archive material relating to Cook, his voyages and legacy. Also a small collection of items which belonged to or have associations with the Cook family.
Captain Cook Library Collection
A collection of works on James Cook, the geography and natural history of places that he visited, the subsequent interpretation of Cook and his achievements by those countries, maritime history, the history of Cleveland, Whitby and Redcar. It also contains a collection of material on Lord Nelson 18th to 21st Century.
Subjects
Natural History; Geography and History; Maritime history; Local History
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC