- Wikidata identifier:
- Q113369820
- Also known as:
- Fairlynch Museum, Fairlynch (Arts Centre And Museum), Fairlynch Museum and Arts Centre
- Instance of:
- museum building; thatched cottage; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 855
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q113369820/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Social History Collection
This aspect of the collections comprises domestic items from the 19th and 20th century; thatcher’s and other trades tools; signs and ephemera from the closed branch line railway to Budleigh Salterton; toys from the 19th and 20th centuries; photographs and postcards of Budleigh Salterton and the lower Otter Valley; and a small local history library.
Subjects
Social History
Costume and Textile Collection
This collection spans the period from the mid 18th century to the 20th century. Some has a local provenance. This substantial collection consists of over 300 dresses and also includes underwear, baby clothes, Christening gowns, children’s clothes, embroidered waistcoats, parasols, fans, pelerines, collars, shawls, embroidered aprons, gloves and shoes. There is an important Spitalfields silk brocade dress. The textile collection largely comprises a large collection of lace, mainly from Honiton, including examples of mid 19th century date from the Pile family of Otterton. There are also lace bobbins, boxes and pillows; some samplers and embroideries.
Fine Art Collection
The museum has a small but interesting collection of early local topographical prints and watercolours.
Subjects
Fine Art
Archaeology Collection
There is material from the excavation of Bronze Age sites carried out in the 1930s and 1940s; surface finds from the area dating from the Palaeolithic to the Roman period; and a few artefacts from the Roman villa at Otterhead on loan from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
Subjects
Archaeology
Geology Collection
There is a representative selection of local pebbles from the Bunter Pebble Beds; a small collection of local and West Country mineral specimens; examples of rare radioactive nodules found on Budleigh Salterton beach; and a few fossil specimens.
Subjects
Geology
Subjects
Costume and Textile
Other
Subjects
Archives; Decorative and Applied Art Collection; Ethnography; Maritime; Medals; Medicine; Music; Oral History; Photographic equipment; Transport
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC