Collection: Stockport Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Archaeology Collection

  Prehistoric, Roman, Medieval, Post-Medieval and Market Place excavations, plus some Egyptology.

  Ancient Egyptian Collection

  The museum holds 100-150 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; jewellery; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); pottery; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; stone figures; textiles/leather; toilet articles.

  Subjects

  Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeology; Egyptology

  Subjects

  Archaeology

  Archives Collection

  Court Leet book, Burial societies, Tithe maps, wage books, Thornton Pickard Archive (photographic company).

  Subjects

  Archives

  Costume and Textile Collection

  Costume (mainly women’s), children’s ‘best’ hats.

  Subjects

  Costume and Textile

  Decorative and Applied Art Collection

  Ceramics, glass and furniture including Pugin/Crace furniture from Abney Hall.

  Subjects

  Decorative and Applied Arts

  Numismatics Collection

  310 Tokens from the area and other provenances and also 450 coins.

  Subjects

  Numismatics

  Photographic Collection

  Prints, negatives, cased photographs, cartes-de-visite, photograph albums.

  Subjects

  Photographic equipment

  Social History Collection

  Greetings cards, cinema and theatre posts, bookmarks, adverts and tickets, domestic life, community life.

  Subjects

  Social History

  Fine Art Collection

  The fine art collections include oils, watercolours, prints and sculpture featuring local topographical views, 19th century landscapes and modern prints. Of particular note are the Lowry paintings and drawings of Stockport, 3 Alan Lowndes paintings and John Benjamin Smith paintings.

  Subjects

  Fine Art

  Biology Collection

  2,400 herbarium specimens, 24,000 butterflies and moths, 8,000 shells, 2,000 beetles, 500 miscellaneous insects, 350 birds and 750 birds eggs.

  Subjects

  Biology

  Science and Industry Collection

  Bricks, Foundry, silk, cotton, fur felt hatting (machinery, photographs and hat blocks), brewing and mineral water, printing, food, office life, trades and professions.

  Subjects

  Science and Industry

  Agriculture Collection

  Agriculture.

  Subjects

  Agriculture

  Ethnography Collection

  Weapons and currency.

  Subjects

  Ethnography

  Geology Collection

  Rocks and minerals.

  Subjects

  Geology

  Music Collection

  Music.

  Subjects

  Music

  Transport Collection

  Bicycles, bus and rail.

  Subjects

  Transport

  Arms and Armour Collection

  Cheshire Regiment and general warfare.

  Subjects

  Arms and Armour

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC