- Wikidata identifier:
- Q4829273
- Also known as:
- Avoncroft Museum
- Instance of:
- museum; charitable organization; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 621
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q4829273/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Costume and Textile Collection
The collection essentially supports the presentation and interpretation of the buildings collection. The collection reflects the life and activities that took place within the buildings in the museum’s collection, and reflects the periods of the buildings concerned.
Subjects
Costume (leisurewear); Textiles; Costume and Textile; Costume (workwear); Western European
Agriculture Collection
The collection reflects the activities that took place in such structures as the windmill, barns and other agricultural buildings, and is mainly of 19th. and early 20th.C. date. The agriculture collection supports the understanding and presentation of the buildings collection.
Subjects
Food processing; Agriculture; People (society); Western European
Social History Collection
The collections relating to domestic life and service are important in their own right and as a vehicle in the interpretation of the site. The social history collection reflects activities associated with the buildings collection as well as having significance in its own right.
Subjects
Ceramics; Metalwork; People (children); Furniture; People (society); Social History; Glass; Western European
Transport Collection
The transport collection contains a number of horse-drawn vehicles of various kinds appropriate to the buildings collection The working transport exhibits are important both in their own right and in the interpretation of the site. They are of late 19th. and early 20th.C. date.
Subjects
Road Transport; Transport; Horse-drawn transport; Western European
Science and Industry Collection
The tools and machinery collection provides a detailed insight into a wide range of processes. The chain-making, nail-making and sawpit equipment are especially well represented. A number of working/interactive exhibits reflect activities associated with the buildings on site. The collection of building materials, equipment and fittings is unusual. There is a small display, but most of the material is kept for study purposes. The purpose of the collection is to preserve and record material from trades and industries that were pursued in the museum’s buildings. The chain-making, nail-making and sawpit equipment are especially well represented. The collection of building materials, equipment and fittings is unusual.
Subjects
Agriculture; Industry and commerce; Construction; Science and Industry; Manufacturing; Metal working; Western European
Archives Collection
The museum library and archive contains written material related to architecture, building trades and crafts, building conservation, rural trades and industries, local history and topography and other related museums in the UK and abroad. There is a photographic archive relating largely to buildings on site, and the museum also holds the archive of the Hereford and Worcester Architectural record Group. There is also a small oral history archive. The collection is of late 19th. and 20th.C. date. There is a wide-ranging archive of material related to the buildings and associated trades covered by the object collections. There is a photographic archive relating largely to buildings on site, and the museum also holds the archive of the Hereford and Worcester Architectural record Group. There is also a small oral history archive.
Subjects
Oral history; Documents (commercial); Documents (historic); Archives; Photography; Western European
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC