Collection: Guildford Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Costume/Textiles

  The Needlework collection of over 2,000 items contains material illustrating specific techniques and includes items from outside Surrey. In particular, the collection of smocks is the largest in any British museum.

  Personalia

  Local history material includes the cottage life collection made by artist and gardener Gertrude Jekyll, and toys once owned by Lewis Carroll.

  Social History

  Local history material consists largely of objects associated with daily life in the past and numbers around 12,000 items.

  Archaeology

  Guildford Museum holds the principal archaeological collection in Surrey, consisting of c.65,000 items of archaeology largely of finds from excavations within the county. A significant part of the collections is on loan from the Surrey Archaeological Society, whose headquarters are housed in the Museum building.

  Ancient Egyptian Collection

  The museum holds at least 10 ancient Egyptian objects but that number is likely to rise. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: flints; stone vessel; textile; tools/weapons.

  Subjects

  Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeology; Egyptology

  Photographic

  The topographic collections contain photographs relating to the history of Surrey.

  Archives

  The topography collections include photographs, prints, maps and other 2-dimensional material.

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC