- Wikidata identifier:
- Q6662434
- Also known as:
- Amgueddfa Lloyd George
- Instance of:
- historic house museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1429
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q6662434/
Collection-level records:
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Collection history (Collection development policy)
The Museum and Cottage outline the life and times of Lloyd George between 1863-1945. The Museum collection is based on the original Lloyd George Museum Trust’s collection, which ran the Museum until the 1980’s. Gwynedd County Council took over the Museum in 1987, and established a new Trust. Since then two extensions have been added to the museum and the collections have been added to extensively.
Highgate, Lloyd George’s Victorian boyhood home and his uncle’s shoemaking workshop, given to the Council by members of Lloyd George’s family, have been furnished as they were when he lived there. Some of the items are on loan from the Museum of Welsh Life, others are owned by, or loaned from various sources, to the Council.
This Museum is of only two, that exist in Britain, that commemorate former prime ministers and it includes several aspects of the social history of the period such as religion, education, politics and cottage life.
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2016
Licence: CC BY-NC
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Collection overview (Collection development policy)
The collection includes freedom caskets and scrolls, medals, memorabilia, paintings, costumes and archives and other items relating to Lloyd George and telling his story.
Highgate cottage and its shoemaking workshop has been recreated as it was when Lloyd George lived there between 1864-1880 and includes furniture, household items and shoemaker’s tools and benches. The only original items from Highgate itself are the two desks in the parlour which David and his brother William used
Source: Collection development policy
Date: 2016
Licence: CC BY-NC