Collection: Mansfield Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Decorative and Applied Arts Collection

  Ceramic items, including porcelain relating to William Billingsley, Manners Collection of Lustreware, and Tagg Collection of Ceramics. Active collecting of items with local associations. Local significance.

  Subjects

  Ceramics; Decorative arts

  Social History Collection

  Collection covering domestic and personal life, trade and industry, leisure and social life, local government and amenities. Local significance.

  Subjects

  Domestic life; Trade (practice); Social history; Industry

  Fine Art Collection

  Local significance. Collection includes watercolours by A S Buxton, watercolours by Seddon-Tyrer, collection of prints, paintings and drawings. Active collecting of works by local artists or of local scenes/personalities.

  Subjects

  Fine arts; Paintings; Drawings; Prints

  Natural History Collection

  Local significance. Whitaker Collection of birds and mammals, Webb Collection of birds, foreign birds, birds’ eggs, butterflies and moths plus 1000 birds’ eggs No further collecting.

  Subjects

  Natural history; Biology

  Archaeology Collection

  Local significance Mansfield Museum holds a small collection of its own material, together with a collection owned by the Sherwood Archaeological Society of approximately 330 items in total. No active collecting.

  Subjects

  Archaeology

  Arms and Armour Collection

  Small quantity of firearms.

  Subjects

  Arms and Armour

  Numismatics Collection

  Local significance. Collection of coins.

  Subjects

  Numismatics; Coins

  Costume and Textiles Collection

  Local significance. Small quantity of costume.

  Subjects

  Textiles; Fashion; Costume

  Geology Collection

  Small collection of geology and palaeontology. No further collecting. Local significance.

  Subjects

  Geology

  Photography Collection

  Photographs and negatives of local subjects. Actively collected. Local significance.

  Subjects

  Photographs; Photographic negatives

  Archives Collection

  Local significance. Small collection of archive material. Majority of local material stored at Nottinghamshire Archives.

  Subjects

  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC