- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7496040
- Also known as:
- Shibden Hall Museum
- Part of:
- Calderdale Museum Service
- Instance of:
- historic house museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1227
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7496040/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Decorative and Applied Art Collection
Furniture, 600 pieces, is important including Lister family 17th century oak inlaid pieces and 30 clocks. Ceramics, 800 pieces, not outstanding being mainly 19th and 20th century but local domestic pottery, Soil Hill, important. Metalwork numbers 500 with pewter important. Small glass collection, 200 pieces, with 1930s studio glass in house body. 17th century oak furniture many with full provenance 30 clocks of regional and national importance Local domestic pottery especially Soil Hill Pewter of national significance.
Subjects
Decorative and Applied Arts
Social History Collection
Major pre-industrial crafts and trades collection,6000 objects, dating from 1880-1930 is the core of the Folk Life Museum set up by Frank Atkinson in the early 1950s. 40% of the collections is wood and leather working tools now listed in computer and a catalogue produced. Social history collection, 7000 objects, ranging from 16th to 20 century including 17th century drinking vessels and 20th century washing machines with 50% of collection from 1850-1940. Wood and leather working tools.
Subjects
Social History
Agriculture Collection
West Yorkshire agriculture with emphasis on hill farming.
Subjects
Agriculture
Transport Collection
Active collecting in the 1950s has produced a small but significant collection of objects mainly with Calderdale connections. Horse drawn, hand drawn, canal related, rail and other accessories including the important Lister Chaise and Step-in Gig with early pneumatic tyres.
Subjects
Transport
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC