Collection: Gunnersbury Park Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Local History Collection

  Large collection of material relating to the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow includes a. small group of poorly documented agricultural items b. large collection of domestic items particularly strong for the period 1850 to 1910, including 1830s kitchens in the Large Mansion which houses the museum, c. items related to education locally, mainly late 19th and early 20th century but also material on local pioneers of educational reform such as Buckmasters and Sarah Trimmer, plus toys, dolls and games especially from later 19th and early 20th centuries d. personal items and portraits relating to people connected with the two boroughs, especially if they have made a significant contribution to national or local life or because of a link with items in the collection e. a small collection relatng to personal hygiene and health, strong in late 19th and early 20th century material but now being developed to include more recent material, especially from local manufacturers such as Beechams, Gillette etc f. Weapons from prehistoric, early mediaeval and Civil periods, early 19th century armed associations, civil defence material especially from World War 2. Local trades and industries – craft tools (eg tailoring, coopering, barge-building, parchment and vellum making) p;us large collection of ephemera and photos recording local industries especially those of the Great West Road (A4).

  Transport Collection

  A small but very fine collection, including two Rothschild carriages (the family owned the Gunnersbury estate 1830s to 1920s), a hansom cab, pony phaeton, bath chair, plus bicycles, harness, tickets, photographs etc.

  Fine Art Collection

  Topographical paintings, drawings, prints and watercolours of the area that is now the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow.

  Clothing and Textiles Collection

  One of the finest of the costume collections in the smaller museums in Greater London, but like most such collections it is made up mainly of middle and upper class female clothing of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum is trying to collect more recent and contemporary clothing to represent everyday wear, uniforms and protective clothing and clothes worn by local minority ethnic communities.

  Archaeology Collection

  The collection includes prehistoric flint tools and metalwork from the Sadler, Crooke and Layton Collections, excavated Roman, mediaeval and later material from sites in Brentford, Northolt. Cranford and Bedfont, plus chance finds from the London Boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow.

  Ancient Egyptian Collection

  The museum holds approximately 110 ancient Egyptian objects. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: flints. Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt: Abydos; Fayum; Gebelein; Hu; Meydum; Naqada; Thebes.

  Subjects

  Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeology; Egyptology

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC