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Strangers’ Hall

Posted on 28th March 2017 by kajsa

Originally the collection of Leonard Bolingbroke a local solicitor. The museum now has one of the largest domestic life collections in the country, encompassing everything from jelly moulds to jigsaw puzzles, from vacuum cleaners to Valentines.

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Black Country Living Museum

Posted on 28th March 201728th March 2017 by mariah

The Black Country Living Museum is a twenty six acre open-air, “living” museum that is set in the 1800s – the architecture, objects and costumes are all specific to the time period.

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Bakelite Museum

Posted on 28th March 201728th March 2017 by mariah

The Museum is predominantly composed of Bakelite items from the inter-war and Art Deco period. Exhibits range from more ordinary of items such as toasters, telephones and radios, to the more extraordinary, including a Bakelite coffin and spy camera!

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Collection of Collections collates a selection of great British collections—from those of major institutions to the very personal and idiosyncratic.

Curator Mariah Nielson and designers Åbäke and Thomas Bush are compiling this collection based on personal experiences and curiosities—it is an on-going project that will continue to expand.

These collections were represented in a series of postcards shown in the UK Pavilion at Feria Internacional del Libro which took place from 28 November to 6 December 2015 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Invaluable assistance was provided throughout by Imogen Adams, Abigail Doran and Cecilia Sosa
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