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Trowbridge Museum
Posted: December 22, 2023A funeral bier is a stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial. Having this object on display includes the surrounding villages in the social history story told by the museum as the object comes from Southwick and North Bradley. This helps instill… -
Kabarnet Museum Kenya
Posted: December 22, 2023Pokot traditional dress and head gear Restoration Project Introduction Kabarnet Museum is a regional museum under the National Museums of Kenya. The museum was established in 1994 to showcase the cultural artifact of the Rift Valley people including Ilchamus, Tugen and Pokot in Baringo County, Kenya. The National Museums… -
The Royal College of Physicians: Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick Portrait
Posted: December 21, 2022A Tru Vue Conservation & Exhibition Grant was awarded to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Museum to glaze a portrait of Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick by David Poole (1992). Dame Turner-Warwick was a leading doctor of lung diseases, a significant woman in medicine who was instrumental in raising the profile… -
The William Morris Society
Posted: August 3, 2022The Kelmscott Press was William Morris’s last creative endeavor in which he set out to revive the craft aesthetic of medieval book production. The Society is fortunate to have a number of Kelmscott Press books, one of the four original Albion Printing Presses used by the company and an assortment… -
Horton Chapel
Posted: July 11, 2022Built in 1901, Horton Chapel is the last surviving chapel of Epsom’s unique ‘cluster’ of five pioneering psychiatric hospitals. A community-led charity project saved and renovated the building, transforming it from its semi-derelict state into a stunning new cultural venue ‘The Horton’ – with the help of a £1.7m grant… -
The Trigge Library of St Wulfram’s Church
Posted: July 11, 2022Project outline The funded work was for the conservation of three sixteenth-century books from the Trigge Library. The Library is situated in a parvise room above the south porch of St Wulfram’s Church and it was founded in 1598. It contains some 350 pre-Victorian items. Conservation work on two of… -
The Cartoon Museum
Posted: November 16, 2021Ralph Steadman is one of the world’s most influential living illustrators, perhaps best known for his collaborations with iconic American writer Hunter S. Thompson on the birth of ‘Gonzo’ journalism and the now cult-classic ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, published in 1971. As part of curatorial research completed in…
