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Curator's Blog: The Trouble with Toys
16 March 2017
In the shops and houses at the Museum we have many things on display. For Jessica, our Assistant Curator, some of her favourites are the toys we have in the village. But toys...
Curators' Blog
31 January 2017
Hi I’m Helen, I am the Curator of Domestic and Cultural life here at Black Country Living Museum. You may have wondered why we were closed for two weeks...
Curators' Blog: A Welcome Gift- Archibald Kenrick & Sons
09 September 2016
Our Curators' have been putting together a new exhibition in our Rolfe street entrance building. We have been fortunate to be gifted a large collection of Kenrick material...
Rare Glass by Chance
16 June 2016
We have recently been offered a rare opportunity to pick pieces of glass from a private collection which, we were pleased to find, included items of Chance made glass. ...
The Story Behind Our Cars: Re-interpreting our Vehicle Collection
03 June 2016
Our Bradburn & Wedge Motor Company Garage highlights and displays our automotive collection. We had previously used interpretation panels displayed next to each car to tell...
Curator's Blog: 43 Years Volunteering
24 September 2015
The Curatorial Team joined George Price at the Olde Swan Inn in Netherton to celebrate his contribution to BCLM over the past 43 years as a member of the Friends. ...
Curator's Blog - Rediscovering the Kenrick Archive
02 September 2015
This month, our Collections Team have been working on our Kenrick Archives. Archibald Kenrick & Sons were a Black Country company who began trading as iron founders in...
Curators Blog: It’s ‘Lights, Camera, Action!’ this summer
23 July 2015
You may not realise it but our Cinema here at the Black Country Living Museum still plays films, cartoons and short comedies using 16mm film and projector just as it would have...
I LOVE MUSEUMS
10 June 2015
Today is the launch of I Love Museums , a new campaign led by the National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC) to demonstrate the depth of support for UK museums by...
Award-Winning £62k Restoration Brings Rare Boat Back to Life
10 April 2015
Birchills, an extremely rare Joey, or ‘day boat’, has been repaired and re-docked at BCLM following an appeal which raised £62,000 worth of charitable...
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