Nov 23, 2020 | Collection
One of the exciting things about working at the Abbey Museum is being there when a new object is donated. Recently, the Abbey was given a fabulous example of a silver 30-tari coin from Malta. This coin was issued in 1798 during the brief reign of Ferdinand von...
Jul 22, 2020 | Collection
Salt can have devastating effects on ancient artefacts. It also can be a tricky process to deal with these salts to protect an artefact over time. Such is the case with one particular process taken on an artefact in the Abbey Museum Collection, the circular plaque of...
Jun 26, 2019 | Collection
Among the Abbey Museum’s more recent acquisitions is a collection of forty-four objects from Turkey, Tunisia and Papua New Guinea including an amazing intact Roman glass flask. It is incredible to have such a fragile object in our collection, considering it was...
Jun 17, 2019 | Collection
From the collection of the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology,‘Ehon Azuma-asobi’ (Picture book of the pleasure spots of the Eastern Capital) Here at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology we are the fortunate custodians of a series of woodblock printed illustrations...
Apr 17, 2019 | Collection
Sometimes it is extraordinary how small serendipitous consequences can have great results. Such was the outcome from a recent visitor to the Museum who came from Bedale, a tiny village in the Yorkshire Dales. They reported back to their local newspaper that they had...
