Collection Acquisitions
The Abbey Museum has a broad but strict collecting policy, acquiring artefacts that tells the human story worldwide. Objects in our collections span over a million years from prehistory to the 20th century, providing insights into technology, art, music, science, faith, and social history. We collect objects that tell a story and assist our educational programs or give greater depth and meaning to existing collections. We have limited storage space so need to be considered about what we accept.
Your support of the Abbey Museum will enable us to acquire objects to enhance our collection. Our current target acquisitions include musical instruments, coins, costumes, European porcelain, early guns and medieval figurative objects. We are interested in Viking and Greek artefacts, two cultures that are not well represented in the Museum collections.
Senior Curator Michael Strong and a recently acquired Anglo Saxon funerary bucket (5th-7th century AD).
The following artefacts are recent acquisitions and donations to the Abbey Museum.
05244 Vision of St Hubert by Leon-Louis LeClaire, 1879
05247 Garo head hunting knife, Assam, 19th cent.
05245 Aboriginal bark painting of a Wandjina by Lily Karadada
05246 Livery cupboard with scene from the Nativity, German or Austrian, 16th cent.
05248 Court suit of Sir Evelyn Shaw, English, 1890s-1912