Category: Collections

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Casting Around the Stores

In this blog Dr Rebecca Wade, Collections Assistant (Cultural Recovery Fund), rediscovers the identities of an intriguing set of plaster casts in our collection taken

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Tokens of Affection

In today’s blog, Assistant Curator, Kirsty Young, delves into our collection for this Valentine’s Day inspired blog, tracking the evolution of love and relationships from

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Bradford Christmas Waits

Bradford Christmas Waits As the festive period is in full swing, one of our Assistant Curators of Collections, Dr Lauren Padgett, has been looking into

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Our Assistant Curator of Collections, Emma Longmuir was tasked with leading on an updating of the 1970s focused 'Back to Back' house (part of the ever-popular run of houses illustrating changing lifestyles.
Our latest exhibition at Bradford Industrial Museum is gorgeous photography by Neil Horsley, looking at the repurposing and re-use of Mill Buildings. He kindly agreed to write this blog for about the project.
If you visited Bradford Industrial Museum earlier this year you might have spotted the display on Baird Television & Thorn Electricals that we had in our small cafe gallery there.
This latest blog from our volunteer Ian looks at the Butterfield Brothers as business men - which isn't a story we've told before.