Rural Museums Network
A registered charity that promotes learning and encourages a wider understanding of the UK’s rural heritage
Skip to content
  • Home
  • News
  • About Us
    • Members
    • Subscriptions – Join RMN!
    • Constitution
    • Privacy Policy
  • Events
    • Cultivating Change in Rural Collections 8-23 October 2020
    • AGM and Keynote Address: Rural Places and the Great Beyond: Techniques for Linking Local Environments with Global Histories
    • How to Reap the Rewards with the RMN
    • Coronavirus in the Countryside: Rural Museums’ Responses to Covid-19 and Lockdown
    • Why Black Lives Matter in the British Countryside
  • Collections
    • A Distributed National Collection
    • Beekeeping
    • Dairying
    • Ploughs
    • Shepherd’s huts
    • Threshing machines
    • Tractors and Combine Harvesters
    • Rural Crafts and Trades Collections Today
    • Collecting 20th Century Rural Cultures
    • Turning Green – Collections Toolkit
  • Resources
    • Map of Rural Museums
    • Blogs
    • Building Relevance
    • Turning Green – sustainability
    • Rural Museums: Ten Years On
    • Events, exhibitions and displays
      • Settling House settles into new museum home
    • Links
  • Contact Us

Links

Funding and Advisory Bodies:

Museums Association

Arts Council England

Other Subject Specialist Networks:

SSN Consortium

Rural Heritage Organisations:

Association of Independant Museums

Association of Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums

Association of Heritage Interpretation

British Agricultural History Society

Council for the Protection of Rural England

English Heritage

Geograph British Isles – photographs and information

International Association of Agricultural Museums

Ken’s Great Barns

Milestone Society

Mills Archive

Natural England

National Fairground and Circus Archive

Royal Agricultural Society of England

Staffordshire Past Track

Society for Folk Life Studies

Tools and Trades History Society

Traction Time

UK Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works

Rural Arts and Crafts:

Basket Makers Association

British Artist Blacksmiths Association

Woodland Crafts

Rural Community and Campaigning:

ACRE

DEFRA

LEAF: Linking Environment and Farming

Let Nature Feed Your Senses

National Farmers Union

Tools for Self Reliance

  • Latest News

    • Networking – The Power of People
    • Trial and Error the Key to Successful Interpretation
    • Seeking Solutions and Finding Support
    • Connecting to Collections
    • “Windrows to the Past” – Reap the Rewards, South West
  • Rural Museums Network on Twitter

    • RT @LisaMuseum: @TheMERL @rmnvoice We've often taken our plough to church from @MuseumEALife - it's lovely when the community gets… https://t.co/wzGx1bpLXU 2 weeks
    • RT @TheMERL: Today is Plough Monday, traditionally marking the beginning of the English agricultural year, as farming resumed af… https://t.co/rTzrR5tl2x 2 weeks
    • RT @actonscottfarm: Snow morning at Acton Scott https://t.co/qpWmFXgjFD 3 weeks
    • RT @CuratorialRC: Small and rural museums are well placed not just to decolonise but to begin changing societal attitudes to racial a… https://t.co/C8DRZOTzy3 1 month
    • RT @cornwallmp: "The project will document the experiences of Black people in Cornwall informing the work of local and national mus… https://t.co/jW15Rcar3H 2 months
    Follow @rmnvoice
  • Archives

    • March 2020
    • February 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • November 2019
    • July 2019
    • March 2019
    • August 2018
    • June 2018
    • February 2016
    • April 2015
    • September 2014
    • May 2014
    • September 2013
    • March 2013
    • January 2013
    • October 2012
    • July 2012
    • June 2012
    • May 2012
    • November 2011
    • October 2011
    • July 2011
    • May 2011
  • Recent Comments

    • Categories

      • RMN news
      • RMN publications
      • Uncategorized
    • Meta

      • Log in
      • Entries feed
      • Comments feed
      • WordPress.org
    Rural Museums Network
    Proudly powered by WordPress.