Category Archives: RMN news

Exploring how to identify, care for and share rural collections

We’re delighted to be able to share with you a new resource aimed at exploring how to identify, care for and share rural collections. The Rural Relevance toolkit for museums was created because of a skills and knowledge gap identified … Continue reading

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So, you’ve joined the Network but why not go the whole hog?

The Rural Museums Network is run by a dedicated committee of volunteers who support members, organise events and initiate projects. The committee are always keen to ensure that they represent the network as a whole – in terms of the … Continue reading

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Save the date for the 2018 Annual Seminar

Save the date!  The annual seminar of the Rural Museums Network will take place on Sunday 30 September and Monday 1 October 2018 at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse in Norfolk. Join us on Sunday 30 September and experience the museum’s … Continue reading

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Your guide to interpreting carriages

As part of Staffordshire Archives & Heritage’s Arts Council Resilience funded ‘Moving On’ project, a new ‘Guide to Interpreting Carriages’ has been produced. It is available as a free download at www.staffordshirecarriages.org.uk Horse-drawn carriages are found in museum collections across … Continue reading

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Rural Museums Network Development Study vacancy

On this post you find attached an advert for a consultant/worker to undertake a primarily desk-based review of RMN’s current activities and make recommendations regarding our future development. This work is being commissioned following discussion by the RMN committee and the detailed … Continue reading

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Rural Museums Network Annual Conference 2015

Annual Conference 2015 The Preservation and Interpretation of Historic Farm Buildings   The Rural Museums Network annual conference for 2015 will be held in Scotland on 20th and 21st May. It is being hosted jointly by Urras Achadh an Droighinn/The … Continue reading

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Settling House settles into new museum home

The Settling House or Counting House from the old cattle market in nearby Bury St Edmunds has been removed, restored and is now on show as an exhibit at the Museum of East Anglian Life at Stowmarket. Click here for … Continue reading

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2014 AGM and Conference

The theme for this year’s Conference was larger and working objects in museums.  On Wednesday 14th May we met at the S.E. Davis Collection at Astwood Bank near Redditch. Tim Bryan of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, Skills for the Future … Continue reading

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Digitising the Agricultural Heritage Distributed National Collection

The RMN is pleased to announce that it will be putting records from the AHDNC online. Over the next few months Isobel Keith will be preparing records for inclusion on Culture Grid, the digital UK collections resource operated by Collections … Continue reading

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Steam ploughing tackle on the move!

A steam ploughing cultivator and harrows have recently been transferred from the Museum of Lincolnshire Life at Lincoln to the Museum of East Anglian Life at Stowmarket. The equipment was surplus to requirement at Lincoln, but just what MEAL needed. Both … Continue reading

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