DUFFEMS Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Open Days: Saturday 29th.March Saturday 26th.April Monday 5th.May Monday 26th.May Saturday 31st. May Saturday 28th.June Saturday 26th. July Monday 25th.August Saturday 30th.August Saturday 27th.September Saturady 25th.October Saturday 29th.November Open 10:30- 4:30 Admission £1.50, Concessions £1.00, Family Ticket £4.00 (2 Adults + 2 Children). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History man Posted March 27, 2008 Author Share Posted March 27, 2008 Thanks for posting that DUFFEMS, its great to see that other people know things about the museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History man Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Did anyone get to the musuem on saturday? If not put 26th April in your diary, thats the next open day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUFFEMS Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 If you are a Sheffielder then this place is a must, if you are new to Sheffield then this place is well worth a visit to learn something about Shefffield's heritage. It's a fascinating place for young and old, the volunteers there are very enlightening and welcoming. I'm not plugging this museum because I have any connections with it, just that I came across it and have found it to be an absolute gem. It's quite unusual to find so much information within our city limilts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardonia Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's a good museum I want to visit the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising in London sometime. Same idea, but much bigger and it always gets brilliant reviews. It's a slightly obscure museum and all the work of one man, Robert Opie. http://www.museumofbrands.com/index.html http://www.urbanpath.com/london/museums/museum-of-brands.htm http://www.robertopiecollection.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenC Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's a good museum I want to visit the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising in London sometime. Same idea, but much bigger and it always gets brilliant reviews. It's a slightly obscure museum and all the work of one man, Robert Opie. http://www.museumofbrands.com/index.html http://www.urbanpath.com/london/museums/museum-of-brands.htm http://www.robertopiecollection.com/ Yes I'd love to go there too. I love old advertisments (infact I bought that book on the last link ['Remember When'] a few weeks ago in York). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardonia Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here. Syd Barret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenC Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Syd Barret Good observation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean1 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 i have heard from a very reliable source that the heritage museum is to close! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltheof Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 i have heard from a very reliable source that the heritage museum is to close! I wouldn't be surprised--the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, of which the museum was an offshoot, thanks to its first founder, Prof. John Widdowson, has gone through many lean periods--it seems the University didn't quite know what to do with it and even found it an embarrassment at times. Now the Centre's library and archives are being absorbed into the Special Collections of the Main Library and many who gave interesting material are being asked if they want it back; also books have been sold off from the Centre's library if they were considered to be duplicates or not relevent to the work of the Centre. I can't help feeling that this means a movement to run the Centre down eventually. On the other hand, one big collection that has taken off massively in the University is the Fairground Collection (a subject not entirely unrelated to what the Centre was intended to study), under the curatorship of the dynamic Vanessa Toulmin--so perhaps there is hope that material from the Centre will be advertised and find good usage among scholars. It would, however, be sad if the Museum closed...it also has a fair bit of material that I donated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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