Diversity of Collections

The contents of the collections cover a wide variety of subjects including archaeology, social history, costume and textiles, fine art, decorative art and furniture, documents, photographs, numismatics, arms and armour, ethnography, natural sciences and geology. Click on an image and the text will give you some insight.  These are currently being updated.

Combination lock from the museum collections
A combination padlock
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Beetles from the natural history museum collections
Iridescent beetles
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A spinning wheel at the Black and White House museum
Spinning wheel
Black and White House
A Godwin tile made in Lugwardine, Herefordshire
A Godwin tile
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Skull of a bear from the museum collections
A bear skull
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A pram from the museum collections
A child’s pram
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Jimmy, the Doctor's horse. A stuffed horse at the Herefordshire Museum
Jimmy, the Doctor’s horse
Museum and Art Gallery
Horses harrowing painted by artist Brian Hatton
Paintings by Brian Hatton
Museum and Art Gallery
Embroidered quilt part of textiles collection Herefordshire Museum
Textiles
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Buttons from the museum collections
Buttons
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Roman pot from the museum
Roman Pot
Museum and Art Gallery