Wycombe Museum
Encyclopedia
Wycombe Museum is a free local museum
located in the town of High Wycombe
, Buckinghamshire
, England
. It is run by Wycombe District Council.
The museum is located in Castle Hill House on Priory Avenue. It is situated in an 18th century house on a medieval site. Surrounding the museum are Victorian
gardens, including a nature trail. The museum presents exhibitions on crafts and history of the local area, including the furniture
industry, especially chair
-making. There are also displays of Windsor chair
s, lace
, and natural history
.
, written by James Corden
who was rasied in the area
Local museum
A local museum is a museum that covers local history. Its collection normally includes objects with a local connection of some sort. Such museums are often small in nature and have a low budget for their running costs...
located in the town of High Wycombe
High Wycombe
High Wycombe , commonly known as Wycombe and formally called Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe until 1946,is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is west-north-west of Charing Cross in London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town...
, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It is run by Wycombe District Council.
The museum is located in Castle Hill House on Priory Avenue. It is situated in an 18th century house on a medieval site. Surrounding the museum are Victorian
Victorian era
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
gardens, including a nature trail. The museum presents exhibitions on crafts and history of the local area, including the furniture
Furniture
Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
industry, especially chair
Chair
A chair is a stable, raised surface used to sit on, commonly for use by one person. Chairs are most often supported by four legs and have a back; however, a chair can have three legs or could have a different shape depending on the criteria of the chair specifications. A chair without a back or...
-making. There are also displays of Windsor chair
Windsor chair
A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are dowelled, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to standard chairs, where the back legs and the uprights of the back are continuous. The seats of Windsor chairs were often carved into a shallow dish...
s, lace
Lace
Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Lace-making is an ancient craft. True lace was...
, and natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
.
Collections
The museum collections include:- Social history of the WycombeHigh WycombeHigh Wycombe , commonly known as Wycombe and formally called Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe until 1946,is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is west-north-west of Charing Cross in London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town...
and Buckinghamshire areas. - Furniture industry — chairs, other furniture and tools that relate to the furniture industry in and around High Wycombe, videotapes of craftsmen at work.
- Tokens and coins — including trade tokens relating to the Wycombe and Buckinghamshire areas.
- Art — oil paintings, prints, watercolours, drawings, engravings, brass rubbings and sculpture.
- Oral history tapes — recordings taken over the past 30 years.
- Stuffed wild animals, common to local fields and woodlands.
- Archive material and photographs — sale catalogues, price lists, design books and account books of furniture companies dating back to the 19th century.
- Photographs — relating to the town and the furniture industry and trade in the Wycombe area.
Trivia
The museum was mentioned in Gavin & StaceyGavin & Stacey
Gavin & Stacey is a British comedy television series. A romantic comedy-drama, the show follows the long-distance relationship of Gavin from Billericay in Essex, England, and Stacey from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The writers of the show, actors James Corden and Ruth Jones, also...
, written by James Corden
James Corden
James Kimberley Corden is an English actor, television writer, producer and presenter. He is co-creator and star of BBC comedy shows Gavin & Stacey and Horne & Corden, and acted in the 2009 film Lesbian Vampire Killers....
who was rasied in the area
External links
- Wycombe Museum website
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