A local museum or local history museum is a type of museum that shows the historical development of a place/region ( local history ) using exhibits. These museums usually maintain a collection of historic three-dimensional objects which are exhibited in displays. Such museums are often small in nature and generally have a low budget for their running costs. As such, many of the collections are compiled, cataloged, and interpreted by amateur historians as well as professionals.
12-769: Keswick Museum is a local museum based in Keswick in the English Lake District , which exhibits aspects of the landscape, history and culture of the area. The collection was established as the Keswick Museum of Local and Natural History, a creation of the Keswick Literary and Scientific Society, in the Moot Hall , in 1873. An important item in the original collection at the Moot Hall was
24-532: A town , city , county , or parish or they can cover an area defined within the museum's mission. In the United States while some museums may be part of the local government or receive funding from them in some way. However, most local history museums are usually self-funded. These museums can also run as independent organizations or they can managed by an accompanying local historical society which also will maintain an archive of local records in addition to
36-714: A three-dimensional model of the Lake District, measuring 12 feet by 9 feet, made by Joseph and James Flintoft in 1837. The collection moved to purpose-built facilities, in Fitz Park , constructed as a memorial to the Hewetson brothers, distinguished Keswick benefactors, in 1897. Cannon Hardwicke Rawnsley , one of founders of the National Trust , attended the opening of the art gallery at the museum, in 1906. The Fitz Park Trust got into financial difficulties and
48-1114: Is a Heimatmuseum , a museum dedicated to the unique German concept of heimat , a form of local cultural identity. Heimatmuseum Look for Heimatmuseum on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Heimatmuseum in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
60-587: The Herries novels by Hugh Walpole (four novels set in the Lake District) and letters to Walpole from 13 leading English writers. The Mountain Heritage Trust maintains a changing exhibition in the museum: in 2018/19 "Man and Mountain" featured Chris Bonington , and in 2019/20 it focused on Siegfried Herford . Local museum These museums can cover a governmental defined unit such as
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84-401: The area such as a bank or a railroad depot. Many local museums are also open-air museums in which several historical buildings from the area have been collected in some museum villages and rebuilt in a new location. In some cases the character of the local history museum is superimposed with the representation of a famous or well-known person from the area, or focuses on a single branch of
96-686: The collection was rescued by Allerdale Council in April 1994. Then, in February 2007, Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Management Limited was formed to operate the museum on behalf of the council as the sole trustee. The building was extensively refurbished, with financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund , at a cost of £2.1 million between September 2012 and May 2014. The museum has a collection of about 20,000 objects, of which 5-10% are on display. While these include material relating to
108-400: The economy that was or is particularly formative for the region. Local history museums offer the interpretation of the everyday lives of ordinary people and the unique histories that locale may offer. These museums also offer a more in-depth look into the details of how national and international events affected the locale represented by the museum. In Germany, a specific type of local museum
120-483: The museum's three-dimensional object collection. Local history museums are frequently housed in a historically significant or thematically typical building; it is often a former public building such as a school building, a former courthouse, or city/town hall since the structure, which was already owned by the municipality and can continue its use as a in the public realm as a museum. Other times museums are located in repurposed commercial buildings that had significance for
132-408: The town of Keswick using hornfels , a stone from the nearby Skiddaw mountain, which is said to have a superior tone and longer ring than the more commonly used slate. Other items in the collection include a 700-year-old cat (found mummified within the wall of a church at Clifton near Penrith), a penny-farthing bicycle and a man-trap . The Hugh Walpole Collection includes manuscripts of all
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#1732779985430144-529: The whole of north Cumbria , the museum now only collects items from the Derwent Seven Parishes , approximately the CA12 postcode area. The collection includes artifacts from Keswick's landscape, history and culture as well as the three-dimensional model made by Joseph and James Flintoft. It also includes The Musical Stones of Skiddaw , a number of lithophones built across two centuries around
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