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.
6-546: North Lincolnshire Museum (formerly known as Scunthorpe Museum ) is a local museum in the town of Scunthorpe , North Lincolnshire , England . The museum is on Oswald Road, near the Scunthorpe railway station . It is run by North Lincolnshire Council . The museum has interactive exhibits and covers archaeology, nature, the Victorian era , and war time. It is housed in the former Frodingham vicarage, built in 1874 on
12-568: A governmental defined unit such as 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
18-401: 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
24-400: 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
30-483: 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
36-548: The site of Frodingham Hall . There is also a modern extension to the museum. It re-opened in February 2016 after undergoing a £150,000 refurbishment. 53°35′13″N 0°39′17″W / 53.5870°N 0.6546°W / 53.5870; -0.6546 This article relating to a museum in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Local museum These museums can cover
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