museum

The Museum

The Museum houses an eclectic collection of objects and memoribilia relating to Nuneaton's past. Much of the collection has been donated by residents and visitors to the Centre, some we have aquired through negotiation and is now on long term loan.
We house the largest collection of Stanley Brickworks castings and moulds in Britain, as well as large collections of payrolls and office ledgers rescued before the works were demolished.
Much of Stanley's paperwork is now held at the Warwickshire County Archives where

it is still being catalogued and archived. We have assembled a large collection of moulding tools from the 19th and early 20th centuries as well as tools from the extractive industries which flourished in Nuneaton from the 17th century onwards.

The Victorian Schoolroom with its ancient wooden desks, the Headmistress's Parlour with its inglenook fireplace and stove are part of our interactive Victorian Schoolday experience for schools.
Nuneaton suffered during the war and we

have a collection of artifacts from that time as well as a wealth of information on the bombings of May 1941 when Nuneaton suffered numerous casualties and fatalities.

The "clippings" section of our collection has thousands of newspaper articles on a wide diversity of subjects all to do with the history (social, structural and environmental) of Nuneaton.