Jul 23, 2021 | Curator's Choice, Exhibitions, Latest News
With the easing of restrictions, we have been able to ‘re-open’ some of our interactive features around the museum. These include: In the ‘Mobile Postbox’ Exhibition in the Derby Assembly Rooms• Magnetic postal game – can you work out the order of the different stages...
Jul 2, 2021 | Curator's Choice, Latest News
As previously reported, the cabmen’s shelter returned to Crich last December following the completion of restoration work. To catch up on the project so far, see the last blog about it:...
Jun 18, 2021 | Curator's Choice, Latest News, Tramway Engineering
After 12 years on loan to Crich, Cardiff Horsecar no. 21 returned to its home in Wales on Friday 18th June. This vehicle came to Crich in 2009 on loan from the National Museum of Wales and has spent most of that time on display in the Exhibition Hall. As part of...
Aug 23, 2019 | Curator's Choice
Information on Northampton’s tramways is very limited. There is little mention of either the horse tramway (the Northampton Street Tramway), or the electric tramway (Northampton Corporation Tramways) in the trade journals written at the time. Nor has very much been...
Aug 22, 2019 | Curator's Choice, Tramway Engineering
Our major restoration project London County Council No. 1 has been making some really good progress in recent weeks. Over on our Facebook page we recently shared a video of the restored trolley bases being refitted to the roof of the tramcar, and now our latest blog...
Jun 4, 2019 | Curator's Choice, Latest News
Our current major restoration project, tramcar London County Council No. 1 (LCC1) has been making significant strides forward towards completion. With funding being supplied by the London County Council Tramways Trust, the project has been a massive undertaking for...
Jul 3, 2018 | Curator's Choice
Over the past few months we have been working through our backlog of photographic donations. This involves looking through what has been given to us and checking it against our existing collection to see if we have the images or not. Here is a look at some of the...
May 29, 2018 | Curator's Choice, Latest News
The National Tramway Museum in Derbyshire has received a National Lottery grant of £84,800 for an exciting project ‘Exploring the Historic Landscape of Crich Tramway Village’. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players and working with Peak District...
May 18, 2018 | Curator's Choice, Latest News
The National Tramway Museum, in Crich Derbyshire has been awarded a grant of £74,500 from AIM Biffa Award for a new permanent exhibition ‘Holroyd Smith – Electrifying the Future’. The History Makers scheme funds museums to create new exhibitions that will inspire the...
Feb 1, 2018 | Curator's Choice, Latest News
Crich Tramway Village was featured on the BBC programme, Antiques Road Trip on January 25th. The focus of the programme was on how women worked on the trams during the First World War, when many of the men were away fighting for their country, which is the subject of...