The Museum is home to the largest preserved collections of tramcars and associated works vehicles in the country. The collection comprises more than 80 vehicles, the majority of which are passenger carrying tramcars, but we also have several works vehicles, such as...
Visitor input is required to help an artistic award winning duo create a contemporary First World War Memorial at the National Tramway Museum. Further to securing £15,000 from Arts Council England (ACE) and £7,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the project...
When we were researching our Arms to Armistice exhibition, Hannah our Curatorial Assistant discovered the story of Private Thomas Whitham, the only tramwayman, we know to have received the Victoria Cross for Bravery. Click to find out more about his story.
It has been a busy week at the Museum, with maintenance work taking place in the Exhibition Hall, ready for Bournemouth 85 arriving later in the year, and whilst that was happening, we also had a team of our Workshop staff and volunteers, working down at our off site...
We announced back in May that we had been awarded grants from both Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, to develop the project Conversations & Memories, which would see a series of contemporary sculptures by artistic duo Musson&Retallick,...
The National Tramway Museum contains a large collection of photographs taken by many leading photographers which are widely used by researchers and book publishers. The collection of around 50,000 images includes prints, film negatives, glass plate negatives, lantern...
Library Volunteer Lynn, discusses the history behind a set of drawings relating to tramway overhead line fittings, that she has recently catalogued for the Library and are now available for researchers.
Sunday 23rd April, saw not only three of our own wonderful tramcars in service carrying passengers up and down our track, but also four of the Robert Whetstone models took to their own track in the Great Exhibition Hall. This year we are operating the models on a...
Hannah our Curatorial Assistant explains the rather confusing practice of whether to wear gloves or not when we are handling and working with our collections here at the Museum.
Royal Artillery badge belonging to Ernest Taylor. The Curatorial team at the museum have been busy preparing for the opening of our new exhibition “Arms to Armistice” which explores the impact of the First World War on Britain’s tramways from 1916 until the end...
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