We’re currently utilising Ripley Library’s community display case to showcase a selection of items from our collection. It’s a great opportunity to get objects out on display outside the museum to provide interest, whilst hopefully also encouraging people to visit....
Earlier this year we made plans to decorate one of the horse trams in the Exhibition Hall to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. Working with Crich Junior School, we and the children had made some lovely paper flowers and banners to go on the tram (and horse!). We also...
To coincide with HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we have been looking through our photographic archive to dig out some wonderful pictures of trams decorated for royal occasions through the years. Decorated tramcars have been used to help celebrate significant royal...
As part of the #LoveYourRailway #Sustainability campaign, we champion our Survive and Thrive exhibition in our Derby Assembly Rooms building. As the 20th century progressed, tramway systems declined due to competition from buses and private motor cars. Years later,...
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...
A sunny Sunday 2nd May at Crich enabled the external display of Derby 1 prior to it leaving Crich to off – site storage. It was lined up with others from the East Midlands including Leicester 76 (which will return to the Exhibition Hall for static display) and...
As previously reported, the next restoration project for the workshop at Crich Tramway Village is Blackpool Brush Railcoach 298, which now needs to be brought back to the Crich Tramway Workshop from our store, ready to fit the new underframe due to be received from...
In the summer we reported that the National Tramway Museum had been awarded a grant from AIM Biffa Award, as part of the History Makers Scheme, for a new permanent exhibition about Michael Holroyd Smith. The exhibition will be ready for the opening of our 2019 season...
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