Collections in the UK
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OxfordshireAbingdon County Hall Museum
Abingdon
Abingdon County Hall Museum is a perfectly-preserved Restoration building in the centre of Abingdon, housing collections from the Iron Age, Roman town, the finest collection of Anglo-Saxon jewellery and personal items from Oxfordshire and outstanding Medieval finds. It also holds the Oxfordshire Collection of Contemporary Craft including pottery, ceramics, furniture and textiles.
+51.669933 -1.280997 -
Oxfordshire
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology
Oxford
The Ashmolean is a University Museum and a Department of the University of Oxford. It holds growing collections of mainly British, twentieth-century and contemporary studio ceramics, alongside smaller collections of contemporary silver and glass.
+51.755671 -1.260223 -
Brighton & Hove
Brighton & Hove Museums
Hove
The Brighton & Hove Contemporary Craft collection consists of work covering all media from 1974 to present. Many of the objects have been collected from artists living and working in the South East of England. The collection includes ceramics by Richard Slee, Elizabeth Fritsch, Alison Britton and Carol McNicoll, Textiles by Ann Sutton, Alice Kettle and Tadek Beutlich, jewellery by Adam Paxon, Jane Adam and Cynthia Cousens, and furniture by Wales and Wales.
+50.829289 -0.180273 -
Surrey
Crafts Study Centre
Farnham
The Crafts Study Centre is the UK's only specialist museum of modern craft in a purpose-built museum, related to a distinguished collection of modern and contemporary craft. The Centre's acclaimed collections include modern and contemporary calligraphy, ceramics, textiles, furniture and wood as well as makers' diaries, working notes and photographs dating from the 1920s.
+51.215830 -0.805297 -
Surrey
Embroiderers' Guild
The Embroiderers' Guild is the leading craft organisation in the UK promoting embroidery. The collection of over 11,000 embroidered and related objects is global in scope, showing the varied historical and cultural contexts of embroidery production and use. There is a particular focus on 20th century British embroidery in the collection.
+51.403909 -0.337465 -
Berkshire
Museum of Reading
Reading
Reading Museum Service is a centre of excellence in providing opportunities for life long learning through real objects and original documents. Reading Museum has been collecting craft objects since its founding 125 years ago. It has some notable decorative art collections, particularly ceramics, and contemporary work from the 1860s onwards. During the 1960s and 1970s a large and significant group of British Studio Craft - ceramics, embroidered pictures, dyed fabrics and weavings, was collected specifically for loan to schools.
+51.456627 -0.969791 -
Hampshire
Portsmouth City Museums and Records Service
Portsmouth
The Portsmouth City Museums and Records Service maintains a collection of British fine and decorative art from c.1450 to the present day and holds examples of British craft from c.1880, representing the areas of furniture, wooden items, ceramics, glass, and furnishing textiles.
+50.791755 -1.097483 -
Hampshire
Southampton City Art Gallery
Southampton
Alongside a collection of 20th century and contemporary British art, Southampton City Art Gallery also holds a small collection of St Ives related studio ceramics and a growing collection of contemporary ceramics.
+50.908568 -1.406001
