Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum The group of volunteers at Leamington Art Gallery is now in its twelfth year and was delighted to be presented with a special award for their work over this time by the West Midlands Museum Volunteer Awards, which was presented at a ceremony at the Hippodrome Theatre in Birmingham. … Continue reading Vols – Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery →

Alfred Herbert Art Gallery Coventry Over the last six months the Herbert group from The Arts Society Royal Leamington Spa completed a project to curtain off taxidermy shelves to allow dust free open storage of the collection. Following on from this, two members have been removing specimens from their boxes and securing them into foam … Continue reading Vols – Alfred Herbert →

Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum A group of volunteers from The Arts Society Royal Leamington Spa have been working at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum since 2004. They have undertaken a number of collections care projects, most recently condition checking and mounting 18th and 19th century samplers. This involved using glass weights to … Continue reading Vols – Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum →

Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum Our team of 4 volunteers are now entering their eighth year at the gallery. During this time they have condition checked, recorded, photographed and repacked the Textile Collection and the Ethnographic Collection. They are coming to the end of the Social History Collection, a large collection including many items … Continue reading Vols – Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum →

Historic Motoring Trophies Volunteers worked on a large collection of Historic Motoring/Transport Trophies, the earliest was 1797 a Coach not a Car! The entire collection was to be exhibited at The Coventry Transport Museum unfortunately it appears that funding has placed a stop for the moment on this project, but as you can see we did … Continue reading Vols – Historic Motoring Trophies →

Alfred Herbert Art Gallery Coventry The Herbert group has finished off a series of projects including making exhibit covers/curtains for the Natural History store, improved padded coat hangers for the dress store and making cushions to support books when they are accessed from the collection. The museum displayed an exhibition about Children’s Television from the … Continue reading Vols – Alfred Herbert →

Royal Regiment of Warwickshire Fusiliers Museum St. John’s Warwick The group examined over 100 uniforms for damage, vacuumed them carefully and replaced them in custom made covers. As these uniforms are mainly red they are particularly prone to insect infestation so regular cleaning and careful storage are very important. The group also checked and updated … Continue reading Vols – Royal Regiment of Warwickshire Fusiliers Museum St. John’s Warwick →

Weapons collection Our weapons Group, having previously worked both at the Lord Leycester Hospital and at the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum at St Johns, Warwick, have also recently completed a project for The Herbert Gallery at the Guildhall in Coventry. The group received further training from Gallery staff in order to complete this project.

Chasubles For Harbury Church The two completed chasubles  were on display at the 2011 Annual General Meeting. A white one lined in gold with patchwork embellishments and a purple one made to the same design now grace the services. The vicar Reverend Craig Groocock was delighted with the results of Annette and Helen’s hard work.