Catherine Warr Feature
Historian and filmmaker Catherine Warr explored the museum and some of our unusual items. This is a great introduction and sneak peak if you're considering a visit. Watch on YouTube.
Abel Hold Exhibition
Our current rotating exhibition is a collection of photographs, artwork, and memorabilia relating to Cawthorne artist Abel Hold. Some of these date from the last quarter of the 18th century.
Permanent Collections
There are exhibits of domestic bygones, war-time relics, royal memorabilia, and natural history. The work of local artists like Abel Hold, John Nattes, Samuel Swift and Roddam Spencer Stanhope. There is also a collection of unusual items including:
- A two headed lamb
- A mongoose fighting a cobra
- A figure of John Wesley made from a whale’s vertebra
- A boy’s boot wrecked when struck by lightning
- A stereoscope
- A cheetah (stroked by many children over the years)
- A Victorian coffin bier
- A 9½lb gall stone from a horse (we now know that the stone is from a horse’s intestine as horses do not have gall bladders, but we like to keep the story)
- And so much more!
