There will come soft rains

 The museum would like to share its  mission statement through the poetry of Sara Teasdale.

object category 2
2019
20x30cm
wood, glass, shell and metal

Table top museums

Last weekend The Museum went out for the day to meet some other museums at the Art Workers Guild in central London. It was for the annual meeting of artists collections and museums organised by Stephen Fowler and George Hardie.

We met the Museum of Coastal Curiosities with their many beautiful hagstones , witches fingers and sea eggs....

There was Prue Coopers collection of grooves (above) plus other collections of mud,lucky dip bags, ennui,moulds,paper weights, gay dolls,stencils, rubber stamps,paintings on photographs, embroidery, sleeping dolls,love tokens,quackery,felt animals and shopping lists.
  It was a joyful day and the museum was delighted to meet Josie Firmin whose father Peter Firmin is the inspiration for the museum and all its' work.

Nothing left on the table

1. Your Best China is Cracked.
  Old lace edged doily with red embroidered ears. 2017

2. The Bloom is Gone,
 Fragile but still beautiful tray cloth with white embroidered ears. 2017

3. You Don't Need These Anymore.
  Unused linen napkins with embroidered ears. 2017

Shadow exhibition part 5, Geranium Bird shadow

Our most recent acquisition, this shadow captures the silence of a summer afternoon.

see also the shadow made at the museum

Shadow Exhibition part 4, collage shadow

Whilst taking some time to collect, this highly detailed shadow has born fruit over the years.

Shadow Exhibition part 3, Wooden shadow

One of our most popular items, it never fails to delight .

Shadow Exhibition part two,Table shadow.

This shadow was found under a table.It is one of the museums' rarest objects.

Shadow collection

The museum has a small collection of shadows which will form a new five part on-line exhibition. First up is the fast flickering of rose leaves one autumn afternoon.

Museum Opening 2015

As part of the general open studios, the museum will be open this year on the 13th December in the studio of Fleur Oakes.

Weep all you wish

'Weep all you wish my little one'.
Postcard sent to the museum.10x14cm
2015
envelope,feathers,elizabethan pin,words.

The five boxes of emotional location

                                                                          3. anger

                                                                        5. jealousy

                                                                           2. loneliness

                                                                           4. loss

                                                                               1. love

chocolate boxes,scissors,tape measure,hair combs,suspender clips,brown labels

20cm x 15cm
2012

A mistress keeps the chocolate boxes that her lover gives her and puts her sewing notions in them.
She lives by herself but they do eventually get married.
She has no children of her own.

Category rules

Museum artefact type 1:

   objects arranged in a case purposefully.
Museum artefact type 2:
   objects tampered with.
Museum artefact type 3:
   objects just named.
Museum artefact type 4:
    enigmatic objects.
Museum artefact type 5:
     objects recycled.

A button implicator

wooden object, view of portrait fragment.
60cm x 30cm
2013

Fled is that music

glass dome perfume bottle, bent drawing pins, broken ear-piece.

10cm x 6cm
 2013

The Olympic in 3D

white bath towel from the White Star line
70cm x 50cm
2012


A big ship, a big iceberg.
A sale of goods.
A lady buys some nice towels, she remembers the ship.
They get used .
They get put away.
They get put in a box when the house is cleared.
They are nearly used for rags.

Presented by Mrs Steppatt

glass dome, burnt 1930s wedding dress, spent matches, paper label.
30cm x 60cm.
2010-2012

Your eyes have been opened...

Angela Barrett  'Lady Macbeth'

  The recent show at the museum asked questions ....

Bruce Gilbert  'Flying Mole'

These were seen by Bruce Gilbert on a trip to Switzerland

Celia Ward ' Rubbish Dump Messiah'

 Moved by images of art created on vast rubbish dumps Celia Ward response was to produce an icon to sustainability.

Piers Jamson  'Wey Corridor'

 Piers Jamson lives a few seconds into the future which is why he knows what it will look like.

Susan Stockwell  'Glasses'

Susan Stockwell, textile designer, had to wear these glasses at the age of eighteen months.

                  Vanessa  Rolf  'Battle of Narvik'

Vanessa Rolf

Vanessa Rolf examined censorship during WW2.

and Rachael Matthews did this which opens more than eyes.

Your Eyes Have Been Opened and Now You Can Not Close Them

   The next public exhibition will be on the weekend of the 30th June and 1st July. There will be a timed entry system to allow all visitors to have their own private view of the show.
Artists showing  are:
Angela Barrett , Rachael Matthews ,Celia Ward ,Vanessa Rolf ,Bruce Gilbert, Susan Stockwell and Piers Jamson.
  Silence is requested at all times in the museum.
Gifts, souvenirs and refreshments will be available.

Where?

The Museum for Objects of Vertu

Wet

installation of waterfall in museum cupboard.
2011.
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