Wagons, carts and timber bobs - a day in the life of a museum curator - TopLots
Description
A day with the curator, moving part of the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum’s collection of wheeled vehicles.
The award-winning Weald & Downland Open Air Museum has over 45 historic building exhibits and is designated by the Government for the outstanding importance of its collections. It is also home to over 10,000 other artefacts, many of which are wheeled vehicles and agricultural implements.
In order to conserve, display and interpret these artefacts, they often need to be moved around the Museum site. This takes very specialist curatorial skills, to ensure the safety of both artefact and operative!
The TopLots winner will spend a day with Museum Curator Julian Bell and his collections team, deciding on strategies for moving items, and executing the moves, whilst learning about their uses and histories.
Terms & Conditions
The participant(s) must be aged over 18.
Due to the nature of the lot, participants must be physically fit and agile.
Participants must wear steel toe-cap safety footwear and suitable working clothes. All other safety equipment will be provided. Lunch and other refreshments will be included.
The winner is responsible for the arrangement and cost of travel.
The lot will be taken by 31 October 2008 on a day and at a time to be arranged between the winner and Weald & Downland Open Air Museum.
This lot cannot be publicly resold without the permission of TopLots but can be offered as a gift.
The TopLots Heritage Auction is a fundraising event organised by the Association of Independent Museums (Registered Charity: 1082215) acting as the agent for arts and heritage organisations across the UK. Delivery of this lot, as described, to the winner is the responsibility of Weald & Downland Open Air Museum which will receive (after direct transaction and listing costs) 80% of the winning bid. The remaining 20% is retained by the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) to cover the administrative costs of running the TopLots auction.
Additional Information
The award-winning Weald & Downland Open Air Museum has over 45 historic building exhibits and is designated by the Government for the outstanding importance of its collections. Exhibits include a medieval farmstead; a working watermill producing wholemeal stoneground flour; exhibitions focusing on traditional building techniques and agriculture; historic gardens, farm livestock and a working Tudor kitchen. The Museum runs a well-established schools programme, and an adult learning programme of courses in building conservation and rural crafts. There is a café which uses the Museum’s own flour and a shop with gifts and books on countryside and buildings themes. The modern Downland Gridshell houses the Museum’s building conservation centre and artefact collection.
