“The Collector’s World”.
No one really knows why people do it but everyone has collected something at some point. Many of us give up quickly while others find an interest that lasts a lifetime.
“The Collectors’ World” celebrates collectors of the past and present. It includes something for everyone and looks at how attitudes towards collecting have changed over the years.
Displays range from the Egyptian, Roman and Greek antiquities collected by Norman Bramley Radcliffe, a Victorian woollen manufacturer from Stalybridge, to Euro 2016 football stickers that are currently being swapped in playgrounds across the land.
You can see the flint, fossil, rock and seed collections of Robert Jackson of Mossley, sea shells gathered by Alfred Bradbury of Dukinfield and Charles Moore of Stalybridge, as well as mosses collected by Jethro Tinker of Stalybridge.
Learn more about what and why the museum collects and see some of the latest gifts to the museum’s collection including the Distinguished Conduct Medal won by Private William Cross of the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment, in the First World War (1914-1918).
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