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Millgate Museum, Newark. |
Artefactual
Newark Museums Service has over 70,000 items in its collection with social history being a prominent theme. Millgate Museum has the following on permanent display:
- Agriculture (tools, seed drills, blacksmith’s forge)
- Trades and industry (machinery, malsters’ wooden tools, canvas boots etc)
- Shops and streets (Post Office, chemist’s, ironmonger’s, public house, cobbler’s, tobacconist’s and sweet shop)
- Domestic displays (laundry, kitchen, parlour)
- Newark in the two World Wars (local regiments, life during wartime and the inter-war period)
More information at:
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Newark Town Hall. |
Newark Town Hall Museum and Art Gallery, as well as being the home of Newark Town Council, opened a fully accredited Civic Museum in September 1999. The collections include:
- Civic plate, insignia and regalia
- Town charters from 1549
- Gifts to the town dating from the 16th century
- Furniture
- A collection of fine art, including works by local artists Sir William Nicholson and Robert Kiddey
For more information see the website: