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Mapping craft
Our office decoration - complete with counties and unitary authorities. MERL has a sizeable collection of rural craft objects, both finished items and the tools needed to make them. The craft...
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What did you do at work today?… Updated
Things have come a long way since my first blog post back in February about what we do in our work at MERL. No longer do we spend our days solidly cataloguing! In fact, it sometimes feels that a week...
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A place for ‘place’ in rural museums
Although we are only part-way through, we have already begun to disseminate ideas generated through this project and activity that the team have undertaken to date. Last Thursday I spoke briefly about...
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Saddlery, wagons and ploughs, oh my!
Apologies for the Wizard of Oz reference in the title – I couldn’t help myself. To finish the week, I thought I’d post an update on what I have been working on over the past couple of weeks. We...
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MERL at MEAL – Exhibition Opening
Welcome to the exhibition! Last Friday we visited the Museum of East Anglian Life (MEAL) in Stowmarket for the opening of their new temporary exhibition, I Spy the Countryside. This is MEAL’s...
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I Spy a QR Code
One of the QR codes (bottom left) in position at MEAL, linking to a clip from ‘The Darling Buds of May’. As Felicity is busy working on other things this week, I thought I would attempt to write a post...
View ArticleA Sense of Place at the MERL Lunchtime Talks
Next week, the Sense of Place team will have another chance to tell people about the work we have been doing as part of the project. We will be giving an informal lecture, ‘A Sense of Place: putting...
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