Our collections hold over 8,000 artefacts of every size and shape from locomotives to beermats, plus a photographic archive of over 45,000 images.

From September 2024, we are pleased to be part of the Museum Data Service (MDS).  You can find a full listing of our object collection on the MDS website here. We will add details of our extensive photographic collection soon.

You can search parts of our object and image databases below.  If you have any queries about the collections we welcome researchers by appointment in our new archive space, so if you would like to book a visit or have a query about any object in our collections please get in touch.

To help our collections develop we rely on the generosity of people who donate objects. Our volunteers catalogue and store our collections to museum standards, and recent donations have included postcards, badges, models, crockery, and even road signs!

If you have an object or photographs from a holiday visit that you think we might be interested in, do please get in touch

To learn more about how we handle our collections, why not read our Collections Development Policy