Object number
2010/30
Title
Somerset Rural Life Museum,
Collection
Description
Pin badge with a cart wheel design 'Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury'.
This is a circular badge, with a pin on the reverse. The front of the badge is printed with a cart wheel design in orange on a white background. Around the outside of the wheel are the words 'Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury', in brown. The Abbey barn in Glastonbury opened in 1974 as the nucleus of a Rural Life Museum, run by Somerset Museum Service.
Physical description
1 badge: metal
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Circular badge with pin. Front of badge is white with a cart wheel design in the centre and around the outside the words 'Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury' in dark brown. // ... Purchased as part of the Collecting 20thc Rural Culture project. // The Abbey barn in Glastonbury was opened in 1974 by Somerset Council as the nucleus of a Rural Life Museum run by the county's Museum Service. First curator was [?] Brown.'
Production date
1974
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