In the Higgins archive are a few pieces of mourning jewellery related to the Higgins family. The most poignant and beautiful are two pieces ...

Back in June we blogged about a previous resident of the museum - Lucy the Locust. We've just come across something in the Christmas 193...

 An owl catches a mouse on this tile c.1895.  This week's Object of the Week looks at some of the tiles in the collection b...

 The Bedford Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded in 1870. This was a group of part-time volunteers, under the command of a chief officer. ...

The function of many of the objects in our archaeological collections tends to be fairly straight forward and obvious for instance even if w...

Work has been quite hectic these last few months, with moving the collections off site but when we are not doing that the curatorials are al...

Oil reading lamp, with tilting reflector in brass and copper. Accession no. M.359 William Arthur Smith Benson has been described as ...