Experience Barnsley
Barrow Colliery Disaster
Barrow Colliery Disaster remembrance card, 1907
Collections
Barnsley's museum and archive collections include fine and decorative art, social and industrial history, archaeology, archival documents and photographs, local studies literature and sound and film.
If you would like to make an enquiry about the collections, please email artsmuseumsandarchives@barnsley.gov.uk
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Cooper Gallery
Hurricane Before St Malo
Hurricane Before St Malo in oil on canvas by Eugene Isabey (1803-1886), Cooper Bequest.
Cannon Hall
Rene Lalique figurine
Rene Lalique figurine, c.1900
Cannon Hall
Oak and copper smoker’s cabinet
Oak and copper smoker’s cabinet made by Shapland & Petter, c. 1900
Cooper Gallery
Peggy Airey
Peggy Airey in oil on canvas by Abel Hold (1815-1896), Fox Bequest.
Experience Barnsley
1960 SLAZENGER'S TENNIS BALLS
From the 1880's and for more than a centurym Slazenger's Barnsley factory sent tennis balls and equipment around the world, including to the Wimbledon Championship every year. With the company's reputation at stake, only the best and most experienced employees were put on the 'Wimbledon Section'. Products were rigorously tested and checked. Photo © Norman Taylor
Elsecar
The Girl Pat
Many remember the rowing boat that was set up on the reservoir in the 1940s.
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RECONSTRUCTED ROMAN CERAMIC VESSEL WHICH CONTAINED THE 'DARFIELD HOARD 1'
In 1947, workmen digging foundations for new houses at Darfield hit upon a pottery jar full of Roman coins, dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries. Another two hoards were uncovered in the same area in 1948 and 1950. BMBC.TH.1375 Photo © Norman Taylor
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Bryony Nixon
Bryony Nixon with her school shirt signed by all friends on the last day of school.
Cannon Hall
Child Holding an Apple
Child Holding an Apple by Caesar van Everdingen, 1664