One of the benefits of volunteering with Nottingham Industrial Museum is membership of the Nottingham City Museums and Galleries (NCMG) service. The service supports 277 volunteers across the city's museums and galleries (51 of us…
Handcrafted in Nottingham, available from Nottingham Industrial Museum. We hope you share our excitement as our new merchandise range launches on June 25 to raise funds to help us look after our industrial heritage and…
Last October Jackie celebrated one year of volunteering with Nottingham Industrial Museum. A year ago today I started a new chapter in my volunteer 'career'. I became the trainee Volunteer Co-ordinator at Nottingham Industrial Museum.…
As part of “Handcrafted in Nottingham”, we have designed and made the majority of items in our new range. Read on to find out just how we make them and some of the problems…
As our launch weekend gallops towards us, we need to think about presenting our merchandise. Our survey told us that smaller souvenir items will be popular and we decided to make keyrings, badges and fridge…
As part of our new merchandise range, we will print our own postcards using the Albion print press in the museum. The print press dates from the mid-1800s and was used to print books. The…
Designing new merchandise for Nottingham Industrial Museum is a scary prospect. Of course, we have to include items in our range that will appeal to a broad audience but also we wish to convey to…
"Exit through the gift shop" is a bit of a joke. Banksy even made a film of the same name [link opens in new tab/ window]. I think we have all experienced a sinking feeling…
