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News | Institutions across Wales take part in Welsh Museums Festival – the event celebrates its 10th anniversary this year
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@WelshMuseumsFed @WGCultureGot some spare time this afternoon? Join us today on #WorldMentalHealthDay2024 to discuss Mental Health in Rural Communities
⏰ 3.00pm on Thursday 10 October
🎟️ ……Don't forget that our October seminar is coming up, exploring the topic of Mental Health in Rural Communities
⏰ 3.00pm on Thursday 10 October
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@ScotRuralAction
@RuralPolicySRUC
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@RSABI
@FarmersWeeklyThe @rmnvoice hosts two brilliant lectures this autumn—one featuring our own Deputy Chair, @DrSarahHolland!
10 October: Mental Health in Rural Communities >
7 November: Tackling the Climate Crisis with the Power of Rural Museums > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tackling-the-climate-crisis-with-the-power-of-rural-museums-tickets-937521952397?aff=oddtdtcreator
Category Archives: RMN news
New home for rare threshing machine
A rare threshing machine that was at the Vale and Downland Museum at Wantage, Oxfordshire has been given a new home at the Brown and May Trust at Devizes, Wiltshire. The machine was made by Nalder and Nalder of East Challow, … Continue reading
Farmers on Film
The farming community has long been a rich subject for photographers seeking to record rural life without nostalgia or sentimentality, and in recent years the subject has also received attention by documentary film makers such as Testimony Films. The … Continue reading
Fringe Meeting at MA Conference
Conference delegates will have an opportunity to catch up with the Network’s recent activities and plans at a fringe meeting of the Museums Association Conference and Exhibition on Thursday 8th November 12.30 – 14.00. http://www.museumsassociation.org/conference/fringe-meetings-conference-2012
Rural Museums in the Museums Journal
Two members of the Network receive attention in this months edition of the Museums Journal. Louise Grey interviews The Yorkshire Museum of Farming at Murton for the series on UK specialist collections, and Jane Weeks reviews the new Abbot’s Hall displays at the … Continue reading
Abbot’s Hall Reopens
Congratulations to the Museum of East Anglian Life on the reopening of Abbot’s Hall following a £3m HLF supported refurbishment. Read more about the museum.
St Fagans Development
Plans to redevelop St Fagans National History Museum have received support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Museum’s ambitious and comprehensive ‘Making History’ project has received HLF Stage 1 funding. Read more about the project.
AGM and Conference at Acton Scott
On Thursday 24th May the Network held the 2012 AGM at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm, Church Stretton. Following the business of the AGM we heard from Sally Ackroyd about her publication ‘The Power of the Plough’ and copies were … Continue reading
Professor Alexander Fenton
Professor Alexander Fenton, the acknowledged leading expert on Scottish rural life, has died. During his long career he was Director of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and of … Continue reading
The Power of the Plough
Two years ago the Rural Museums Network successfully bid to the Museums Association Effective Collections programme to run a ploughs project. The second stage of the exercise has been to consider and review the surprising number of ways that museums interpret … Continue reading
Training People in Heritage Skills
Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, and the Museum of East Anglian Life have just completed the first six months of a Heritage Lottery Funded project to train people in a range of heritage and craft skills. The project will run for … Continue reading
