Reading museum’s £3m refit means it can display all its 25000 objects – including an unlucky rodent caught in a Victorian trapWhen the Museum of English Rural Life reopens this week after a £3m Heritage Lottery-backed redevelopment,it will possess all its 25000 objects on display – plus a fresh acquisition that came to them by itself. The mouse that crept into a Victorian trap in the stores, and died there while the museum was closed, or has been preserved and added to the collection.“The mouse has become one of our most famous objects,” the senior curator, Isabel Hughes, and said. “When the destitute little thing was found the tweet went round the world,we even made Canadian television.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com