Museums and National Trust Properties that have hired in 2008/2009 the Unusual, Eccentric and Wacky Everyday Inventions, Contraptions and Thingamajigs from the past the collection has been on hire since 2003 to National and European venues to enormous success, with large increases in footfall over the period on show, with major national, local and regional publicity – contacts at all the museums that have shown the collection is available by contacting Maurice Collins at
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VENUES 2009 Callendar House, Falkirk 17th Jan—19th April Hylands House, Chelmsford, 18th March-25th April Kilcaldy Museum, Fife 6th June-13th Sept Haslemere Museum, Surrey 1st July-August 1st Royal Cornwall Museum 11th July-Sept 5th Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire 18th July-1st Sept Peckover House, Cambridgeshire 13th Aug—18th Sept VENUES 2008 Chesterfield Museum February – March Forge Hill Needle Museum, Redditch March—May Standen House, National Trust 21st April-1st June British Library, London June—November Keswick Museum 22nd July-August 30th Bersham Heritage Centre, Nth Wales July 26th-Sept 21st Prescot Museum, Knowsley 1st Nov-Jan 3rd, 2009