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Leominster Museum, formerly known as Leominster Folk Museum, is an independent, volunteer-run,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Volunteering )〕 museum in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home Page )〕 The museum's season for opening each year is typically between Easter and the end of October; during the season opening houirs are 10-4 on weekdays and 10-1 on Saturdays.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Visiting Times )〕 The museum, which opened in 1972, owns and displays a collection of artefacts relating to the local area, including banknotes and cheques from the Leominster & Herefordshire Bank, early local postage marks, material from the Leominster and Kington Railway, the Bronze Age Aymestrey burial, and a complete cider mill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leominster Folk Museum - Leominster Museum of local life )〕 It also has a number of works by the Leominster-born artist John Scarlett Davis, including an 1828 self-portrait, and a book of 173 sketches, purchased for £11,000 at auction at Christie's in March 1979. In 2014 the museum obtained an £8,900 Heritage Lottery Fund grant. for a project called "Rifles and Spades", which commemorated the local effects of World War I. The project〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rifles and Spades )〕, which finished in April 2015, comprised three Open Days at the museum, three public talks, a commemorative event at Leominster Priory attended by 240 people, an exhibition called 'Our Story' which was in Leominster Library for two months before touring various village and school locations,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Story Exhibition )〕 and finally a linked set of education packs that are available to schools.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Free Education Packs and other services for schools )〕 In addition to its permanent displays the museum aims to stage a different temporary exhibition each season. In 2015 there were in fact two: one on the History of Morris Dancing and Mumming in Leominster, entitled 'Here be Dragons!',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Here Be Dragons! )〕 and 'An Unlikely Champion - A History of Bill Bengry and Bengry Motors'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Unlikely Champion )〕 The museum building, on Etnam Street, was originally built in 1855 as a mission hall for workers constructing the local railways. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leominster Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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