- Museum of Lincolnshire Life
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The museum in 2010
The Museum of Lincolnshire Life is a museum in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in the UK. The museum collection is a varied social history that reflects and celebrates the culture of Lincolnshire and its people from 1750 to the present day. Exhibits illustrate commercial, domestic, agricultural, industrial and community life.[1]
The museum occupies a listed former barracks, built in 1857 for the Royal North Lincoln Militia. A important new redevelopment at the museum expands on this military history, with the story of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and Lincolnshire Yeomanry being explained and illustrated by a variety of methods.[2]
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Collection
The Mark IV tank in the museum, codenamed as "Water carriers for Mesopotamia" during production.The museum houses one of the first tanks developed during World War I by the local firm of William Foster & Co. of Lincoln. The tank, named "Flirt II" is a Mark IV Female.
The museum also has exhibits featuring recreations of old shops, house interiors along with an extensive collection of early farm machinery, with examples of machines built by local companies, such as the Field Marshall tractor built in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire by Marshall, Sons & Co..
An early Ruston-Bucyrus excavator is on display in the yard.
See also
- Ellis' Mill, a tower windmill adjacent to the Museum.
- Church Farm Museum of Agricultural life in Skegness.
- Gordon Boswell Romany Museum, Spalding
References
External links
Categories:- City museums
- Museums in Lincoln, England
- History of Lincolnshire
- Steam museums in the United Kingdom
- Local museums in Lincolnshire
- Regimental museums in England
- History museums in Lincolnshire
- Preserved stationary steam engines
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