The island's first national museum is celebrating a century of 'ground-breaking' exhibitions.
The Isle of Man's first national museum is marking a century since it opened its doors for the first time.
Although the collections include "really culturally significant objects" like Captain John Quilliam's uniform from the Battle of Trafalgar, everyday objects like spinning wheels, butter bowls and things "that you might keep on your fireplace" were also kept, Ms King said. That was when members of the newly-created Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society began the process of saving cultural assets "in earnest", Ms King said.
But a decade on, with no progress made, frustrations began to arise among those who could see that cultural assets continued to be taken away from the island or treated with disregard.PMC Kermode dedicated much effort to preserving and documenting the island's stone crosses The hoard was confirmed as Viking silver by the British Museum in London but was retained by the institution for safekeeping, as the island did not yet have its own museum.Ms King said PMC Kermode's anger at that loss and the attitudes of people to their own heritage, coupled with the discovery of the skeleton of a giant deer near St John's 1897, acted as the "catalyst" for a renewed drive for a Manx national museum.
But it was in 1921 that a deal was struck between the government and the Henry Bloom Noble Charitable Trustees for the former Noble's Hospital building in Douglas to gifted as a permanent site.
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