Gaël part en stage au Museum of East Anglian Life

 

Voici quelques informations issues de Wikipedia (en anglais!) sur le lieu de stage de Gaël apprenti en bac pro terminale. Il partira samedi prochain pour 3 semaines, comme ses camarades. Alors que 3 d'entre eux seront en Belgique, 2 au Luxembourg et 1 en Espagne, Gaël perfectionnera son anglais du côté de Cambridge, pkus précisément à Stowmarket dans le Suffolk.

La carte donne une idée de la localisation du musée où Gaël sera en stage 3 semaines

Museum of East Anglian Life

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Established	1967
Location	Iliffe Way, Stowmarket IP14, England, UK
Collection size	over 40,00 objects
Director	Tony Butler
Website	http://www.eastanglianlife.org.uk

The Museum of East Anglian Life is a Museum located in Stowmarket Suffolk, it specialises in presenting the agricultural history of East Anglia through a mixture of exhibits and living history demonstrations.

History of the Museum

The site of the Museum was originally land belonging to the Abbots Hall estate. Changes to farming traditions in the 1950s and 1960s meant that many skills and ways of life were in danger of being lost thus the land and Hall was put in trust by the Longe family for the development of the Museum of East Anglian Life to preserve these.

Buildings

One of the main features of the Museum is the variety of buildings situated within its 75 acres (30 ha) site which include:

• Boby Building - Features exhibitions on agricultural engines and individual craft workshops and also features a working printing press and a cinema.
• William Bone Building - An exhibition on the history of the Ransomes company in East Anglia.
• Eastbridge Windpump - A windpump used for draining land in the 19th century
• Alton Watermill - A watermill dating back from the 18th century which is used to grind corn. It, like many of the museum buildings, was taken apart and then transported to the museum where it was subsequently reassembled; in the case of the watermill, it was moved to stop it being lost forever as a result of the Alton Water Reservoir.
  

The Museum also has two huts depicting different scenes from the 1950s including shops scenes, kitchens, living rooms and a Victorian schoolroom.

Restoration of Abbot's Hall

The Museum was awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to renovate Abbot's Hall and Crowe Street Cottages. The project completed in April 2012, before officially opening in June 2012 and features 9 exhibition spaces exploring ideas of home and belonging in East Anglia, as well as space for temporary exhibitions to be displayed. Crowe Street Cottages, which served as workers cottages to those who worked in Abbot's Hall have been displayed as they would have looked when the last owner lived there.

Abbot's Hall is open year round providing a permanent centerpiece to the Museum.

Animals

The Museum is notable for the animals in its possession, in particular the rare Suffolk Punch breed of horse. The most famous of these horses was Remus, who became something of a celebrity in the Stowmarket area.

The Museum also has other rare breeds including Red Poll Cattle as well as the Large Black Pig, Suffolk Sheep, Goats and Chickens.