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A Model Archive

Through five collections spanning 1731 to today, ‘A Model Archive’ speculates on the future of keeping things.

From papers, to photographs, to proto-types, explore the archives of Gillows of Lancaster, the W. G. Collingwood Archive (Coniston, Lake District), Pilkington’s Tile and Pottery Company (Salford) and Atkinson Design Associates (Leicester), with the Ruskin Whitehouse Collection.

Find new ways of interpreting objects and the stories of the people who imagined, made and used them.