Ryedale Folk Museum

Today, John, of the volunteer team was busy restoring the miniature keep, part of the collection of miniature buildings donated by Harlow Carr Gardens,Harrogate. This weekend the museum is hosting events based around the popular story of Wind In The Willows, the play being performed live performed outdoors (depending on the weather) by the Library Theatre.

Museum Director Mike Benson giving his thoughts on the volunteer led blog training days. Carrie

This week the museum held two days of blog training for some of the volunteers. It is a nice way for volunteers to introduce themselves and many now have the power to show the world what it is they do at the museum. This was a great few days and so far has been a success, many of the trainees' first posts can already be seen on the blog. Above are some photographs of the day with the blogging trainees hard at work. The training was for the most part a volunteer activity, with volunteers training other volunteers. The hope now is that there will be many more people contributing to this blog on behalf of Ryedale Folk Museum. Carrie Gough

Random pictures on a blustery day.

Our names are Will, Sam and Ally and we have made this blog to show you things we did and tell you about the variety of skills we have learnt from this experience. For example on our first week we ran the NAAFI ( A cafe for the armed forces in the WW2) which gave us great pleasure and enjoyment serving a whole variety of different people, these ranged from Australia, America, Lancashire and London. Throughout our second week we have been doing a variety of tasks, for example on Monday we cut out the materials for the rag rugs and found recipes for our day of cooking on Tuesday. On Tuesday we cooked three recipes in Stang End, oat biscuits, drop scones and leek and potato soup. On Wednesday we partly restored an old plough which was hard work. During Thursday we all separately went round with a school and helped out with their various questions and activities. Finally on Friday we learnt how to make this blog and publish our experience about the museum and what an excellent placement ...

Margaret Smith, Volunteer I have recently begun to volunteer at Ryedale Folk Museum, and am helping to work on cataloguing the Costume Collection. What I have found interesting is reading about the people who once owned, and wore, the costumes which have been donated to the museum. I often while away the time by imagining what their lives were like