Jackfield Tile Museum
Salthouse Road
Jackfield
Telford
Shropshire
TF8 7LJ
England
Website
www.ironbridge.org.uk/our_attractions/jackfield_tile_museum/
Visitor Information Centre
Telephone
Visitor Information Centre
01952 433 424
The village of Jackfield was once the world centre of the tile industry, and Jackfield Tile Museum set in an immense Victorian factory, celebrates the decorative tiles that once graced the Empire. Room after room is filled with beautiful displays and room settings such as the pub, the tube station and the butchers. On certain days, you can watch staff from the Craven Dunnill Company manufacture tiles or even create your own at regularly held workshops.
At the adjacent 'Fusion' see contemporary Designers and Makers in action. You can also hire a bike from here to explore the area the 'green' way.
The entire collection of this museum is a Designated Collection of national importance.
Venue Type:
Museum, Heritage site, Industrial heritage site
This museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.
The Museum has an impressive collection of over 23,000 nineteenth-century decorative tiles, with examples from most of the major Victorian factories in this country. The educational significance of the collection is greatly augmented by housing and displaying it in the most complete surviving Victorian decorative tile factory.
The Jackfield Tile Museum also houses a large collection of plaster moulds and patterns, which the Museum believes is already pre-eminent and of national status. In the 1880s Maw and Co. ran the largest tile factory in the world and had an international reputation. Consequently the plaster mould and pattern collection is a unique library of designs of one of the largest 19th century producers of decorative tiles, architectural faience and terracotta.
Collection details
Science and Technology, Natural Sciences, Decorative and Applied Art
Key artists and exhibits
- Tile and Architectural Ceramics Plaster Collection
- Designated Collection
Stream
Stream, a fascinating new exhibition by artist in residence, Luce Choules, and a team of museum volunteers opens on Friday, 26th April in the Footprint Gallery at Fusion, which adjoins Jackfield Tile Museum, near Ironbridge. Exploring the monuments and landscapes of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, the free entry display will be open daily, 10am-5pm, until Friday, 31st May.
Luce, an international artist, produces maps that are very different from the regular variety we might use to find our way from one place to another. Her work is based around extensive field surveys of landscapes where she collects photographs and objects and notes down her thoughts and feelings as she encounters different places and spaces. This material is then put together to form a very distinctive map that allows the user to feel their way through a landscape.
The exhibition will feature experimental maps about the geographical and cultural landscape of The Gorge and its environs as well as a range of landscape documentation, photographic data-tiling and drawing. Working with curators at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Luce will also present a new piece of artwork responding to the recent cataloguing of the George Maw Geological Collection. In addition to these works, the show includes the large-format publication Source and wall-based maps made with volunteers and other groups, as part of a wider project developed by the artist.
Suitable for
Admission
Free
spring tile decorating workshops
Join a drop-in tile decorating workshop at Jackfield Tile Museum, near Ironbridge, Shropshire and try the tube lining technique to produce a tile featuring your own spring themed design and choice of colours. Activities vary from day-to-day
tiles cost from £5 each and can be fired and sent home later for a small extra charge to cover postage and packing. It takes up to 1½ hours to decorate your tile so last admission to the workshops is at 3.15pm.
Suitable for
Admission
Activities and workshops vary day-to-day and some carry an extra charge in addition to the admission fee
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