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 Dorman Museum | |
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| Established | 1 July 1904[1] |
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| Location | Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough |
| Coordinates | 54°33′52″N 1°14′27″W / 54.5644°N 1.2409°W |
| Nearest car park | Street parking adjacent to museum |
| Website | www |
Dorman Museum is a local and social history museum on the town centre side of Albert Park, Linthorpe in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is one of two museums operated by the local borough council, along with the Captain Cook birthplace in Stewart Park. As of May 2024 the museum remains closed for renovations.
The museum was founded by Sir Arthur Dorman of the Dorman Long engineering company in honour of his son George Lockwood Dorman,[2] who died of enteric fever at Kroonstad in the Second Boer War.[3]
At its official opening on 1 July 1904, the museum's theme was the natural sciences. Since then, galleries of the local Linthorpe Art Pottery, work by Victorian industrial designer Christopher Dresser, and Middlesbrough's history have eclipsed this early theme. Remnants of the original Victorian and Edwardian collection of taxidermied, plinth-mounted animals are in the Nelson Room; various taxidermied exotic birds in their original cases with decorative painted backgrounds and colourful and large birds' eggs.
- ^ "History of The Dorman Museum". The Dorman Museum. Archived from the original on 25 April 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ^ "Richmond, 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, Boer War Memorial". Roll-of-Honour.com. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ "Gravestones in South Africa: British Military Memorials". Dorman George Lockwood 1901. eGGSA. 20 June 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2012.