The Museum
Mythstories museum was founded as a website in June 1998, and then opened as a ‘real world’ museum on February 14th 1999. The concept was new and was quickly hailed as a “World First” by the BBC and The British Tourist Board.
“The World’s First Story Museum” had no precedents to follow, and over the twenty plus years of existence had the opportunity to define itself and explore how to amass a collection of artefacts that told the stories of its intangible collection of traditional tales.
Below you will be able to explore posts covering the key artefacts that made up the Mythstories Collection and find out where they are now!
They remain together here on this page for people who never made it to Mythstories museum of myth and fable.
Gallery Guides
How the collection was displayed at UCS.
The Romany Gypsy Storytelling Wagon
Bertilak & Morgan Processional Giants
Auca, a 17th Century Catalan Comic Strip
16 Canvas Panels of King Arthur’s Shropshire
Nine Acrylic Paintings of Shropshire Myths
5 Prints of Shropshire Stories by Joseph Scrobb
A constellation of exhibits on Wild Edric of the Stiperstones
Riverturtle is not singing
Traces of the Tudors Story Creation
Grace Hallworth’s Collection of Dolls of many Nations
Mary, ‘The King of the Fairies’ & the Welsh Pedlar
Flying Donkeys Screen & Cartoons
“Who Tells Stories?” 2-D display
Gilgamesh in 2 paintings & 8 clay tablets
The Mythstories / Society for Storytelling Library
The Victorian Wellington Storybox
the Khavad, Kavad or Kaavad
How Ganesh got his elephant head
Three Folk-tales from India
A cluster of Russian Folk-Art
“Shining Threads” Textile Tales
Artefacts for Customs & Festivals
Krishna stories – Two paintings
Ola Palm Books or Dashavatara
The Ramayana Constellation
Mata ni pachedi (Temple Cloth)
The Canadian Stories Constellation
Wayang Golek Puppet from Java
Yama, God of Death & Justice
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