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Brent Heritage Services is made up of Brent Museum, which is situated in Willesden Green Library Centre, and Brent Archive, based at Cricklewood Library. You can usually find out what the Archive and Museum have in their collections by visiting the online catalogue, but this is in the process of being redesigned at the moment. It will return later in Autumn 2008.

View the collecting policy (pdf, 199kb) of Brent Museum and Brent Archive.

Brent Museum
Brent Museum collects and records the history of Brent and the people who live here in the form of objects and oral history.

Museum foyer, picture courtesy brentbrain.co.uk

Museum Exhibition at Willesden Green Library Centre
Drawn! A graphic art exhibition
From Saturday 6^th December 2008 to Sunday 8^th February 2009.

Cartoonists, illustrators, students and designers have expressed and interpreted themselves and their view of ‘graphic art’ in Brent Museum’s latest exhibition Drawn! Test your own understanding of the term and be prepared to draw your own conclusions!

Brent Museum travelling exhibition -
Brent – An Olympic Borough: 1908-2012
Our travelling exhibition will open at Kilburn Library on 6th October 2008. It will then tour eight locations across the borough until July 2010. For more details, including a press release, please click here.

Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade 1807-2007

Brent Archive
Brent Archive holds a collection of maps, photographs, pamphlets and other ephemera about Brent and is continually collecting information.

Micia the cat Christmas card, by Jenika Ioffreda

Micia the cat, by Jenika Ioffreda

To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, Brent Heritage Services have produced a list of internet sources on the history of slavery. View the source material.

WHEEC
The Welsh Harp Environmental Education Centre promotes the conservation and appreciation of the local environment.

Online Catalogue
Brent Heritage and Brent Library Services are among the first museum, archive and library services in the UK to have a joint public searchable catalogue. The search system works much like a library's book search. Unfortunately, the cataolgue is being redesigned at present. It will hopefully be up again by early December.

Education Facilities
The Museum and Archive provide curriculum-based sessions to Brent schools in the Education Room of the new Brent Museum in Willesden Green Library Centre, using Museum objects. To view our education resources online please click here.

For more information, please contact Brent Museum on 020 8937 3600/3602 or e-mail museum@brent.gov.uk

New! Free citizenship resources for schools

Children using education facilities

Collaboration projects
Brent Museum and Archive have worked with other London institutions on two major projects, the Photolondon project and Ten Generations.

Places in Brent
For brief histories of 15 different districts within the London Borough of Brent, please click here.

Virtual Exhibition on Warsaw Ghetto
To mark Britain's first Holocaust Memorial Day, Brent Museum, then the Grange Museum, put together a virtual exhibition of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Photograph of a tote bag with image of Twiggy

Photograph of a tote bag with image of Twiggy

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