As part of our brand-new Forging Ahead development, the Black Country Living Museum is creating a new town centre telling the story of the Black Country from the 1940s to the 1960s.
One of the key new shops that will be included is a recreation of James Stanton & Son’s music shop, from 10 Castle Street, Dudley, to be set at the height of the rock’n’roll boom in the late 1950s.
The shop will help us talk about music and culture in the Black Country in the 1950s, and we’ll be able to demonstrate and invite customers to listen to records in listening booths and to play some of the instruments that would have been sold in the shop.
We are calling out for donations of musical instruments, equipment and sheet music to set dress our recreation of Stanton’s Music Shop and to help us really bring the shop to life.
Our Collections Team would be interested to hear from you if you have instruments that you or your organisation would be willing to donate to the Museum that would have been sold in the late 1950s, particularly electric/acoustic/classical guitars, amplifiers brass, woodwind, strings, and percussion.
If you think that you could help, please get in touch with the Museum’s Collections team at collections@bclm.com
For more information on the project, please visit https://bclm.com/forging-ahead/
