The Museum Service has a significant collection of fine and decorative art objects. This collection includes around 4,000 paintings, prints and engravings. These include local topographical scenes, portraits of local personalities and works by artists with local connections such as Caldecott, Furber, Rainer, Thompson and Zeigler. To explore our collection of oil paintings follow the link to the BBC Your Paintings website.
Our ceramics collection consists of around 3,000 pottery and porcelain items mainly of eighteenth and nineteenth century date including important examples of Caughley, Derby, Spode, Wedgwood and Worcester. Recent acquisitions include the purchase of the Godden Collection of Caughley with assistance from the Art Fund.
Some of the items in our Fine and Decorative Art collection can be seen on display at Ludlow Museum, Much Wenlock Museum, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery and Whitchurch Heritage Centre. Prints of some of our Ludlow paintings are available for sale from the Friends of Ludlow Museum at the Ludlow Museum giftshop.