The Hawley Collection

Hawley Gallery Now Open - March 2010

The prestigious Hawley Collection has moved to its new home in the Hawley Gallery at Kelham Island Museum. The new gallery has been created in a refurbished industrial building on the Kelham Island Museum site, using a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The Hawley Collection is a unique and comprehensive record of tool making, cutlery manufacture and silversmithing. It is the product of over 50 years of collecting by Ken Hawley, a former tool retailer in Sheffield and champion of Sheffield's industrial heritage. The Ken Hawley Collection Trust was formed in 1994 to safeguard the collection and Ken continues collecting and working with the collection - it is his life and his continuing passion.

This internationally important collection of over 100,000 objects includes edge tools, measuring tools, tools used for cutlery manufacture and silversmithing, plus related catalogues, photos, films and oral histories. It is gathered mostly from Sheffield and Yorkshire but also from Britain and the rest of the world.

Contact Judith Smith or Jenny Bland on 0114 276 2602 or audiences@simt.co.uk

Click here for what's on in the new Gallery, events and exhibitions

or visit www.shef.ac.uk/hawley

Wotsit Session

Find out more about the tools that make up your collection at home

Sunday 29 August 12pm - 3pm

With Ken Hawley and his expert volunteers

From Sheffield to the Maharaja's Bedroom!

Stories of Mappin and Webb Silver Designs

Tuesday 28 Sept 2010 1.45pm-3.30pm

A talk and object handling session by researcher, Jean Thornton

BBC - A History of the World

Come and see the giant circular saw which features on the BBC A History of the World website and download your copy of the Relics Trail linked to the CBBC television series below

Relics Trail Challenge