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The car on the wall is from an old fairground dodgem ride. The boxes with long handles are chapel collection boxes. Image: Grant Scott.

Real homes Inside Drew Pritchard's converted Methodist chapel

Behind the scenes at the Bowes Museum

Behind the scenes at The Bowes Museum

This example of a ‘Vinegar Valentine’, mocks a girl for her love of croquet. Amoret Tanner/Alamy Stock Photo

What are Vinegar Valentines and how to collect them

Antique arcade machines

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: arcade machines

School prints

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: school prints

Piscatorial Taxidermy

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: piscatorial taxidermy

Tyntesfield

Behind the scenes at the museum: Tyntesfield

Chawton House

Behind the scenes at the museum: Chawton House

Derby Silk Mill - image [c] Derby Museums

Behind the scenes at the museum: Museum of Making

The Wallace Collection

Behind the scenes at the museum: The Wallace Collection

Antique truncheons and tipstaves

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: truncheons & tipstaves

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: Napoleonic memorabilia

Ronnie Archer Morgan at an Antony Gormley exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Profile: Ronnie Archer Morgan

A rare 1920s mahjong set from Kaufmann & Baer department store Pennsylvania. Image by Leo Bieber

Luke Honey’s cabinet of curiosities: 1920s mahjong sets

A picnic

How to buy a vintage 1950s picnic set