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Resources and Suppliers
Please note that these suppliers are included as a reference guide and in no way constitute a recommendation.
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Museums Association has a directory of suppliers (there is a link Find a supplier, on the top bar) where you can search by category or by key word. Most entries have website addresses and direct links.
Resources and Replicas
British Educational Suppliers Association have an online directory of suppliers with links to companies' websites.
Community Playthings for furniture and equipment.
EQD (Quality Designs for Education).
Newpak for educational and art supplies.
Insectlore educational insect items for parents and teachers of children aged 8 and under.
Tobar collection of toys, gifts, gadgets and curiosities.
TTS Group Their History in Evidence catalogue offers replica objects and costumes linked to the QCA schemes of work.
Toypost wooden and traditional toys and games.
Folk in Education for resources to do with traditional music and dance and much more.
Call to Arms resource guide to the Living History and Heritage industry. Over 1300 contacts for re-enactment societies, associations, suppliers, craftsmen and demonstrators, with events, news and articles of interest.
Artefacts Teaching resources,
teaching sessions, costumes and personal effects from Prehistoric to Medieval periods. Timber
structures and larger metal castings *, with a particular interest in Classical and Medieval siege
equipment and machines.
Replica for replica food.
List of makers of reproduction artefacts on the Council for British Archaeology website.
Packaging
Transpack suppliers of packaging
products, cardboard boxes, bubble wrap and polythene.
Buckhorn Containers for storing larger items.
Conservation Grade Packing Suppliers
Ryders for acid free cardboard trays and boxes.
Secol for archive friendly sleeves for ephemera/photos.
Polyformes for plastazote.
Dauphin Museum Services display materials.