The Crafts Study Centre was founded as a charity on 1st April 1970 as a research and study collection of modern craft. It was located at first in the Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, and the collections transferred to Farnham in the year 2000. The Crafts Study Centre has since gained standalone accreditation status as a university museum of modern craft set in the context of the specialist arts university, in a partnership with the University for the Creative Arts.

To celebrate 50 years, the Trustees of the Crafts Study Centre and members of the Centre’s Acquisitions Committee each selected a group of objects that are of particular interest to them and their fields of study in modern craft and this remixed show highlights new objects from our collections.