50 objects
The Lancashire County Museum Service was 50 years old in 2025. To celebrate we explored the history of Lancashire, its people, places and traditions through 50 objects in our collections.
Covering 9000 years of history and spanning the geography of the county, we will tell the story of Lancashire's origins including its settlers and invaders, our industries, our military heritage, our food and our famous seaside!
Through the celebration year a new object was published each week on our website and put on display in one of Lancashire's 64 libraries, one of its seven museum sites, or at Lancashire Archives. Now they have been brought together to tell those stories in an exhibition where you will find the prehistoric next to the modern, the artistic next to the utilitarian, and stories of groundbreaking success next to those of failure and despair.
Find out more about the exhibition at Helmshore Mills Textile museum.
50 Objects in Lancashire - The people's choice
Visit our online voting page and have your say
We hope you enjoy our selection and find the stories interesting and informative. We would like to hear which one is your favourite Lancashire object. It could be because you just like the object itself, its associations mean something to you, or it could remind you of people or places in your own story.
Vote for your top 3 objects with the '50 Objects in Lancashire - The people's choice'.
Voting closes 31 July 2025.
