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The Museum hosts regular temporary exhibitions and has a full event programme that runs alongside these. In 2008 the Museum won a
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marriage mirror. Due to the items taken and the speed of the burglary, police suspected that items were "stolen to order." The museum closed following the burglary and reopened to the public on May 3, 2018. In May 2019, it was announced that 18 damaged objects had been returned by the
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