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Thanks for sharing the above information Matlock. I see this is someones (?) blog. After realizing this I searched for, but not find an official Parker Pen Museum website or blog. There is one that goes by the name Parker Museum, but is also a blog - from a brief glance appears unrelated. Also no recent updates on Tony's Parker site. Does anyone know if there will be a website, or video tour? Very good to know there was an attempt to secure, and now share the extant Parker history.

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Thanks for sharing the above information Matlock. I see this is someones (?) blog. After realizing this I searched for, but not find an official Parker Pen Museum website or blog. There is one that goes by the name Parker Museum, but is also a blog - from a brief glance appears unrelated. Also no recent updates on Tony's Parker site. Does anyone know if there will be a website, or video tour? Very good to know there was an attempt to secure, and now share the extant Parker history.

This is from the blog of Penbox, a leading dealer of Parker and other top end pens. It seems that there is no website or other info for the Parker Pen Museum at the moment, which appears to be contained in a school and can only be visited by prior arrangement. It seems to be a project in development so maybe there will be more info later in the year.

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This is from the blog of Penbox, a leading dealer of Parker and other top end pens. It seems that there is no website or other info for the Parker Pen Museum at the moment, which appears to be contained in a school and can only be visited by prior arrangement. It seems to be a project in development so maybe there will be more info later in the year.

 

What is update on the P.P Museum, Peter?

Khan M. Ilyas

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Got really curious about that one that could not be revealed then. Did it made its way into the shops? So which one was it?

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I can help with this ...

After Newhaven closed everything was boxed up and put into a climate controlled warehouse storage. Until about 2013 when PARKER opened offices in London (Hammersmith). While mostly office space, a sizable portion was set aside to securely store Archives. What's more a trained archivist was hired. At the same time a compact PARKER Museum was created. It was strictly private and was created to provide training to the many new members of the marketing team who had joined the business. Fast forward and in the interim there was (another) management change at the top of Newell. That means that they decided the museum had served its purpose and that space went to more office space. Archives remains in place but the archivist is gone. So, Archives is safe. In my opinion it needs more attention, but management is able to access it for inspiration for upcoming pens.

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On 11/30/2022 at 8:32 PM, GSP said:

That informational is dated; the museum is no more, as I was on hand while it was being dismantled. 

 

Ouch. Do you know if they plan to display the archives as a museum again in the future?

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