A heritage museum says donations of memorabilia and “knick-knacks” have been hit by internet auction sites.

Carmarthen County Museum said people used to donate items for displays but were now more likely to sell them.

Manager Chris Delaney said people were more aware of what pieces such as 1930s kitchenware were worth and the web offered an easy way to sell them.

He said it was making it more of a challenge to stage exhibitions on recent social history.

There are displays at the museum in Abergwili depicting family life over the past 200 years.

Mr Delaney said: “We used to get a lot of social history and domestic material donated from the late Victorian or Edwardian period and maybe through to the 1930s.

Posted: 02|23|07 at 10:11 am. Filed under: UK News.