WARRINGTON Museum is one of the Cheshire museums looking forward rather than back this year to attract new enthusiasts and keep regular visitors coming back.
Across the county, venues are celebrating new investments and developments that will update and improve their existing sites or restore them to their former glory.
Several have received Heritage Lottery Funding for improvements to progress during the year.
The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, is celebrating after receiving confirmation of their £790,300 grant to support three key initiatives as part of the museum’s “Window on the World” project. The funding will see new exhibitions and interactive displays for visitors on the currently derelict historic slipway which occupies a unique position overlooking the Mersey Estuary and Manchester Ship Canal as well as the restoration of two of the most nationally important boats in the museum’s collection – Mossdale and George. Each will be used to inspire new audiences about the history of wide boats and their role in the industrial development of the North West Region.
Warrington Museum opened their new HLF funded gallery last year following the refurbishment of five other galleries in 2010-2011, totalling more than £1 million of external investment.
The museum will be one of the main venues for Culture Warrington’s highly regarded Contemporary Art Festival and a key building in the Cultural Quarter which is seen as a strategic area for development in Warrington Borough Council’s plans for the town centre. The museum will be leading on plans to develop the local heritage offer and making archives more accessible.
Popular family destination Tatton Park has been awarded more than £76,000 to progress their plans to bring alive the agricultural, architectural, technological, social and cultural heritage of Tatton Dale Farm through the “field to fork” story.
Over at Norton Priory Museum and Gardens redevelopment is underway to the museum and medieval undercroft thanks to a £3.7m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, to coincide with the Priory’s 900th birthday.
Visitors will be pleased to know that the Georgian Walled Garden, historic pear orchard, ice house and woodland will remain open to the public during that time and the museum will re-open following its transformation in the summer of 2016.
For further information about the Museums of Cheshire go to the website at http://www.visitcheshire.com/things-to-do/museums-of-cheshire
WARRINGTON Museum is one of the Cheshire museums looking forward rather
than back this year to attract new enthusiasts and keep regular visitors
coming back.
Museum looks forward rather than back
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