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Jewish museum reopening delayed
New scheme to promote
Heritage attraction to relaunch in March 2010 following £4.3m redevelopment
the Heart of England
A joint marketing campaign – By Tom Walker
Heart of England Adventures
– has been launched in a bid to The Jewish Museum London
promote a number of visitor will reopen to the public on
attractions across the West Wednesday 17 March 2010,
Midlands region. The Key four months later than
Attractions Group (KAG), which originally planned.
was set up in 2008, is comprised The museum, located in
of a range of tourist destinations, Camden Town, has undergone
including Ironbridge Gorge a £10m redevelopment which
Museums, Alton Towers, Drayton has resulted in the museum
Manor Theme Park, Warwick tripling in space in order to
Castle and Cadbury World. accommodate its collections,
Visitors will be provided with which are currently housed at The museum will boast five galleries depicting Jewish history
travel advice, ticket information two separate sites in Camden
and offers as part of the new and Finchley. The revamp, in Britain today, and a mikveh Education Gallery. Other
campaign, which is being funded funded partly by a £4.3m grant (a ritual bath) dating to the additions will include a
by KAG and the regional from the Heritage Lottery Fund, medieval period. 100-seat auditorium, an
development agency, Advantage has divided the museum into The other new galleries are educational suite for children, a
West Midlands. five galleries, with four the History Gallery, which research library and shop.
permanent ones and one includes an interactive When open, the museum is
Temporary exhibition
earmarked for temporary and exhibition exploring the history expected to attract more than
opens at Austen centre
touring exhibitions. if British Jews; the Religion 165,000 visitors a year. Founded
A temporary exhibition The Welcome gallery will Gallery, which explores Jewish initially in London's Bloomsbury
showcasing how Christmas was include a multimedia installa- ethics and values; a special in 1932, the Jewish Museum
celebrated two centuries ago has tion, highlighting the back- exhibitions gallery for travelling relocated to its current location
opened at the Jane Austen Centre ground of Jewish people living exhibits; and the Holocaust in a listed property in 1995.
in Bath. The centre is running a
special exhibition which gives a
glimpse into how the famous New exhibition for
New museum projects for Mivan
writer and her family enjoyed the
Cornish museum
holiday season, including the By Martin Nash
types of food eaten, games The National Maritime Museum
played and how they decorated Cornwall (NMM) is to launch a Interiors and theming company
their home. Regency Christmas at major new exhibition on Mivan has secured two major
the Jane Austen Centre runs lighthouses in the new year. museum fit-out projects – the
between 21 November 2009 and 3 Called Lighthouses: Life on new £4.4m Glasgow Riverside
January 2010. the Rocks, the exhibition opens Museum contract and a £1.6m
in February 2010 and will run project at the Museum of the
Hastings Pier
for two years. Order of St John in London.
deal collapses
The installation's artefacts The Glasgow project will be Mivan's brief will include
The future of a historic pier in will include old sketchbooks Mivan's largest assignment creating street scenes
Hastings, East Sussex, remains and photos taken by former since it worked on the Museum
uncertain after the owners of lighthouse keepers, as well as of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar The museum – designed by
the Grand Pier in Weston-super- large objects, including solid and the company will be Zaha Hadid – is being built at a
Mare, Somerset, pulled out of a bronze doors from the Bishop supplying and installing a cost of £74m, with £18.1m of
deal to acquire the attraction. Rock lighthouse and a range of exhibition systems, funding coming from the
Kerry and Michelle Michael of four-tonne optic used to reflect street scenes and displays Heritage Lottery Fund. It has
Grand Pier Limited, which is light from the tower. throughout the new building. been designed to celebrate
currently redeveloping of Part funded by a £30,000 It will be working in Glasgow's contribution to the
Weston-super-Mare's Grand Pier, grant from the Heritage Lottery partnership with Culture and world of travel and transport
decided not to go ahead with Fund, the exhibition was Sport Glasgow and the city and, situated at the heart of the
the purchase due to the £24m designed by Falmouth-based council to realise the designs of Glasgow Harbour development,
cost of restoring the pier. Gendall Design. Event Communications. is due to open in spring 2011.
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