MUSEUMS & ATTRACTIONS IN BRIEF


Bletchley Park archives to go online A vast collection of hitherto


unseen historical documents stored at the World War II code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, is to be digitised and made available to the public online. Expected to take between three and five years, the collaboration between electronics company Hewlett- Packard and the Bletchley Park Trust will help to commit more than one million of the site's historic documents to digital format. The documents include communication transcripts, communiqués, memoranda, photographs and other material tracing and referencing some of the most significant events of the Second World War.


Havering Museum officially opens Havering Museum in London


has officially opened. The former brewery was transformed with the help of a £990,000 HLF grant. It opened one day a week once building work was completed in February, but is now open Wednesdays to Saturdays. Wesley Kerr, chair of HLF's London Committee, said: "For the first time in six decades this important borough – in the heart of London, the heart of Essex, and the soul of Anglo-Saxon England – has a heritage hub. The independent museum will be run by Havering Musuem Ltd, supported by Havering Borough Council. Objects in the museum are separated into themes including farming, transport and childhood and there are five pods telling the stories of Havering- atte-Bower, Hornchurch, Romford, Rainham and Upminster and their surrounding areas. It also has two permanent exhibition areas, a temporary exhibition and event space and a gift shop.


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HLF announces £17m skills investment Initiative set to create 800 placements in the heritage and museums sectors


By Pete Hayman More than 50 training projects are set to benefit from a share of £17m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) as part of its Skills for the Future programme. Launched in July 2009, the


one-off funding initiative aims to support organisations across the UK to create training places over a five-year period, with grants ranging between £100,000 and £1m. More than 800 placements


are expected to be delivered as part of the investment, which is treble the amount originally set aside by the HLF and will support traditional conservation training. Among the projects to receive funding is Training the Curator, a British Museum-led programme that will receive more than £510,000 to train 15 people - at least half from ethnic minority backgrounds.


Heritage archive now online


More than one million photo- graphs and documents relating to England's historic buildings and archaeological sites have been made available to the public online. The information – amounting


to 1,1m records and 82,600 images – is held by the National Monuments Record (NMR), English Heritage's (EH) public archive, and until now could only be accessed in person at the NMR's public search rooms in Swindon, Wiltshire. Using a range of search terms,


users can establish whether or not EH holds any items in its archive relevant to the topic in which they are interested. Searches can be made for a type of building or for an address.


Training projects include schemes led by the British Museum The Waterways Trust,


Glamorgan Archives and the National Heritage Ironwork Group are also among the beneficiaries of funding from the HLF to create new training opportunities. HLF chair Dame Jenny


Abramsky said: "When the recession kicked-in last year we thought very hard about how the Heritage Lottery Fund could


make a difference to people's lives at a time of real need. The answer was an innovative and ambitious programme focusing on equipping people with practical skills to help them secure future employment." Tourism and heritage minister


John Penrose added: "This investment is a great way of giving people access to practical on-the-job training."


V&A Dundee shortlist announced By Pete Hayman


Six companies have been shortlisted as part of an international design competi- tion to draw up plans for a landmark new building to house the proposed V&A at Dundee. Located at Craig Harbour as


part of city's redeveloped waterfront area, the attraction will host travelling and permanent exhibitions, as well as providing a resource for design and creativity. Among the shortlisted design


teams is Vienna, Austria-based Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, along with Kengo Kuma and Associates of Tokyo, Japan, and Snøhetta from Oslo, Norway. REX and Steven Holl Architects – both based in New


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The museum is being developed by Design Dundee


York, US – and Sutherland Hussey Architects of Edinburgh are the other three teams in the running to be appointed. The V&A at Dundee project is


being led by Design Dundee – a partnership formed by V&A Museum, London; the universi- ties of Dundee and Abertay Dundee; Dundee City Council and Scottish Enterprise.


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