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attractions & MuseuMs British Museum nets £10m grant
Te British Museum has been awarded a £10m grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards the completion of its new World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre (WCEC) in central London. It is among four UK heri-
tage schemes to secure a share of £15.5m from the HLF and will bring some of its most important collections back on site at Bloomsbury. In addition to an exhibi-
tion space, the new WCEC will also incorporate science laboratories; storage facilities; and conservation studios. ‘Behind the scenes tours’ are also proposed. HLF chair Dame Jenny Abramsky said: “Te
centre will vastly improve the British Museum’s ability to care for the most fragile parts of its collections in the best possible conditions and will get more people involved in its work.”
Te British Museum’s new WCEC is expected to be completed next year Other schemes to receive funding include a
new Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre due to open in Stirling, Scotland, in 2014 (£3.94m); a new learning centre at Porthcurno Telegraph Museum in Penzance, Cornwall (£1.4m); and a nationwide learning programme to be rolled out by Puppetlink (£240,000).
£4m boost for English museums/galleries
Te Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Wolfson Foundation have announced that 36 museums and galleries in England are to receive a share of £4m. Among grants confirmed
by culture minister Ed Vaizey was a £140,000 award for the renovation and redisplay of Manchester Museum’s Birds and Insects gallery. Other recipients include Hampton Court Palace (£150,000) for a new permanent display of Baroque art and furniture, and the London Transport Museum (£100,000) for a new gallery. Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum (£215,000);
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Hampton Court Palace landed £150,000 towards a new Baroque display Vaizey said: “This shines a light on the
the British Museum (£200,000); and Chatham Historic Dockyard (£300,000) also receive funding towards a wide range of projects.
breadth and diversity of museums and gal- leries. Te Wolfson Foundation has an ongoing dedication to improving museums and galler- ies across the whole country.”
LEADING SUPPLIERS, LATEST MA criticises planned national wellbeing measures
Te Museums Association (MA) has raised concerns that new indicators set to be used for measuring national and individual wellbeing will not consider cultural engagement. MA policy head Maurice Davies described the measures as “flawed” for failing to take into
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account participation in arts, culture and heri- tage, as well as sport or lifelong learning. Data is to be gathered by the Office for
National Statistics , which last year published details of the indicators it will use to gauge wellbeing. Read more:
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