ATTRACTIONS & MUSEUMS


Visitor numbers surge at Mary Rose Museum


Te Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth has welcomed more than 52,000 visitors since opening on 31 May this year. Te new museum was built around the


hull of the ship and id being designed by led by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Pringle Brandon Perkins+Will. . The boat-shaped museum showcases


19,000 artefacts associated with it. In June, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard


has hosted 80,000 national and interna- tional guests visiting the HMS Victory, Te National Museum of the Royal Navy, Action Stations, HMS Warrior 1860 and addition to the family – Te Mary Rose. Details: http://lei.sr?a=u5I9x


Futuristic centre for Dudley Zoo


Dudley Zoo has revealed design plans of the pro- posed Trilobite building – a futuristic education and conference centre with a nod to the site’s ancient history. Te new building, which


is being designed to recre- ate the historic Dudley Bug fossil - the fossilized outer shell of a creature famous to the region that is simi- lar to a modern day horse shoe crab. It will incorporate a cen-


tre for zoology, geology and education with a link to the limestone Stores Cavern beneath the zoo site. The centre will showcase Castle Hill’s


history as part of a prehistoric seabed, edu- cating visitors about the trilobite, also known as the Dudley Bug, while linking to animals and conservation work, and explaining how limestone and coal are key


Te Trilobite building will replicate the Dudley Bug fossil


minerals to the region’s industrial heritage. Major £10m plans for Castle Hill are already


under way with a new visitor entrance in the pipeline to transform the lower levels of the zoo’s 40-acre site to link with the Black Country Living Museum and Dudley Canal Trust. Details: http://lei.sr?a=q2C6u


Family friendly museum shortlist revealed Te 2,000sq m will host exhibitions and events


Major new Science Gallery to launch at King’s College


King’s College London has outlined its intention to open an innovative venue for science and art collaboration in London Bridge following two capital funding awards totalling £7m. Te college intends to open a science


gallery at its Guy’s Campus, a centre for biomedical research, in 2015 following confirmation of funding of £3m from the Welcome Trust and £4m from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity towards a funding target of £12m. A potent ial


site of 2,000sq m


(21,530sq ft) in London Bridge, oppo- site The Shard, has been identified as the site that will include exhibition galleries, a theatre, café, courtyard and informal meeting spaces to create a new London creative space. Te gallery will host exhibitions, events,


performances and festivals that bring “science, technology and health into dialogue with the arts and design in an unprecedented way, inspiring new thinking and driving innovation”. Details: http://lei.sr?a=z4Z6V


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Six museums have been announced on the shortlist for the Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award. Picked from 20 possi-


ble candidates, the finalists has been selected by a panel of judges led by Jenny Abramsky, Heritage Lottery Fund’s chair, alongside BBC arts editor Will Gompertz, Telegraph head of arts and entertainment Andrew Pettie and director of kids in museums, Dea Birkett. Te six shortlisted muse-


Anonymous families will test the siv museums over the summer


ums are; Brixham Heritage Museum, Devon; Horniman Museum and Gardens, London; National Maritime Museum, Cornwall; Nature in Art, Gloucester; North Lincolnshire Museum; and Nottingham Contemporary Gallery.


Over the Summer, anonymous fam-


ilies, acting as undercover judges, will test the short listed museums. The winner will be announced by judges in September. Details: http://lei.sr?a=o6q2a


Scottish Museum of Flight secures funding from HLF


Te Heritage Lottery Fund has announced its support for the next phase of a development plan to transform the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian, Scotland. Te £3.6m project will see National Museums Scotland restore two nationally significant


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Second World War hangars and create new exhibitions within them. The project will conserve the origi-


nal building fabric and will also restore the hangars to their original condition. Details: http://lei.sr?a=t0D5f


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