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Forming the hub of a National Brunel Network of heritage resources
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL MUSEUM
Bristol, UK ■■OPENING 2016
Legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel is to be the subject of a new £7m (€8.6m, US$11.8m) museum celebrating
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his work. Being Brunel will sit next to the SS Great Britain ship museum in Bristol, which centres on another of Brunel’s famous creations. It will be built within the historic Great Western Steamship Company dockyard and is expected to offer public access to the engineer’s design collections for the first time. A major redevelopment of the derelict buildings that overlook the floating harbour will allow visitors to discover original
Brunel artefacts, explore the life and world of the engineer and step back in time inside his original drawing office. Run by the SS Great Britain Trust, with the architecture contract going out to tender soon, the development will form the hub of a new National Brunel Network of people, places, institutions and heritage resources around the UK.