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20 Aug 2002
Half a million pounds available for regional museums
The Association of Independent Museums says a fund of £500,000 is being made immediately available by Resource for smaller regional museums in England. The money is to be spent on the appointment of museum development officers to help full the advice gap left by the demise of area museum councils and to encourage high standards. The funds are being made available as part of the Renaissance in the
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20 Aug 2002
Bagshaw Museum wins Sandford Award
Bagshaw Museum in Batley, West Yorkshire, has been granted a full Sandford Award for Heritage Education in recognition of the quality and excellence of its education provision. The museum in Wilton Park is one of 19 heritage properties announced as recipients of Sandford Awards for 2002 by the Heritage Education Trust. Kirklees Metropolitan Council said the award was given for the museum's schools'
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20 Aug 2002
Radar pin-points ancient plumbing
An English Heritage-funded survey is underway at a 17th century pleasure garden bidding to unlock its liquid assets. Scientists from Leeds University are using ground-penetrating radar to unravel the mysteries of the plumbing buried beneath 70 acres of formal gardens at Bramham Park, near Wetherby, West Yorkshire. At the heart of the Grade I listed landscape, laid out between 1698 and 1731 by Robert Benson,
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20 Aug 2002
Movie World Madrid installs Stunt Fall roller-coaster
The Movie World Madrid theme park has installed the Stunt Fall, Europe's first suspended looping boomerang roller-coaster. Strapped into ski-lift style chairs suspended from the track above, the Stunt Fall, sends its 32 riders dangling face and feet-down out of the station. The riders are then dropped into a complete vertical free fall, reaching speeds of 65 mph, before racing head-over heels on the outside of a 102
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20 Aug 2002
Railway museum to hold auction to raise conservation funds
The National Railway Museum (NRM) is to hold an auction to raise funds for the conservation of Queen Victoria's last surviving royal carriage. The centrepiece of the auction is to be provided by English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS), is a rare collection of plates and includes Isambard Kingdom Brunel, County of Mid-Glamorgan, Tre Pol and Pen, David Lloyd George, Fort William and Helvellyn. Sue
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20 Aug 2002
Underground museum plan for Forbidden City
Custodians of the Forbidden City have drawn up secret plans for a three-story museum under the sprawling palace in central Beijing to display masses of imperial artefacts that have never been shown to the public, reports The Independent. But as news of the plans began to leak, critics said the scheme could weaken the foundations of the city's most famous landmark. Officials of the Palace Museum
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14 Aug 2002
Opening of British Empire & Commonwealth museum
A newly restored museum - The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum, covering the history of Britain's colonial past and modern-day Commonwealth, is due to open on 26 September in Bristol. The museum was first established in 1986 as the Museum of Empire & Commonwealth. The museum's permanent exhibition will be the first in the world to be dedicated to a study of Britain's 500-year colonial history and will be housed in
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14 Aug 2002
Cumbrian underground centre wins award
A subterranean centre in Cumbria - Rheged, 'The Village in the Hill', has won the title of Cumbria's Best Visitor Attraction. Clarie Logan, marketing and sales manager for Rheged, said: 'We are absolutely delighted…Rheged has struck a chord with more than 400,000 visitors who now enjoy the centre each year.' Rheged's main attraction was 'Rheged - The Movie', that opened in August 2000, shown on a screen as
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13 Aug 2002
Visitor figures soar after museums scrap entrance fees
In the seven months since admission fees to government sponsored national museums and galleries were scrapped last year, average attendance is up by 62 per cent - 2.7 million people. The figures are not confined to London attractions, as museums and galleries in the regions have seen a 45 per cent increase since the free admission scheme was introduced on 1 December 2001. The Victoria & Albert Museum has seen
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12 Aug 2002
Tussauds growth leads to flotation speculation
The Tussauds Group has reported significant growth over the past year, with an increase in turnover of 12 per cent to £137m in 2001 and over 15 million people visiting its attractions. By publicly issuing its results, Tussauds, which owns and operates Madame Tussaud's in London, New York, Las Vegas, Hong Kong and Amsterdam as well as Alton Towers, Chessington World of Adventures and Thorpe Park, has sparked
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12 Aug 2002
Prize for museums
A £100,000 museum prize to emulate the success of the Booker and Turner prizes is to be launched this autumn. Sponsored by the Museum's Association, National Art Collections Fund, National Heritage and the Campaign for Museums, the award will be funded by the Lisbon-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The Museum Prize Trust has been set up to run the award and the judging panel will be announced in
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12 Aug 2002
London time trip takes visitors on river walk
Fitting out has begun on a new prehistoric gallery for the Museum of London called London before London. The permanent exhibition, being designed in house in association with Conran & Partners, will cover 330sq m and explore the Thames Valley over the past 500,000 years. There will be eight chrono-thematic sections including a Riverwall - featuring almost 500 objects recovered from the banks of the Thames -
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