Manchester's heritage given £9m funding boost |
21 2008 |
| Residents in Manchester have welcomed the news that the city's People's Museum is to benefit from millions of pounds worth of new funding. The popular museum, which depicts the history of ordinary, working Mancunians over the past 200 years, will be relocated from the listed Pumphouse to a new purpose-built development on Bridge Street. As well as offering better exhibition space, the new location will also boast a new riverside cafe and shop, thereby giving those renting in the city the perfect place to relax by the waterfront. Dr Tristram Hunt, historian and trustee at the Heritage Lottery Fund, which is to give £9 million to the project, said: "The People's History Museum's new galleries will uniquely present the story of the growth of democracy in Britain, in which the city of Manchester played such a crucial part." The new museum is set to open next year and until then its exhibits will be housed in the nearby Science and Industry Museum.  |
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