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Royal Cornwall Museum receives 拢2.1 million investment

The investment will be used for transformation of the Heart of Cornwall exhibition and improvements to the nature gallery and museum entrance

L-R: Jonathan Morton and Bryony Robins from Royal Cornwall Museum with Cllr Louis Gardner from Cornwall Council(Image: Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth Programme)

The Royal Cornwall Museum is one of the latest projects to receive support from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth Programme.

The Truro museum and art gallery has received £2.1m from the programme, which is managed by Cornwall Council and funded by the government's Shared Prosperity Fund, which aims to help level up communities across the 海角视频. The funding will enable the transformation of the Heart of Cornwall exhibition, the main gallery of the museum. It will also fund improvements to the nature gallery and the museum entrance and garden, which will improve accessibility.

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Funding from the Good Growth Programme is the latest in a series of successful funding bids by the museum designed to secure its future by transforming how its collection are presented, safeguarding the building and home to the 200-year-old institution in the heart of Truro, and ultimately broadening its appeal to residents and visitors.

Cornwall Council previously provided £100,000 of transitional funding while the museum put together a longer-term funding solution. The Heritage Lottery Fund provided £250,000, and Arts Council England awarded £1.5m through the Museum Estate and Development Fund, which is funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to address the infrastructure and urgent maintenance needs of the museum sector.

Cllr Carol Mould, Portfolio holder for neighbourhoods said: “Royal Cornwall Museum has come a long way in the last 18 months as it implements its transformation plan with the support and encouragement of the Council. It has secured funding from a range of partners and with this latest investment by the Good Growth programme we look forward to seeing the exciting changes it has planned.”

Bryony Robins, artistic director of the museum added: “This funding will have a positive impact on so many people, enabling us to continue our transformation, and improve the experience for our visitors and allowing us to become more accessible to more people.

“The main hall and Heart of Cornwall Gallery will see improvements to how we share the story of Cornish heritage and culture, and the Nature Gallery which is extremely popular with families and an essential story to be told in the face of climate change will also be transformed.”