Royal Cornwall Museum's Mineral Gallery
The museum’s Transformation Project will see it shut early next year, as its Learning and Engagement Teams go out into the community
Royal Cornwall Museum is to extend its usual winter closure into the new year to allow for the next phase of its modernisation project.
The museum’s usual seasonal closure is being extended by a month to allow its gallery spaces on the ground floor and balcony to be modernised in a £2.3m phase of work funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The Transformation Project, which began with the Mineral Gallery last summer, sees the museum’s Nature Gallery redesigned in consultation with Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Its current balcony will become an art gallery, and the central space in the museum will become the Heart of Cornwall Gallery.
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Next January and February while works take place, the museum staff will move out of the building, taking items from its collections on the road while works take place. It is expected to reopen next Spring.
The museum’s Learning Team has joined up with the local library service to deliver its Ancient Egypt and Victorian Toys workshops in eight libraries across the county. Its Engagement Team have created a workshop called Treasure, which it will be running in collaboration with wellbeing groups across Cornwall during January and February.
