Punch & Judy coming
Hastings Museum - all this effort for a Punch & Judy show...but where are the builders? On a tea break, perhaps?
Yes – Punch & Judy are coming to Bohemia – albeit as an exhibition at our local Museum – but they won’t go on show till next year. At present the museum is closed for major building works. The alterations began on Hastings Museum and Art Gallery in October last year and the whole new building is due to be open to the public in May 2007.
As can be seen from the photos here the building works are well underway. You can see here the new extension that is being added which will join the main museum to the Durbar Hall.
NEW LIFT
The works are being funded by monies from Hastings Borough Council, Heritage Lottery Fund and Interreg (European funding). The works will mean better disabled access into the building with the inclusion of a new lift, ramps, and access toilet.
There will be improvements in the lighting and heating, meaning better conservation for artefacts. New display cases are being made for many of the rooms and some artefacts will be redisplayed with new labels and graphics.
The Museum and Gallery will host an array of new and redisplayed collections including those on: John Logie Baird, Native American Indians, Mods and Rockers, Punch and Judy, Robert Tressell and Sidney Little – the ‘Cement King’ who designed the St. Leonards bathing pool [bet you thought it was the one with the glasses from ‘Little and Large’].
Hastings Museums new extension taking shape - builders presumably off on another break.
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