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National Maritime Museum wins Ł12m lottery
Boost for Millennium Celebrations
Greenwich, 22 March 1996
The National Maritime
Museum at Greenwich was awarded UKŁ 11.8 million (US$ 18 million) in
National Lottery funding for a renovation project ahead of the Millennium
celebrations. The money will go towards a UKŁ 19.6 million (US$ 30 million)
scheme to revitalise the galleries of the museum's west-wing complex.
Work will include the clearing of a large enclosed area lying behind the
museum's main entrance to form a covered courtyard. The courtyard will be laid
out as reception facilities for the museum's 600,000 annual visitors and will
improve access through galleries surrounding the courtyard. Eleven new galleries
will be created.
This will put the National Maritime Museum ``at the forefront of Britain's
national museums for the next century''. The museum is staging an international
fund-raising campaign to raise the remaining UKŁ 7.8 million (US$ 12 million)
needed for the project. Sir David Hardy, Chairman of Trustees of the National
Maritime Museum, said: ``This project is about creating nothing less than a new
museum. ``We are delighted that it has won such substantial backing from the
Heritage Lottery Fund and we may now pursue our fund-raising campaign with
renewed vigour.''
The museum galleries form one of three sites of the National Maritime Museum.
Restoration and refurbishment has already been carried out at the other two
sites; the Queen's
House and the Old
Royal Observatory.
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