The Brunel Museum, which tells the story of the world’s first underwater tunnel, will shut on the finish of September for practically a 12 months of rebuilding work.
The museum was just lately granted £1.85 million by the Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund for the mission, which can will see the Engine Home and the Grade II* listed Tunnel Shaft restored to their former glory and a brand new gallery created. A brand new Welcome Pavilion will present accessible services, enabling extra individuals to go to and study concerning the tunnel and the Brunel household that led its development.
The museum was granted planning permission to increase its buildings in December 2021, with a brand new pavilion linking its two current buildings into one bigger web site. Presently cut up between two buildings, the previous Engine Home and the unique Brunel Sinking Shaft, a brand new entrance pavilion will join the 2 buildings by way of a lined courtyard.
Idea picture of recent structure (c) Tate Harmer
As well as, the refurbishment will permit a group of over photographs, often known as the Thames Tunnel watercolours, to be on show for the primary time. Many have been produced in the course of the development of the Thames Tunnel, and the Brunels themselves drew and painted them. They have been buried in a household album for nearly 200 years however have been acquired by the museum in 2017 and have been ready to search out their everlasting dwelling within the restored Engine Home
The museum’s redevelopment goals to be accomplished by summer season 2025 in time to have fun 200 years since work started on this ‘Eighth Marvel of the World’.
As well as, the museum, which opened in 1975, can even mark its personal fiftieth anniversary.
Katherine McAlpine from the Brunel Museum stated: “We’re thrilled to have obtained this help from the Heritage Fund. Because of Nationwide Lottery gamers, we’re not solely capable of revolutionise the museum and its areas however take a look at how we contain and work together with our local people and colleges right here in Southwark. Having this new area signifies that we are able to interact extra with everybody and contain them in what the following 200 years will appear like for us.”
The museum is presently promoting tickets to go to as much as the top of September, however because it’s solely open three days every week, in truth, you now have simply 35 days left to go to should you haven’t completed so and wish to see the museum earlier than its regeneration into a brand new kind.
The museum is a few minutes stroll from Rotherhithe station on the London Overground.
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