Bradford Peace Museum sees 40,000 visitors in first year after move
Ms McKenny said the museum was now welcoming an average of 250 people a day - compared to just five daily visitors at the old site."It's just given the museum a whole new lease of life, to be able to show off more of our amazing 16,000 object collection," she said.
A National Lottery heritage grant of about £245,000 and an additional £150,000 from Bradford 2025 City of Culture helped fund the museum's move.But the increase in visitors has created an unexpected problem, Ms McKenny said. "More visitors means that more people know about us, so we've had more donation enquiries than we've ever had before," she said."We've actually had to pause accessioning new objects into the collection because we've had so many people wanting to trust us with their objects."We've had to enrol 12 new collection volunteers specifically for the task, to help us accession those objects into our collection." The museum has exhibits such as roof tiles salvaged from Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombings, and wire fencing from the Greenham Common peace camp.
To mark one year since the relocation, the museum plans to hold a "peace picnic" in Roberts Park in Saltaire on Saturday.The next major exhibition will be in September when the museum's extensive collection of peace pin badges will go on display.Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
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