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BBC News
09-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Bath Fashion Museum gets £768k towards reopening
A former fashion museum has been given £768,000 in National Lottery funding to help it reopen in Bath Fashion Museum closed in 2022 when the National Trust took back the Assembly Rooms, where it had been for nearly 60 collection - which has since been stored in a glove factory in Wiltshire - contains 100,000 items spanning 400 years, from 1600 to the present National Lottery Heritage Fund has given the money in order to push plans forward to reopen the museum in the former post office, in New Bond Street. Bringing the collection back to a new museum in the centre of Bath is a major part of Bath and North East Somerset Council's plans to regenerate the Milson Quarter and boost the city's tourism economy, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. 'Outstanding collection' The council failed in its Levelling Up Fund bid to reopen the museum in the post office in museum will apply for a full National Lottery grant of £7.2m next the museum's collection in Wiltshire, at one of only places with the correct conditions to store the fragile collection, has cost the council £150,000 a member for economic and cultural sustainable development, Paul Roper, said: "This is going to be a new, world class institution in a UNESCO World Heritage City and there is huge excitement that, at long last, we will be able to display our unique and outstanding fashion collection in a location and setting that it fully deserves."The council plans to create a new "digital catalogue" which will make the collection available to audiences across the McLeod, of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: "Not only does this mean a Grade II listed building will be brought back to life, but also a globally significant collection will be accessible to everyone, both in person and digitally."
BBC News
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bath's Grade II listed Parade Gardens is dropping its entry fees
A popular city park is dropping its entry fees from April after a pilot helped attract more than 29,000 visitors over eight currently costs adults £2.50 to enter the Grade II listed Parade Gardens in Bath, which has views of Pulteney Weir and Bath Abbey, and £1.50 for after Bath and North East Somerset Council trialled free entry in October half term, it decided to remove fees from April until the end of the year.A council spokesperson said it hopes this will make Parade Gardens "accessible and inclusive for everyone". During the pilot, visitors were able to explore the gardens' colonnades – columns that sit below the city's Grand Parade – as well as an undercroft and vaults, and a medieval Paul Roper said "hidden histories of the colonnades" were shared during the trial, which "captured public imagination". "We plan to build on this interest by providing more exciting activities in the gardens later this year," he added. 'Magnificent views' The authority is planning to open the colonnades for visitors during the weekend of May 30 and June 1, alongside a food and drink Tim Ball said the authority was "extremely proud of the iconic Parade Gardens".The gardens are renowned for their "stunning flowerbed displays and magnificent views", he park is being opened up as part of a council regeneration scheme, called Bath Central scheme was awarded £548,000 of grant funding from the West of England Combined Authority in 2023, alongside £232,000 of funding from the council.
BBC News
05-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Fashion Museum Bath gets grant for online catalogue project
The Fashion Museum Bath has been awarded a grant to help it develop a new online catalogue museum closed in 2022 for a major refurbishment, and is not expected to reopen in its new home until Council England's £20,000 grant will help the venue create a searchable catalogue, in collaboration with the local library McKinlay, Fashion Museum Bath project director, said the grant would help the team rethink how its collection can be experienced for future generations. The collection at Fashion Museum Bath spans across four centuries of work, from 1600 to the modern era, and was moved in 2022 to Dents heritage glovemakers in Warminster while the new venue is developed, meaning there is only limited public people will co-create the catalogue, along with Bath and North East Somerset Libraries, focussing initially on the Dress Of The Year McKinlay added: "We are excited to embark on this journey to create the museum's first searchable online catalogue starting with the Dress of the Year collection. "By creating an online catalogue, we aim to set a new standard in cultural preservation and accessibility."It marks an exciting moment in our ambition to make Fashion Museum Bath accessible to all."Councillor Paul Roper, Cabinet Member for Economic & Cultural Sustainable Development, said the council was "delighted" to get the grant, adding it will support creative jobs in the city. Emmie Kell, director of museums and Cultural Property at Arts Council England, said: "This is great news for public access to one of the most important fashion collections in the country."As the Fashion Museum undergoes transformation, the digitisation of its archives will ensure ongoing public access to its unique Designated collections."I'm especially pleased to hear young people will be part of the process... a project sure to support the museum's next exciting chapter."
