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The UK’s Peace Museum has been awarded a £250,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund that will see the museum relocate to Saltaire, a World Heritage village in West Yorkshire
Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 23 Jun 2023
The funding will be used to finance the museum’s move from its current location in Bradford city centre to Salts Mill in the nearby village of Saltaire Credit: CC BY SA 3.0 KGGuwa
The Peace Museum in Bradford, UK, is set to move to a new location after securing almost £250,000 (US$318,000, €292,000) in funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The funding will be used to finance the museum’s move from its current location in Bradford city centre to Salts Mill in the nearby village of Saltaire, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
It will also be used to create exhibition spaces and learning spaces at the mill, as part of a project dubbed ‘Imagine: Creating the Peace Museum of the Future.’
The move follows a three-year crowdfunding campaign for new premises with the museum citing several concerns, including accessibility and structural issues that meant that the collections were not being properly stored.
It will reopen at its new venue in summer 2024, and according to the museum, “will create many more opportunities for visitors, researchers and community groups to explore the diverse range of stories told by the museum’s collection.”
It will also “allow a larger number of people to freely access peace history for the foreseeable future.”
Clive Barrett, chair of trustees at the Peace Museum, described the move as “transformational”, adding: “This is particularly exciting in light of Bradford receiving City of Culture for 2025, as we’ll be able to welcome visitors from all over the world to our brand new museum in the heart of the district.”
Shanaz Gulzar, creative director of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, added: “Bradford is a city of peace and we’re so excited that the Peace Museum is opening again, increasing access to their incredible collection.
“This is a huge opportunity to celebrate and share our district’s diverse history of social reform – with our communities and with visitors from around the world, in the year 2025 and beyond.”
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