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Museums Makeover

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Both City Council run museums in Gloucester are set for major makeovers.

The City Museum and Art Gallery in Brunswick Road and the Folk Museum in Westgate Street have received a total of £730,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Now work will start later this year on major projects that will improve the facilities in both buildings.The Folk Museum will get a new purpose built education block and improvements to a gallery. (more…)

Postcard Collection

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Gloucester Civic Trust has  purchased a postcard collection of some 692 images.  Some are quite rare.  The cards contain some magnificent scenes of Gloucester in a bygone era. Some of them are seasonal such as Gloucester Valentine’s cards and Gloucester Chirstmas cards.

Thanks to Heritage Lottery Funding the cards have been digitally conserved by a specialist.  All images are now held on an external hard drive as well as on a CD rom.  Gloucester Civic Trust is now considering how the postcard images may be used such as reproducing prints, notelets and greetings cards. Some of the images have already been used in the 2010 calendar and for the Trust’s community filming project.

The originals will now be placed in safe keeping at the records office.

Colin Dunn of Scriptura Ltd carried out the digital Conservation work. Colin’s based in Oxford and is an expert in his field having done work for the Cairo musuem and the Oxford Universities - to name but a few.

His contact details are www.scriptura.co.uk

St Michael’s Tower latest news update

Friday, June 5th, 2009
The louvre blind which will be fixed to the large modern window over looking Starbucks Cafe is arriving on Monday 8 June. It’s enormous and will arrive in 2 parts. It’s arrival is something not to be missed and no doubt will cause a stir on the Cross.
It was on the recommendation of English Heritage that we had to have this bespoke blind made.
The idea is that it will stop the solar gain and heat penetrating through the window and will help alleviate the suplhation problem in the Tower.
The new blind coupled with the new ventilation system will help resolve the stonework problem. The cost of the louvre blind is £43,000 and it’s been made here in Gloucester by Levolux.  Quite an engineering feat.