Speaker 1 (00:00):

Now listen, carefully and answer questions, 11 to 16. Okay. Well first of all I'll give
you abit of background to the museum and then tell you about some of the galleries,
you probably won't have time to see everything today. So what I recommend you do
is go to the Egyptian Room first because it's everyone's favorite place and it gets
very crowded with the school parties later in the day.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh and Ishould mention that thephotography galleries undergoing refurbishment at
the moment. So while that's definitely worth seeing it'll have to wait for another time.
Now, the actual Museum building itself is quite interesting. It was designed by alocal
architect called William Craven. And the 19th century at atime. When thecity was
developing rapidly, was new factories to cope with the expansion of the textile
industry. The Museum's built in a very similar style to the railway station which was
constructed at around thesame time.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
There was designed by another architect, but William Craven did also provide the
plans for the town hall which was Has built just afew years later. Construction of the
museum began in 1888 with a large team of Carpenters. Stonemasons and Builders
then in recent years, has been extensively refurbished. The lovely big Windows have
been retained to let the daylight flood in, but the award-winning part of the project
was the restoration of the area around the central Hall

Speaker 1 (01:36):
in particular, the beautiful wrought iron staircase which was brought back to its
former glory. Italy. The Museum's original tiled floor, had to be replaced with new
tiles of asimilar design. It was avery expensive project and since we don't charge
admission fees, we had to find other ways of funding it. We did get some money
from the Department of culture at National level, but we had even more generous
support from companies and industries here in the city who were our main
benefactors.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
However, we do also depend on donations from people living in the area, for the
ongoing maintenance of the building. So how will the museum mainly be spending its
money in the next five years? We already work with schools and colleges, helping
people get abetter. Understanding of all the creative disciplines, we consider the
most important part of our work. The restoration of the valuable historical objects.
We are lucky enough to have an opposition

Speaker 1 (02:32):
and this will continue to be where the most funding is allocated. Of course, it would
be wonderful to purchase new objects for the museum but we simply don't have the
space at themoment. Well, we do hope you enjoy your day today. But if you would
like to learn more about our exhibits on display here, I suggest you come to one of
the Saturday morning lectures, which are given every month by one of our team of
Experts. Of course, you can pick up leaflets about the exhibits and most of
thegalleries to

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Speaker 1 (03:01):
but you'll only get abasic introduction from those. We're also working to update
ourwebsite so that it provides more background on the exhibits. But that still at the
planning stage. before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at
questions, 17 to 20 on page 4,

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