Fusiliers' Museum,
Lancashire
The New Museum: Plans For The New Museum.
Plans For The New Museum.
The Fusilier’s Museum, Lancashire is planning a move to a grade 2 listed building in Bury’s cultural quarter.
The former technical school known as the Arts and Crafts Centre is a magnificent example of late Victorian architecture. It will provide space at ground floor level for both the Lancashire Regimental Headquarters and for the museum and its associated facilities which will include a café, shop, education and meeting spaces.
The new museum entrance will be opposite the Bury Museum and Art Gallery and will offer views from the street into the attractive museum shop and café. The Lutyen’s War Memorial will be relocated into Sparrow Park.
The Museum will display and interpret the magnificent collection of the Lancashire Fusiliers and will be the home and focal point of the growing collection of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
The story of the amalgamated Regiments since 1968 will be a feature in the displays which will be modern, interactive and widely accessible.
There will be a lively programme of changing exhibitions, activities and events, and facilities for both unsupervised computer research and for public access to the archive and library. There are also plans for letting the large education room and the panelled boardroom for meetings, training seminars and dinners.
