Derby museum gets £71000 government grant for improvements - BBC

A Derby depository has received a £71,000 authorities assistance to assistance it amended the visitant acquisition and summation awareness.

Grade I listed Pickford's House, successful Friar Gate, celebrates the beingness and times of Georgian designer Joseph Pickford.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service says the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport is down the grant, which totals £71,700.

The authorities said the backing would “help the depository usage virtual world to bring the location to a wider audience”.

The depository is located wrong the erstwhile location that the designer designed for himself successful the 18th Century.

Dr Cathy Putz, manager of programming astatine Derby Museums said: ”We are thrilled [to have] been awarded backing for our project, The Reimagined Home: Changing Views of Home, Work and Family for an Inclusive, Digital Age.

"The task volition alteration america to make Pickford’s House, we volition research what Derby residents would similar to cognize astir the Georgian townhouse and volition spot our communities astatine its halfway arsenic the tract becomes a section hub of activity.

“We volition marque worldly improvements to the display, interpretation, and collections astatine Pickford’s House to heighten the visitant experience, amended accessibility and heighten the civic worth of this site.”