Between Thursday 26th May – Thursday 3rd June , the nationally praised Rebellious Sounds Archive (RSA) touring Listening Booth will be exhibiting at House of Fraser in Plymouth as part of Plymouth History Festival.
Housing the first oral archive of activism stories from women across the South West, the Rebellious Sounds Archive listening booth brings women’s voices to the forefront....
Today is a landmark day for the Plymouth History Centre which has signed a £22.6 million contract with construction and regeneration specialist Willmott Dixon.
The signing of the contract marks a new phase for the project and means that major construction work can now progress.
Willmott Dixon has already completed the enabling works for the History Centre, a task which has...
The impact of the Plymouth History Centre on the city’s culture, heritage and visitor offer has been recognised by the Coastal Communities Fund today, with confirmation of an amazing £2million’ worth of funding towards the project.
The Coastal Communities Fund aims to encourage and promote sustainable economic growth and jobs in coastal towns and cities throughout the UK. It began in...
The good news about Plymouth’s History Centre keeps coming.
Project partners have just learned that Arts Council England (ACE) has given the green light to a full funding request of £4,175,000.
Councillor Ian Bowyer, Leader of Plymouth City Council said: “This is yet more brilliant news - news that will really help us to achieve our ambitions. Arts Council England’s support is...
Representatives from Plymouth City Council and its partners in the History Centre, will be at the Plymouth City Market until Friday 30 October.
They will be consulting with the public, on the design of the exciting new Plymouth History Centre, which will be the Jewel in the Crown of the Plymouth Cultural Quarter. The site of the existing Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, Library, and St...
This is what Plymouth’s new history centre could look like at night.
The team behind the project has issued the latest concepts for the project which will be a game changer in how Plymouth celebrates its incredible history and culture.
The images are being released as exciting plans to put Plymouth on the national cultural map with a new world-class History Centre look set to...
When work begins on Plymouth’s new History Centre, the double fronted Edwardian buildings on North Hill will have to be empty.
Even though the museum will remain open with exhibitions and events until this time next year, work will be going on in the stores and offices to carefully pack and move the city’s treasures off site.
The partners of Plymouth’s History Centre have reached out to the world’s best designers and invited them to submit tenders for the exhibition design for the new History Centre.
A couple of weeks ago many of these designers visited the site on North Hill to see the scope of the opportunity for themselves and to experience the partners’ enthusiasm first hand.
The planned £21m Plymouth International History Centre in the heart of the city has a new Director who will drive forward the development.
Plymouth City Council is delighted to announce that Paul Brookes will be taking on the pivotal role of History Centre Programme Director to create an exceptional new attraction on North Hill.
Throughout his career Paul Brookes has taken the...
