The proposed site
What might the museum physically look like? It’s a natural question.
A great deal of work has gone into mapping out the ‘through narrative’ – the background detail of what needs to be covered as the visitor journeys through the rooms, so we can tell a coherent and comprehensive story. One that’s fair and balanced, informative and engaging.
Here’s a concept layout, looking at how to develop a particular site that shows notable promise – if we can fundraise to get it or something like it. Our layouts will change based on the specific building we purchase.
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Our ambitions are modular, scaled to what we can fundraise for. So for example, where there is space for sharing a building we might take on just a part of it that meets our minimum size requirements, if that’s where our donation levels take us.
We do though have a lot of stories to tell around the deep history of what’s shaped our nation and our identity, and a lot of teaching material that used to be on the national curriculum decades ago but has fallen off since. We’d also prefer to be in a location that’s easier to get to by transport infrastructure. We could put something together in a shed in Shetland, but it would be a big lost opportunity. Our initial priority on simply saving items at risk of being lost has resulted in a collection worth displaying. Hence our need for fundraising.
If we can raise enough to get the full square footage, our ambition includes generating a Special Relationship Gallery as part of our reflections on Global Britain. This could also act as a hub for visiting friends of the UK who are over from the United States. UK-US relations have had many startling and surprising ups and downs across the centuries, and much of the history is little known. But the alliance remains a cornerstone of the West and deserves better understanding – and indeed fostering.
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