Museum storage plan ready soon

Friday 19th November 2010, 2:29PM GMT.

Museums director Dr Jason Monaghan in the St John Street store. (0546052)

A PLAN on how to spend £250,000 in funding for heritage storage should be prepared before the end of the year.

Culture and Leisure minister Mike O’Hara said that now the money had been secured – controversially at the expense of bowel cancer screening – the department was almost ready to present a full business plan to Treasury and Resources, detailing how storage of heritage assets would be upgraded and rationalised.

‘We’re pleased that it’s finally happening because it’s something we’ve needed for a while,’ he said.

Chief officer Dave Chilton said the department had been planning the changes for a long time.