The Project:A working partnership between the Museum and MK Council

The Value of Heritage

Can Heritage really contribute to sustainable development? For me the better question is: Can sustainable growth really exist without heritage playing a part?

Introduction to “Heritage Counts” 2014

English Heritage

Tourism,Sense of PlaceRelevanceIdentityEducationSocial cohesionPersonal DevelopmentQuality of lifeEmployment

Visiting heritage is worth £1,646 per person per year.

Heritage Counts 2014

Milton Keynes has had more archaeological excavation than any similar area in the UK

The finds are significant but where are they?We want to bring them home to MK

There are many stories to tell in the first of the new galleries: ancient MK

Discovered on or close to the site of Milton Keynes Museum:

The UK’s largest Bronze Age roundhouse The Roman villa at Bancroft

Milton Keynes has some fantastic stories to tell but who knows about them?

Civil War, Elizabeth Woodville ‘The White Queen’, The Princes in the Tower, and Dr John Radcliffe: just a few examples of Milton Keynes making history

One of the new galleries will tell the stories of New Milton Keynes

Some of the team responsible for designing and building ‘the new city’

The stories of the “New City” – its development and its people are equally important.

The People’s Story

Our site: Stacey Hill Farm

Views of the Museum’s galleries today

Hands-on fun & discovery for all ages

The biggest museum in the Country run almost entirely by volunteers;

Contributing hours/year totalling almost£¼ million.

Milton Keynes Museum 2014

Milton Keynes Museum 2014

•An Independent museum;

•Run for the community;

•Sustainable – not a drain on the public purse;

•Expected to attract 30,000 visitors this year;

Current layout

Plan of the Museum Site

Farmhouse

Car Park (present)

Reception (present)

Street of Shops

StorageAgricultureTelephonesTransport

Tea Rooms & Cottage

Site of New Galleries

Site of old car park to be restored

Wolverton

The Programme

• Approval from HLF Before February 2016

• Build Start Spring 2016

• Build Complete Winter 2017/8

• Open to Visitors 1st April 2018

The Team

• Design and Build Team Wates

Rob Warne

• Architects Nicholas Hare

John Leonard

The Team

• Design and Build Team Wates

Rob Warne

Architect Nicholas Hare

John Leonard

The Team

• Exhibition Design Mather & Co

• Chris Mather

What do we want?

To produce the best Museum in the Country:

• Every artefact; every display; every sentence, every illustration; every sound; every change of lighting; every interactive must be excellent.

• We want you to help make sure that the display telling your story is the very best that it could be.

We have one simple aim

To build the best Museum in the country