Work is moving on at great pace throughout the museum, to ensure that we will be ready to launch our new look in June. In addition to opening the fantastic new Land Speed Record Exhibition this week, here's what we're currently up to:
Re-routing and work on new exhibitions
Lots of work is happening on the ground floor of the museum, as we change the layout of this area to make some of the biggest and most exciting changes, to enable us to tell Coventry's transport story in chronological order, in a dynamic new way.
Motorcycle and Cycle galleries
The upstairs motorcycle and cycle galleries have now been demolished, making way for a new 'Design and Innovation' exhibition as well as education spaces. In the new museum, the cycle and motorcycle collections will be displayed alongside the car collections, throughout the whole museum.
Old Land Speed Record gallery
Since Thrust SSC and Thrust 2 moved out of their original home, this space has now been completely stripped and redecorated, in preparation for a new 'Working Wonders' exhibition.
When it is completed, this will be a super new display of 'working' vehicles, and the important roles that vehicles have played in all of our lives, from milk floats to buses to lorries!
When it is completed, this will be a super new display of 'working' vehicles, and the important roles that vehicles have played in all of our lives, from milk floats to buses to lorries!
Old Grammar School
Work continues on repairing the extremely decayed stonework throughout the building, and a new extension is being added to provide modern access and visitor facilities for the space. We are really excited about being able to open this historic building up for special events from June 2015 onwards.
The great news is that despite the really ambitious timescale for this mammoth project, we are still on course for the redevelopment to be finished by June 2015 - we can't wait for you to see what we've been doing!
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