Museum expansion plan gets thumbs up

TWO motions looking to a bigger, brighter future were passed by Bexhill Museum Association's well-attended Annual General Meeting last week.
By The Newsroom
Published 6th Jun 2002, 08:56 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:47 BST

The committee is now authorised to amalgamate the Association with the Bexhill Museum of Costume and Social History Association by next March.

Also, as far as the BMA is concerned, the Bexhill Museum Joint Project Steering Group may appoint personnel to the board of directors (trustees), the board of management and the trading company board of directors for the proposed, new, combined museum.

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Presenting reasons for the motions, curator Julian Porter said that both existing museums had very good collections, but were contrained by lack of space to display, work with and store their resources. Chairman Megan Traice and vice-chairman Alan Beecher supported the curator's presentation.

The plan at this early stage is for the existing museum in Egerton Park to be expanded eastward. This would provide more space and also accommodate the Costume Museum, the Bexhill Motoring Heritage Group and a unit for Sure Start, the government-funded agency which provides childcare facilities for deprived under-fours. If this plan failed, Bexhill Museum Association would try to get funding to expand on its own.

l The Association's next lecture takes place on October 9 at 7.30pm in Victoria Hall, when Dr Graham Whitham will speak on The Road from Utopia: Modernist to Post-Modernist.