MHT helps Keswick gain lottery grant

Posted by Tina Gardner on 02/10/2008

Keswick Museum and Art Gallery have successfully won a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, thanks to support from organisations including the Mountain Heritage Trust.

The award from the Heritage Lottery Fund totals £1.25 million and will help secure a future for the Museum, as well as giving the building much-needed facilities.

These facilities will include a cafe, toilets, a disabled lift and a shop. The museum and gallery function will also be enhanced with upgraded and extra exhibition spaces as well as a redisplayed Victorian ‘museum within a museum’.

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