Lottery Helps British Museum Dig Deep to Save Artefacts

Building the British Museum's world conservation and exhibitions centre. Photo by: Graham Turner for the Guardian

By Mark Brown from The Guardian

It is still an enormous muddy hole from which around 50 lorries a day are taking away excavated London clay, but it is a hole the British Museum is quite proud of. In this hole, it believes, is the key to the survival of the collection.

The museum was told on Friday that it could have £10m of lottery cash to help complete ambitious plans for a £135m world conservation and exhibitions centre on the Bloomsbury site’s north-west corner.

It was, said the museum’s deputy director, Andrew Burnett, “a huge public endorsement of the project” and an important step closer to the finish line.

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