A presentation given to the Milton Keynes business community to report on the museum expansion. The expansion will feature two new galleries telling the whole story of Milton Keynes from pre-history through to the present time.

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

3. 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

4. Tourism,
Sense of Place
Relevance
Identity
Education
Social cohesion
Personal Development
Quality of life
Employment

5. Visiting heritage is worth £1,646 per
person per year.
Heritage Counts 2014

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

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

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

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

14. The People’s Story

15. Our site: Stacey Hill Farm

17. Views of the Museum’s galleries today

18. Hands-on fun & discovery for all ages

19. Milton Keynes Museum 2014
The biggest museum in the Country run almost
entirely by volunteers;
Contributing hours/year totalling almost
£¼ million.

20. 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;

21. Current layout

22. Plan of the Museum Site
Car Park (present)
Reception (present)
Street of Shops
Farmhouse
Transport Telephones Agriculture Storage
Tea Rooms & Cottage
Site of New Galleries
Site of old car park to
be restored
Wolverton

23. The Programme
• Approval from HLF Before February 2016
• Build Start Spring 2016
• Build Complete Winter 2017/8
• Open to Visitors 1st April 2018

24. The Team
• Design and Build Team Wates
Rob Warne
• Architects Nicholas Hare
John Leonard

25. The Team
• Design and Build Team Wates
Rob Warne

26. Architect Nicholas Hare
John Leonard

27. The Team
• Exhibition Design Mather & Co
• Chris Mather

30. 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.

31. We have one simple aim

32. To build the best Museum in the country