Crawley BC and Crawley Museum Society Awarded £1.1 Million for New Museum

Crawley Borough Council and Crawley Museum Society, have been awarded over £1million by the Heritage Lottery Fund to provide a new museum in the town centre.

Work on the new museum, which will be located in The Tree and The Tree Annexe with a glass link between the two, is expected to start in April 2015 and take around 18 months to complete.

The project will see The Tree restored, renovated and fitted out as a new museum space. There’ll also be specialist display facilities and equipment in The Tree and The Tree Annexe, and lots of exciting opportunities ahead for volunteers and the public to get involved.

The current museum in Goffs Park House is cramped and only holds about 10 per cent of the society’s artefacts.