Our next major project will be the Redevelopment of Stockport Story Museum, this will involve a variety of changes in order to make the museum more easily accessible;with better orientation and different and re-displayed exhibits. The aim is to increase visitor numbers and better utilise the collection.

The first project that we will be working on is to create a new education space, which will be used by the education team during school visits. The space that we will be transforming  was formerly the ‘Costume gallery.’ It was a very dark space with a case that spread over the width of the room. The walls were painted black and the lights were activated by a button in order to protect the textiles within case. The case held Victorian clothing and domestic items aswell as items from the Suffragette era. The first task was to carefully record and pack away the collection items before taking them back to the stores , this was done by…