The Marches Experience Museum Hereford

[Hereford Voice]

Stronger Hereford

This scheme is part of the collective proposed projects planned for Hereford (see pdf attachment) and will establish a transformational world-class contemporary facility in the heart of Hereford with the capacity to accommodate our globally and nationally significant heritage assets such as the Magna Carta, Herefordshire Hoard and collections of antiquities dating back to the Ice Age, in addition to hosting national and international exhibitions.

The redevelopment will embrace the latest technologies such as Virtual Reality to tell the story of Herefordshire and the wider Welsh Marches region.

The new museum will aim to attract progressive funding for heritage, culture and the arts to facilitate educational and cultural activity in the city and county, to strengthen community cohesion and engagement and to support the development of job opportunities in Hereford’s cultural sector.

FUNDING 

Total Cost: £15,000,000 | Towns Fund: £5,000,000

Matched Funding: £10,000,000

Towns Fund and match-funding will support the full refurbishment of the current Broad Street Museum and Library building to EnerPHit design standards to minimise its carbon footprint.

This scheme is part of the collective proposed projects planned for Hereford (see pdf attachment) by StrongerHereford and will establish a transformational world-class contemporary facility in the heart of Hereford with the capacity to accommodate our globally and nationally significant heritage assets such as the Magna Carta, Herefordshire Hoard and collections of antiquities dating back to the Ice Age, in addition to hosting national and international exhibitions.

The StrongerHereford Vision

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"Hereford aspires to be one of the greenest and fairest cities in the country, with fantastic opportunities and quality of life for people of all ages. Deeply rooted in our unique rural heritage, we’re blossoming into a richly creative, digital, connected and highly-skilled place to live, work, study, invest and visit."

Plans and projects also include redevelopments

• Maylord Library & Learning Resource Centre
• Holmer Extreme Sports Hub
• Castle Green Pavilion
• Meadow Arts
• Encore Music Hub
• Digital Culture Hub
• Electric Buses
• River Wye Infrastructure
• Southside Scheme
• Greening the City
• Powerhouse Project
• Soil from the City
• NMTE Future of Work Hub
• HCA School of Creative Digital Futures

#StrongerHereford #herefordvoice #hereford #positivehereford

S20098D-Hereford-TIP-Document-NEW-FINAL-1.pdf

[Mick]

Brilliant!! This is real positive stuff well done to all those people involved. 

[Bill Thomas]

59 minutes ago, Mick said:

Brilliant!! This is real positive stuff well done to all those people involved. 

I could not agree more. Make it happen..

[fandang0]

Oh fabulous!! This has to be one of the most exciting developments I've seen in a very long time!

Seriously, that's made my day!

[ragwert]

Nothing in that to improve congestion or the road infrastructure.

[Hereford Voice]

7 hours ago, ragwert said:

Nothing in that to improve congestion or the road infrastructure.

That's a completely seperate budget altogther.

[ragwert]

21 hours ago, Hereford Voice said:

That's a completely seperate budget altogther.

You would of thought top priroty would be to do.Problem with this Council always doing things arse backwards.
 

[fandang0]

20 hours ago, ragwert said:

You would of thought top priroty would be to do.Problem with this Council always doing things arse backwards.
 

We can't keep procrastinating with projects 'until we get our road network sorted' or quite frankly, nothing will ever get done.

The entire fabric of our society has received a serious jolt from this pandemic, and Hereford will come out the other end a different place from the one which entered it, where we will increasingly question 'what's really important' and 'what sort of place do we really want Hereford to evolve into, in years to come. For me, celebrating the history, the people, arts & culture that have made Herefordshire what it is today, through a project of this magnitude is bold and visionary. Utilising and enhancing our architectural assets to promote community cohesion and improve quality of life for local people, such as the Castle Green Pavillion scheme is also to be applauded. If projects such as these get the green light, they will leave a wonderful legacy for the next generation.