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British Museum gets green light for Study Centre
Detailed planning approval has been granted for a new £50m British Museum study centre in central London, due to open in the autumn of 2005. The new project is set to make the resources of the museum more immediately available, with a major part of the collections being housed in the Study Centre, together with specialist staff and greater interaction with visitors. The centre will be created in the former West London Sorting Office, at the junction of New Oxford Street and Museum street, about two minutes' walk from the British Museum. The building will require comprehensive refurbishment, but when fully occupied will provide a usable area of about 32,000sq metres. The collections of The British Museum consist of some nine million items, many of which are currently stored at four dispersed sites in London and are not readily accessible. The museum says it hopes the new study centre will bring the collections together with the intention of 'providing a view of the museum in action' so that the public can watch the work of curators and conservators. There will also be a Clothworkers Centre for World Textiles developed within the new centre, dedicated solely to textiles. The facility is intended to serve both scholars and the general public and was made possible with a gift of £1m from the Clothworkers' Foundation, the charitable arm of The Clothworkers' Company.
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