BBC show highlights The Peace Museum
The BBC featured The Peace Museum in Bradford on 12 September
The Peace Museum featured on The One Show last month as part of an episode about the Bradford City of Culture 2025.
The BBC show on 12 September looked at the city’s plans for next year, unveiled at a launch event last month. ‘I’m really glad that Bradford is finally put in the spotlight,’ one local resident told the programme. With help from a £3 million Cultural Capital Fund, there are twenty-one projects getting ready for next year, including renovating landmarks, such as the city’s iconic Odeon cinema.
The programme was filmed in the Salts Mill, the former textile factory where The Peace Museum has found its new home. Joe Brook, director of The Peace Museum, spoke about the six months of work involved in the renovation. He said: ‘Infrastructure works, electrical works, heating works – it has been a journey.’ The museum’s 16,000 artefacts include ceramic roof tiles from the atomic blast from the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs in 1945. ‘This reminds me of why it’s important to remember these stories,’ one staff member told the programme, carefully unwrapping the fragile objects to show to the camera.
The Peace Museum reopened in August after four years of being closed. The move to the Grade II-listed mill was funded by a National Lottery heritage grant of just over £245,000 and an additional £150,000 from Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
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