HC Deb 26 June 1997 vol 296 cc605-6W
Mr. Alan Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what plans he has to publish the list of designated museums. [5127]

Mr. Fisher

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the list of designated museums and galleries on 24 June. He also announced an increase in the maximum number of museums and galleries in England that can be designated from 30 to 50. Further applications will be invited by the Museums and Galleries Commission in due course. The list of 26 designated museums and galleries is as follows:

  • Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum
  • Birmingham Museum Service
  • Bowes Museum
  • Brighton and Hove Art Gallery and Museums
  • Cambridge University
    • —Fitzwilliam Museum
    • —Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
    • —Whipple Museum of the History of Science
  • Devizes Museum
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery
  • Horniman Museum
  • Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
    • 606
  • Jewish Museum
  • Leeds Museums and Galleries
  • London University—Courtauld Institute Galleries
  • London Transport Museum
  • Manchester City Art Galleries
  • Manchester University
    • —Manchester Museum
    • —Whitworth Art Gallery
  • Mary Rose Trust
  • Museum of London
  • Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
  • National Motor Museum, Beaulieu
  • National Tramway Museum, Crich
  • Oxford University
    • —Ashmolean Museum
    • —Museum of the History of Science
    • —Oxford University Museum of Natural History
    • —Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Reading University—Rural History Centre
  • Stoke on Trent Museums Service
  • Tyne and Wear Museums
  • Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
  • York Museums Service.

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