The culture of Museums using their assets to make extra cash is now well established in Britain. Some of the most successful ventures have been in venue hire.
These two photos were both taken on Friday afternoon in York – the first shows the work going on in York Museum Trust’s own medieval building – the Hospitium – and the second is at the National Railway Museum.
The Hospitium is to become the new centre of the Trust’s Venues business in April and the NRM have recently extended their conference facilities. This will be the first time in 600 years or so that the Hospitium has proper plumbing – you can see some of it in the middle of the floor in the picture!
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