The refurbishment of the Yorkshire Museum has reached its half-way point with the completion of the dismantling part of the job - with only 136 days to go until opening day on 1 August!
Museum manager Helen Young, who is co-ordinating on-site operations, says the next stage will see the start of plastering, decorating, flooring and electrical work.
Then the really exciting bit begins when the exhibition designers start their work installing the new galleries later in the Spring.
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- The exposed wall showing where the ichthyosaur used to be on display
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- Geoff Hutchinson, right, and Roger Weal, brick up the ichthyosaur-shaped hole
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One of the most striking moments of the dismantling process was when a wall was exposed which had held our huge ichthyosaur fossil.
When a stretch of panelling was pulled down the shape of the giant sea monster could be clearly seen on the wall. The fossil had been taken down from the wall some years earlier and is due to go back on display when we re-open in August (see earlier blog).
In the meantime technician Geoff Hutchinson and his assistant Roger Weal have been carefully bricking up the wall so it can be replastered and redecorated to form part of the new Extinct gallery.
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