Work starts on new museum (From Daily Echo)
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Work starts on Southampton's Sea City museum
6:20am Tuesday 5th October 2010 in News
Work starts on new museum
IT’S full steam ahead for a flagship museum in Southampton as work started yesterday on the £15m Sea City Museum.
The landmark project, being built by Kier Southern, will see the Grade II listed former magistrates' courts transformed into a museum about the ill-fated Titanic.
It is due to open in time to mark the 2012 centenary of the disaster in which 549 Sotonians perished.
Havlock Spur road closed today for 70-weeks for use as the main compound for the builders.
The police station office will remain open before moving to a site next to Southampton station in April next year.
Award winning architects Wilkinson Eyre have designed an eye-catching modernist building, drawing inspiration from the bows of ships while using building material that blends in with the existing building.
Hoardings will go up in the next couple of weeks displaying artist’s impressions, pictured above.
Comments(11)
owen_thesaints
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9:20am Tue 5 Oct 10
Let's hope the voluntary staff haven't got anything else planned that day and can't open up!
Lone Ranger
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9:31am Tue 5 Oct 10
owen_thesaints wrote:Well if they are volunteers then the SCC should be giving them discounts from their Council Tax.... Just like the Specials.
By the time this opens, it will have to be staffed by volunteers because of Government/Council cuts.
Let's hope the voluntary staff haven't got anything else planned that day and can't open up!
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Discounts for group of volunteers should be discounts for ALL volunteers. Or NO discounts at all
Ferngully
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9:31am Tue 5 Oct 10
Elgy
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9:43am Tue 5 Oct 10
dogbruce
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10:06am Tue 5 Oct 10
Better be worth it.
owen_thesaints
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11:22am Tue 5 Oct 10
Ferngully wrote:I have to agree with you, I'm not sure there's as much interest in the Titanic that will translate into paying customers as the council thinks there is.
Another total waste of public money.
Surely it would be much better if it was sold to visitors as an attraction based on all the great liners of the past not just one ship, plus all the history and trade involved in the port. We have a rich and varied past to celebrate
It should also be next to the port, not tucked on the back end on the Civic. This is not the right place for a museum that should at least be next to the sea, at a minimum somewhere below Bar. Why not buy up the Bargate Centre and place it there, we certainly don't need any more shops in the City. The Art Gallery is undervalued and underused now as it has slowly become detached from the shopping centre of Southampton (i'm not holding my breath about an Arts Quarter either!).
When this becomes the inevitable white elephant after a couple of years, will anyone care to remind us who it was that was fixated with this and the Titanic?
soton1980
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11:52am Tue 5 Oct 10
Elgy wrote:Agreed, it's totally out of keeping with the grade II listed civic building. It really is a kick in the teeth to those who live in listed buildings in the city and have the council sticking their nose in all the time. Not only that, it's complete hypocrisy.
Great idea but what's next, a massive shining beacon coming out of Tudor House? The Council should respect our (relatively few) listed buildings a little more. Just hope this is a success and doesn't look awful on completion.
Bahons
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12:10pm Tue 5 Oct 10
Redback
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5:30pm Tue 5 Oct 10
This at the same time that the council can't provide adequate social services support, resulting in expensive hospital beds being blocked by patients that don't need to be there.
Marvellous. Let's vote them all in again next time around.
Condor Man
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9:21pm Tue 5 Oct 10
Costa Baz says...
7:26am Tue 5 Oct 10
I found a few sites we visited had scripts in Spanish, whereas several had scripts in French & German, yet only one site (Stonehenge) had audio tapes in Spanish.