Bucks County Museum hopes to welcome visitors to renovated galleries in 2021
The current plan is to reopen for visitors in February
Bucks County Museum is hopeful about the year ahead despite coronavirus restrictions.
Current restrictions would not allow Buckinghamshire County Museum to open, but the hope is by February 20th they will be able to welcome visitors.
The museum is set to showcase their new gallery spaces at this time, continuing two exhibitions that briefly opened on December 2020.
Assistant Director of Buckinghamshire County Museum Martin says 2021 is an exciting year:
"Our new galleries are being opened and these galleries have barely been touched in 25 years.
"A lot of the people who have visited and come to see us over the years will have seen this,
"So, there will be 5 new galleries which will tell the story of the people and landscape of Bucks; from 200 million years ago till today.
A prehistoric sea monster that was found at Watermead, an Anglo-Saxon key hoard and that is set to be interactive video walls.
The plan is for these to open in summer, but Martin says the priority is staying safe:
"We will always be cautious but look to being people in.
"That is our remit that is what we aim to do, to show the culture of Buckinghamshire and beyond.
"We will follow all of the government guidelines and go beyond them where we can.
"We hope Buckinghamshire museum will give people somewhere close to get out of the house."