Decision on Plymouth's Cold War Museum to be made in July
A 16-week study has begun to see if the ambitious multi-million pound project can both find the money and keep it coming in
A 16-week study has begun to see whether Plymouth can host an ambitious Cold War museum.
By July, it will be decided whether the multi-million pound project can both find the funding and keep the money coming in.
It would feature veteran hunter-killer submarine HMS Courageous as its flagship exhibit
A fundraiser last year brought in £40,000 the fund the study, which will look at every aspect of the centre.
The aim of the museum is to champion the role of the Royal Navy, the city of Plymouth and British engineering and technology in helping to stave off and ultimately eradicate the Communist threat between the late 1940s and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Commodore Ian Shipperley - who is leading the study - will work with industry, museum and history specialists to compile his report which will form the basis for a business case should he decide that the centre could be a success.
As well as acting as a visitor attraction and highlighting a ‘war’ largely played out in the shadows and not recounted in many museums, one objective of the centre is to foster interest in science, technology and engineering – the fields which helped give Britain the edge over its Cold War foes.