Decision details
Fashion Museum – Study Collection Centre Development
Decision Maker: Director of Sustainable Communities
Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To fund the next stage of work to develop
plans and a business case for the Fashion Museum Collection Study
Centre. The collection's home at the Fashion Museum was vacated in
March 2023. The proposed new Collection Study Centre being
developed in partnership with Bath Spa University will provide an
improved home for the collection and for the first time inclusively
open it up for researchers, designers, makers, start-ups, students
and communities, for physical and virtual access.
Decision:
To fully approve capital amounting to
£500k from the provisional programme item Collections Study
Centre of £500k.
Alternative options considered:
This work to develop the plans for the
Collection Study Centre will ensure the collection has an
appropriate new home.
Publication date: 17/05/2023
Date of decision: 16/05/2023