Fresh appeal for maritime museum (Ireland)
SOURCE: BBC (8-26-09)
It was built in Belfast, yet no-one bothered to make an application for a museum to commemorate it.
Now a fresh appeal is being made for the establishment of a maritime museum in Belfast linked to the Titanic.
The Heritage Lottery Fund was criticised in Northern Ireland earlier this year, when it allocated £500,000 towards a new museum in Southampton which will include an element dedicated to the liner.
But the body revealed on Wednesday that it had never been asked to fund a Titanic museum in Belfast.
Now a fresh appeal is being made for the establishment of a maritime museum in Belfast linked to the Titanic.
The Heritage Lottery Fund was criticised in Northern Ireland earlier this year, when it allocated £500,000 towards a new museum in Southampton which will include an element dedicated to the liner.
But the body revealed on Wednesday that it had never been asked to fund a Titanic museum in Belfast.
Source:
BBC
Source URL:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8223507.stm
Date:
8-26-09
