Major Government Grant Supports Portland Museum Recovery Plans by Portland Museum Portland Museum is delighted to announce that it has won more than £70,000 from the Government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) Culture Recovery Fund. The grant will be used to help maintain the museum through the remainder of the year and ensure the…
Church Ope Report Now Available by Portland Museum The report forms the central part of the ACE funded History, Myths and Legends of Church Ope Cove project that Portland Museum has been working on in partnership with b-side. Our research co-ordinator, Bea Moyes, and our group of community researchers have worked hard to explore and…
Event Postponed but Watch This Space! by Portland Museum All of us here at Portland Museum are disappointed to announce that our sound and light animation that was going to be projected onto Rufus Castle in September is going to be postponed for a year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event, designed and produced…
Award Winning Artist Commissioned for Portland Museum’s Church Ope Cove Project by Portland Museum Portland Museum and b-side have commissioned award-winning director, designer and audio/visual specialist Dan Shorten of Guildhall School of Music & Drama to create an inspiring and innovative piece of work to show at the museum during b-side festival in September 2020.…
A Journey Through Time by Portland Museum Promoting an exciting new joint project between Weymouth Museum, The Nothe Fort and Portland Museum take a journey in time from Roman Weymouth at Bowleaze Cove to the current Portland Bill Lighthouse which was built in the early 1900s to replace two earlier lighthouses built in the early…
Portland Museum to Research the Myths and Legends of Church Ope Cove. by Portland Museum A bid by Portland Museum to Arts Council England has resulted in an exciting award of £27,600 to research and reveal the dramatic history, myths and legends of Church Ope Cove. Working in partnership with b-side and help from the…
Budmouth College are coming to run Portland Museum by Portland Museum This Friday 7th July, and for the third year running, 10 students from Budmouth College are coming to run Portland Museum as part of their ‘Outreach’ programme. The students will be responsible for the pre-opening cleaning, stewarding and welcoming visitors, running the shop, (we…