Blackpool's planned Showtown Museum, scheduled for opening in 2021, has been awarded £75,000 from the Wolfson Foundation.
The £13m museum will celebrate Blackpool as the UK’s most popular seaside destination and its role in the development of British popular culture.
It will feature six themed spaces; seaside, magic, shows, circus, illuminations and dance and be filled with objects, film, music and performance. The museum will be located within Blackpool’s first five star hotel Sands Venue Resort Hotel, on the Promenade and close by The Blackpool Tower.
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