Join volunteers at a museum to celebrate its new home after moving premises.
Chatteris Museum in Park Street is hosting a welcome reception for the town on Saturday, May 11 from 2pm-4pm.
The main gallery and community room will be open for all to see with music from The Cambridge Jazz Quartet and special Twenties-themed cakes (whilst stocks last).
The museum is celebrating the move to its new building as its project ‘Chatteris 20s’, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, draws to a close.
Since closing in September 2021 the museum moved to the Grade II listed former Barclays Bank, gradually re-opening as volunteers unpacked through the Autumn and Winter of 2023.
The building was purchased by Chatteris Town Council through a grant from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Unitary Authority as part of the ‘Growing Fenland’ project, which aims to re-generate Fenland market towns.
The refurbishment of the museum was funded through a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of a project looking at Chatteris one hundred years ago, ‘Chatteris20s’.
Schools, community groups, and townsfolk have been involved through dance, art, and a project to look at ‘Who Lived In My House?’ in the 1920s.
As normal, entry is free of charge.
