Harris Museum and Sandbox working together
July 26, 2007
The Harris Museum & Art Gallery in partnership with Sandbox beat off stiff competition from museums and galleries across the UK to reach the final ten, and is the only north-west organisation to be short listed.
The Art Fund announced it was committing £5 million to a new initiative aimed at developing the collections of international contemporary art in UK regional museums and galleries in April this year.
Alex Walker, Head of Arts & Heritage at Preston City Council said; ‘This is fantastic news for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery and the city. It is a new and unique funding scheme. If successful we will be able to take a huge step collecting international contemporary art, something that we have been aiming to do at the museum for some time.’
