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Woodhall Spa Museum
Located just off Broadway, Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum sits in the centre of the village. It was once the home of Johnny Wield - bathchair proprietor and well known photographer in the Spas heyday - and now houses his extensive photographic collection, as well as exhibits showing the social history and development of Woodhall Spa.
The Museum consists of a Boulton & Paul bungalow - the former home of Johnny Wield - and historic outbuildings where the family business would have been carried out.
The Brief is to create a 21st century museum, providing modern interactive displays, temperature controlled archive storage, and ensuring the museum meets the ‘green museum’ standard. The outbuildings are in very poor condition, and although the bungalow is in much better condition, it lacks the facilities of a modern museum.
The intention is to preserve as much of each historic outbuilding as possible, while creating new spaces for document storage. Sensitively modernising the existing bungalow, to create an exciting museum which shows the history of Woodhall Spa, is the aim.
Since the project started, there has been a major fire at the site, unfortunately destroying much of the fabric of historic outbuildings. However, the Directors of the Museum are continuing with the project, as the need to re-build is now more urgent than ever before.
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