KIDDERMINSTER’S Museum of Carpet bosses have announced the opening date for the town’s “living legacy”.
After more than 30 years of planning, the carpet museum will open to the public on Saturday, October 20, following a formal opening by Carpet Museum Trust patron Lord Cobham on Friday, October 19.
The trust has now moved from its former base at the MCF Complex in New Road to the Stour Vale Mill site in Green Street with the Archive Centre on the first floor.
Two working looms, a Wilton Jacquard loom and a Spool Axminster loom, are currently being set up and specialists will move in to fit the museum’s displays in August.
Founder trustee Charles Talbot, who said the museum would be the town’s “living legacy”, said: “Lord Cobham was highly delighted to be asked, he has been our patron for quite some time so he was the perfect choice.
“We will be ready for October, it is all hands to the pump at the moment. Displays should be ready to set up during August - a team will come and set up what we have to tell our story.”
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