Porthcurno museum in £1.5m funding drive
The telegraph museum in Porthcurno, Cornwall, has been handed grants worth more than £1.5m.
The cash will go towards preserving the museum's telegraph and cable communication collection and its Grade II-listed building.
Investment totalling £1.44m from the Heritage Lottery Fund has been boosted by a £125,000 handout from the DCMS/Wolfson Museums Improvement Fund.
Director of Porthcurno Telegraph Museum, Libby Buckley, said: "We're often told we're a great small museum, and we punch above our weight, and I think today’s news certainly supports that.
"The exciting thing is that this funding will enable us to get even better, and take our story to even more people. Just like Cornwall’s famous mining landscape, the telegraph story is a huge part of Cornish and British heritage that deserves to be celebrated."
Porthcurno, which served as a training college up until 1993, was formerly the largest cable station in the world, with its telegraph centre being the hub of international cable communications from 1870-1970.
