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Burns museum wins £5.8m funding | |
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A new £17m museum celebrating Robert Burns has been awarded £5.8m in lottery funding. | |
The new centre will be in the heart of Alloway - the tiny Ayrshire village where the poet was born in 1759. | |
The project, which received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, will involve building a brand new centre and upgrade existing landmarks. | |
Additional facilities would be added to accommodate the thousands of extra visitors it would hope to attract. | |
Campaigners said that, with the 250th anniversary of Burns' birth just two years away, the race was on to complete the work. | |
The National Trust for Scotland said many precious artefacts were slowly rotting - and the old fashioned setting was doing little to win over 21st Century visitors. |