- Bolton Museum
Bolton Museum is a public
museum and art gallery in the town ofBolton ,Greater Manchester , owned by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council.The collections include natural history, archaeology, art, local history and one of Britain's oldest public aquariums. These are housed, together with Bolton Central Library, in one end of the
Bolton Civic Centre , designed by, local architects,Bradshaw Gass & Hope and opened in 1939. The museum has two outlying locations,Smithills Hall andHall i' th' Wood .In 2006 the museum became involved in the
Shaun Greenhalgh case, when a statue in their collection, the "Amarna Princess ", was revealed as a forgery. [Bolton Museum, (no byline). [http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/news/amarna-princess-statement "Amarna Princess statement"] , "Bolton Museum", November 29, 2007. Accessed December 15, 2007.]ee also
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Bolton Steam Museum References
External links
* [http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/ Bolton Museum website]
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