Students at The Eastbourne Academy visit Eastbourne Heritage Store
Students at The Eastbourne Academy were given the ‘exclusive’ opportunity to visit the Heritage Collections store.
A spokesperson for the academy said: “An exciting opportunity for our Year 10 GCSE Art students!
"The TEA Art Department was invited for an exclusive preview of the brand-new Towner Eastbourne Art Heritage Collections Store in Hampden Park.
"Students had the chance to view and interact with unique collections spanning from prehistoric times to the last century, all before the facility officially opens to the public.”
The store, which opened last week (Saturday, September 19) in its new location in Hampden Park, features archaeology, local history and extensive photographic collections documenting Eastbourne’s development over the past 150 years.
The Towner team relocated the shop as part of Heritage Open Days. A spokesperson for the team said: “The store is 5 minutes walk from Hampden Park train station, and is a new industrial unit in the Rosebury Business park. We are situated next to Rosebury Park vets. Look out for the bunting and signage and we will be there!”
Towner has also also presented Project Relic in the store, an 8-week paid summer skills initiative for seven young people aged 18 to 25, giving participants hands-on opportunities at the store to handle, catalogue, and care for local history, archeology and military collections under the direction of Laurie Bassam, Heritage Collections Curator at Towner.