Accreditation is a major boost in grant applications
Organisers at the west Yorkshire home of the Brontë sisters have been expressing their delight after being granted full accreditation status by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, which has more than 7,000 items relating to the 19th century literary clan, has reached the grant-enticing benchmark for archive sites in the UK, awarded by a panel of independent judges.
“The museum’s collection has continued to grow in recent years and through our education and arts programmes we’ve offered all kinds of exciting new ways for visitors to experience the museum and find out about the Brontës,” said Director Andrew McCarthy, who is offering free admission to children every weekend in December ahead of a major refurbishment next month.
“The Brontës are of course intimately associated with Haworth and Yorkshire, but the Parsonage museum has a collection which is nationally and internationally important and we should all celebrate that fact.”
