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Future Plans
The Museum Gardens are becoming a priority for us over the next year. From autumn 2008 we will be employing a Gardens Manager who will develop and implement a plan to improve all aspects of the gardens for the future.
The Trust has been working with the City of York Council in developing the concept of a cultural quarter for York and at the heart of this new idea is St Mary's Abbey. At the moment few people who pass through the Museum Gardens realise that the original Abbey grounds extended up to Bootham and included the back of York Art Gallery. The land is currently closed off to the public but its potential as a new public green space is huge. The Trust is looking at ways of joining up the Museum Gardens with this potential 'new garden' and creating a new green route through from the river to Exhibition Square. This is a long term plan but we are working towards opening up the St Mary's Abbey site to everyone as well as introducing interpretation across the Abbey site so that visitors can understand better its historical significance.
We will also be looking at developing a longer term plan for York Castle Museum and launching a fundraising campaign for the Yorkshire Museum project.