Set in parkland on the outskirts of the cathedral city of Durham, the 3 storey Museum and Art Gallery was first opened in 1968 to house the collections of the Durham Light Infantry regiment. The building has now been refurbished and transformed by the insertion of a series of dynamic installations telling the story of the regiment over its two hundred year history. A new route organised around the insertion of key elements leads the visitor chronologically around the museum, through a double height entrance space and past a series of glass fins displaying brightly coloured uniforms, as if troops standing to attention. Next a maze of thick walls indicative of the trenches, tells the story of the Great War before leading the visitor from the ground floor gallery via a new stair up past the large twisted planes of Corten steel which divide the first floor gallery into the campaign zones of World War Two and reflect the damage inflicted throughout the course of the war.
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