Renewed accreditation status for Rocks By Rail
THE Arts Council has renewed its accreditation of Rocks by Rail, the venue formerly known as the Rutland Railway Museum.
The benchmark for standards for a well-run museum or gallery that applies throughout the UK, this accreditation defines good practice and identifies agreed standards, thereby encouraging development and opening up exciting funding opportunities while also giving access to professional advice and support. The museum’s volunteers carried out much hard work for the submission, with physical improvements including better disabled access on the site, and reorganising, cataloguing, and storing relics, drawings, and artefacts in the collection.
Rocks by Rail’s chairman of trustees, Ian Reeves, said: “We were delighted and proud to hear that we had secured re-accreditation of our volunteer-run museum. The assessment process was rigorous and much impacted by problems caused by the pandemic. The result reflects enormous credit on our loyal volunteers. We are grateful for the support from Museum
Development East Midlands and the guidance by our curatorial adviser, Anita Hollinshead. And we must acknowledge the work of those volunteers who have gone before us, who developed the museum collection and set up a system on which we have been able to build.”
Rocks by Rail will be closed for further improvements to be made over the winter period.
Reopening is set for Sunday, April 9.