Foxton Museum reinvented

THE museum at Foxton Locks has closed for the winter and is to be transformed at a cost of £200,000 to become 'app-friendly' so people can be guided round using their mobile phones.

This is for visitors to the site, and will include interpretation boards all around the locks explaining what it is all about, Alan Tilbury tells us.

'As good as you can get'

The whole thing will be open for Easter with the museum's keeper, Michael Beech telling that it will be as good an experience for visitors as good as you can get anywhere in the world.

The exhibits will be replaced by audio-visual equipment, including a film showing how the original inclined plane worked, it all being installed by consultants HoloVis, described as world leaders, from nearby Lutterworth.

It is not known what it will all look like yet, but we are promised a 3D presentation by the company in early January, when hopefully all will be revealed.