A Staffordshire Hoard fundraising campaign to buy the hoards look like will be reaching its £3.3m target by 17 April after raising £800,000 in three weeks. the campaign launched at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, aims to raise £3.3 million to acquire the Staffordshire Hoard, which was found by a metal detectorist last summer. If the campaign is successful, the Hoard would be jointly acquired by both the Birmingham museum and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent. The gold is on display at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery where visitors donated £75,000 to the fund last week.
Photo by Wikipedia: Some of the Staffordshire HoardKeith Bloor, head of museums in Stoke-on-Trent, said he was confident the funds would be raised to keep the 7th Century gold in the West Midlands.
"I think we will do it, we've got to do it for the region," Mr Bloor said.
"We are already in discussion with some other major trusts and public funding bodies as well for some significant contributions," he added.
Photo by artfund.org: Prince of Wales to be the first to handle the hoardBirmingham City Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council have until 17 April to raise the funds needed to buy the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands. The Art Fund's, kick-started the public appeal by announcing an initial Art Fund grant of £300,000 and by unveiling the official donation website www.artfund.org/hoard last January. The Museum also received a royal visit for inspection of the Staffordshire Hoard. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have viewed the Staffordshire Hoard as part of Stoke-on-Trent's six-town federation centenary celebrations. They were allowed to handle an Anglo Saxon gold cross and a detailed gold stud with millefiori glass at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
The Staffordshire Hoard - comprising around 1,500 items made of gold, silver and precious stones - remained as one collection. The Staffordshire Hoard is a name given to the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold yet found. Discovered in a field in the village of Hammerwich near Lichfield in Staffordshire, England on 5 July 2009, it consists of more than 1,500 items that are nearly all martial in character. The artefact's have tentatively been dated to the 7th or 8th centuries, placing the origin of the items in the time of the kingdom of Mercia.
Source: BBC News, Artfund.org
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