{"id":702378,"date":"2026-07-20T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702378\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:08:14","slug":"worcester-city-art-gallery-and-museum-plans-to-be-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702378\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum plans to be decided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Councillors will consider plans for listed building consent at a planning meeting on Thursday, July 23 at the Guildhall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The proposals include internal improvements to the first-floor galleries of the Grade II* listed Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The upgrades would mostly involve minor internal changes, including new wall panelling, frameless glass doors and a new store cupboard.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Work would also include air conditioning upgrades in several galleries, including the main art and watercolour spaces.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A planning statement said: &#8220;The proposal provides a number of positive opportunities for enhancement, and enables the continued use of the space for public exhibitions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Many of these changes would involve the removal and renewal of redundant services, replacing units with those of a more discreet size and appearance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillors will consider plans for listed building consent at a planning meeting on Thursday, July 23 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}