An aerial view of Harwell Campus
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak has pledged £180m over six years to London’s Natural History Museum to create a new science and digitisation centre at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.
The new facility will be a global base for natural sciences research and international collaboration.
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The funding will enable the museum to safeguard the future of its unique collection of 80 million specimens and create a world-class research centre.
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The facility will house about 40 per cent of the museum’s collections as well as laboratories and digitisation suites.
Hundreds of jobs are being created.
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