London Canal Museum has added a large new wall map to its exhibitions, colourfully showing London's canals and navigable rivers as never before. A huge amount of historical and geogreaphical detail has been added to the map which is over two and a half metres wide and has taken months to design and produce. Factories, basins, ice wells and all sorts of other canalside features are shown but the map has been designed to be easy to understand as well as fascinating for the enthusiast.
Funded partly by grant aid and partly from the museum's own resources, the map has been designed by York based museum design company The Continuum Group.
The museum is committed to building in access for disabled visitors into all its projects and there is a separate low-level version of the map, on a series of poster frames that enable the wheelchair user to see just as much detail as other visitors.
Canal Museum Trust Chair Martin Sach said "The map is a major addition to the museum and we think our visitors will find it fascinating, and stay longer. We are delighted with the result of so much hard work over a lengthy period, to get it right"
The map project is the latest in a series of step-by-step improvements that are gradually upgrading and transforming the museum, which opened in 1992.
