Bronte Parsonage Museum to receive major make over after historical work

The Bronte Parsonage Museum is to be redecorated so that it looks more like the famous sisters’ home than ever before. Decorators will draw on the research of specialists into what the building’s interiors looked like in the mid-19th century. The “decorative archaeology” was carried out last winter while the museum underwent its annual two-month closure. After the museum closes at the end of this autumn the restoration work will begin, ready for reopening in February. The museum, run by the Bronte Society, said it wanted to offer visitors a “more authentic Bronte experience”. The “new” look will be followed next March by an exhibition in the museum entitled Heaven Is a Home: the Story of the Brontes’ Parsonage. The museum promises an “exciting” programme of special events throughout 2013 to celebrate the redecoration. Keighley News