Two Island museums will close tomorrow and seasonal opening of Island heritage sites have been postponed.
Manx National Heritage (MNH) has confirmed a number of changes in support of Island-wide efforts to protect people from Coronavirus.
The Manx Museum and House of Manannan will close from 5pm tomorrow until further notice, whilst nine heritage sites including the Laxey Wheel, Castle Rushen, Cregneash and Peel Castle now won't open until at least June 1.
In a statement, MNH says the health of the Manx community is its first priority - a full list of the changes to the trust activities are available below.
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- Manx Museum and House of Manannan will close at 5pm on Friday to the general public and for the foreseeable future.
- We have postponed seasonal site (Castle Rushen, Rushen Abbey, Old House of Keys, Old Grammar School, Nautical Museum, Grove Museum, Laxey Wheel, Cregneash, Peel Castle) openings from 1st April 2020 initially until 1 June 2020 – but will review the situation on a regular basis based on the risk to public health.
- Rushen Abbey will no longer open to the public at weekends in March.
- We have postponed or cancelled all our public programmes also until 1st June 2020.
- We are talking to our commercial tenants about the impact the situation is having on their businesses.
- We are working with our holiday accommodation and event providers to inform those impacted. Where possible bookings are being deferred at no cost to later in the year.
- We are contacting off-island travel operators who have booked with us to inform them of the Government’s decisions.
- We have cancelled educational workshops for schools where we cannot guarantee enhanced levels of hygiene.
