Members of the public and businesses are being given the chance to help protect and shape the future of one of Plymouth city centre’s most important cultural buildings: the Athenaeum.
The condition of the 1960s edifice, at Derry’s Cross, has deteriorated during the enforced closures of the Covid pandemic. So trustees of the Plymouth Athenaeum need help from the Plymouth community to address short-term repair and maintenance issues and a longer-term vision to make the building a sustainable and accessible arts and culture facility for the city.
They are staging public consultation events in February about a proposed community project to re-open the building’s theatre and carry out a wider regeneration of the entire Athenaeum building.
