Worth seeing and worth going to see
THENA has been making periodic visits to Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, ever since the charitable trust known as the Auckland Project was set up by the philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer in 2012. Over the past decade, it has brought to fruition a remarkable sequence of cultural initiatives in and around the town. These), in its park setting. There is now also a walled garden nearing completion. Last week, she managed to see the most recent of the trust initiatives, the Faith Museum, which opened in the autumn last year. The last time Athena recalls anything on this theme being attempted was the rather uninspiring Faith Zone in the Millennium Dome in 2000. That memory made the Bishop Auckland museum all the more pleasurable and unexpected.
