Ghost Town? What happened to the Coventry Car Industry? 1980 - 2010

Take a trip down memory lane while ambling through our brand new gallery ‘Ghost Town? What happened to the Coventry car industry?’ and re-live Coventry’s rollercoaster fate from 1980 to 2010.

The gallery tells a very important story about Coventry’s recent past in an innovative manner through newspaper stories on huge print boards displayed on the gallery walls. Immerse yourself in the red and black tones of the gallery, get up close with cars of the era, and listen to workers from the car factories tell their stories of the tough times for that extraordinary museum experience! Finally you get to take a vote on Coventry’s motoring future in the original Boardroom of the Rootes Group/Chrysler/Peugeot Talbot companies rebuilt in the gallery…the choice will be yours!

Click here to see footage from the VIP launch night of this gallery

The gallery was produced in conjunction with University of Salford school of Art & Design

The School of Art and Design at the University of Salford offers innovative and challenging postgraduate programmes, more information about which can be found here
 

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