Plans are back on course to open an £8.8 million interactive state museum in Charleston, West Virginia. The project was threatened after it was revealed that cost estimates for the museum have nearly tripled from the originally proposed £3 million in 1998. However, new funding has brought the total grants received within £1.5 million of full funding.

The museum will feature an interactive ‘show path’, taking visitors from prehistoric to present-day West Virginia, along with 29 discovery rooms, featuring displays and artefacts from specific events in state history.

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