Museum of Lancashire given £1.7m revamp

By Brendan Perring

Noel Palmer says specialised graphic printing, rather than mass production, is the key to PPS’ success

The Museum of Lancashire has been given a make-over by wide-format sign and display specialist Palmer Publicity Services (PPS)—spending £1.7m on the full refurbishment.

“Business in general has been good this year, although we find the general trend from customers is ‘how cheap, can you do it?’. As with the litho print business, a lot of people also seem to be giving work away and wanting to work all hours for relatively nothing,” says proprietor Noel Palmer.
Using its Agfa Anapurna flatbed, solvent roll-to-roll printers, a HP Z6200 for high resolution graphics, routers and cutters, PPS created 100sq m of printed wallpaper for the a historical time line, archaeology displays and alcoves in the ‘Lancashire at work’  and ‘Lancashire at play’ galleries. More than 75sq m of the multiply was printed direct for the ‘Law and Order’, work and war galleries. A 60m long continuous strip of foamex was installed around the top of the trench in the WW1 exhibit to recreate a panoramic scene. And specialist printed acrylics, canvas map displays and an interactive magnetic display were created for other niche exhibits.