THE Museum of Free Derry is to receive an extra £500,000 in funding, the Sinn Fein culture minister has announced.
Carál Ní Chuilín was speaking during a visit to the construction site at Glenfada Park in the Bogside.
Building work began last summer and the new money is in addition to funds of £2.4m.
The museum deals directly with the Troubles and is close to where the events of Bloody Sunday took place in the city.
On 30 January 1972, a civil rights march in Derry ended with the shooting dead of 13 people by the Army.
The a report in the shootings heavily critical of the British Army and found that soldiers fired the first shot.
Speaking before Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron said he was “deeply sorry” and that the findings of the report were “shocking”.
The new building is due to be finished and ready by June this year.
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