Perhaps philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer had in mind the words of Eleanor Roosevelt when he conceived the Faith Museum in Bishop Auckland of all places.
“If you lose faith, you lose all,” said the former American First Lady.
Founder of the Auckland Project, Mr Ruffer says that the museum “turned out to be the hardest piece of our jigsaw.
“We have tried to tell stories which put into context 6,000 years of human endeavour and the restlessness of the human spirit.”
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