The Brontë Parsonage Museum is due to reopen on Tuesday, February 1, following its annual month’s closure.

Staff have carried out essential work including maintenance, cleaning, conservation and revaluation of the museum’s collections.

This year experts have analysed the decorations to find evidence of what the rooms looked like in the 19th century.

The plan is to redecorate the entire Parsonage during the closed period next year to recreate the Brontë family’s décor.

During this month staff have also prepared new displays which will run at the Haworth museum throughout 2011.

They promise that more of the museum’s collection will be on display than ever before.

For the first time visitors can see the original screenplay of the 1943 Hollywood film Jane Eyre which starred Orson Wells and Joan Fontaine.

The screenplay is annotated by its author, the British writer Aldous Huxley, who was famous for books such as Brave New World. The screenplay, produced during the Second World War, is stamped “Less shooting over here means more shooting over there! Save our film!”

The script was acquired by the museum last year, with assistance from the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund.

The museum will screen the film at West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth on the evening of February 18.

New film versions of both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are expected to be released this year. Museum director Andrew McCarthy said a great deal of work goes on every January.

He said: “There have been lots of changes to our displays and we hope that visitors from near and far will come along and see what’s new.”

Details of opening times and events are available from bronte.info or (01535) 642323.