Dcms/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund Summary of Grants
DCMS/WOLFSON MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IMPROVEMENT FUND – SUMMARY OF GRANTS
INSTITUTION / PROJECT / FUNDING (£)1 / Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology (University of Oxford) / Creating a gallery for the Wellby Bequest of precious and exotic objects / £100,000
2 / Beamish, the Living Museum of the North / Improving Access to Beamish / £120,000
3 / Birmingham Museums Trust / Spitfire Project at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum / £60,000
4 / Black Country Living Museum / An Introduction to the Black Country: refurbishing the Rolfe Street Gallery and exhibition spaces / £60,000
5 / Bowes Museum / Revitalising the Ceramics Galleries at the Bowes Museum / £247,050
6 / Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust / Building the Future / £150,000
7 / Compton Verney / Redisplay of the Chinese collection / £101,268
8 / Derby Museums Trust / Increasing audience engagement at Derby Museum & Art Gallery / £120,000
9 / Fitzwilliam Museum (University of Cambridge) / Redisplaying the Renaissance / £175,000
10 / Historic Royal Palaces / The King’s State Apartments, Kensington Place / £100,000
11 / Horniman Museum / ‘Nature in Fashion’: redisplay and reinterpretation of the orientation space in the Natural History Gallery / £70,000
12 / Imperial War Museum / First World War Centenary Project (IWM London) / £150,000
13 / Jewish Museum, Camden / Ground Floor enhancement / £40,000
14 / Kettle’s Yard (University of Cambridge) / Kettle’s Yard: Looking Ahead / £187,500
15 / Leeds Museums and Galleries / Redevelopment of the Fashion and Textiles Galleries at Lotherton Hall / £150,000
16 / Leicester City Council Arts & Museums Service / The Leicester Guildhall Museum: Medieval Leicester / £69,000
17 / London Transport Museum / The Learning Zone / £80,000
18 / Manchester City Galleries / The creation of a new Gallery of Design and Fashion at Manchester Art Gallery / £135,000
19 / Manchester Museum (University of Manchester) / ‘The Study’: a new visitor research gallery at Manchester Museum / £200,000
20 / Museum of English Rural Life (University of Reading) / Our Country Lives / £175,000
21 / Museum of London / Flash: a new contemporary space at the Museum of London / £20,000
22 / Museum of the History of Science (University of Oxford) / Wall to Wall History: illuminating the Special Exhibitions Gallery / £40,000
23 / Museums Sheffield / Forging the Future: redeveloping Sheffield’s Designated Metalwork Collection Gallery / £110,000
24 / National Motor Museum / Motorsport at the National Motor Museum / £96,240
25 / National Museums Liverpool / Lady Lever Art Gallery: South End development / £300,000
26 / Natural History Museum / Rothschild Room, Natural History Museum at Tring / £75,960
27 / Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service: Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse / Voices from the Workhouse / £150,000
28 / Oriental Museum (University of Durham) / Southern Asia Project / £83,250
29 / Oxford University Museum of Natural History (University of Oxford) / Sensing Evolution / £65,000
30 / Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford) / Satisfying Curiosities: providing new access to Cook-
Voyage Collections, Knowledge and Scholarship / £64,845
31 / Porthcurno Telegraph Museum / Building on the Past…developing for the future, Phase 2 / £100,000
32 / Royal Armouries / Re-interpreting the First World War / £60,000
33 / Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham / Waterloo 200: redisplay of Wellington’s Map / £22,794
34 / Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & RSC / ‘Why Shakespeare?’: a new introductory exhibition and integrated visitor welcome / £100,000
35 / Sir John Soane’s Museum / The restoration of the Hall Gallery at No.13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields / £24,000
36 / Tyne & Wear Museums: Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum / ‘Empire, Frontier and River’, Roman Gallery development (stage 1) / £60,000
37 / UCL Museums (University of London): UCL Art Museum / The Working Museum: a model for opening access to collections in multi-purpose spaces / £40,000
38 / Victoria & Albert Museum / The Salon (Europe 1600-1800 Galleries) / £180,000
39 / Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester / The Gateway Project / £250,000
40 / York Museums Trust / Creating the ‘Secret’ Gallery in York Art Gallery / £300,000