DCMS/WOLFSON MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IMPROVEMENT FUND – SUMMARY OF GRANTS
INSTITUTION
Ashmolean Museum of Art &
Archaeology (University of
Oxford)
PROJECT
Creating a gallery for the Wellby
Bequest of precious and exotic
objects
FUNDING (£)
£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
£60,000
5
Bowes Museum
An Introduction to the Black
Country: refurbishing the Rolfe
Street Gallery and exhibition
spaces
Revitalising the Ceramics
Galleries at the Bowes Museum
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
£70,000
12
Imperial War Museum
13
Jewish Museum, Camden
‘Nature in Fashion’: redisplay and
reinterpretation of the
orientation space in the Natural
History Gallery
First World War Centenary
Project (IWM London)
Ground Floor enhancement
14
Kettle’s Yard (University of
Cambridge)
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Kettle’s Yard: Looking Ahead
£187,500
Redevelopment of the Fashion
and Textiles Galleries at
Lotherton Hall
The Leicester Guildhall Museum:
Medieval Leicester
The Learning Zone
£150,000
1
15
16
17
Leicester City Council Arts &
Museums Service
London Transport Museum
£247,050
£150,000
£40,000
£69,000
£80,000
18
INSTITUTION
Manchester City Galleries
PROJECT
The creation of a new Gallery of
Design and Fashion at
Manchester Art Gallery
‘The Study’: a new visitor
research gallery at Manchester
Museum
FUNDING (£)
£135,000
19
Manchester Museum
(University of Manchester)
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 £96,240
Museum
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
Oriental Museum (University
of Durham)
Oxford University Museum of
Natural History (University of
Oxford)
Pitt Rivers Museum
(University of Oxford)
Voices from the Workhouse
£150,000
Southern Asia Project
£83,250
Sensing Evolution
£65,000
Satisfying Curiosities: providing
new access to CookVoyage Collections, Knowledge
and Scholarship
Building on the Past…developing
for the future, Phase 2
£64,845
Re-interpreting the First World
War
Waterloo 200: redisplay of
Wellington’s Map
£60,000
28
29
30
31
Porthcurno Telegraph
Museum
32
Royal Armouries
33
Royal Engineers Museum,
Chatham
£200,000
£100,000
£22,794
34
INSTITUTION
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
& RSC
PROJECT
‘Why Shakespeare?’: a new
introductory exhibition and
integrated visitor welcome
35
Sir John Soane’s Museum
The restoration of the Hall Gallery £24,000
at No.13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
36
Tyne & Wear Museums:
Segedunum Roman Fort,
Baths & Museum
UCL Museums (University of
London): UCL Art Museum
‘Empire, Frontier and River’,
Roman Gallery development
(stage 1)
The Working Museum: a model
for opening access to collections
in multi-purpose spaces
The Salon (Europe 1600-1800
Galleries)
£60,000
The Gateway Project
£250,000
Creating the ‘Secret’ Gallery in
York Art Gallery
£300,000
37
38
Victoria & Albert Museum
39
Weald & Downland Open Air
Museum, Chichester
York Museums Trust
40
FUNDING (£)
£100,000
£40,000
£180,000