Museums, libraries and archives

Visitors observing a typewriter on display at the museum
Visitors observing a typewriter on display at the museum

Projects

Write Here, Write Now', Birmingham

The Birmingham Pen Museum has been expanded, with a new activity space to help bring its unique heritage to life for future generations.

Woolly rhinoceros on display at Weston Park Museum
Woolly rhinoceros on display at Weston Park Museum. Kippa Matthews

Projects

Weston Park Museum restoration project in Sheffield

Our grants to Weston Park Museum are all about making Sheffield's impressive collection of archaeology, natural sciences, social history and visual art more accessible to the public.

Two volunteers handle objects from the collection with a visitor
Object handling sessions enable visitors to engage more closely with the collections

Projects

In Touch - Museum Volunteer Accreditation Programme

Two museums worked closely with local agencies and community groups to open up volunteering opportunities to people who would not usually engage with heritage.

Signs of our times: A sign language history of the Deaf community in Northern Ireland,

Projects

Deaf Heritage

More than 150 Deaf volunteers worked to research, record and preserve the history of the Deaf community in Northern Ireland for the first time.

The Royal Museum, Scotland

Projects

Revitalising Edinburgh's Royal Museum

This project helped revitalise the Royal Museum, transforming the public use of the building, while remaining sensitive to its original Victorian architecture.

An actor in traditional dress standing on the Jurassic Coast

Projects

Jurassic Coast Gallery

The 95-mile stretch of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast is England’s only natural World Heritage Site – at the heart of which is palaeontological gem, Kimmeridge Bay.

A Garland for May Day: the front cover of an illustrated book conserved by the project
A Garland for May Day: the front cover of an illustrated book conserved by the project

Projects

From Toy Books to Bloody Sunday

The Whitworth Art Gallery has catalogued and conserved the Walter Crane archive, creating a digital archive and a children’s website.

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