Museums, libraries and archives

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum has undergone major refurbishment to relaunch the site as a world-class facility.

Woking Museum Arts and Craft Centre, now known as The Lightbox, was conceived by a local community group in 1993 to establish a museum of Woking’s local and social history.

Part of Lerwick’s original waterfront was transformed into an environmentally-conscious heritage attraction using sustainable materials and traditional craftsmanship.

The Devon Record Office holds judicial, administrative and ecclesiastical records from 11th century to the 20th century.

Armagh Public Library is a Grade A listed building and one of the city’s key tourist attractions. It houses regionally and nationally important collections of books, manuscripts, prints and coins.

This exciting project at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) saw the major refurbishment of its British Galleries.

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is one of the world’s leading museums. In 2009, it benefitted from a multi-million pound redevelopment project, which saw its display space completely transformed.

The project helped improve access to the Grade A listed building that houses a regional museum for the County of Armagh.

The project enabled the museum to increase public access to more of its collections.

Our funding supported the creation of an education and information centre within the Great Court of the Museum, allowing access to this space for the first time since the 1850s.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) wanted their audiences and offer to better reflect the city’s diversity, and to change the organisation’s culture, putting audiences at its heart.

Wheal Martyn is home to the UK’s only china clay mining museum. A fully accredited museum, Wheal Martyn cares for and presents a collection of industry-related objects, machinery, photographs and archives.