Museums, libraries and archives

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.

The Galloways Hydraulic Pumping Engine has been restored and is now on display to the public.

Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre have a new museum and archive centre, thanks to National Lottery players.

The main museum building at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum was extended to enable more of the collections to be displayed to the public.