Museums, libraries and archives

Three new projects in Scotland, with volunteering at their heart, have secured significant support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

A new museum for Blackpool has been awarded a £4million National Lottery Heritage Fund grant as part of a £10m package of grants, giving heritage-led regeneration and tourism a boost across the North.

We will invest £100million over the next three years in ambitious, innovative and transformational projects that will revolutionise UK heritage.

It’s London History Day. Here are six of our favourite heritage stories from the city, all supported by the National Lottery.

Thanks to £9.4million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Black Country Living Museum will undergo a huge transformation to share stories of life in the 1940-60s.

We're getting involved with Museum Week's seven themes over seven days using seven hashtags. To celebrate, we're sharing one fantastic National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported museum every day.

The finalists battling it out to be named Art Fund's Museum of the Year have been revealed. Four of the five shortlisted Museums are National Lottery-funded.

The new Linlithgow Museum opens to the public on 19 April 2019.

The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich reopens on 23 March, thanks to £3.1million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The National Football Museum has acquired an exciting new painting to add to its collection of 20th century art, thanks to National Lottery players.

An “uplifting” tribute is to be made to the many first-generation Jamaicans who travelled 5,000 miles to make a new life in the city of Leeds.

This week sees the launch of Art UK’s Sculpture Project: a free-to-access online treasure trove of all of the UK’s publicly owned sculptures.