Museums, libraries and archives

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.

The Governor’s Residence, part of the Down County Museum, has been made accessible for all visitors, thanks to the National Lottery.

A new building was created to house the museum’s internationally-important collection of botany and entomology specimens, dating from the 16th century.

Armagh Observatory is the oldest working observatory in the UK, it houses a unique collection of historic instruments and archives.