Museums, libraries and archives

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.

Our funding supported the creation of a new 10,000sqm wing to showcase contemporary science and technology themes.

The project was to restore, expand, develop and re-design the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth.

Students from Birmingham universities worked with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to create an exhibition to showcase and explore the museum’s West African textile collections.