Alistair Hardaker | Image: Yorkshire Museum (CC BY-SA 3.0 Kaly99)
Museums including Bristol Museums, Walmer Castle and People’s History Museum share infrastructure funding in latest MEND round.
Twenty-eight museums will receive £25.5m from the Museum Estate and Development Fund to undertake infrastructure works and improve visitor facilities, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced.
The allocation forms part of the £127.8m first tranche of the government’s Arts Everywhere Fund, which also includes £96m for 74 arts venues and £6.3m for 28 library services.
Bristol Museums received the largest museum allocation at £3.6m. e received £3.1m, Hartlepool Borough Council received £2.5m for museum infrastructure, and People’s History Museum received £2.5m.
Yorkshire Museum was awarded £2m, Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire received £1.6m for roof and drainage repairs, and Oakwell Hall in Kirklees received £1.6m. Bramall Hall in Stockport and London Transport Museum each received £1m.
Black Country Living Museum in Dudley was awarded £454,159 to safeguard historic buildings. Smaller allocations included Ryedale Folk Museum with £351k, Natural History Museum in Colchester with £499k, and Burton Constable Hall with £242k.
The Museum Estate and Development Fund has supported 150 museums over the past four years. The fund is administered by Arts Council England on behalf of DCMS.
The announcement follows the government’s commitment of up to £1.5bn to the cultural sector over the current parliament. Further details on the Museum Estate and Development Fund and the new Museum Transformation Programme will be announced in due course. The next round of MEND will open for applications in the coming months.
Museum Estate and Development Fund full list of recipients:
London
London Transport Museum – £999,999
Museum of the Order of St John – £413,015
North East
Hartlepool Borough Council – £2,458,641
Chesters Roman Fort – £476,566
North West
Grundy Art Gallery – £357,000
People’s History Museum – £2,491,670
Port Sunlight Village Trust – £499,999
Lancaster City Museum – £94,056
Bramall Hall, Stockport Museums – £1,000,000
Greater Manchester Transport Society – £244,000
The Armitt Museum and Library – £238,098
East of England
Natural History Museum, Colchester – £499,477
Sheringham Museum – £456,170
South East
Walmer Castle – £3,080,000
The Brickworks Museum – £280,000
Whitchurch Silk Mill – £210,045
Brading Roman Villa – £80,707
South West
Bristol Museums – £3,567,713
East Midlands
Boston Guildhall – £401,112
National Tramway Museum – £492,880
Creswell Crags – £184,705
Newstead Abbey, Nottingham – £1,550,747
West Midlands
Black Country Living Museum – £454,159
Compton Verney – £794,750
Yorkshire and the Humber
Burton Constable Hall – £242,000
Oakwell Hall, Kirklees – £1,638,724
Yorkshire Museum – £2,000,000
Ryedale Folk Museum – £350,676
