Image: Bletchley Park
The Buckinghamshire attraction secures £2.4m from MEND, one of 29 recipients of maintenance, accessibility, and infrastructure funding.
The government has allocated £24.8 million to 29 museums across England in the fourth round of the Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND).
The fund, administered by Arts Council England, is available to accredited museums that do not receive direct government funding.
The combined funding is £2.2m larger than the £22.6m allocated in 2024.
The largest recipient is the London Museum of Water and Steam, which has been allocated £2.6m.
Closely following is Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, which has been allocated £2.4m.
The funding is intended for maintenance work, accessibility improvements, and infrastructure upgrades. According to the government, the investment will help museums protect collections, improve visitor facilities, and develop income-generating opportunities.
North West
Queen Street Mill, Burnley, Lancashire
£813,115
Furness Abbey, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire
£457,795
Fusilier Museum and Learning Centre, Bury, Lancashire
£81,244
North East
Weardale Museum, Weardale, County Durham
£499,665
Sunderland Winter Gardens, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
£488,705
Preston Park Museum, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham
£366,300
Hartlepool Art Gallery, Hartlepool, County Durham
£302,383
Yorkshire
Museum of North Craven Life, Settle, North Yorkshire
£798,500
Land of Iron, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire
£655,907
Bankfield Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire
£441,978
Pickering Beck Isle Museum, Pickering, North Yorkshire
£388,023
Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
£315,684
Midlands
Tamworth Castle, Tamworth, Staffordshire
£1,716,238
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
£1,695,75
Newstead Abbey, Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire
£1,482,882
Creswell Crags, Worksop, Nottinghamshire
£499,999
East
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
£137,745
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, Norfolk
£1,276,711
Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk
£429,719
Colchester Castle, Colchester, Essex
£1,293,625
Southchurch Hall, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
£423,105
South East
Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire
£2,451,350
The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey
£319,000
South West
Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, Dorset
£1,500,817
Nothe Fort, Weymouth, Dorset
£1,374,763
Dorset Museum and Art Gallery, Dorchester, Dorset
£940,500
Wheal Martyn Clay Works, St Austell, Cornwall
£707,200
London
London Museum of Water and Steam, Brentford, London
£2,626,277
The Foundling Museum, Camden, London
£319,000
More details on the specific projects for which the organisations have secured funding are to be announced.
This latest tranche of funding is part of the Government’s £270m cultural funding programme ‘Arts Everywhere Fund’.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Bletchley Park was the largest recipient of the funding. This has been corrected to reflect that the London Museum of Water and Steam received the largest share.
