This week the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced details of £98 million investment into nine projects, while a guest blog written by the HLF chair Sir Peter Luff discusses the value of industrial and scientific heritage to the UK.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) writes:
Nine projects benefit from nearly £100m National Lottery investment – boosting scientific, industrial and cultural heritage for future generations.
Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced support worth £98m for nine major sites in England and Scotland. The stories to be told include that of the UK’s ground-breaking role in science and industry from the invention of radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank to our unique railway heritage; from one of the world’s earliest factories at Derby Silk Mill to the world’s largest medical collection at the Science Museum. They will increase awareness and understanding of our scientific and industrial heritage, inspiring the scientists and engineers of the future.
- £12.1m to revitalise Jodrell Bank, Cheshire’s internationally-renowned centre for astronomy and home to the Lovell Telescope
- £8m to reimagine the Science Museum’s extensive Medicine Galleries
- £9.3m to restore and open up Derby Silk Mill in the Derwent Valley
- £10m to make Great Central Railway, a unique double-track ‘preserved’ railway between Loughborough and Leicester, the home to a new railway museum with a working track
- £9.5m to help the British Library save the nation’s endangered sounds
HLF is also giving new life to three further museums and a cathedral:
- £10.3m to redevelop Dorset County Museum, a geological and palaeontology treasure trove on the Jurassic Coast
- £12.4m to restore and open up Lincoln Cathedral, one of Europe’s most spectacular medieval cathedrals
- £15m to refurbish one of Glasgow’s most popular museums, the award-wining Burrell Collection
- £11m to transform an East London gem, the Geffrye Museum, into a more vibrant and welcoming site
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale said: ‘National Lottery money continues to make an absolutely vital contribution to our culture and heritage in the UK. I’m thrilled that nine exciting projects across England and Scotland will benefit from this significant £98m investment.’
‘Whether it’s a new railway museum in Leicester, the Lovell Telescope at Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank or saving the UK’s most vulnerable sound recordings at the British Library – these grants will not only make a lasting difference to local areas and the UK’s wider heritage, but will also use culture to inspire young people to learn more about science and technology for generations to come.’
See details of all nine heritage attractions in England and Scotland via DCMS’s Immersive website
View the DCMS blog entry written by HLF Chair Sir Peter Luff
