Surgeons’ Hall Museum and Chatham Dockyard receive HLF grants
Compton Verney gets support for £2.5m to restore Capability Brown park
Scotland's oldest medical museum and Historic Dockyard Chatham have secured grants in the latest round of Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) awards.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has received £2.7m to extend and redevelop its Surgeons’ Hall Museum. As well as being the oldest medical museum in Scotland, it has the largest collection of surgical pathology artefacts in the UK.
The Lister project to redevelop the museum will double the number of artefacts on display through the creation of new galleries and audiovisual and interactive exhibits. The Willam Playfair-designed building will be conserved and transformed with contemporary additions such as a new glass atrium, providing the public with easier access, a 17th century dissecting theatre and a dedicated education suite.
Chris Henry, the director of heritage at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, said: “The past four years have seen a marked increase in visitor numbers to the museum. The Lister Project has been developed to ensure that all our visitors have a rewarding and inspiring experience."
Historic Dockyard Chatham has received a HLF grant of £4.53m towards its £8.75m Command of the Oceans project to preserve and repair a range of the dockyard's scheduled ancient monuments and a set of 18th-century ship's timbers found in 2012.
The grant, which will help support the creation of new galleries, interpretation and visitor facilities, unlocks £3m from the Homes and Communities Agency, responsible for the regeneration of the adjacent Chatham Maritime site, and £1m from a range of charitable trusts and foundations.
The Historic Dockyard Chatham is one of 11 places shortlisted for World Heritage status. The project is expected to be completed in spring 2016.
The HLF has also awarded the British Deaf Association a grant of £719,100 to preserve and enable access to its film and video archive. The three-year project will carry out conservation work, digitise the collections and create an accessible web portal, allowing online public access for the first time.
An educational outreach programme, reflecting the social history of deaf people and their heritage, is also planned.
Meanwhile, Compton Verney in Warwickshire has received initial support for a £2.5m HLF grant to restore the Capability Brown park that surrounds the art gallery.
The proposed redevelopment also includes turning a Grade I-listed chapel designed by the landscape architect into a music and events venue, and building a new visitor interpretation centre exploring the site’s landscape, history and ecology.
A £179,656 HLF grant will help Compton Verney develop its application for the full grant.
Reyahn King, the head of the HLF for the West Midlands, said: “With the centenary of Capability Brown’s birth approaching in 2016 this project to conserve and protect the historic North Park at Compton Verney could not be more timely."
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has received £2.7m to extend and redevelop its Surgeons’ Hall Museum. As well as being the oldest medical museum in Scotland, it has the largest collection of surgical pathology artefacts in the UK.
The Lister project to redevelop the museum will double the number of artefacts on display through the creation of new galleries and audiovisual and interactive exhibits. The Willam Playfair-designed building will be conserved and transformed with contemporary additions such as a new glass atrium, providing the public with easier access, a 17th century dissecting theatre and a dedicated education suite.
Chris Henry, the director of heritage at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, said: “The past four years have seen a marked increase in visitor numbers to the museum. The Lister Project has been developed to ensure that all our visitors have a rewarding and inspiring experience."
Historic Dockyard Chatham has received a HLF grant of £4.53m towards its £8.75m Command of the Oceans project to preserve and repair a range of the dockyard's scheduled ancient monuments and a set of 18th-century ship's timbers found in 2012.
The grant, which will help support the creation of new galleries, interpretation and visitor facilities, unlocks £3m from the Homes and Communities Agency, responsible for the regeneration of the adjacent Chatham Maritime site, and £1m from a range of charitable trusts and foundations.
The Historic Dockyard Chatham is one of 11 places shortlisted for World Heritage status. The project is expected to be completed in spring 2016.
The HLF has also awarded the British Deaf Association a grant of £719,100 to preserve and enable access to its film and video archive. The three-year project will carry out conservation work, digitise the collections and create an accessible web portal, allowing online public access for the first time.
An educational outreach programme, reflecting the social history of deaf people and their heritage, is also planned.
Meanwhile, Compton Verney in Warwickshire has received initial support for a £2.5m HLF grant to restore the Capability Brown park that surrounds the art gallery.
The proposed redevelopment also includes turning a Grade I-listed chapel designed by the landscape architect into a music and events venue, and building a new visitor interpretation centre exploring the site’s landscape, history and ecology.
A £179,656 HLF grant will help Compton Verney develop its application for the full grant.
Reyahn King, the head of the HLF for the West Midlands, said: “With the centenary of Capability Brown’s birth approaching in 2016 this project to conserve and protect the historic North Park at Compton Verney could not be more timely."