Only two out of 13 applications have been successful in the latest round of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) will receive £5m towards a new wing, which will include a library, archive facilities and a special exhibitions gallery.
The Vindolanda Trust will receive £4m to construct an education centre and galleries at Hadrian's Wall, which will lead to some of its collection, currently in storage, going on display for the first time.
NMM director Kevin Fewster said: "Everyone is finding the current financial climate difficult, but we have been extremely fortunate. We are about to submit our planning application and, assuming all goes smoothly, construction will commence in 2009, and the official opening will be in early 2012."
An HLF spokeswoman said: "It was a very competitive round of funding. We have not made any secret that funding has been going down, and organisations have to be very competitive to secure an HLF grant. We want to encourage good applications, but are having to turn down good projects."
Jane Furlong, the project coordinator for the UK National Inventory of War Memorials, which was unsuccessful in its bid for £472,000 towards a total project cost of £850,000, said: "In the current financial climate, it is not only the Olympics taking from us, but other people are feeling the pinch as well."
The former head of the HLF, Liz Forgan, revealed in an interview with the Sunday Herald last month that she had had conversations with former culture secretary Tessa Jowell in which she had expressed concerns over the amount of HLF money that was being diverted to the Olympics.
"She did listen and did claw back a lot of money for lottery distribution in that difficult negotiation," said Forgan. "We certainly weren't quiet."
The HLF predicts that its annual grants for 2008-13 will be reduced from £200m to £180m after the announcement in March 2007 that a further £90m would be contributed to the Olympics.
The total HLF contribution to the Olympics will be £161.2m, not including sales of dedicated Olympic lottery tickets.
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) will receive £5m towards a new wing, which will include a library, archive facilities and a special exhibitions gallery.
The Vindolanda Trust will receive £4m to construct an education centre and galleries at Hadrian's Wall, which will lead to some of its collection, currently in storage, going on display for the first time.
NMM director Kevin Fewster said: "Everyone is finding the current financial climate difficult, but we have been extremely fortunate. We are about to submit our planning application and, assuming all goes smoothly, construction will commence in 2009, and the official opening will be in early 2012."
An HLF spokeswoman said: "It was a very competitive round of funding. We have not made any secret that funding has been going down, and organisations have to be very competitive to secure an HLF grant. We want to encourage good applications, but are having to turn down good projects."
Jane Furlong, the project coordinator for the UK National Inventory of War Memorials, which was unsuccessful in its bid for £472,000 towards a total project cost of £850,000, said: "In the current financial climate, it is not only the Olympics taking from us, but other people are feeling the pinch as well."
The former head of the HLF, Liz Forgan, revealed in an interview with the Sunday Herald last month that she had had conversations with former culture secretary Tessa Jowell in which she had expressed concerns over the amount of HLF money that was being diverted to the Olympics.
"She did listen and did claw back a lot of money for lottery distribution in that difficult negotiation," said Forgan. "We certainly weren't quiet."
The HLF predicts that its annual grants for 2008-13 will be reduced from £200m to £180m after the announcement in March 2007 that a further £90m would be contributed to the Olympics.
The total HLF contribution to the Olympics will be £161.2m, not including sales of dedicated Olympic lottery tickets.
Winners and losers
Winners: National Maritime Museum, Vindolanda Trust
Losers: Historic Royal Palaces, Derby Museums, Royal West of England Academy, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, UK National Inventory of War Memorials, New Lanark Conservation Trust, Royal Entomological Society, Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country, Girlguiding UK, Lichfield Cathedral and Working Lives Research Unit
Winners: National Maritime Museum, Vindolanda Trust
Losers: Historic Royal Palaces, Derby Museums, Royal West of England Academy, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, UK National Inventory of War Memorials, New Lanark Conservation Trust, Royal Entomological Society, Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country, Girlguiding UK, Lichfield Cathedral and Working Lives Research Unit