The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in London has received a £5m Heritage Lottery Fund award towards the creation of four new galleries.
The HLF has given the funding for the £11.9m Endeavour Galleries project.
It includes £304,000 of development funding towards the creation of the new permanent galleries in the NMM’s west central wing, which is closed to visitors.
Three of these will showcase Pacific and Polar exploration and Tudor and Stuart seafarers, while a fourth gallery will highlight “the richness of the museum’s collections”.
The project will return 1,000 sq metres of space to public use and provide an additional 40% of gallery space in which to place another 1,000 artefacts on permanent display.
The project will be completed in mid-2018 to allow the museum to take a lead role in Cook 250 – the commemoration of Lieutenant James Cook’s departure from nearby Deptford.
Cook left from Deptford on HM Bark Endeavour on the first of three voyages of Pacific exploration.
Other awards include Compton Verney in Warwickshire, which received £2.5m for the restoration of its Lancelot “Capability” Brown-designed park and Grade I-listed chapel. Plans include a visitor centre, footbridge and a wetland boardwalk. The chapel, also designed by Brown, will become a venue for music and events.
An award of £2.5m was made to Bristol’s New Room, a John Wesley Chapel and the world’s oldest Methodist building.
The project will include a revamp of the museum to reflect Wesley’s work in the city and worldwide. A new three-storey building will be constructed to house a lecture and education room seating up to 60 plus a library and archives. Construction will start in the autumn.
The HLF also granted £3.8m for the restoration of the UK’s last surviving steam tug-tender, the Daniel Adamson. The 1903 vessel was saved from the scrapyard 11 years ago and is moored at Liverpool.
The tug was bought by the Manchester Ship Canal Company in 1921, which added two art deco saloons and an elevated promenade deck in 1936.
Once restored, the tug will undertake a programme of cruises on the Mersey, Weaver and Manchester Ship Canal and be moored at some of the area’s waterside museums as part of an education programme.
An HLF grant of £3.7m was also made to Harvey’s Foundry Trust, part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, to complete the 10-year regeneration of its 18th century buildings.
And Brooklands Museum in Surrey was awarded £4.7m for its Brooklands Aircraft Factory & Race Track Revival Project.
This scheme will revamp the museum’s Grade II-listed world war two Wellington Hangar, build a new annexe to house more of the museum’s historic aircraft; and restore the finishing straight of the Brooklands Race Track, the world’s first purpose-built motor-racing circuit.
The HLF has given the funding for the £11.9m Endeavour Galleries project.
It includes £304,000 of development funding towards the creation of the new permanent galleries in the NMM’s west central wing, which is closed to visitors.
Three of these will showcase Pacific and Polar exploration and Tudor and Stuart seafarers, while a fourth gallery will highlight “the richness of the museum’s collections”.
The project will return 1,000 sq metres of space to public use and provide an additional 40% of gallery space in which to place another 1,000 artefacts on permanent display.
The project will be completed in mid-2018 to allow the museum to take a lead role in Cook 250 – the commemoration of Lieutenant James Cook’s departure from nearby Deptford.
Cook left from Deptford on HM Bark Endeavour on the first of three voyages of Pacific exploration.
Other awards include Compton Verney in Warwickshire, which received £2.5m for the restoration of its Lancelot “Capability” Brown-designed park and Grade I-listed chapel. Plans include a visitor centre, footbridge and a wetland boardwalk. The chapel, also designed by Brown, will become a venue for music and events.
An award of £2.5m was made to Bristol’s New Room, a John Wesley Chapel and the world’s oldest Methodist building.
The project will include a revamp of the museum to reflect Wesley’s work in the city and worldwide. A new three-storey building will be constructed to house a lecture and education room seating up to 60 plus a library and archives. Construction will start in the autumn.
The HLF also granted £3.8m for the restoration of the UK’s last surviving steam tug-tender, the Daniel Adamson. The 1903 vessel was saved from the scrapyard 11 years ago and is moored at Liverpool.
The tug was bought by the Manchester Ship Canal Company in 1921, which added two art deco saloons and an elevated promenade deck in 1936.
Once restored, the tug will undertake a programme of cruises on the Mersey, Weaver and Manchester Ship Canal and be moored at some of the area’s waterside museums as part of an education programme.
An HLF grant of £3.7m was also made to Harvey’s Foundry Trust, part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, to complete the 10-year regeneration of its 18th century buildings.
And Brooklands Museum in Surrey was awarded £4.7m for its Brooklands Aircraft Factory & Race Track Revival Project.
This scheme will revamp the museum’s Grade II-listed world war two Wellington Hangar, build a new annexe to house more of the museum’s historic aircraft; and restore the finishing straight of the Brooklands Race Track, the world’s first purpose-built motor-racing circuit.
