Cultural Partnership News
£4 million grants for English Museums
Ed Vaizey has announced funding to help improve 36 museums and galleries through the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund. The grants, jointly funded by DCMS and the Wolfson Foundation include:
- £17,400 to redisplay the work of Enid Marx, one of the most important designers of the 20th Century and creator of the striking geometric designs of 1937 for the upholstery of London Underground.
- £140,000 for an extensive renovation and a complete redisplay of The Manchester Museum's historic Birds and Insects gallery.
- £100,000 for a new gallery at the London Transport Museum that will showcase some of the 5000 printed posters and nearly 1000 original artworks which form a uniquely comprehensive record of a century of British graphic design
- £150,000 towards a new permanent display of some of the most important collections of Baroque art, furniture, state beds and wall paintings in the country atHamptonCourtPalace.
- £50,000 towards the reconstruction of a labourer's cottage at Weald and Downland open air museum.
For more details of individual awards and locations please visit www.culture.gov.uk