Five University of Cambridge museums have been awarded nearly half a million pounds worth of funding for redevelopment by the Museums Libraries and Archives council (MLA) Designated Challenge Fund. The awards have been made through Renaissance in the Regions funding, MLA’s programme to revitalise England’s regional museums using the Designation Challenge Fund that awards funding to museums with collections of national importance.
Five University of Cambridge museums have been awarded nearly half a million pounds worth of funding for redevelopment by the Museums Libraries and Archives council (MLA) Designated Challenge Fund. The awards have been made through Renaissance in the Regions funding, MLA’s programme to revitalise England’s regional museums using the Designation Challenge Fund that awards funding to museums with collections of national importance.
The Sedgwick Museum of Geology, Fitzwilliam Museum, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, and the Zoology Museum were awarded funding ranging from £59,000 to £108,000. Projects the funding will be used for include an e-learning site for the Whipple Museum and an accessible online collections database for the Fitzwilliam Museum.
The Designation Challenge Fund was set up by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in 1999 in recognition that these outstanding collections need caring for and interpreting to ensure that they are enjoyed by our future generations. The core aims of the Fund are to promote excellence and raise standards of museum provision and to enable those with Designated Collections to provide high quality services, which deliver the fullest possible access to their collections. To date, around £25 million has been awarded since 1999 to support museums with Designated collections in recognition of their outstanding importance.
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