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21/07/2003
Museums and galleries benefit from £2m grant
Fourteen museums and galleries around the country have been awarded
grants totalling £2 million to help improve the quality of their displays, public spaces, access for disabled visitors and environmental controls.
Museums and galleries in London, Cambridge, Liverpool, Newcastle and Oxford will benefit from the package.
Arts Minister Estelle Morris welcomed the "continued support" of the Wolfson Foundation in the joint fund.
She added: "Our museums and galleries are the envy of the world. They draw in visitors from home and abroad, provide a solid and often unique educational resource for our schools and colleges, and most of all fire the imagination and lift the spirits of everyone who visits them.
"These grants will help museums and galleries, both large and small, across England to improve facilities for children and collection presentation and by doing so making them welcome to all."
Lord Wolfson said that the projects which would benefit were "of the highest quality".
"The Trustees of the Wolfson Foundation are delighted to be in partnership with the Department in the programme of renovations and improvements to museums and galleries, encouraging the public to visit their collections," he said.
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grants totalling £2 million to help improve the quality of their displays, public spaces, access for disabled visitors and environmental controls.
Museums and galleries in London, Cambridge, Liverpool, Newcastle and Oxford will benefit from the package.
Arts Minister Estelle Morris welcomed the "continued support" of the Wolfson Foundation in the joint fund.
She added: "Our museums and galleries are the envy of the world. They draw in visitors from home and abroad, provide a solid and often unique educational resource for our schools and colleges, and most of all fire the imagination and lift the spirits of everyone who visits them.
"These grants will help museums and galleries, both large and small, across England to improve facilities for children and collection presentation and by doing so making them welcome to all."
Lord Wolfson said that the projects which would benefit were "of the highest quality".
"The Trustees of the Wolfson Foundation are delighted to be in partnership with the Department in the programme of renovations and improvements to museums and galleries, encouraging the public to visit their collections," he said.
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