Provided jointly by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Foundation, the grants will help improve the quality of museum displays, and enhance the experience for visitors.
Spread across England, the funds go to an imaginative array of projects aimed to improve access and understanding of our cultural heritage.
This year's grants include an Internet Gallery at the National Media Museum, Bradford - The gallery aims to capture, record and interpret the ongoing internet phenomenon and explore how it has changed the way we live. An Interactive Foyer element will enable visitors to start their journey of exploration into the internet, as they witness screen pods housed within the 5th floor Internet Gallery 'tumble' out of this space and suspend mid-air in the foyer, with one pod sited in the foyer displaying live information input by visitors during their time in the Gallery.
