Museum and Heritage Collections Strand 2009

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology - £47,178
Towards the costs of cataloguing and conserving an archive of photographic negatives relating to the collection of Eastern art.

Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution - £62,250
Towards the costs over three years for the curation, preparation and research of the Charles Moore collection of Jurassic fossils from Strawberry Bank.

British Film Institute - £69,500
Towards restoration costs of a number of post-war British documentary films.

Craven Museum & Gallery - £67,444
Towards the salary of an archaeology curator over two years and to catalogue the archaeology collections.

Llangollen Museum - £34,000
Towards a project which investigates how modern technology can contribute to improved access to collections.

Museum of London - £72,000
Towards salary costs of staff working to preserve, digitise and catalogue the recorded media collections.

Perth & Kinross Council Heritage Service - £58,357
Towards the costs to catalogue and research the Buchanan White Hemiptera (insect) collection.

Shropshire County Council, Museum Service - £4,500
Towards the documentation of the Wenlock Olympian Society Collection.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council - £60,000
Towards the salary of an assistant collections officer over three years to strengthen good practice in geological and natural history collection stewardship in museums throughout the West Midlands.

The Bowes Museum - £71,600
Towards the salary of an assistant curator and a conservator, plus consultancy fees associated with cataloguing and conserving the Blackborne Lace Collection over two years.

The Hepworth Wakefield Trust - £64,972
Towards the conservation and digitisation of the Gott Collection.

Tyne & Wear Museums - £80,000
Towards the salaries of two documentation assistants over two years to implement a programme of collections management activity.

V&A Museum of Childhood - £23,857
Towards the cost to conserve and make publicly accessible archive material about four British toy manufacturers.

Valence House Museum - £1,725
Towards the costs of the film transfer of a film collection.

Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service - £30,000
Towards the costs of a photographer and a contribution to the evaluation and overheads of a project working with Black Country Collections over two years.

Worthing Museum and Art Gallery - £67,500
Towards the cost to research and produce a detailed catalogue of the costume collection over two years.

Total - £814,883
No of Grants - 16