£1.1m granted to museum and heritage projects

The Art Fund has announced recipients of the second and third wave of its Reimagine grants programme.

More than £1.1m will be split across 40 museums, galleries, historic houses and trusts, after 23 organisations were supported in the first wave of the £2m fund. 

Fifteen grants between £5,000 and £15,000 were handed out alongside 25 grants of £15,000 to £50,000.

The largest grants went to Lancaster's Judges' Lodgings to decolonise and re-interpret its collections, Glasgow's Tramway for public artwork exploring environmentalism, social justice and health, and the Hampshire Cultural Trust for a new interactive insight into Anglo-Saxon Winchester opening in autumn.

Art Fund says it received 185 applications requesting a total of £6.2m, demonstrating the level of need in the sector.

Director Jenny Waldman thanked the generosity of Art Fund’s members and donors.

“The grants will allow even more cultural organisations to deepen their resilience for the future, turning some of the challenges but also learnings of the last two years into even greater resources for their communities."