A major grant has been awarded to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, in Hampshire, to improve its facilities and increase accessibility to its collections.
The £200,000 funding has come from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Wolfson Foundation, as part of the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund 2022-24.
The National Motor Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022 and the new funding – bolstered by a contribution from the National Motor Museum Trust – will help support its future.
An artist's impression of the National Motor Museum’s new entrance hall
The grant will initially be used for the first step of the museum’s four-part Motoring into the Future project, bringing upgrades to the entrance hall and initial exhibition areas.
Two of the museum’s galleries will also be combined to create a larger exhibition space.
It will feature a display telling the story of motoring, from past to present, plus what the future of the car might look like.
A statue of Edward, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, stands outside the Hampshire museum
