Heritage Charities That specialise in Museum

The provision of a museum for the advancement of pubic education, comprising the existing collection together with other exhibits or items that may from time to time be comprised in the trust fund. To preserve these objects as a collection.To support other organisations with similar objectives.

EDUCATION/TRAININGARTS/CULTUREENVIRONMENT/CONSERVATION/HERITAGEALL THESE ACTIVITIES ARE CARRIED OUT IN AND AROUND THE CALLINGTON AREA.Information supplied worldwide on request

To support Abbey Pumping Station Museum, Leicester, through the provsion of funding for the benefit of the public in:1. the construction / alteration of buildings at the museum.2.exhibits / displays3.publications4.exhibitions, lectures, films, meetingsAll relating to technology / science specifically associated with the Abbey Pumping Station Museum, Leicester.

Museum of models and bygone tools and machinery. working model iron age village . working model of permacultre and forest gardens. All used to bring model making and history to the many visiting school groups and the general public.

support of the local museum

We assist with the purchase and maintenance of paintings and object d'art, and with financial support to museum events, museum projects, both capital and revenue, as requested by the Museum Team and agreed by the majority of Committee Members. We run a series of monthly educational lectures to bring history and the arts to the local community.

Support of a restored industrial heritage working museum at the site of the Lion Salt Works in Marston, Northwich, which was the last working open pan salt works in the UK and is now a scheduled monument. Also education by the interpretation of the history of the site and former proprietors, the heritage of salt making in Cheshire and elsewhere, the science of salt and related products.

The principal activity is the preservation of railway locomotives by voluntary means.

Arts/Culture/Environment/Conservation/Heritage

The Friends provide volunteers to carry out research and conservation, demonstrate rural crafts and help with schools' educational visits and museum outreach. They help financially with the acquisition of objects, improvement of visitor facilities and collection displays.

Run a museum of local historyHold heritage events for the local communityTake part in local history projects

Education of the general public in the evolution of British Radar its operational use in WW2 and subsequent developments

Offers grants, advice and support to organisations and individuals preserving, conserving or displaying historic communications and electronic equipment, and Directly preserving, conserving and displaying equipment, andEngaging in research and development activities for the support of national collections in this field

We have had a joiner install 'protectors' surrounding 2 valuable paintings to protect them from any wilful damage whilst on display in the Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria. We are members of BAFM and local History Groups and invite and pay for Lectures at The Beacon Museum.

EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN THE DEVELOPMENT HISTORY AND PRACTISE OF HUNTING IN LEICESTERSHIRE AND THE UK GENERALLY BY ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE A MUSEUM OF HUNTING IN MELTON MOWBRAY OR ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTERSHIRE.

Restoration of James Gigg's Octagon Building in Twickenham.

Support development of museum and public awareness of heritage

We have added to our museum's features a DVD player with film of the historic buildings in the village and a free footpath guide for visitors to follow. We use one of our display cabinets for local displays of interest - this year we had a display for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, also on the history of the telephone.

The charity is responsible for the maintenance, protection and display of the Chesham Town Picture, under the terms of the Francis Trust document dated 1982. Following display in the town library and a restoration in 2012/13, the picture was moved to Chesham Museum in 2013. With the closure of the museum in 2017 the picture now resides in the meeting room of the Town Clerk, Town Hall, Chesham.

support and encouragement of museums

The museum of childhood is located at the National Trust property of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire and this is where the trust promotes and maintains its collectable objects.

The Trust is responsible for the Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades which is one of the most significant of its kind in the world. It is housed at the Ashmolean Museum and is regularly open to the public, with about twenty per cent of its total of 450 objects on display at any one time. The Collection has been deposited primarily for use in teaching.

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The preservation of items of military historical importance to the Sussex Yeomanry

The advancement of the education of the public in the arts and the maintenance and display of certain paintings and pictures by Louisa Anne Maronioness of Waterford