WHAT do pottery, football and deep-sea diving have in common? On the surface, not much, but specialist museums dedicated to these eclectic callings were among the recipients of £7.6million of National Lottery Heritage Fund grants this week.
Since its founding in 1994, museums have been a key element in the organisation's funding, with more than £2.4billion awarded to more than 5,900 museum, library, archive, and collection-based projects across the UK over the last 30 years.
"Heritage can be anything from the past that people value and want to pass on for future generations, and these museums show that passion and variety," says Eilish McGuinness, the fund's chief executive.
"These projects will inspire visitors of all ages, with many of these collections being revealed for the first time, and all will connect people with individual stories of sport, diving, pottery, archaeology and much more, adding up to a national story covering all the many and varied heritage we have to offer.
"So, no matter what the weather brings this summer, there is always a fantastic museum or heritage place open to discover, explore and enjoy." More than £2.7million of funding announced this week will help create the first national Football Museum for Wales in Wrexham - long considered one of the spiritual homes of the sport.
Dubbed the Museum of Two Halves, it will include a revamp of the city's existing museum alongside the new visitor attraction in the same building.
Wrexham AFC - currently enjoying a new lease of life thanks, in part, to Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney - is the oldest club in Wales and the third-oldest professional association football team in the world.
When it opens in 2025-26, the museum will house a permanent display of the Welsh Football Collection for the first time in 24 years. The city museum will meanwhile showcase items that embody more than 4,000 years of local history.
ãã®èšäºã¯ Daily Express ã® July 31, 2024 çã«æ²èŒãããŠããŸãã
7 æ¥éã® Magzter GOLD ç¡æãã©ã€ã¢ã«ãéå§ããŠãäœåãã®å³éžããããã¬ãã¢ã ã¹ããŒãªãŒã9,000 以äžã®éèªãæ°èã«ã¢ã¯ã»ã¹ããŠãã ããã
ãã§ã«è³Œèªè ã§ã ?  ãµã€ã³ã€ã³
ãã®èšäºã¯ Daily Express ã® July 31, 2024 çã«æ²èŒãããŠããŸãã
7 æ¥éã® Magzter GOLD ç¡æãã©ã€ã¢ã«ãéå§ããŠãäœåãã®å³éžããããã¬ãã¢ã ã¹ããŒãªãŒã9,000 以äžã®éèªãæ°èã«ã¢ã¯ã»ã¹ããŠãã ããã
ãã§ã«è³Œèªè ã§ã? ãµã€ã³ã€ã³
Blues make Marc as Guiu hits the jackpot
HAT-TRICK HERO IS QUICK TO SHATTER IRISH HOPES
Lane needs more rain
KEMPTON GROUND FEARS FOR JP'S TEAM
Festive-flavoured vapes slammed by top NHS doctor
Spike in admissions among young users
Profs win battle over smokers' wall
TWO Oxford dons have won a six-figure row with a hotel next door over a collapsed garden wall and its staff \"smoking and chatting\" too close to their home.
PoW life's such a drag for officer in panto
THE war diaries of a British PoW who became an unlikely star attraction in camp as a panto dame have come to light 79 years on.
There's NUN so good at crime fighting!
Ahead of its Christmas special, JAMES RAMPTON visits the picturesque Cotswolds set of Sister Boniface Mysteries (at the height of summer) to discover just why the Sixties-set cosy crime drama has captivated audiences all over the world
Puffin pic secures prize for teenage twitcher Anwen
THIS picture of a plaintive puffin has been picked for the top prize in the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards.
'Blast' prank by soldier âreckless'
A SOLDIER left colleagues with hearing loss after \"recklessly\" setting off a battle noise simulator to celebrate the end of an exercise, a court martial heard.
Vegetarian piranha and DiCaprio snake among new species
AVEGETARIAN piranha from the Amazon and a flying dinosaur found on the Isle of Skye are among the species previously unknown to science that have been named this year.
Anger over takeover of Titanic shipbuilder
Critics fear final assembly will move from Belfast to Spain