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探花直播Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the lead strategic body for museums, is making the awards to ensure that these outstanding collections can be enjoyed and appreciated by as many people as possible.

探花直播Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the 探花直播 of Cambridge will receive 拢97,180 to make available online thousands of photographs, documentary sources and ancient and modern objects relating to the Arctic communities of eastern Canada. Via the web, people who live in Nunavut, Northwest Territories Canada, the source of many of the Arctic collections, will be working with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Scott Polar Research Institute on means to contribute local knowledge and historical information directly to the documentation of these collections.

探花直播 探花直播 Museum of Zoology and the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences will receive a total of 拢141,272 to collaborate on the development of new permanent exhibitions of Charles Darwin鈥檚 geological and zoological specimens from the museums collections. Finches, fish, many hundreds of rocks, minerals and fossils collected by Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle (1832鈥�6), and microscope slides of the barnacles that absorbed him for a major part of his later life will all be on display to the public, many for the first time. As well as showing what the specimens meant to Darwin during the development of his evolutionary theories, the exhibitions will also show how relevant Darwin鈥檚 geological and zoological work is today.

探花直播Fitzwilliam Museum - the 探花直播鈥檚 art museum - will use its grant of 拢99,984 to offer a new perspective on its collections, revealing information about key objects that highlight connections with people. Objects will be selected for rich associations: portraits of the eminent and the little-known; the hidden stories of lives connected with objects; the people who discovered them and the collectors who cherished them. This information will be made available online through the Museum鈥檚 website and by tours and talks within the Museum, as well as helping to seed future exhibitions, publications and collaborations.

In total, thirty-four museums across England have been awarded grants from the Designation Challenge Fund, part of the MLA鈥檚 Renaissance programme to transform England鈥檚 regional museums. This funding has also allowed the creation of a new post within the 探花直播, the Museums Development Officer, who will contribute to raising the profile of the 探花直播鈥檚 museums and develop the aim of making their collections accessible to as many people as possible.