Capital Awards funded since 2000

Science Garden
Thinktank
£500 000
The Science Garden is a new 2,750m2 outdoor exhibition featuring large scale interactive exhibits, located in the heart of Birmingham’s brand new City Park.It will be highly visible and will be a permanent public landmark celebrating public engagement with science.The project will bring world-class outdoor science exhibits to the centre of the city.Science Garden will be built directly in front of Thinktank and will form a vital link between the park and the museum, helping to extend the museum’s science learning activities outside and bringing more people into the museum itself.

Me and My Body
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum
£1 450 000
Eureka! are redeveloping the existing Me and My Body exhibition at the National Children’s Museum in Halifax. The project aims to harness the latest knowledge and techniques in playful learning to captivate, stimulate and challenge children, aged from 0 to 11, and their families in science, health and wellbeing. Multi-sensory, hands-on exhibits will encourage them to explore how the body works and imaginative spaces and activities will invite them to enjoy and understand the uniqueness of their own bodies. The project is the first step of a major redevelopment, which over the next 10–15 years aims to transform Eureka! to reach beyond their existing site through contributions to the field of play-based learning.

BodyWorks
Glasgow Science Centre
£900 000
Glasgow Science Centre is developing a new exhibition, BodyWorks, for the third floor of the science centre. BodyWorks will use a combination of interactive exhibits and 'living lab' experiences to raise awareness of the science underpinning human health and well being in the 21st century. At the heart of the exhibition will be ten 'research capsules' that will showcase cutting edge developments in biomedical science. The addition of a 'live lab' will provide the opportunity for the public to engage with practising life science researchers and voluntarily participate in specific research activities. 

Florence Nightingale Museum
£500 000
The Florence Nightingale Museum in London has been transformed into an outstanding biographical museum with the history of nursing at its core which will bring Nightingale's legacy to new audiences. The centenary of Nightingale's death in 2010 offered the Museum the opportunity to reappraise her life, work and legacy through the refurbishment, using their collection of personal belongings, letters and books to tell her story in a new and memorable way.

The Open Gate
The Museum of the Order of St John
£304 373
The Open Gate is a project that will increase and diversify visitor numbers and collection researchers to the Museum of the Order of St John and its historic buildings in Clerkenwell, London. The old displays were outdated and did not tell a coherent story to those who would be interested in the many facets of the Order, including its important part in the history of medicine. The Museum has reconfigured the ground floor galleries in St John's Gate to provide new displays and created a new Learning Centre at the site of the Priory Church, a Collections Resource centre in the Tudor Gatehouse and an exterior context for the medieval Priory of the Hospitallers in Clerkenwell.

The Mary Rose Trust
£1 000 000
The Mary Rose Trust is constructing a new museum in Portsmouth to conserve and exhibit the warship the Mary Rose, and her collection of artefacts. The principal objective is to build a museum for both the ship and the collection and complete the conservation programme. The new single site will allow the ship to be reunited with the objects raised in an exciting and informative manner. The Trust is funding the construction of the secondary collection, the reconstruction of the Barber Surgeon's cabin, the construction of the Barber Surgeon's character case and the reconstruction of the heads and full body reconstructions of key members of the crew.

The Science Gallery
Dublin
£1 000 000
The Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin is a dynamic venue that looks to explore the interface between science and culture in a social environment. The Science Gallery has the ambitious vision of becoming "the coolest science club on the planet", and targets an audience of 15-25 year olds through a programme of exhibitions, public experiments, challenges, festivals, debates and workshops.

All About Us
At-Bristol
£1 415 000
'All About Us' is the redevelopment of the existing life sciences exhibition on the ground floor of the science centre At-Bristol. 'All About Us' will reconceptualise, redesign and update the content of the existing 'Your Amazing Brain' gallery for the 21st century.

Who Am I?
£2 500 000
The Science Museum in London has renewed 'Who Am I?', one of its most popular and successful galleries. Since it was opened in 2000 in the Wellcome Wing, there have been major advances in biomedical research, including the completion of the Human Genome Project and significant developments in neurological research. The Science Museum has renewed both the content and the interpretation to ensure that the Wellcome Wing continues to be the UK's leading centre about contemporary science. The new 'Who Am I?' exhibition will celebrate the remarkable advances in genetics and brain science over the last decade and act as a centre for debate about the ethical, political and economic challenges this research is raising for modern society.

The Centre of the Cell
£573 551
The Centre of the Cell was the first science education centre in the world sited in the research laboratories of a major medical school, the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Queen Mary, University of London. The Trust supported the Centre of the Cell to complete a central nucleus within a 'pod' at the heart of the centre containing interactive games and audio-visual experiences. The pod's shell was constructed with a shape based on a 16-cell embryo suspended above the labs.

Inside DNA
At-Bristol
£1 690 249
'Inside DNA: A genomic revolution' is a five-year touring exhibition on genomics. The exhibition is the result of a partnership between the Association of Science and Discovery Centres (the UK Network of Science Centres and Museums), and At-Bristol, with scientific support from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge. Visitors have direct access to the research and opinions of leading scientists who are involved in the rapidly advancing field of genomic science in the UK in the areas of health, medicine, identity and evolution. Inside DNA provides a combination of interactive exhibits and programmes, allowing visitors to explore the role of genes and environment in human biology and health as well as to take part in the debate about our use of genomic research. It is a neutral platform to help people make informed choices at both personal and societal levels. Feedback from the project is being shared directly with the Human Genetics Commission - the UK Government's advisory body on new developments in human genetics and how they impact on people's lives. The exhibition has been open to the public since the end of November 2007 and has toured to At Bristol, the Centre for Life (Newcastle), Glasgow Science Centre, Sensation (Dundee), Magna (Sheffield), National Museums Liverpool, MoSI (Manchester) and InTech (Winchester). It moves to Thinktank (Birmingham) in May 2012 before moving to the New Walk Museum (Leicester) in November 2012 as the final venue on its UK tour.

Darwin Centre
£10 000 000
The Darwin Centre is a purpose built new life sciences complex at the Natural History Museum in London which allows the visiting public to see and interact with the 'behind-the-scenes' workings of the Museum. It provides access to the Museum's unrivalled plant, insect and wet zoological collections, the research they support and the many scientists who are working on them. Hundreds of science staff and science visitors from around the world use the cocoon facilities and collections for research and analysis. In the 'cocoon', visitors can encounter scientists at work in open-plan workspaces using high-tech equipment, learn how they name new species and prepare specimens used in research and a number of interactive exhibits.

Wellcome Wing
Science Museum
£17 770 500
The Wellcome Wing opened at the Science Museum in London in 2000. The content was devoted to contemporary science and technology. The ground floor gallery, 'Antenna', featured changing exhibitions about the latest developments; and on the first floor, 'Who Am I?' dealt with human individuality and its biological basis, our genetic relationships with each other and with our evolutionary ancestors, and scientific insights into emotions and personality. The Trust funded both the costs of building the wing and the fit out of the original Who Am I? gallery. The Trust agreed to fund the renewal of the Who Am I? gallery in 2008.

The Hunterian Museum
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
£1 000 000
The Trust supported the redevelopment of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. The Museum contains collections which have been brought together over four centuries by a cast of colourful characters, including the surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728-1793). They are a fascinating mix of human and animal anatomy and pathology specimens, wax teaching models, and surgical and dental instruments, as well as paintings, drawings and sculptures.

The Wellcome Wolfson Building
£3 000 000
The Trust supported the building of the Wellcome Wolfson Building at the Science Museum in London, which houses the British Science Association, the Dana Centre and Science Museum staff.

Millennium Science Centres

The Millennium Science Centres are primarily educational institutions, supporting public engagement with science and formal and informal science education. Their remit is to make science accessible, engage the general public, and stimulate informed debate. This is achieved through a wide range of activities including permanent and temporary displays, interactive exhibits, and a range of seasonal programmes, science shows, and events.

The Trust supported the building of the following Millennium Science Centres:

• At-Bristol, £3 050 000
• Glasgow Science Centre and Sensation, the Dundee Science Centre, £5 000 000
• Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, £3 300 000
• The Manchester Museum, £2 287 250
• Thinktank, Birmingham, £2 700 000