More Millennium Grants

Four more projects have been plucked off the Millennium Commission Round 3 long-list to funding stardom.

Renue
Merton/Wandsworth, Greater London
£1.8m (£895,954 from Mill. Comm.).
Two sustainable energy education centres which will combine the best of sustainable technologies and education in working demonstrations.
Contact J Marriott Tel: 020 76032 1831.

National Pondlife Centre
Liverpool, Merseyside
£3.8m (£1.9m from Mill. Comm.)
A national pondlife centre dedicated to conservation, protection and management of existing ponds.  A pondlife centre will provide an educational visitor attraction to promote understanding of ponds. Promoted by Liverpool John Moores University.  Contact Dr Andrew Hull Tel: 0151 231 4046.

The Deep
Humberside
£36.9m (£18.5m from Mill. Comm.)
A visitor attraction and research facility examining the sea. It will include an aquarium and cover 7,500-sq.m. It will use IT and interactive displays to examine the sea-life of the world’s oceans from prehistoric times to the present day. Promoted by Kingston-Upon-Hull City Council.
Contact Colin Brown Tel: 01482 615 601

Magna
Rotherham, South Yorkshire
£50.69m (£18.6m from Mill. Comm.)
Templeborough Steel Mill steel visitor attraction based around British Industry. Exhibitions will include robotics, interactive computers, live video and virtual reality.  Promoted by Rotherham Borough Council.  Contact Mr I Hawkridge Tel: 01709 823 849.

And a project we missed off previous lists which we think will contain interactive elements:

National Forest Millennium
Discovery Centre
Swadlingcote, Derbyshire
£13.37m (£6.23m from the Mill. Comm.)
Two visitor facilities: a Discovery Centre which will focus on education and demonstrations of innovative uses of wood and wood technology; and a Forest Visitor Centre giving day-to-day information on the National Forest.

One of the many Millennium Award schemes which seems relevant to BIG members in addition to the BA and Techniquest schemes is the :

Museums Association ‘ Sharing Skills’ Millennium Awards
Millennium Commission grant £1.2m
300 awards of around £3,000 will be made over 3 years to volunteers or employees working in museums and galleries across the UK, to enable them to learn new skills and techniques.  For information contact: Stephanie Kirkpatrick, Museums Association. Tel 020 7608 2933. Fax 020 7250 1929.

Newsletter Spring 1998 Contents

Centres > Satrosphere News | What is happening to Light on Science? | Inspire News | Herstmonceux News

Exhibits > BIG working group on exhibit development | What is Design? | Exhibit Aphorisms | "Here's Looking at Euclid" - exhibit idea | Roald Dahl and the Children's Gallery | Are hybrids best? - viewpoint

Demonstrations and shows > Shows at the Exploratory | Exploding Can Demonstration | Water to wine Demonstration | Nitrogen story - urban myth?

Millennium News > More Millennium Grants | Pantechniques rewarded | Millennium awards scheme | A listing of interactive projects funded by lottery grants

Research > Measuring the performance of interactive centres

Resources and conferences > Conferences and Future Events | Indian Science Congress Report | Managing Science Centres Book Review | Children's Museums Book information

BIG > BIG Moves - From the Chair | BIG AGM Report | BIG Annual Report 1997