The Migration Museum is delighted to have received funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support the development of our collections, curatorial and interpretation strategy in advance of our move to our permanent home in the City of London in 2027.

This funding is extremely timely, coming at a moment when migration features heavily in the national conversation and understanding our heritage and how migration has shaped who we are could not be more important. This invaluable support also comes just as the National Lottery is celebrating its 30th birthday, marking three decades of funding amazing projects and making incredible things happen in communities, sports, heritage and the arts. We are proud to be included among these inspiring organisations.

This funding will enable us to work alongside national partners with nationally significant collections to uncover forgotten heritage in migration-related projects that may no longer be accessible – ensuring these stories are not lost. We will also create a prototype for a ‘dispersed’ digital national migration collection, and develop our own collections approach. We will pilot activity with one UK school and develop a UK-wide strategy for a 2027 campaign to identify 100 objects and stories that can be formally acquired and accessioned into the Migration Museum’s physical ‘collection’.

We are proud to have extremely dedicated and talented volunteers at the Migration Museum and we hope this project will support them to build up their skills in research, story collection and consultation.

Thanks to National Lottery players for making this funding and these activities possible.