|
|
Article: The Heritage Lottery Fund and London's Museums.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2000 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
The Heritage Lottery Fund, benefiting from the British National Lottery, has distributed [pounds]450 million to British museums for expansion, renovation, and other major capital projects in the course of its five-year existence. This spring such a large number of these projects have come to fruition that the expansion can be compared to the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations held in London in 1851.
By far the most expensive project is the transformation of a vacant power station on the south bank of the Thames River in London into the Tate Modern (see Pls. III, IV) for the display of the twentieth-century works of art formerly in the Tate ...