Lottery money to expand explorer collection
The Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge has been given £500,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Cambridge: Lottery money to expand explorer collection
The Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge has been given £500,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The money will be used to buy exhibits for the Ernest Shackleton project which aims to collect more material about the famous British explorer.
A share of £5million has been handed out to 23 museums across the UK as part of the "Collecting Cultures" programme.
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