The British Motor Museum has been awarded £148,000 by the Department for Culture, Media and Sports and Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund 2025-27.
The money will be used to develop and deliver Grasping the Image: digital accessibility to heritage images – a project that will enhance accessibility to heritage photographs held in the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) Archive.
This project will improve access for visually impaired visitors to the museum using ocular-centric collections and more multi-sensory access.
Part of the award will also be used for new digitisation equipment and staff training.
Cat Stuart-Yapp, Head of Fundraising at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, said: ‘We’re delighted that we have been successful in our application to receive this funding.
‘Using advanced digital capture solutions, the project will use our extensive collection of photographic negatives to generate 3D images, which can in turn be used to create tactile models with sensors to generate audio. This means that more people will be able to encounter, experience and enjoy our collections, in more ways.’
