Heritage Appeal

Harriet Lamb works for our Development team and talks about the amazing generosity of our visitors.

2013 was a really special year for our museum. To celebrate the anniversary of Mallard’s record breaking achievement we reunited all six remaining A4 locomotives. We welcomed thousands of visitors in July and again in November, with young and old, families and groups of friends, to see the Great Gathering (not forgetting the record-breaking visitor numbers seen this month at Shildon).


3 July 2013 saw the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s world steam speed record.


Something that stood out during these events was the support we saw from our visitors. We received many kind words and huge amounts of donations. We were completely overwhelmed by, and feel very grateful for, the generosity shown to us.

One of the things that makes working at the National Railway Museum so special is the support we receive from our visitors. Not just during events like the Great Gathering, but every day – last year in total our visitors donated over £690,000.

Last year, the money donated by our visitors paid for the redevelopment of Station Hall. Thank you for playing your part in transforming this much loved part of the Museum, and home to our splendid Royal Carriages, into something really magical. It simply wouldn’t have been possible without you.


Our new look Royal Platform


This year we have more plans to improve the Museum, allowing access to more of our collection and allowing visitors to get up close to railway heritage. We’re opening up our beautiful Topaz Pullman Parlour carriage, allowing visitors inside for the first time. We also have work to do on our Ellerman Lines sectioned locomotive, used by our Explainers to show how a steam locomotive works.


Our sectioned loco, Ellerman Lines, is used to demonstrate how a steam loco works.


We’re holding a Heritage Appeal this spring to ask for your support with our plans for 2014. While we receive some funding from the government, our grant has been reduced every year since 2010 and without the generosity of our visitors we would be unable to carry out essential improvements and activities, like the Station Hall redevelopment. You can support us by making an online donation, or by contacting harriet.lamb@nrm.org.uk.


The beautiful Topaz carriage will be opened up for public access


We’d also like to invite you to a special evening event on Monday 3rd March, from 6-9pm at the Museum. Come and see our collection out of hours, meet the team, take part in some exciting activities and learn about our plans. We’d like to say thank you in person. You can find out more about the evening at www.nrm.org.uk/heritageappeal.

Thank you again, and I hope to see you on the 3rd March!

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When we donate to the NRM does it actually stay there or sent to Science Museum Group which then "distributes" the funds between them?
Since this was mentioned to me as whet happens to my monies, I no longer wish to donate till I can confirm it does only get used by NRM York and Shildon.
If anyone can confirm what happens as the person I spoke to at York couldn't say for sure.

 

With the reduction of hours and days open for researching now at the NRM York, I also have channeled my donations elsewhere.

 

Might I suggest your questions and comments are best directly directly to the NRM?

Pretty much all of the posts in the "National Railway Musuem" section of the forum are automatic re-postings from the NRM's own museum blog, to be found at: http://nationalrailwaymuseum.wordpress.com/

It's quite possible that many of the authors of the NRM posts don't even know of the existance of this forum, I suspect they probably don't have a profile on here, and they almost certainly don't browse it looking for questions posed in threads they haven't started about posts they didn't actually make themselves.