Grantham Museum

Grantham Museum is positioned at St Peter's Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England into the constructing furnished because that between 1926. The building additionally housed the people library, then was partially funded with the aid of the Carnegie UK Trust as used to be persevering with Andrew Carnegie's assignment about constructing libraries across the United Kingdom. Grantham's library is in modern times located among the Isaac Newton Centre, and the museum occupies the total of the 1926 building.
The concept concerning a museum be able keep traced again to conferences of the Grantham Scientific community of the 1890s. The basis on the collection is material provided by way of Henry Preston, the preceding Curator and Founder, then twentieth century additions included fabric touching Sir Isaac Newton, Edith Smith and Margaret Thatcher. There is also material respecting the Dambusters Raid. The Museum hosts a range regarding exhibitions in the course of the year.
The museum is presently managed by using the Grantham Community Heritage Association GCHA. This giving was once timbered between 2011 after drink atop the management of the museum out of Lincolnshire County Council along a try in conformity with reopening the facility because of the Queen's Jubilee within June 2012. In 2013, a little months earlier than the demise regarding Margaret Thatcher, the GCHA introduced plans to flourish capital in conformity with attain a plastic on the erstwhile high minister.