44 National Railway Museum - York
NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM - YORK
Vision 2025 will transform the National Railway Museum , York , and Locomotion in Shildon . We ’ re on a six-year journey to become a global engineering powerhouse and a reinvented , inspiring 21st-century attraction .
With this investment , the transformed museums will show the cutting-edge innovations shaping our world today alongside the extraordinary birth and growth of the railways .
By celebrating the past , present and future of railways and engineering , the museum will capture the hearts and minds of the next generation of engineers , innovators and thinkers .
A number of projects are being undertaken as part of Vision 2025 :
Station Hall The National Railway Museum ’ s historic Station Hall will close temporarily in the New Year to enable urgent structural repairs to take place as part of the museum ’ s ambitious redevelopment plans .
Station Hall will close on 3 January for an expected 18 months but the museum will remain open to the public during the conservation project , with people able to visit Great Hall and North Shed .
The new roof will provide a thermally efficient and weathertight solution to protect the collection and preserve the historic Grade II-listed structure . As well as work to the roof , the wooden doors at the rear and side of the hall will also be removed and replaced by thermally efficient glazing .
The £ 10.5m programme of work will be funded by the Department for Digital , Culture , Media & Sport . Experienced heritage architects Buttress have been appointed to design the roof and are lead consultants on the project with a main roofing contractor due to be appointed in March .