The National Football Museum has announced it will invest in its original site in Preston, Lancashire, UK, which closed its doors to the public in 2010 when the museum moved to central Manchester.

The Preston site no longer has public galleries but is still home to research facilities and archives, which are used by academics and researchers and house 90 per cent of the museum’s collection.

Under new plans, public access to collections will be increased, though no definite plans have been made for how this will be achieved, and storage facilities will be expanded on the ground floor allowing the museum to take up offers of new items.

The museum moved to Manchester’s Urbis centre after failed negotiations between trustees and the Lancashire City Council on a partnership agreement.