David McNay
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Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:31 am Post subject: Future Museum South West Scotland |
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I picked up a leaflet advertising this site at the weekend, and I've just had a chance to look at it.
http://futuremuseum.co.uk/Home.aspx/
It seems to be a similar enterprise to SCRAN, but it appears to have free access.
Here's what the site says:
| Quote: | What’s it all about!
Future Museum is a partnership between East Ayrshire Council, Dumfries and Galloway Council, North Ayrshire Council, South Ayrshire Council and the independent museums of the south-west of Scotland. The project has been funded by the Regional Development Challenge Fund which is funded by the Scottish Executive and administered by the Scottish Museums Council on its behalf.
The main focus of the project is to provide free access to the museum collections through the dynamic future museum.co.uk website. Each year a touring exhibition will also be developed, which will support a key theme of the site and travel across the region.
What we want to do
The Future Museum project aims to maximise access to museum and gallery collections and deepen people's understanding of the history of the region through the website.
We also aim to enhance productivity and collaboration between the museum partners via increasing the number of joint exhibitions and events in the region. This will result in a series of new touring exhibitions being developed each year that focuses on a key theme from the website.
Future Museum targets the needs of lifelong learners and all those interested in exploring the history and heritage of the area. The project team actively seek comment, opinions, memories and information about the region that can inform the future development of the site.
Each year we aim to digitise approximately 3,000 objects, which will then be added to the site and add to our rich digital resource.
And finally, we hope that after having seen the website, you’ll want to visit the museums of the south-west. Have a look at the partner museum section to see where we are! |
There's a lot of interesting items on there. I had a look at the First World War section - several images of medals for war service awarded by several towns, plus a collection of photographs taken by an Annan photographer while serving in the Royal Engineers.
I'm sure there's an equally good selection for other periods.[/quote] |
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