HIGHLAND MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD
Museum Development Project - "The Goods Shed
The Museum secured capital
funding for an extension for an education centre and a
collections store on-site.
Over the winter of 2009-2010 the construction went ahead smoothly despite serious amounts of ice and snow - see Photographs - and was completed over the summer of 2010 with the official opening by His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex on 23 September.
The new building has three much-needed elements:
1. An education/learning room with space to develop our widely-used schools and community events programme. Now we can have more activities such as curricular-themed school sessions, art and craft workshops for all ages, storytelling, music and history talks.
2. A purpose-built collections store for our reserve collections, which were stored 35 miles away in unsuitable conditions. We can carry out all kinds of collections work - care, documentation and exhibition planning - in comfort and make better use of our volunteers' skills.
3. A reference/meeting room where we can store our local history book collection and allow study access to this as well as the reserve collections.
The museum gratefully
acknowledges the support of:
·
The Heritage Lottery Fund
·
Highlands & Islands Enterprise
·
The European Union through the Highland
Leader Programme
·
The Mackenzie New York Villa Trust
