Museum and Heritage Collections 2008

Almond Valley Heritage Trust - £12,000
Towards the salary of a collection development officer to work on the shale oil collection.

Culture and Sport Glasgow - £91,500
Towards researching and cataloguing the Burrell’s medieval tapestry collection.

Edinburgh College of Art - £76,634
Towards the conservation, interpretation and exhibition of the historic plaster cast collections.

Falmouth Art Gallery - £56,820
Towards conserving and cataloguing ornamental frames in the collection.

Florence Nightingale Museum Trust - £48,000
Towards collection care and documentation as part of the 'Inspiring Change' project.

Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy - £8,615
Towards documentation of the spirit store.

London Borough of Hackney - £32,675
Towards the cost of a conservation survey and preventative conservation work to increase public access to the collections.

Oglander Roman Trust - £55,000
Towards the documentation and care of the Trust's collections.

Scottish Mining Museum Trust - £19,592
Towards digitising the Museum's collection of photographs.

Strawberry Hill Trust - £60,000
owards the cost of the restoration and display within the Yellow Bedchamber.

The Dartington Hall Trust - £50,000
Towards the salaries of a conservation co-ordinator and conservation officer, plus a contribution towards specialist materials.

Valence House Museum, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham - £16,623
Towards the costs of specialist care to preserve and digitise the Samuel Williams and Son film collection

West Dunbartonshire Council - £55,578
Towards the salary over two years of a technology curator to work in the Sewing Machine Collection.

Total £583,037
No of grants: 13

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