£60k grant for ‘green museum’

A new‘green museum’ experience is set to be created at a Perthshire venue.

Culture Perth and Kinross has secured funding from Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) for the project, which will also act as an orientation base for the Cateran Ecomuseum in Alyth Museum.

The grant of £60,000 will provide visitors to the museum with interactive and engaging information on how to explore the region, its archaeology and biodiversity and will highlight local green issues and how these are being addressed.

The experience aims to deepen visitors understanding of the climate and biodiversity crisis that we are facing on a local level and encourage them to participate in change through social activism.

The funding, secured from MGS’s Museum Development Fund, will allow the museum to install displays developed with sustainability in mind using content created by curators from Culture Perth and Kinross in partnership with the Cateran Ecomuseum.

Clare Cooper, cofounder and co-director of the Cateran Ecomuseum, said:“We are delighted to have this opportunity to work with Culture Perth and Kinross to develop Alyth Museum into an interactive orientation base for the Ecomuseum, especially given our focus on mobilising heritage for climate action.

“Not only will this provide a valuable service to both local people and visitors interested in experiencing the 1000 square kilometres of natural and cultural heritage that our‘Museum Without Walls’promotes, but it will also be a transformative project for the Alyth Museum, raising its profile and enabling it to promote the key role that heritage has in the climate and biodiversity crises we face.”