Thirty-six small museums across the UK have been awarded funding by The Royal Society’s Places of Science scheme to engage communities with local science stories.

Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 21 Mar 2024


Thirty-six small museums across the UK have been awarded funding by The Royal Society’s Places of Science scheme to engage communities with local science stories.
Now in its fifth round, the scheme has awarded grants of up to £3,500 to back the creation of stories of historic crafts including glassmaking in Worcestershire, blacksmithing in Hertfordshire, and cyanotype printing in North Yorkshire.
Other projects funded will focus on historic figures, among them botanist Matilda Knowles, considered the founder of modern studies of Irish lichens, and Richard Hill, a prominent black abolitionist and naturalist, born in Jamaica who emigrated to Horncastle, Lincolnshire in the 1800s.
Chair of the Places of Science allocation panel Professor Russell Foster CBE said.... [Read more on Museums + Heritage Advisor]
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