HMS Unicorn awarded £26,016 grant from Museums Galleries Scotland Fund

HMS Unicorn is one of five Scottish museums to share in a grant of £175,000 from Museums Galleries Scotland's Sustainable Co-Production Fund, to support collaboration with communities.

The fund is part of Delivering Change, a collective effort between MGS and partnering museums, galleries, and community groups to restructure as organisations based on anti-oppressive principles.  The Delivering Change Sustainable Co-production Fund was made possible thanks to National Lottery players and People’s Postcode Lottery players.

The fund was developed by MGS to support learning in the sector around developing sustainable participatory practice and co-curation. It champions museums who are leading in the delivery of this area of work and helps them to take the next steps to fully embed co-production in their organisation. The awarded projects focus on working with people who have been systemically excluded to share power in decision making, create learning spaces where knowledge sharing is a two-way process, and empower people to make decisions about their cultural lives.

HMS Unicorn received £26,016 to co-produce exhibits and materials with Ukrainians who have relocated to Dundee following the Russian-Ukraine war.  The sessions will be a place for the local Ukrainian community to develop transferable skills including language and social integration, as well as explore heritage together.

Source: Museums Galleries Scotland