Museums, libraries and archives

The stories behind exhibits at four of Scotland’s leading heritage attractions are being brought to life for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

256 sound tapes that record the memories of people who have lived, worked and volunteered at Leonard Cheshire Disability since the 1950s will be preserved and made available to the public.

Social, cultural and industrial heritage of people in the North East was the subject of a three-year project run by Beamish Museum.

Young people investigated the medical developments from the First World War and the impact they have on their lives today.

A group of young volunteers worked with local people to preserve the heritage of North Tyneside's beach resorts.

A project devised by a group of 25 young people after the old Horse Chestnut tree in the grounds of their community centre was felled.

Young people worked in teams to create new interpretation, helping shape the way visitors engage with the Richmond Borough Art Collection in the future.

Young people from across Nuneaton and Bedworth worked with the local charity, Mercurial Arts, the Borough Council and English Heritage, to create their own unique listing system and identify and record the buildings and sites important to them.

Primary and secondary school children engaged with the stories of local soldiers during the First World War through workshops with local museums and an artist, culminating in an exhibition and open day event for the wider community.

Supplies of Horlicks to the troops and the evocative paintings of war artist Paul Nash were just two of the discoveries in this First World War centenary project.

From Russia with Love was a learning programme about the Walpole Collection of masterpiece paintings at Houghton Hall, based on the highly successful exhibition, Houghton Revisited.