Old Tools New Uses

We would like to invite you to attend the closing celebrations of the Old Tools New Uses project on 27th October 2011 at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life. [Download the invitation here]

This successful project was run by STICK and was the first-ever recipient of the special project award as part of the Museums Association's Effective Collections Scheme, supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. It was launched in June last year by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop, who praised the project for its ‘creativity and collaboration’. From drop-in surgeries across Scotland to disposing of objects to artisans in Africa – the project is unmistakably a success and is now drawing to a close.

We’d like to invite colleagues from across the sector to share in the network’s celebrations and discover some of the final outcomes in action – the Master Catalogue of hand tools, sewing machines and typewriters, as well as the unique learning resources created around the domestic technology objects.

 More information on the project can be found on the STICK website.

Please RSVP to Megan Combe by the 21st October 2011. The event will begin at 1330 and we hope to run demonstrations through until about 1630.