The Old Tools, New Uses scheme, the first special project funded by the Museums Association’s Effective Collections scheme, is moving ahead with various initiatives.
The project, which is the brainchild of the Scottish Transport and Industry Collections and Knowledge network (STICK), aims to help Scottish museums make better use of their tool and domestic technology collections.
As part of the project, STICK organised a series of drop-in workshops where museum staff brought tools and domestic implements that were duplicates or whose provenance was unknown.
Unwanted items were then donated to Tools for Self Reliance, the organisation’s charity partner, to be renovated and distributed to communities in Africa.
A blacksmith’s leg vice has since been sent to the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone, while a treadle sewing machine has been dispatched to the Mahembe Tailoring Group in Kigoma, Tanzania.
The project, which is the brainchild of the Scottish Transport and Industry Collections and Knowledge network (STICK), aims to help Scottish museums make better use of their tool and domestic technology collections.
As part of the project, STICK organised a series of drop-in workshops where museum staff brought tools and domestic implements that were duplicates or whose provenance was unknown.
Unwanted items were then donated to Tools for Self Reliance, the organisation’s charity partner, to be renovated and distributed to communities in Africa.
A blacksmith’s leg vice has since been sent to the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone, while a treadle sewing machine has been dispatched to the Mahembe Tailoring Group in Kigoma, Tanzania.