Grampian Transport Museum receives funding to preserve heritage skills

Grampian Transport Museum Trust has secured the funding it needs to create a commercial garage and training space that will also feature a tool library and to pilot a new heritage skills recording scheme to ensure they are not lost for the future.

The project has secured the support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Museums Galleries Scotland.

Announcing the £262,333 of funding Grampian Transport Museum Trust unveiled their imaginative solution to keeping heritage engineering skills alive and passing them on to new generations of mechanics and enthusiasts.

The skills associated with our transport and industrial heritage are at risk, through changes in industrial processes and ways of working, meaning they could be lost completely without urgent action being taken now. 

This crucial funding from the Heritage Fund and Museums Galleries Scotland will support our innovative project, where we will create both a garage and training space where these skills can be practiced and learned, alongside a Tool Library where learners and others can borrow the tools to keep these crucial skills alive. We will also offer garage services on a commercial basis, where we can undertake work on heritage vehicles to keep them on the road. 

This innovative project will create job and volunteer opportunities, strengthen engagement with heritage, widen access to learning opportunities in this space and reduce the environmental impact of vehicles being taken off the road through lack of skills to maintain them - supporting Grampian Transport Museum’s work to tell the story of going places. 

Grampian Transport Museum will be running skills workshops and creating opportunities to engage with skills at risk throughout the project, visit the website (gtm.org.uk/learn) to find out more.