RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Leith Civic Trust has recently agreed to be the Leith Community partner for Scottish Historic Buildings Trust in respect to Leith Custom House.
This is approaching the start of a very exciting new stage in our story. We are about to make some dramatic changes.
For many years, we and several other Leith organisations have been working to establish a Museum for Leith, and this is now very much on the Horizon.
A few years ago, these organisations managed to persuade the City of Edinburgh Council to purchase Leith Custom House for the purpose with Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) as the long-term tenants to run the building and project. This wonderful building will very soon become our new home, whilst work and fundraising continue. Leith Civic Trust will become the Community partner, and we shall run the museum once restoration is complete.
The preparation stage will involve considerable hard work for our members and others. In the first place, we shall need to change charity structure to a SCIO and create all new systems. We shall also need to record the stories which will be told and to find and photograph all the artifacts . Our History group will be working hard for a few years. Leith’s story goes back as far as the stone age, so this will be a long term project..
This is approaching the start of a very exciting new stage in our story. We are about to make some dramatic changes.
For many years, we and several other Leith organisations have been working to establish a Museum for Leith, and this is now very much on the Horizon.
A few years ago, these organisations managed to persuade the City of Edinburgh Council to purchase Leith Custom House for the purpose with Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) as the long-term tenants to run the building and project. This wonderful building will very soon become our new home, whilst work and fundraising continue. Leith Civic Trust will become the Community partner, and we shall run the museum once restoration is complete.
It will be a completely digital operation with video walls, screens and projectors throughout8 dedicated exhibition spaces telling the many stories of Leith and Leithers past and present.
A wonderful new design has been created by Richard Murphy Architects, and this has been accepted by both Edinburgh Council and SHBT.The preparation stage will involve considerable hard work for our members and others. In the first place, we shall need to change charity structure to a SCIO and create all new systems. We shall also need to record the stories which will be told and to find and photograph all the artifacts . Our History group will be working hard for a few years. Leith’s story goes back as far as the stone age, so this will be a long term project..