The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust has been been awarded a grant by the Society for Museum Archaeology to digitise a selection of large-scale archaeology drawings held at the IGMT Archive. The original drawings were produced by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Archaeology Unit between 1981 and 2010 during the course of their survey and excavation work at various museum sites within the Gorge. The drawings are currently neither catalogued nor publicly available for consultation.
This work will be particularly useful for those buildings which form part of the ‘Conserving the Historic Estate’ project, an initiative funded by the National Heritage Memorial Fund to help secure the future of the buildings that form the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The digitisation work will be completed by museum volunteers alongside a professional photographer, and on completion of the project the digital images will be made publicly available for wider research.
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