Projects
Current Projects
- St Cecilia's Hall Redevelopment Project
- Enriching our Musical Heritage
The Enriching our Musical Heritage project (2008-13) is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund under the Collecting Cultures scheme. The project is funding the acquisition of British bagpipes, improving curatorial skills, fostering research and increasing public involvement with the collections. The aim of increasing public involvement with museum collections will be initially met through the exhibition The Piper's Whimand associated events in August 2013, and will continue after the formal end of the project. 
- Audience Development
The Audience Development project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Museums Galleries Scotland, the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall and Museum, and the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Fund. In this project EUCHMI is promoting, expanding, developing and delivering public engagement and lifelong learning programmes, educational materials and online resources; investigating and implementing strategies to develop existing audiences; cementing existing partnerships and developing new strategies for working with new partners and audiences; managing and developing the learning & access volunteer team.
Completed Projects
- The MIMO Project
The University of Edinburgh recently led the ground breaking 11-museum European project - Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO), (www.mimo-international.com) which was completed in 2011.
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments formed a key part of this project, demonstrating its significance in terms of world heritage and its importance among the major collections of Europe.
- Drawing to Scale Project
- Education project (2008-2011), supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Russell Trust, the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Fund, and the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall & Museum. This project established a programme of outreach to new museum audiences of all ages and created the educational website funded by Museums Galleries Scotland's Recognition Scheme - Musical Instruments At Your Fingertips
This article was published on 5 February 2013