South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture

Photograph by William Graham. Object record.

South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Museum Service has been awarded funding from Museums Galleries Scotland to digitise 900 objects in the Rutherglen museum collection and make the object records available online and via touchscreen in Rutherglen Library, creating a legacy for the town during its special 900th anniversary year.

The museum team is working with the Rutherglen Heritage Society and Library colleagues and is carrying out public consultation to determine which museum collection objects hold the most significance to Rutherglen residents. We would love to hear your views, stories and responses to objects held in the museum collection, helping us shape this project to meet the needs of the Rutherglen community. A further aim of the project is to find a more permanent solution for securely displaying the Rutherglen collection locally in the future. You can find physical copies of our consultation at Rutherglen Library or complete it online.

 

The museum service has successfully completed the Rediscovering Rutherglen project's three main digitisation phases with the help of Iona Shepherd Photography, photographing over 800 objects. A selection of objects from the Rutherglen collection in now on display in Rutherglen Library and we look forward to making more of the collection available through display and online in the coming months, informed by our public consultation.

 

A preview of some of the fantastic Rutherglen objects which were photographed with the assistance of funding from Museums Galleries Scotland.

Town Crier’s bell engraved with enamelled lettering: Royal Burgh/ of/ Rutherglen/ 1879	Casket presented to Adam Keir Rodger by the Rutherglen East United Free Church, 30 March 1927
Metal plaque with Coat of Arms of Rutherglen, presented by the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen	Statue of St Eloi from Old Parish Church which was demolished in 1794