Museums And Archives

SGS: New Beginnings

The project will secure the SGS’s internationally significant collections and bring its historic home back to life. It will put Britain’s oldest provincial learned society back on a sustainable footing for the next century by re-purposing the neighbouring historic engineering works to create essential conservation, exhibition and learning space and a new collections store. The project will: • Bring all of the SGS’s collections back under one roof • Protect and conserve our atmospheric historic home whilst creating a regional centre of excellence for conservation training, collections management and research in the Fenland • Deliver conservation, digital and research training to impact acute skills deprivation specific to Spalding and grow our programme of outreach and engagement for local young people, adults and the neuro-diverse community such as the Feather Teens CIC • Improve visibility and perception of SGS to engage with hard to reach audiences such as the migrant community and unemployed.