Museum celebrates £7,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant as part of #HHA2017

The Museum has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Stories, Stones and Bones grant, it was announced today. This exciting project, Soutra: Surgery and Superstition, in Edinburgh and led by Surgeons’ Hall Museums in collaboration with Dig It! 2017,  Mercat Tours and Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, has been given £7,000 to lead a series of events inspired by the 12^th century Soutra Aisle Medieval Hospital in the Scottish Borders. Soutra Aisle Monastic Hospital provided medical treatment and hospitality to local communities, travellers and pilgrims for the best part of 500 years and has direct links to Surgeons’ Hall Museums early medical collection. This project is part of Visit Scotland’s Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology.

Surgeons’ Hall Museums, home of one of the largest and most historic pathology collections in the UK, will be working collaboratively with its partner organisations to help communities explore key themes through the history and heritage of medieval Scotland. Events will be run with community groups that include storytelling and guided tours, arts workshops, music and theatre performances. Workshops on medieval herbal medicine and storytelling will take place, allowing local communities to engage with their local heritage but empower them to tell their story.