South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture

RG900: Rediscovering Rutherglen digitisation project

South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Museum Service has been awarded £12,100 funding from Museum 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.

Throughout 2025 and 2026 the museum team will work with the Rutherglen Heritage Society and Library colleagues, and carry 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.

As part of this project, we will be doing a public consultation. Watch this space for updates!