Helensburgh’s outdoor museum has been shortlisted for an international award.
The FX Interior Design Awards will see the museum in Colquhoun Square compete with entrants such as the Domunder archaeological experience under the Domplein Square in Utrecht and the Lotus Square Art Centre in Zhuhai, China, in the museum or exhibition space category.
The award ceremony, organised by FX magazine, will be held in the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on November 25.
As part of Argyll and Bute Council’s £7m CHORD project, the outdoor museum, developed and delivered by art organisation WAVEparticle, in partnership with architects Austin-Smith Lord, displays a collection of treasured objects brought forward by local residents and organisations,
It includes a series of historic artefacts encapsulated in acrylic and three specially commissioned artworks by Lesley Carruthers, Kate Ive and Chris Coleman-Smith.
WAVEparticle lead artist, Peter McCaughey, said: “We are delighted to have made the shortlist for such a notable award, despite stiff competition from around the globe.
’’We imagined Scotland’s first outdoor museum as a place where local treasures could be permanently on display alongside objects of national significance and newly commissioned artworks, reflecting both the big history of the town and the smaller stories that make up our world.
‘’We envisaged this museum with a collection open to the elements, where the wind and rain and sun and touch of hand make their own contribution to the collection as it grows over the years.’’
It is hoped that in the future local groups will be able to add to the collection.
Shame you have to be on your knees to read the information, mostly copied from other sources. Hardly worth an award.