The Cardiff Story Museum has secured a £10,000 grant from the Welsh Government to help Cardiff’s communities tell their own story.
The grant from Museums Archives and Libraries Wales (CyMAL) will fund a new, pilot project with Communities First areas in East and West Cardiff. The project aims to support and encourage local people to explore and celebrate the history and formation of the communities they live in.
Participants will work with Museum staff to collect personal stories and objects and create a short film or piece of artwork. With advice and support from the Museum they will then research and interpret the items and information they have gathered and create a community curated exhibition. The exhibition will tour the communities before being displayed in the Museum.
Museum Manager, Victoria Rogers, said: “We’re really pleased that we’ve been able to secure this funding. We already do a lot of work with community groups across the city, supporting them to find out about their history and tell the rest of Cardiff about it in our City Showcase gallery here at the museum. That gallery is fully booked until the end of 2017 so it shows the demand for this work.”
Cabinet Member for Community Development, Co-operatives and Social Enterprise, Cllr Peter Bradbury, said: “The Cardiff Story Museum has successfully worked with and supported over 130 different community groups since it opened three years ago. This grant will increase the work it does in Communities First areas and will create more opportunities to work with those who do not currently visit the museum itself by taking the museum to them.”
The funding will support the first two exhibitions and the museum then aims to work with other Communities First areas across the city to undertake similar projects.
