New heritage centre for the Highlands
INVERNESS will be the home to a new £4 million heritage centre, it was announced today.
The Highland Archive Centre will house significant documents from post-Culloden legislation, documents relating to the Highland Clearances and details of 15th-century council meetings.
For genealogy aficionados, the centre will also offer a family research facility. The building will also store the largest police archive in local authority care in Scotland.
Among the private collections will be the Highland photographic archive, containing 150,000 images.
Brian Lang, chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, which is financing the scheme, said: "This is a vital project if we are to care for the fantastic archive material that exists in the Highlands."
Work on the project will begin next year, coinciding with the Highland 2007 year of culture. It is hoped the facility will open in 2009.
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