The Scottish Executive has provided almost £280,000 for a three year project, named Future Museum, to set up an integrated website linking all museums between Largs, Kilmarnock, Ayr and Dumfries, it announced on 17 July 2006.
Other public sector organisations - notably by East, North and South Ayrshire Councils plus Dumfries and Galloway Council - have provided the rest of the £500,000 funding. The project is aimed at highlighting the historical and cultural distinctiveness of the south west region.
To date, 2,000 images that chronicle the industries which helped shape the development of the region have been posted on the website. That figure will rise to 10,000 over the next three years.
National heroes with a link to the south-west – including Robert the Bruce, Robert Burns and William Wallace - also feature.
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