AIM Pilgrim Trust Collections Care Grant – The Trimontium Trust

AIM grant £7,348.33
Environmental monitoring upgrade

The Trimontium Trust was founded over 30 years ago to protect the site of the largest Roman fort in Scotland. A small museum in Melrose was later added and this space has recently been refurbished and extended to double the display space and treble the number of artefacts.

Central this project has been the rehousing of the wide array of artefacts, ranging from delicate two-thousand-year-old ironwork to exquisite bronze armour and equally fascinating organic remains in state-of-the-art cases with state-of-the-art environmental monitoring.

All this is a quantum leap for a small organisation like ours and in this we have been generously supported by the AIM Pilgrim Trust grant. This has allowed us to seriously move up a gear from our previous simple in-case manual monitoring to a centrally situated Hanwell hub which accurately keeps track of our thirteen new wireless data loggers. As our new Click Netherfield cases settle in and happily withstand one the hottest and most humid summers the Borders has experienced, we can be confident that the internal environment is stable and suitable for our artefacts.

It is our belief that small institutions like Trimontium Museum add significant value to the civic pride and psychological well-being of our communities at a scale that is easily accessible. This grant has assisted us to aim high and tell our story to a much wider public.

John H Reid, Chairman, Trimontium Trust

Pictured: Roman artefacts on display at Trimontium Museum