Royal Society funds small museums to tell stories of local science "heroes" | Rebekah Higgitt

From dinosaur hunters to new dimension discoverers, the Local Heroes scheme will fund projects to celebrate and explore science across the UK

The Royal Society today announced the 15 successful projects that its Local Heroes scheme will fund. These grants go to small museums across the UK, from Orkney to Plymouth, to explore the lives and legacies of scientists with close connections to their communities.

I was fortunate to be on the judging panel and to see the richness, variety and imagination offered by all the applicants. The funding is only up to 3000, which is not much for museums that are often already suffering cuts from local authority budgets, but the imaginative projects have great potential to intrigue, inform and inspire.