The bid to create a Dundee Museum of Transport has taken a significant step forward.
The organisation may still be without an official home for its treasures but it has just received its associate membership of Museums Galleries Scotland.
Dundee group committee member Terry Small said, “This is a huge step forward for us in terms of being recognised as a committed and serious group who are determined that this area should have a transport museum that will be worthy of our city.
“There’s only eight of us and we don’t have a formal building yet, but we have been approved as associated members of Museums Galleries Scotland. It’s just a process you have to go through. We will then go for full membership and then accreditation.”
The news has been welcomed by leisure, arts and communities convener Bob Duncan, who says the museum would make a “significant impact” on the city.
“It’s a very positive step for them,” he said. “I know they have a lot of exhibits stored in strange places. If we get a fairly substantial building out of it, it could have a significant impact on tourism in the city.”
The museum lists an 1880s ambulance, several vintage buses and other antique vehicles among its collection. The organisation is locked in a legal wrangle with Scottish Water over the rights to a former tram shed in Maryfield, where it hopes to store its collection.Find out more at www.dundeemuseumoftransport.co.uk