National Museums Scotland's Community Engagement team has
brought four groups of people together with an artist to create a
spectacular sculpture of a Chinese dragon. This eight foot
long dragon will be hung at the entrance to the Imagine
gallery, which opens as part of our redevelopment in summer 2011.
The dramatic dragon will welcome visitors into Imagine, a colourful
interactive space for families where they will be able to explore
festivities around the world.
Making the dragon
Several groups including Edinburgh Chinese school, Leith
Primary, Stanwell Nursery and McDonald Road library family groups
have been participating in creative and interactive workshops based
around Chinese Dragons. The artist leading these workshops; Kim
Bergsagel, has a range of experience of working locally and
internationally and collaborating with communities to create large
scale art works.
You can see pictures of the workshops and the dragon in progress
below. Click on the images to see them in more detail.
Now we are nearing opening the spectacular dragon is nearing
completion and preparing to make its journey from Kim’s studio in
Leith to its permanent home in our new look museum.
Chinese New Year
On Sat 5 and Sunday 6 February, families were invited to come
along to create their own colourful dragon puppets and find out
more about the project at our Chinese New Year celebrations. You
can see
photos from the event here.
Meanwhile visitors can look forward to having
a close encounter with this dragon themselves when the new gallery
opens in summer.
For more information on this project
please contact Laura Bennison, Community Engagement Officer
on 0131 247 4435.