Published: Monday, 29th June, 2009 12:00pm

More Money Needed for Ayr's Burns Museum

by Roisin McGroarty

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Multi-million pound shortfall

FUNDING for Alloway"s Burns Museum still has a £3.8million shortfall despite multi-million pound pledges.

It is estimated that the total amount needed to finance the Robert Burns museum - which has been planned to open next summer - is £21million.

So far the Heritage Lottery Fund has granted £5.8million, a further £5.5million contribution has come from the Scottish Government, £250,000 from Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire and an estimated £2.885million worth of land in Alloway from South Ayrshire Council for the site.

The National Trust for Scotland has to raise the £7million with approximately £3.8million remaining.

To aid in narrowing the shortfall the University of the West of Scotland has donated a statuette of "Coila", the muse who appears in Robert Burns"s poem "The Vision", to the NTS.

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