Projects
The Drawing Office is the new education and visitor centre at the Titan Crane, designed to enhance the visitor experience and encourage learning. The centre will creates exhibition space and facilities for education activities on site.
Lead Partner: Clydebank Rebuilt
Other Partners: Funding partners Heritage Lottery Fund and Clyde Waterfront
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Location:
Clydebank & Erskine, Queens Quay
Description:
The visitor centre is located at the foot of the crane and provides exhibition space, classroom style accommodation for multimedia seminars and a café.
A focus for the visitor facility will be a working scale model of the Titan. There will also be display cases and interpretation boards.
As a visitor attraction, the Titan Crane currently offers a successful outreach programme to schools. The new accommodation will improve the experience for school groups, enabling the delivery of seminars and workshops that link directly to Curriculum for Excellence.
The facility will also improve the visitor experience for all visitors to the Crane.
The timber framed building is fully glazed so that students and visitors can perch on high stools and look at the crane, sketch it and photograph it, all within a wind and watertight environment.
Current status:
Completed and opened 7 June 2011.
Timescale:
March - May 2011
Cost:
£120,000