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Education & Awareness
Ancestra shares heritage through exhibitions, events, and digital archives, making history alive and accessible.
The Service
History you can touch, hear, and walk through.
A restored building that nobody visits is only half saved. Our education team turns every project into an invitation: guided walks, school workshops, craft demonstrations, evening talks, and travelling exhibitions that carry fragile originals safely to new audiences.
The digital archive extends the invitation worldwide — 40,000 documents, free forever, with learning packs for every key stage.
What’s included
Exhibitions & open days
Curated shows in our Edinburgh rooms and pop-up displays on live restoration sites, with conservators on hand to answer questions.
Schools programme
Workshops in archives, archaeology, and traditional crafts, mapped to the curriculum and free for state schools.
Talks, walks & courses
Seasonal lecture series, guided heritage walks, and evening classes from reading old handwriting to lime-mortar basics.
Digital archives
High-resolution scans, searchable catalogues, and storytelling features that bring documents to life online.
Learning in Numbers
A classroom with very old walls
42
Cultural and educational programmes held every year.
9,000+
Schoolchildren welcomed to sites and workshops annually.
40k
Documents freely available in the online reading room.
