Summerlee Heritage Park in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, is undergoing a £10m redevelopment to improve its visitor facilities.

A new lobby will lead visitors to the main hall of the museum, which is being refurbished and expanded to showcase artefacts from the industrial era, including many previously kept in storage owing to lack of space, as well as new displays explaining the rise of engineering in Scotland during the period.

Interactive displays will explain the iron-making process and a children’s Discovery Zone will provide hands-on activities and simple experiments.

Additional facilities will include an education and life-long learning suite, refurbished conservation workshops and new meeting spaces for conferences and events.

A café, retail shop and toilets as well as improved car parking and garden landscaping will complete the redevelopment, in time for its scheduled opening this summer, when the number of visitors are expected to increase from 95,000 to around 150,000 each year.

Funding came from the Heritage Lottery Fund (£5m), Scottish Museums Council, European Regional Development Fund and North Lanarkshire Council.