What support it will give to industrial museums in 2010-11.

The Scottish Government funds non-national museums, including industrial museums, through Museums Galleries Scotland. The indicative grant, subject to the Budget Bill process, for Museums Galleries Scotland for 2010-11 is £3.628 million, which includes £550,000 in capital funding for the Scottish Mining Museum and £600,000 in ring-fenced revenue funding for the Scottish Maritime, Mining and Fisheries Museums.
The total funding for industrial museums in 2010-11 will ultimately depend on the bids which those museums make for grant funding from Museums Galleries Scotland under their various grant schemes.
The Museums Task Force which I recently set up is considering a range of issues facing the sector and the future of the industrial museums is one of these. The Task Force will report in 2010.