Young people’s representations of collections housed at Canterbury’s Beaney Institute have gone on show.

The art work is displayed in the city’s cafes to keep the community in touch with the exhibits while the Beaney is closed for a £6.5million redevelopment and refurbishment.

The original works have gone into storeage. But with the help of a £24,700 lottery grant, students from Canterbury High School, The Orchard School and Canterbury College and young clients of the Scrine Foundation have been working with local artists to create their own representations of museum objects.

They have chosen pieces from the art, natural history and regimental and world cultures and researched the stories associated with them to produce a variety of artwork which is now on display.

Lead artist Neil Kelly said: “This project, Hungry for Heritage, has given hundreds of local people the opportunity to be inspired by the museum’s exhibits and consider how they can be expressed creatively to others.”

Their work will be on show in cafes until Saturday, February 28.