Museums and Heritage Highland

21/11/2024

Love a wee reveal/unboxing video. 😆🥰

21/11/2024

Latha sneachd! Snow day across the Highlands today ❤️

11/11/2024

This should be good if you are looking for tips on how to better manage your digital assets. Delighted that Jim Dunn has been added to the panel - Jim brings knowledge of working with a comprehensive DAMS through his work with Glasgow Museums, but also through his freelance work with smaller museums, he understands what they need and how you can set up your own system when you don't have an IT department to support you.

🏛️Digital Asset Management in Heritage

Wednesday 20th November | 2pm - 3pm

Are your digital assets growing? Is the team who needs to access them growing? Whether it is a growing inventory of digitised archives and objects or social media assets, or both, how you manage those can impact the smooth operations of your museum and heritage organisation.

Register now for free ~ https://xponorth.co.uk/events/digital-asset-management-in-heritage-organising-the-past-managing-the-future

01/11/2024

Your Highland Museums News for November 2024 -

Big Scary Projects - launching January 2025 Designed specifically for people working in heritage organisations, we will be offering a range of training courses to support heritage professionals in tackling ambitious and complex projects. Delivered by sector experts, and using real-life examples and....

26/10/2024

Talking Objects is back on Thursday 31st October, 2PM-3PM in the Library Lounge, with Sugar Cravings & Colonalisation

The session will explore how museums approach the decolonisation of collections by recognising the integral role of empire in museums - from their creation to the present day. Decolonisation requires a reappraisal of our institutions and their history and an effort to address colonial structures and approaches to all areas of museum work.



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What's on in Brora

23/10/2024

Today we got together to discuss how we can make museums more accessible for neurodivergent people. Thank you to Aimee Fletcher for leading the session, to for hosting and to .galleries.scotland for funding our workforce project

17/10/2024

Opportunity to work with the lovely team at Historylinks Museum, Dornoch, Sutherland

17/10/2024

We were delighted to play a leading role in making this idea a reality! And look forward to sharing the results on our Museum of the Highlands digital learning hub in the near future.

Exciting news! A cutting-edge 3D scanning project has just been completed, digitally capturing historical objects from museums across the Highlands. From a Mesolithic harpoon to the Ballachulish Goddess, these artefacts will be transformed into detailed digital models.

These 3D scans will be featured in the People Room, within Inverness Castle’s South Tower Experience, allowing visitors to explore Highland history in a whole new way—digitally!

It’s a fantastic opportunity to connect with the past and inspire visits to the museums where these treasures are housed.

Read on, https://invernesscastle.scot/news/2024/10/17/innovative-digital-3d-scanning-of-historic-highland-artefacts-for-the-inverness-castle-experience

📷 Image: Eloise and Vicky, from -PE, scanning items in the Highland Museum of Childhood in Strathpeffer. Credit Morven MacDonald, Curator/Manager

West Highland Museum Strathnaver Museum Glencoe Folk Museum Cromarty Courthouse Museum The Highlanders' Museum - Fort George - Fort George Grantown Museum Ullapool Museum Groam House Museum Highland Museum of Childhood High Life Highland The Highland Council Museums and Heritage Highland

15/10/2024

Loving this ‘then and now’ series from Cromarty Courthouse Museum

14/10/2024

Lots of fun activities on the Museum of the Highlands website, like these two featuring objects from the Glencoe Museum collection
www.museum of the highlands.org

11/10/2024

Exciting job opp 👀

🌟General Manager Job Vacancy with the John O’Groats Mill Trust🌟

The John O'Groats Mill Trust are looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable venue management and business specialist to join their emerging team as we look forward to the opening of the mill as a heritage visitor attraction and community venue next year. The General Manager will develop the business in the lead up to, and beyond the opening of the mill, and will manage the venue and staff team once open. We are looking for applicants who have experience of business development, venue and staff management and who can work with the Trust to deliver a timely and professional opening for the new venue and then steer it forward in the coming years. This is a full-time role with a salary of £35,000 per annum. Part time job share arrangements will also be considered.

Please contact [email protected] for an application pack. Then submit a C.V. and Cover Letter outlining how you meet the Personal Specification and how your experience makes you a suitable candidate for the role by Thursday 31st October 2024. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview in November.

09/10/2024

We’re delighted to be in Paisley today speaking at the AHI conference on the ‘power of collaboration in digital heritage interpretation’. Sharing our work on Highland Threads and the Museum of the Highlands.

05/10/2024

Very well deserved. 👏👏👏if you haven’t heard the tour yet, listen now on SMARTIFY or better still, travel to Cromarty and follow the tour round the village.

We are absoloutely delighted to have won the British Museum’s Marsh Award for Museum Learning Scotland for our Cromarty Built on Slavery audio tour.

These awards are for an outstanding contribution to engaging museum audiences so particular thanks to Nicole Bontemps and David Alston for their brilliant presentation on this excellent piece of work. ⭐️

Listen to the audio tour on Smartify, Cromarty: Built on Slavery or follow it on your phone while you walk around the different sites in Cromarty.

03/10/2024

A late entry for favourite of the day!

Today is and this year's theme is

This miniature play set is one of our favourite tiny treasures in the museum. It belonged to Bonnie Prince Charlie's mother, the Polish Princess Clementina Sobieski. It contains tiny toys made of silver-gilt and makes a table setting. The princess would have played with it when she was a wee girl.

03/10/2024

Love a tiny fossil 😍

03/10/2024

Is it a or is it just really far away?

03/10/2024

Love an object battle. Especially a one 💪😂

03/10/2024

Some crackers here