Monthly Archives: March 2015

This week our object selection team, Maaike and Neil, and our installation team, Caitlin and Jamie, were at the Museum Collection Centre at Marischal College, digging through the collections to select objects for our exhibit. We had great fun choosing the … Continue reading →

Gillian Macnee tells us why she loves working as the Learning and Access Curator at the University of Aberdeen Museums: The museum has so many beautiful objects with fascinating histories, but it is people’s enjoyment of the objects and bringing … Continue reading →

We are putting on a new exhibition in partnership with the University of Aberdeen Art Society. The exhibition will display works of art created by the students which have been inspired by the museum collections. In the words of one of … Continue reading →

Two years ago while looking through a chest full of clothes that had once belonged to Robert Wilson (1787-1871) I discovered a pair of small delicate slippers which appeared out of place amongst the male travelling clothes. Robert Wilson was an … Continue reading →

We have been awarded a Recognition Fund grant by the Scottish Government! The project will focus on the ethnographic collections from the Pacific Ocean. We will improve the collections documentation and storage. We also hope to take images of as … Continue reading →

In preparation for our exhibit opening in June, all the MLitt Museum Studies team took a trip up to Fraserburgh to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. We went to look at items we could use for a student-led exhibition for King’s … Continue reading →