Heritage Event Details

Dr. Wm. MacLean - a forgotten collector

Taking place from 01 May 2010 to 24 April 2011

Days Open:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Event Times:

10.00 (Sunday 14.00) to 17.00 (Sunday 16.30)

Categories:

Arts, Environment and community, Heritage, Training and learning, Visual arts and crafts

Description:

Groam House Museum is well known for its annual exhibitions on Pictish and local history themes. For 2010/11 an innovative approach is being adopted as the museum partners with a recently founded, exciting community organisation ARCH (Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands) to mount a new exhibition about Dr. William Maclean. Dr. Maclean was born in Inverness and lived and worked as a doctor in the Dingwall area for much of his life. After his death in 1930 his widow gave his collection to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. Much of his archaeology was conducted on the Black Isle including excavations at one of the coastal caves near Rosemarkie, between 1907 and 1912.

The exhibition is being created and put on display by 14 members of the community, with assistance from staff from Groam House and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The exhibition will be the culmination of their participation in the ARCH programme ‘Display the Past’, which has been designed to get local people ‘behind the scenes’ at the museum. Participants have been introduced to the history and development of museums and collecting. They have also learned about practical aspects of working in a museum, including the care of objects and designing and installing exhibitions. The ‘Display the Past’ sessions are funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Highland LEADER 2007-2013 Programme, with additional support from Highland Council.

A key and much valued part of the exhibition will be a group of items from the MacLean Collection at the National Museum of Scotland which will be on loan to Groam House for the duration of the exhibition. These will include a superb Pictish bone pin with amber decoration which was found by MacLean in the Rosemarkie cave.

Cost:

Free Admission, donations welcomed (event)

Contact:

Alastair Morton (event)

Phone:

+44 (0)1463 811883 (event)

Email:

admin@groamhouse.org.uk (event)

Web:

http://www.groamhouse.org.uk (event)

Venue:

Groam House Museum

Address:

High Street

Rosemarkie

Highland

IV10 8UF

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Description:

Groam House Museum is 15 miles north east of Inverness in the Black Isle seaside village of Rosemarkie. It is an outstanding Pictish Centre for Ross and Cromarty. The unique display is focussed on 15 carved Pictish stones. All the stones originated in Rosemarkie, some dating back to the 8th century AD, when it was an important centre of early Christianity. The pride of the collection is the magnificent Rosemarkie cross-slab, decorated with enigmatic Pictish symbols. The museum is closed from 6 December 2009 and re-opens in Spring 2010.
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Phone:

+44 (0)1381 620961 (venue)

Fax:

+44 (0)1381 621730 (venue)

Email:

curator@groamhouse.org.uk (venue)

Website:

http://www.groamhouse.org.uk/ (venue)

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