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| Highland Council offer free access to grant search portal Highland Council has taken out a subscription to the Grantnet grant search portal and is offering access to all community groups in the Highlands and Islands. Registration is required. See link above. | |
| Imprentit: 500 Years of the Scottish Printed Word - Summer exhibition at the National Library of Scotland From Bibles to the Beezer, dictionaries to demonology, Lanark to logarithms and from temperance to television, the printed word in Scotland has had a profound impact on every aspect of our nation’s life over the last five centuries. Imprentit: 500 Years of the Scottish Printed Word is a major new exhibition at the National Library of Scotland, which takes a fascinating look at this rich history. | |
| Staffin Ecomuseum - Scotland’s only ecomuseum is launched in Skye Ceumannan (footsteps or paths in Gaelic) invites you to explore Staffin’s Ecomuseum in north-east Skye. | |
| Another intriguing Pictish discovery made in Shetland Another wonderful Pictish discovery has been made in Shetland. A sculptured stone decorated with mysterious symbols has been found in Cunningsburgh, a part of Shetland where many inscribed stones have been found over the years. | |
| Primary school children's knitting on display at the Shetland Museum and Archives The Shetland Museum and Archives is to host an exhibition of knitting produced by Shetland’s primary school children. ‘The Market’ is the result of this academic year’s work and highlights both the children’s skills and enjoyment they get from their knitting. | |
| Fisheries Records return to Shetland 550 manuscript volumes concerning Shetland’s fishing history will be coming back to the islands on Saturday, 24 May 2008. | |
| New museum opens in supermarket Scotland's newest museum has opened in a unusual location. | |
| Quendale Mill highlights community art project The Quendale Mill is to display a series of photographs taken in 2006 during a community art project. ‘Hands on the Past’ was part of the Shetland Museum and Archives Public Art Project and involved pupils from Anderson High School’s and Bells Brae Primary’s Additional Support Needs (ASN) Departments. | |
| Ullapool Museum hits target with new display Monday 14th April sees Ullapool Museum launch the display of its unique new acquisition, a pair of early 19th c. duelling pistols. | |
| Stornoway ironwork in focus The stunning ironwork of Stornoway is the focus of a new exhibition. The celebration of the amazing decorative cast ironwork will go on display at Museum nan Eilean from April 9 in a joint project between Historic Scotland and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The exhibition will run until the end of the year. | |
| Bringing the Past and the Future Together in the Highlands and Islands This week the team at Highland Archaeology Services Ltd, will mark the fourth anniversary of the company's foundation, an occasion on which they will be celebrating a continuous and rapid growth, from 12 successfully completed projects in 2004, to 50 in 2007. | |
| Island Culture Conference in Shetland The periphery will take pride of place on 7-10 May 2009 when a conference on the island experience comes to Lerwick, Shetland. | |
| The Art Fund helps bring rare Scottish vessel home The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity, has helped the Tain & District Museum win at auction a rare silver antique worth £15,000. | |
| Shetland Museum and Archives Short-listed for Family Friendly Award The Guardian announced today that the Shetland Museum and Archives is among five museums to be short-listed for this year’s prestigious Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award. | |
| Shetland Museum and Archives to host conference: St Ninian’s Isle Treasure - 50 years on The Shetland Museum and Archives is holding a conference to launch three months of activities and celebrations marking the return of the famous St Ninian’s Isle Treasure. | |
| The good, the new and the much improved Timespan The grand reopening of the new Timespan is set for the first day of Easter and the beginning of the new tourist season. The transformation is absolutely stunning. | |
| Travelling exhibition offer... Email from Colin Hynson hynson.nash@NTLWORLD.COM who would like a list of all exhibition managers willing to host an HLF-funded travelling exhibition on the Indian faith of Jainism. No more details, but if you have the space it might be worth dropping him an email for more details. Must be a bit of a groundbreaker for the Highlands and Islands. | |
| Their Past Your Future Scotland Phase 2 - Expanding Engagement Cultural and community organisations throughout Scotland are being encouraged to work with their local museum or gallery, collecting and investigating oral histories from veterans of World War II and conflicts since, enabling generations within communities to discover personal stories which have affected or involved their local area. | |
| Society's Community Led Approach to Local Archaeology is Highly Commended North of Scotland Archaeology Society (NOSAS) members were thrilled to hear that they have made the short list of four finalists contending for the Council for British Archaeology's new Marsh Community Archaeology Award, the winners of which will be announced this week. | |
| Hidden Ontologies: Re-interpretation of a Collection symposium Six Key Speakers will discuss the involvement of artists engaging with and working within museum and gallery collections at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Friday 22 February 2008. | |
| Commissioned poem celebrates Scotland’s most Treasured Place The Lady Victoria Colliery, winner of RCAHMS’ ‘Treasured Places’ vote, is today celebrated in verse by Edinburgh’s Makar, Valerie Gillies. Valerie’s poem will be presented to the Colliery, now the Scottish Mining Museum, by the Minister for Culture, Linda Fabiani. | |
| SRCT seek p/t Communities & Education Officer 18.5 hours per week working for Cromarty's historic East Church. Click the link above for the whole story. | |
