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National Programme 2017/2018 2
National Programme 2017/2018 2 National Programme 2017/2018 3 National Programme 2017/2018 National Programme 2017/2018 1 National Programme Across Scotland Through our National Strategy 2016–2020, Across Scotland, Working to Engage and Inspire, we are endeavouring to bring our collections, expertise and programmes to people, museums and communities throughout Scotland. In 2017/18 we worked in all of Scotland’s 32 local authority areas to deliver a wide-ranging programme which included touring exhibitions and loans, community engagement projects, learning and digital programmes as well as support for collections development through the National Fund for Acquisitions, expert advice from our specialist staff and skills development through our National Training Programme. As part of our drive to engage young people in STEM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), we developed Powering Up, a national science engagement programme for schools. Funded by the ScottishPower Foundation, we delivered workshops on wind, solar and wave energy in partnership with the National Mining Museum, the Scottish Maritime Museum and New Lanark World Heritage Site. In January 2017, as part of the final phase of redevelopment of the National Museum of Scotland, we launched an ambitious national programme to support engagement with Ancient Egyptian and East Asian collections held in museums across Scotland. Funded by the National Lottery and the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, the project is providing national partnership exhibitions and supporting collection reviews, skills development and new approaches to audience engagement. All of this work is contributing to our ambition to share our collections and expertise as widely as possible, ensuring that we are a truly national museum for Scotland. -
List of Scottish Museums and Libraries with Strong Victorian Collections
Scottish museums and libraries with strong Victorian collections National Institutions National Library of Scotland National Gallery of Scotland National Museums Scotland National War Museum of Scotland National Museum of Costume Scottish Poetry Library Central Libraries The Mitchell Library, Glasgow Edinburgh Central Library Aberdeen Central Library Carnegie Library, Ayr Dick Institute, Kilmarnock Central Library, Dundee Paisley Central Library Ewart Library, Dumfries Inverness Library University Libraries Glasgow University Library University of Strathclyde Library Edinburgh University Library Sir Duncan Rice Library, Aberdeen University of Dundee Library University of St Andrews Library Municipal Art Galleries and Museums Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow Burrell Collection, Glasgow Aberdeen Art Gallery McManus Galleries, Dundee Perth Museum and Art Gallery Paisley Museum & Art Galleries Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum Stewartry Museum, Kirkcudbright V & A Dundee Shetland Museum Clydebank Museum Mclean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock Hunterian Art Gallery & Museum Piers Art Centre, Orkney City Art Centre, Edinburgh Campbeltown Heritage Centre Montrose Museum Inverness Museum and Art Gallery Kirkcaldy Galleries Literary Institutions Moat Brae: National Centre for Children’s Literature Writers’ Museum, Edinburgh J. M. Barrie Birthplace Museum Industrial Heritage Summerlee: Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, North Lanarkshire Riverside Museum, Glasgow Scottish Maritime Museum Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum, Prestonpans Scottish -
The Biology Curator Issue 9-7.Pdf
http://www.natsca.org The Biology Curator Title: LEEDS CITY MUSEUM ‐ its Natural History Collections: Part 3 The Botanical Collections Author(s): Norris, A. Source: Norris, A. (1997). LEEDS CITY MUSEUM ‐ its Natural History Collections: Part 3 The Botanical Collections. The Biology Curator, 9, 5 ‐ 8. URL: http://www.natsca.org/article/476 NatSCA supports open access publication as part of its mission is to promote and support natural science collections. NatSCA uses the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ for all works we publish. Under CCAL authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in NatSCA publications, so long as the original authors and source are cited. Collections Management LEEDS CITY MUSEUM - its Natural have entered the museum as part of some other co!Jection, this cannot now be identified specifically, although it History Collections probably came in as part of the William Kirby Collection in Part 3 The Botanical Collections 1917/18. Adrian Norris The main problem resulting fro m the m is-attribution of the Assistant Curator Natural History, Leeds City Museums, collections relate to the entries in British Herbaria (Kent. Calverly St. , LS I 3AA 1957), This publication I ists Leeds Museum as housing the collections of R.B.Jowitt, J.F.Pickard, J.Woods and an ABSTRACT unknown collector. Of these four entries only that for This paper covering the botanical collections held at the R.B.Jowitt appears to be correct. We have now been able to Leeds City Museum, is the third in a series of papers on the identify some 587 sheets as belonging to the collection of museums natural history collections, (Norris, 1993 & 1995). -
Annual Review 2016-2017
Review 2017 © Donald MacLeod Visitors enjoy two of the new galleries at the National Museum of Scotland: (from top) Technology by Design and Explore. Building on success This has been an exceptional year for National Museums Scotland. Across our museums we have welcomed over 2.7 million visitors, 1.84 million of these to the National Museum of Scotland making it the most popular museum outside of London and the most visited attraction in Scotland. A growing connection with our many Sharing the National Collections as All of this valuable work is only possible audiences, partners and stakeholders broadly as possible is also at the heart through the continued and loyal has been key to our success and one of our new exhibition touring strategy. support of our many donors, which we do not take for granted. We 2017 is the first year that we have supporters, partners and volunteers. are determined to sustain our ambition taken a major exhibition created We are enormously grateful for their to refresh and update our museums, in-house on a significant international generosity and encourage them to enhance our collections and enable tour. Monkey Business opened in continue to support our journey into both a broader and larger audience to Brussels in October 2017 and will travel an even more successful future. share in the enjoyment and inspiration to Australia, Spain and Finland. Nearer of the National Collections. to home, Fossil Hunters has been Finally, we would like to thank our staff. warmly received by audiences from It is their hard work, commitment, We were delighted to announce the Biggar to the Isle of Lewis, as the first enthusiasm and expertise that makes successful acquisition of the Galloway in our new programme of regular National Museums Scotland the Hoard, enabling our expert teams to exhibition tours within Scotland. -
Excited for Eldwick School by Lucy Blyth and Jane Courtney Mumby 1
Excited for Eldwick school by Lucy Blyth and Jane Courtney Mumby 1. Let’s make friends and talk As parents we all want the best for our children, and we know that young children age 0 to 4 learn best when they have one to one care with a kind, patient, nurturing adult, and are gradually socialised with others. This helps them become confident and independent enough to attend a Nursery or pre school without us part time with one adult to 4 children when they are two years old, then one adult to 13 children when they are three years old, and then school for full days when they are four. However we also know that reality for most young families is that both parents are working as soon as they can after the birth of the child, and juggling children between private day care, family and friends. We are both mothers, and full time Early Years practitioners, and understand the pressure parents are under, and have written this to remind us all of a few simple things we can do to support our children that will help them become well rounded, sociable, confident, resilient individuals with healthy attitudes to and appetites for learning and to have made the progress necessary for them to be ready for the changes outlined above at the ages they are required to do them. In this first blog we are focusing on social skills and communication. Socialising our children is a long term project, and starts at birth, and in its simplest form is very similar to socialising a puppy. -
Glasgow Museums (£52,145), City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries (£24,250), the Hunterian (£18,329) and Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums (£17,027)
National Fund for Acquisitions Grants Paid 2010–2011 National Fund for Acquisitions Grants Paid 2010–2011 Hazel Williamson National Fund for Acquisitions Manager National Museums Scotland Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1 1JF Tel 0131 247 4106 email [email protected] Cover: Colour woodblock print, Kyōbashi Takegashi from Meisho Edo Hyakkei, 1857, by Utagawa Hiroshige. Acquired by The Hunterian with a grant from the National Fund for Acquisitions. National Fund for Acquisitions The National Fund for Acquisitions (NFA), provided by Scottish Government to the Trustees of National Museums Scotland, contributes towards the acquisition of objects for the collections of Scottish museums, galleries, libraries, archives and other similar institutions open to the public. The Fund can help with acquisitions in most collecting areas including objects relating to the arts, literature, history, natural sciences, technology, industry and medicine. Decisions on grant applications are made in consultation with curatorial staff at National Museums Scotland and the Directors and staff of the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland who provide expert advice to the Fund. While recognising that the financial climate is extremely difficult, National Museums Scotland was particularly dismayed to learn of a 25% cut to the NFA’s already limited funding, reducing the grant to only £150,000 in financial year 2011/12. NFA funding had remained at £200,000 per annum since 1996, a figure which in real terms has declined very considerably in value during the subsequent fifteen years. Clearly the extent of the cut means that the NFA cannot support collecting in Scotland as effectively as we would wish. -
Tayside, Central and Fife Tayside, Central and Fife
Detail of the Lower Devonian jawless, armoured fish Cephalaspis from Balruddery Den. © Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council Review of Fossil Collections in Scotland Tayside, Central and Fife Tayside, Central and Fife Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum Perth Museum and Art Gallery (Culture Perth and Kinross) The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum (Leisure and Culture Dundee) Broughty Castle (Leisure and Culture Dundee) D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum and University Herbarium (University of Dundee Museum Collections) Montrose Museum (Angus Alive) Museums of the University of St Andrews Fife Collections Centre (Fife Cultural Trust) St Andrews Museum (Fife Cultural Trust) Kirkcaldy Galleries (Fife Cultural Trust) Falkirk Collections Centre (Falkirk Community Trust) 1 Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum Collection type: Independent Accreditation: 2016 Dumbarton Road, Stirling, FK8 2KR Contact: [email protected] Location of collections The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, formerly known as the Smith Institute, was established at the bequest of artist Thomas Stuart Smith (1815-1869) on land supplied by the Burgh of Stirling. The Institute opened in 1874. Fossils are housed onsite in one of several storerooms. Size of collections 700 fossils. Onsite records The CMS has recently been updated to Adlib (Axiel Collection); all fossils have a basic entry with additional details on MDA cards. Collection highlights 1. Fossils linked to Robert Kidston (1852-1924). 2. Silurian graptolite fossils linked to Professor Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844-1899). 3. Dura Den fossils linked to Reverend John Anderson (1796-1864). Published information Traquair, R.H. (1900). XXXII.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland. -
SSAH Will Continue to Grow and Develop Its Role As One of the Pre-Eminent Vehicles of Art from the Chair Historical Research in Scotland
Newsletter No. 21 Autumn/Winter 2005 During that time the SSAH will continue to grow and develop its role as one of the pre-eminent vehicles of art From the Chair historical research in Scotland. Our 2005 Journal is a particularly rich and varied publication and we are now st lthough not exactly a ‘coming of age’, the 21 exploring opportunities for more extensive distribution birthday of the SSAH has offered a marvellous and online publishing. More news of this will follow. We opportunity to review both our past and our are delighted to have contributions from several scholars A st future. Our past was essentially the theme of our 21 and writers working outwith Scotland and hope this is a anniversary colloquium in April - Art & Scotland: the last harbinger of a growing internationalism, both for our 21 years - but this was no exercise in self-indulgent Society, but also for the study and appreciation of Scottish congratulation or navel-gazing. Instead a succession of art and for the study of art in Scotland. stimulating papers and discussions served to emphasise how vibrant and energising the issue of art continues to Robin Nicholson be in a nation now mystifyingly re-branded as the ‘best small country in the world’. Certainly none can deny that Scotland always has punched above its weight and the colloquium was Notices launched with Duncan Macmillan’s challenging thesis that the international influence of Scots artists might be signifi- cantly more extensive than previously thought. Obliquely AGM this set a theme for the following day’s debates which The Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Society for constantly returned to questions of Scottish culture, Art History will take place on Saturday December 3rd in identity and outlook. -
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TT Report 2013-2014
TREASURE TROVE IN SCOTLAND REPORT BY QUEEN’S AND LORD TREASURER’S REMEMBRANCER 2013/2014 Protecting our Archaeological Heritage for the Nation CONTENTS Page Foreword and Report by QLTR 1 Introduction 3 Remit of SAFAP 3 Report by the Chair of SAFAP 3 Interesting Cases 5 Statistics 11 The work of the Treasure Trove Unit 12 Allocation procedures 13 Funding 14 TTU Contact details 14 Information for users of the Treasure Trove system 14 Comments from Readers 14 APPENDICES 15 Appendix 1 - Names and professional status of members of SAFAP 16 Appendix 2 - Terms of Reference of SAFAP 21 Appendix 3 - List of allocated Finds, their find spots and recipient museums 23 Appendix 4 - List of Finders who reported finds in this reporting year and who 33 have agreed to their name being published Appendix 5 - 2 Flow Charts – Chance Finds and Excavation assemblages 34 Appendix 6 – TTU Contact details (as at June 2014) 36 Appendix 7 - Information for users of the Treasure Trove system 37 Appendix 8 – Standard Reporting form for chance Finds 41 TREASURE TROVE IN SCOTLAND - REPORT BY QUEEN’S AND LORD TREASURER’S REMEMBRANCER The period covered in this report has been another very productive one with a number of welcome developments across the operation of the Treasure Trove system. Membership of the Scottish Archaeological Finds Allocation Panel now includes a representative from Historic Scotland, providing an important national perspective. SAFAP is the hard working group of independent experts chaired by Dr Evelyn Silber. They give generously of their time on a voluntary basis to provide me with expert advice on finds and ensure a fair and transparent system in respect of the claim and allocation of objects. -
From Battle to Ballad: "Gallant Grahams" of the 17Th Century
Extracted from: Lloyd D. Graham (2020) House GRAHAM: From the Antonine Wall to the Temple of Hymen, Lulu, USA. From battle to ballad: “Gallant Grahams” of the 17th century Historical context The setting for this chapter is the complex and often confusing clash between the Covenanters – the Scottish Presbyterians who opposed the Episcopalian (Anglican) reforms imposed on their Kirk by Charles I in 1637 – and the Royalists, who supported the king. To begin with, the Covenanters raised an army and defeated Charles in the so- called Bishops’ Wars. The ensuing crisis in the royal House of Stuart (Stewart) helped to precipitate the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which included the English Civil War, the Scottish Civil War and Irish Confederate Wars. For the following decade of civil war in Britain, the Covenanters were the de facto government of Scotland. In 1643, military aid from Covenanter forces helped the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War (“Roundheads”) to achieve victory over the king’s Royalist faction (“Cavaliers”). In turn, this triggered civil war in Scotland as Scottish Royalists – mainly Catholics and Episcopalians – took up arms against the Covenanters to oppose the impending Presbyterian domination of the Scottish religious landscape by an increasingly despotic Kirk. It is in the turmoil of this setting that Sir James Graham of Montrose (Fig. 7.1), the first of the two leaders discussed in the present chapter, plays a key role. Initially a Covenanter himself – he had signed the National Covenant in 1638 – he had effectively switched sides by 1643, becoming a leader of the Scottish Royalists. -
1/108 Research Report 1995
Research Report 1995 - 1996 This Report reflects the diverse range of research carried out at the V&A during the years 1995 and 1996. Such research remains an important task of a major international museum and one that informs many of its other activities. During the past two years important research has been carried out despite the financial constraints within which the Museum has to operate. The books, catalogues, articles and conference papers that have resulted continue a long-established tradition of curatorial scholarship within the various Departments and, more recently, by staff seconded to the Research Department to work on specific projects. The varied nature of this research activity is apparent from the different types of publication that are represented here. These range from discursive studies such as those that are being published in the recently established series, V&A studies in the history of art and design, to the detailed catalogues of particular areas of the collections. I see the production of these catalogues as central to the Museum's function and an important means of maintaining, extending and making available its knowledge base. While it is not possible to mention all these publications here, three reflect the varied nature and significance of this work. One is the catalogue edited by Linda Parry that accompanied the William Morris exhibition. With its detailed and authoritative catalogue entries and essays by leading scholars, this is an example of a collaborative project involving colleagues working within the Museum and far beyond it. Another major achievement was Paul Williamson's Gothic Sculpture 1140-1300, a volume in the Pelican History of Art series.