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Rhino Horns, Bronze Sculptures and Security Guards
I know I usually write about what we’ve been up to here in East Lothian, but this week some stories from around the UK caught my attention and I thought you might be interested in to read about them! This … Continue reading
News from the Museums Workroom
It seems to have been a hectic couple of months lately, and I’m so glad to be back at my desk, here in the Museums Workroom. I’ve been at conferences galore – amazing talks by brilliant speakers doing fantastic things … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Conservation, Education, Exhibitions, Management
Tagged mangle, Rangers, saddle-stitcher, stuffed animals
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End of Work Experience
By Alice from North Berwick High What a week I have had! I’ve been blown away by everything I’ve done and experienced, as well as learnt. I can’t believe it’s nearly over; this week has flown by so quickly as … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Collections
Tagged Kelvingrove, school, student, volunteer, work experience, workshop
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Introducing myself
As a new member of the Museums team, I thought it was time I checked in with you all to say hello and tell you about what I’m doing. My name’s Helen, and I’m here to help create online resources … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, John Gray Centre, Management
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Straight from the Museums Association Conference – Part 1
By Kate Maynard, Principal Museums Officer Currently crammed into a train on my way to the MA conference in Manchester, Sunday night, around teatime. I can’t help but feel that the whole conference will be dominated by what might happen … Continue reading
Out There Conference
Sheila and I went to the ‘Out There’ Conference yesterday and today. It was to celebrate 20 years of the Open Museum in Glasgow. The Open Museum is an amazing outreach service which takes museum objects and the concept of … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Education, Management
Tagged arts, communities, community, conference, glasgow, open museum, outreach
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BBC A History of the World blog part 2: show me the money…
Sarah has already posted about the object she chose for the BBC AHOW site, and I have chosen something altogether different (although no less attractive in its own way). I decided to put up an East Lothian Banknote, from 1821. … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Education, Management
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Bowl-ed Over by BBC’s History of the World!
I’ve jumped blogs this week to be a ‘guest blogger’ – not a very attractive title, I know. This blog is being simultaneously posted on both this and Museums Galleries Scotland’s blog. Recently, we were lucky enough to have one … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Education, Technology
Tagged bbc, Blogs, bowl, collections database, Facebook, Flickr, history of the world, Internet, makmerry, Museums Galleries Scotland, objects
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Wikipedia Comes to East Lothian (or is that the other way around?)
Calling all photographers (good or otherwise), social networking followers, or anyone who has ever used Wikipedia to look up some obscure topic….That’s nearly everyone then. Well, we are very excited as Prestongrange Museum and John Muir’s Birthplace are taking part in … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, John Muir, Prestongrange, Technology
Tagged competition, february, John Muir, photo, photographs, photography, post, Prestongrange, valentines day, wiki, wikipedia
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Your top objects of the last decade
As the ‘noughties’ draw to a close, it’s time to look back over the last 10 years. Do you remember the Millenium bug which was going to wipe out all computers? Or the Sydney Olympics? Unbelievably that was 10 years … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Technology
Tagged , "John Muir's Birthplace", 2010, Christmas, decade, John Gray Centre, museums, Musselburgh, noughties, objects, Prestongrange
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